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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-24
Rest Rooms Completed.
DAILY RECORD

Building Permits.
To T. 3. Maese. TO build an adobe. Texas
Pacific street, estimated value SZO0.
To c. D. Pollock to build an apartment
West Boulevard and Santa Ees estimated
value S2l,500.
Fl Paso county. Texas-John n Wyatt "a
Felix Martinez undivided one-eighth inter
est in surveys q, %. 40, so, 50, 81 to so and
sc. valley Gate subdivision; consideration
1885, June %, 1914.
Sierra Blanca. TeX-W. P. Norris to Feliz
Romisez lot /, block 81, Sierra Blanca; con
sideratiOn SIS. June 8. 1914.
West side OF FL Paso, between Boulevard
and MissOuri-YT. Cooley to B. A. Booth. lots
p. Is and 26. block s, Satterthwaite addf-
ton consideration SO and other; June p
1914.
Licensed to Wed.
Manuel Quevedo and sara Salpulvida.
Jose JaramillO and Juana Najara.
c. P. Mendoza and El0isa Loya.
Automobiles Licensed.
2376-T- j. Cameron, rs Leon street;
Cadillac.
ss77-R. Butler. Fort Bliss; Indian motor
257S-George Love. Sierra Blanca, Tex.
five passenger Srudeballer
379-Borderland Auto Supply company.
Myrtle and Kansas; two passenger Mercer.
Births-Girls.
To Mrs A. I. Taylor, Highland Park: June
-
To Mrs. D. C. TalIman. 2sO4 Bassett ave-
nue. June g.
To Mrs. B. Chavez. 3611 Texas-Pacifie
Births-Boys
To Mrs Charles r. Ashby, 151 North Flor
encs street, June IS
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-24
TELEPHONE CO.
IMPROVEMENTS
ALMOST READY
New Equipment viii Bring
the Ell Paso Exchange Up
to High Standard.

The local telephone system viii be
considerably increased by the end Of
-avt month when the installation Of ex-
tensive new equipment is completed
The company already has a force ct
work connecting the new equipment,
which is located in the local exchange
one OF the Digest improvements and
the one that VIII most directly affect
subscribers is the installation Of nine
additional operators units IN the Oper-
attn exchange. This viii bring the total
up to a units, sufficient TO take care
Of not only the present business, but
any increase that may occur for some
time to come. Besides the installation
Of the new units, two new information
desks viii be established. so that this
imum Of efficiency.
Storage Battery Added.
This week a huge p volt storage bat
terry has been added to the present
equipment Without further additions
in the way OF batteries the local eX-
take care Of $4,000 subscribers. The
delicate work Of connecting the cables
for the new operators units is in charge
OF a corps of skilleG electricians and
IL is expected that lths work viii be
completed by August J.
Rest Rooms Completed.
The new rest rooms at the exchange
have just been completed and are the
finest Of their kind in this. section They
are fitted up with a dancing floor,
lunch room, locker room and library.
Twice a month entertainments are Civ
en- by the operators. These are begun
by a short business chat, given by c. E
StrartOn, the manager, or some other
official The rest room IS equipped
with both a pianola and a graphaphOne,
which furnish music for the dancing
About 100 girls are now employed at
the exchange
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-24
THREE NEW HOMES
ARE COMPLETED
ON BLISS STREET
Building Activity in Rich
mond Terrace Shows No
Signs Of Letting Up.

Three homes. ranging in value from
$4,000 to $4,000. have just been COM
pleted by Austin & MARI in Richmond
Terrace for T. A, W H and ". r
Akard. The homes are located on Bliss
street They are equipped with all the
latest features. including heating plant,
and average eight hooms each. Much
building activity is reported in Rich
mOnd Terrace
The Austin & Mari Investment and
Construction company has sold TO Fran
cisco Chafino lot %, block o, MOeller's
subdivision. for $500; to Sabine Alvara-
do. lot I6, block Pr, Garden subdivision,
for $3.50: and has purchased from An
drew Roth lots IS and IS, block IA
Richmond Terrace. for $1,000. The Gov
eminent Hill company has sold to c. H.
Kessler lots ! and 4, block IS, Govern
ment Hill addition, for SS25-
Lot Sales Recorded.
". H. Austin and James L. Mari have
sold to Mrs. Florence B. Smith lots Is
to 16, block %, Government Hill addi-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-24
NEW COUNTRY CLUB
HOME IS BOUGHT
At WEST YSLETA
Tea Gardens at Ysleta Sc
cured; VIII Not Have
a Golf Course.

