El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-02
LITTLE
INTERVIEWS

C6T L PASO is a cleaner city at
this time than it ever was,'
- said alderman W. S. Clayton.
1T seems the citizens are taking more
interest IN the proposition of having
a clean city ana that factor more
Ihan anylhlng else, is making Ell Pasu
a SpOtleSS Town Last year we had
some niue trouble with the alleys in
the north and south part of the cftv.
Some OF them were used for recepta-
cles for trash. After we made the res
ldents see the Importance Of keeping
the alleys adjoining their residences
free OF rubbish we had very little
trouble. When we start the general
cleanup we do not expect to have near
~ the amount of work or trouble we
had last year 1t seems that the citi-
zens are more ready and willing this
year to cooperate with the city in haV-
ing the town Clearly. Like last year,
teh street department and the sanitary
department will work together E-s
will divide the city into sections and
clean up one section at q time. The
general cleanup will not start until
the danger OF high winds has passed.
As long as there is a possibility of
having high winds it WOULD be more
or less useless to attempt to make a
successful cleanup.
"Chief Deperman and the volunteer
firemen of the Pearson plant are GER
tainly due. a great deal of credit. or
the WOEh lHey Qlu during the gram
elevator fire, said fire chief W. w.
Armstrong. Their work was respOn-
Sible for saving 100000 feet of lum-
Der which was stacked in the yard ad-
joining the elevator. When the ele-
vatOr fell. throwing sparks and burning
timber in every direction, those vOlun-
teer firemen remained right on the
job. They did not give an inch. When
one got too hot he would call to an
other volunteer fireman to sprinkle
him with the hose. After he was wet
down. he went on fighting the flames.
The Pearson plant certainly has a band
of first class volunteer firemen. That
was demonstrated when the burning
of the grain elevator threatened the
destruction of millions of feet of lum-
Der. I was talking to some Of the men
of the lumber yard and they told me
that the damage done to the sum
Der by the fire would not total more
than $780,"
Las Cruces is showing more signs
of prosperity and growth just now
than for several years" said Morgan
O. Llewellyn, lawyer of the City Of
Crosses. who spent Wednesday in Ell
Paso. THE rapid progress being made
on the Elephant Butte dam is having
considerable to do with the optimism
of our citizens. for with that great
project a reality the Rio Grande val
lev will undergo a marvellous trans
formation in the course of the next
few years. Then Las Cruces has Dleu-
tV of boosters. like I'll RaSO. Tor IN
stance. and this fact materially helps
the town. One would do well to keep
an eye on Las Cruces in the next year
or two"
81 was particularly interested in the
points Dr. Charles Stelzle touched
upon concerning the industrial condt-
lions of women in his addresses here"
said Mrs 7 2. Townsend at the Wom-
ans club Wednesday. 1T would seem
to me that improved conditions in the
circumstances under which women Ia
Dor would mean such inestimable good
to them. not only from q physical
standpoint. but from every standpoint,
that believe it would be wei if wom-
en- more generally interested themselves
in improving the conditions of women.
and in ali civic improvements as Well
1.-THE presenting Of opera programs
for the public school children is OF ,
wonderful value in two ways" said NJ
H. Lemen. 'It is giving the children
a splendid opportunity to become IA
miliar with good music, and IS Great
ing a desire for good music 1t IS also
educating an audience for good music
in FL PasO. If these opera programs
continue to be given, by the time Inese
children grow up there will be no COM
plant from musicians that it is hard
to draw an audience for high class
musical program, or that the people
are unappreciative when they do come