El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-11
LITTLE
INTERVIEWS

GI"HE police force made a good
move when it replaced horses
Il with bicycles for the night
mounted men," said Stanley Good, jr-
With the horses a person might phone
IN a complaint without the offender be-
ing aware of their having been seen.
But they Immediately took warning and
fled when they heard the hoof beats Of
a galloping horse. With the bicycles,
however. the officer can come up on the
offender and capture him before he is
even aware he has been SEEN"
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FL Paso's city auditing department
mas such a perfect system for Keeping
us records of liability insurance that II
would be impossible to improve on II,
SAID J. Leslie Witt, of Denlson, Tex;
l wish the city would snow some OF
the others this method 1t TOOK me Two
Gays to check up a certain concern mere
IoT my insurance company, while II
only required an hour to cneck over
the city accounts"
q expect to spend two days at the
Elephant Butte dam this week securing
data for a number of articles SAID
John L. TAFT, of the publicity bureau
NOW that the dam is nearing compile
ton there is widespread interest IN Ine
L
be advantage placed. From Ele-
plant Butte I will make a trip through
the Rincon valley. The publicity Work
is going along favorably and the val
leys are getting publicity all over the
country
The members of the agricultural
committee of the chamber of commerce
hope that there will be a large gaLner-
ing at the meeting to be held Saturday
afternoon" said George LeBarOn- AT
this meeting we expect to take up
further plans for advertising FL Paso
valley products in Ell PasO. There is no
reason why by far the greater amount
of all valley produce should not be con-
sumed locally"
Actions Of the national baseball COM
mission at the meeting in Omaha are
being watched with interest by local
players" said Cliff Hill 1t is gener-
ally conceded throughout the baseball
world that something must be done by
the commission regarding the minor
leagues. For several seasons 1t Is
claimed that the lesser circuits have
not been treated fairly by the major
leagues in exchange of players, and
they have registered strong. kick
against these tactics. Minor league
owners who believe that their rights
have been trampled upon will attend
the meeting in force"
THE men who entered cars in the FL
Paso-PhOenix road race spent approx
mately $4,000 in getting their cars
stripped and having them plotted over
the race course said Charles r
Keene. 1T costs nearly $500 to get d
car ready and send it over the course,
providing the machine meets with no
accident. But when II is wrecked II
costs much more than this. have fig
ured that the p cars that started IN
the classic have cost $4,000, for re
Final arrangements for Pioneers
Day will be completed the last of the
week" said mayor c. E. Kelly. The
tickets for the barbecue are going rap
Idly. There viii undoubtedly be sew
eral hundred people at Washington park
to partake of the good things 10 eat
and drink The committee on the
parade has received entries from
large number of business houses who
intend entering floats.
approximately 1000 people visited
Mount Franklin and the Mesa after the
battle Tuesday to pick up used shells
and spent bullets for souvenirs, said B,
Wilson. The number of men involved
in the battle made the battle one of the
most interesting things that anyone
could witness. The scene after the bat
tie presented a similar picture of the
battle u miles below Juarez last win
ter. when Pancho Villa defeated the
federals, and the Americans swarmed
onto the field to pick up any articles
that could possibly be kept for SOU
venirs.'
I'VE are so anxious for the charity
ball to be a bigger success than ever
before" said Mrs. T. ". Lanier. the
president of the WOman's Charity assO-
citation. we have more work both for
emergency relief and tubercular cases
than ever before and upon the fund
raised by the charity ball will depend
the extent of the work for the poor
that the society can do this year"