The West Ysleta Country club which
has been recently organized, has elected
as directors for its first year Lamar
Davis, Charles r. LOOMS, John r.
Hunter, Ed L. Tinker and Winchester
Cooley. The charter Of the club is ex-
pected to arrive from the secretary of
state at Austin within a day or so.
The club has purchased the old Tea
Gardens building and grounds in West
Hsleta, about half way between the
main county road and the north loop
concrete and IS being enlarged to con-
tain a ball room with floor space OF
about 30x60 feet.
Tennis courts are also being con-
structed and accommodation sheds for
a large number of automobiles will be
built The property with its equip
ment is valued at $4,000.
The club viii supplement the FL
PaSO Country club and Will not be q
rival" said Winchester Cooley. 'El
PasO is large enough to support a num-
Der of such clubs and the fact that Of
The members already signed. much less
than half Of them are members Of the
FL PasO Country club, shows that the
new club is meeting a need The club
will be conducted upon strictly cash
basis. Its charter membership roll VIII
be limited to 200 members, Of whom
100 have already signed. Charter mem
bers are admitted without the member
ship fee of SIS. The annual dues will
be SO Club membership is open to
both men and women The club viii
make a specially OF good eating.
ct will meet a long felt need in Civ
ing the people some place to go for re-
taxation or rest, some place where
automobile parties may stop and a place
for entertainment and amusement"
It is understood that the Inetrurbau
railway viii issue special rate tickets
TO the club members
The club will open about the middle
Of July.
No golf course will be built, as the
grounds. two and a half acres, are not
sufficiently large
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-24
CROWD GATHERS TO HEAR
CONCERT; BAND MISSING

No concert was given Tuesday night
IN Cleveland Square by the 18th infan-
try band. The band had accompanied
the body Of Sgt Daniel G. KnOwlton
to the Union station, and did not re-
turn in time to give the concert A
large crowd had gathered in the square
and awaited the coming Of the band
until after 8 o'clock, when announce
ment was made that no concert would
be given
Women OF the Guardian Angel Cath
Ole church were serving ice cream in
one corner of the square and most OF
the crowd went there for a time.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-24

ton, for $1,000. The firm Of Austin q
Mari reports the following sales: ]. H.
Weiligman to Ballard ColdwelL lots
10 4, block s.. Government Hill. $500
j. c. Huff to Herman G. Porter, lots
44z and 43. block ., GOlde.- Hill ~ !
Robert L. Holiday TO W. R. Allen, lots
4 and 5, block so, Government HILL
S425; ". X Mari and E ": kaiper 70
Laurie Hardware company, lots ~ ana
i, block so. Highland Park. ,SZ0O9; Is.
p. block IS. East FL Paso, 500; AndeT-
son-Filler Realty company to FRANK
Longlet, five room house. corner OF
Park and Mobile streets, S215O--
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-24
NEW APART MENT
HOUSE IS To Be
ERECTED SHORTLY
$35, 900 Worth of Real Estate
Changes Hands in
Two Transfers.

Winchester Cooley. vice president Of
the Rio Giande Valley Bank and trust
company, has bought Of B. A Boom
the north 125 feet of lots 1 and ? block
81, Of the Franklin Heights addition.
This ground has two story apartment
house on it of four apartments Of four
rooms each, and an eight room resi-
dence numbered 1900 Myrtle avenue
and 154 Brown street The considera-
tion was $4,000.
B. A. Booth bought from Mr.. Cooley
lots a. 25 and IS, block s. Of the Sat
terthwaite addition. on the corner OF
North Santa Fe and West Boulevard,
which has a frontage of l5Xl20 feet
The consideration for this was Sl5,OOO-
Hawkins Bros. negotiated the deals
Mr. Booth will build a three story
$4,000 apartment house on the lots
which he acquired from Mr.. Cooley
Holmes Cleaning Works, the home OF
''Faultless" dry cleaning Phone 4S6.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-24

PasO Del Horte hotel Business
Mems Lunch
n grill at 1880 a. m 70 ,. m.-50c
advertisement
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-24

F YOU CAN pay your rent. you can pay
for home. " IS a truism that has been proven
by hundreds of our buyers IN Government
Hill during the past few years. Beautiful
homes are now being occupied and being
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-24
COMMISSIONER HAVE RIGHT
TO EMHL0T ENTRA AL-DLEnRs.

