El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-28
LITTLE
INTERVIEWS

come everywhere accorded to
Buffalo Bill and Sells Floto and
their camp loving followers is evidence
that the city dweller is not altogether
weaned from his love of the heroic
and the active, and Of admiration Tor
the primitive, rugged life outside OF
city walls said Maj. c. A. Davis, vet
Gran Snowman.
1T shows that Col Cody's preserva-
ton of the last Of the Mohicans and
the compendium of Workmanship is ap-
preciated and applauded, even though
the equine's successor, the auto. IS
growing in popularity.
1.-The cavalier, on the prancing PRIDE
of ages; the founder OF nations ana
dynasties, was the mounted warrior
that found the enemy, tanked the Toe
or led the charges that are most FAMED
in history, song and story. FROM
ancient times down to our own, the
victors in war, the hOnOrs Of the chase
and the glory of the tournament were
the prizes of the expert hOrseman.
ITO these days when the whisper Of
rush the cavalry to the Rio Grande,
his will be a figure always command
ing admiration, in war and afterwards
1t was the hOrsemen who led the
Crusaders, won fame for the SacracenS,
secured victory for Ghaengas hhan'
created triumph for Charlemagne, were
Frederick the Greats reliance, carried
Napoleon from over the Alps into
Egypt and Russia, whose most pro-
ficient adepts-the Cossacks-threW
him from Moscow ana engraved
SchamyPs name among the renowned.
1T was the Irish lancers and British
horse that gave victory to Wellington
the Continental horsemen that made
mounted Light Horse Harry Lee and
Marion and his men immortal and II
was cavalry that made Sheridan, Gus
ter, Jeb Stuart, Hampton, Fitzpatrick,
MOseby. PleasantOn, 'StOneWalI jack
son, Merritt Miles and their kind
heroic figures in history; a class OF
warrior, of doubtful future, whose
glory may be fast fading before sclen-
tific methods in war, but as yet a fac
tor on the Rio Grande while the ma
jority of the rest Of hOrsemen are eX-
iting from the stage of action and are
threatened to be soon relegated TO the
antique"
'Deming is one live town" said
Harry Chandler, map maker for the
southwest. Il have been mapping
Deming for the big profile map which
have been preparing for the cham
Der of commerce. I made a house to-
house sketching trip and visited every
house in Dem1ng. / did not 1lnd
single vacant house in the entire town
and I am sure that I saw and sketched
every one. I think that is a good rec
cd for q town Of that size and is evil
dence of the result s that may be OBJ
tanned by legitimate advertising"
"On the proposition of the ball teams
securing the ball park at Washington
Park" said alderman W. s. Clayton,
1--WE left the proposition up to both
teams. The chances were equal II
was for one team TO take or leave
With a proposition like Washington
Park we have the people to consider
It belongs to the people and when any
one wants a proposition like that they
have to pay for it, consider this is
right. We are making good progress
on the grandstand. The men are now
working on the bleachers and expect
to have them completed by next Mon
day or Tuesday. The fence viii be
completed also by that time"
''Uyalde is certainly a coming town
declared A. Funk, who has Just re-
turned from that place With the
advent of real farmers, land values
have gone UP. Pastures over which
herds OF cattle used to Craze are De
ing cut Up into small farming tracts
and are being sold to farmers Wh2
are rapidly coming to that section OF
the country 10 make it their home"
There IS probably no business In
Ell PasO that has had such d large
growth in the last year as the auto
mobile business said J. D. Bukey. "A
couple of years ago not more than half
a dozen cars were represented by
agencies here, while now there IS not
a standard car in the country that is
not represented in Ell PasO. The man
are realizing that this IS
the business hub of the southwest
They are seeing that their cars are
represented here, not for any senu-
mental but for purely business reas-
ons There is no city anywhere in
this section that is as well represented
in all brcnches of the automobile bus
mess as Ell PasO."
:
ct is only a few years now until Ell
PasO will be represented in some big
league" said Art Woods. who has done
more for baseball in this section than
almost anyone in the southwest 1t
may be that Ell PasO will become a /
member of the the Texas league, or 1t
may be that the Copper league viii