Austin, Texas, June 24-The artor-
ney generals department, in ruling
10 the county judge Of Dewitt county.
holds that county commissioners have
authority TO make an appropriation to
pay the services Of auditors TO check
the accounts Of the city.
The question came up as to whether
the commissioners had authority to
hire extra auditors and pay them out
Of the general fund when there was
county auditor, but under the ruling
OF the department such authority IS
vested IN the commissioners
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-24
SCHOLAR DECIPHERS BABYLONIAN
0ILGLNAL. InnE OLE GENEsLs.

London, Eng June 24--PrOf- Ste
phen LanGdOn, who holds the chair of
AssyriOlOgy at Jesus college, oxford.
has deciphered the Nippur Babylonian
tablets belonging to the University OF
Pennsylvania, of which he made a copy
while in Philadelphia last year. The
tablets give pre-semitic accounts Of
the fall Of man and the deluge. The
latter, he says, is clearly the original
Of the story preserved in the book Of
Genesis
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-24

body from down town undertaking
establishment 10 the union depot Tues
day evening. The body was sent 10
Schenectady. n. Y, where burial VIII
take place.
The casket covered by large
American flag. mounted on gun car
riaea drawn bv two black chargers.
was preceded by the band, which
played a funeral dirge. while follow
ing il marched Sergt KnOwlton's com
pany, the officers and other members
OF the 10Th Infantry. As the process
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-24

sion marched through the streets per-
sons stood along the sidewalks. Hats
were removed as the casket passed.
Having served % years in the army
the dead nOncommissiOned officer was
accorded this recognition as a mark
o. respect.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-24
OF SERGEANT
ESCORTED TO DEPOT

Fitting honors were paid Daniel G.
Knowlton, first sergeant Of the
10th infantry. who died suddenly
Sunday at the post hospital at
Fort Bliss, when the band OF
the 18th, the dead sergeants own
company and the officers and other
soldiers Of the regiment escorted the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-24
TEXAS MAY HAVE ANOTHER
DEEP WATER PORT on GT-I.F

austin, Texas, June 24-Dr. E P.
llmOt, president Of the Austin Nation
al bank, left last night for Houston.
where he VIII join a party on a trip to
Freeport, where engineers of the feder-
al government are investigating the ad-
Visibility OF deep water and port Of
entry DR.. WilmOt said before leaving
that Freeport is, in his Judgment. to
become one Of the greatest ports Of the
country
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and set with hills like a miniature swift
erland, may be laid wastee.
At Huy, half way between Liege ana
Namur, stands the Val Notre Dame. Con-
vent of the Assumption, where numbers
of American girls have been educated
as wen as half the young women of the
Belgian nobility and French girls galore.
Once a nobleman's chateau, the old
convent has the popularity and douptfui
charm that its front door must needs be
approached by way of the barnyard
and its front windows overlook the play
full antics of the chickens and the little
pigs.
No very definite idea of the Belgian
situation, past or present. is to be had
from the girls. who attended school there,
for their acquaintance with the country
was limited to trip from Liege three
times year. drive on state occasions,
such as a visit from a relative, to Namur
to see the famous Notifications built
into the hill, and through the window
knowledge of the life about the old cha
teau. within the whole atmosphere was
French, the nuns being a French order
and tenacious of their old ideas.
The villages about the convent are small
and primitive, the villages. from the point
of view of the school girl sturdy. but
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What the Traveller Sees of Quaint Old Antwerp

stupid. given to smoking bad cigars and
drinking quantities of beer. Every other
house, It seems. bears the sign Cafe"
which is there frankly translated Beer"
There. too, dogs are much used for
light work. drawing milk carts. bread
wagons and the like. They are mongrel
breed. large and strong and rather like
Scotch terriers, and either pull the
cart from the front or push from under
meath. They are quick and bright and
make themselves very generally and
thoroughly useful. though there seems TO
be little friendship between dog and
owner
Here, too. the war is creating havoc
In the heart of the battle-ridden district
on the Mouse river, Huy has no doubt
seen fierce fighting. Without doubt the
convent has played some part, and, prob
ably that of hospital, with the nuns doing
their share in the nursing of the wounded
One wonders IL the girls slipped away to
their homes or IL they, too. have watched
with anxious eyes the siege and taken
their turn at nursing beside some wound
ed soldiers cot.
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Uncanny Skill.

CORONER GORDON NORTON of
~ Freeport was talking to a New York
reporter about the Carman case.
Great skill has been displayed in this
case the young coroner ended. I'm
canny skill. I might almost say. Skill
which reminds me of the young lady at
Coney.
"A young lady met young gentleman
at Coney. and they took bath. and
long walk on the beach. and then they
sat down side by side on the white. clean
sand.
.aThe spot was lonely one, and the
young man began to talk of love. He drew
nearer and nearer to the young lady.
Finally he reached out his arm to encircle
her waist.
But she drew back sharply. and at the
same time she took a pair of large white
cotton gloves from her handbag. I
".If you're going to be friendly, George.
she said Just slip on these. Ny steady's
detective, and If he found your finger
prints on this here white belt OF
ry,iro-' -
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The AID Does 1t.

7 oU1s ]. HoRowITZ, the builder Of
the Woolworth, Municipal. Equitable
and many other buildings of New Yo-,.
and of America, praised advertising at q
dinner at his beautiful Riverside Drive
apartment overlooking the Hudson.
ST am firm believer in advertising"
said Mr. Horowitz. Il impute grea.
part OF my own success to it
Here Mr. Horowitz's sunburnt and
healthy face was illuminated by one OF
his rare and charming smiles.
when a duck lays an egg he said.
"she waddles back to the duck pond in
Indifference silence But when hen la.fi
an egg, her frantic cackles make IL known.
THE hen advertises.
And that. my friends. Is why the word
eats hens eggs instead OF ducks esEkI
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The Masses.

GA T the beginning of the European war
scare. when the enlightened dared
to shout, A bias la guerre" they were
arrested. imprisoned, fined. What a world
we live in. To be arrested for opposing
war"
The speaker was Hutchins Hapgood.
reforner, of New York. He continued
bitterly:
But the people always get it in the
neck. Peace or war. the people get IL
in the neck. The people are like an
day
Boy / said, what do you get for
hoeing potatoes in these parts?'
Nothin' If I do the boy answered
HI il / DON'T
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, in the form of public debts.
Nv be called the national debts
bot up this sum. but the mu-
md state or provincial debts.
which are not guaranteed by
nal governments. bring up the
south American countries have
borrowing habit. Some OF the
Ind more reckless ones have
whole continent a bad name.
luth is that. In view of resources
IraI wealth and the rapid de-
| that has been going on. $1,000
5 not an extravagant public
i found. moreover. that the very
portion of the debts has been
the countries which are SOL
which scrupulously meet their
B. Besides. while there have been
zme unnecessary loans for naval
les, the major part OF the loans
incurred for public improve
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30
A Success Secret.

A PROPoS of the bad effects of bust
ness on the health. millionaire con-
tractor, said in a Y. NJ. c. A. address
in Cleveland:
."The bad effects of business on the
health are so universal among us bust
ness men that confidently inform all our
statesmen that. in order to win infallibiy
the friendly interest of any business man
over forty, the one thing to do is to com
mence the interview by producing for ex-
animation and discussion box Of some
new kind Of dyspepsia cura"
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some of its neighbors, and various propo-
sitions have been presented to the Bo-
;ivian congress for a foreign loan which
would enable comprehensive scheme of
railways, to be carried out. The Bolivian
government always has preferred to seek
money in New York rather than in Eu-
rope, and two or three years ago a small
loan was obtained through one of the
New York banking houses of interna-
tional reputation.
Paraguay, on account of its numerous
revolutions, and possibly for other rea-
sons, never has had much success in Sc
curing money from Europe. Its present
public debt is between S12,G00,O00 and
S13,000.00 The opening of railway com
munication with Buenos Aires and other
chapters of peaceful development have
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nation. Holland was treated with much
consideration, but somehow she chung TO
Antwerp, the last fruit of her once sue
cessful campaigns against her neighbor.
She fatty refused to evacuate and at
length the powers decided that she must
be forced to yield, and to France and
England was allotted the task of shelling
out her defenders. The siege was sue
cessful. but remarkable one from
military point of view and it required
a force of 10000 to dislodge pitiful
5000 men.
Landing from an Atlantic liner, after
steaming up the Scheldte, the traveller Is
impressed not with Antwerp the fort
ress. but with Antwerp the commercial
city Miles of wharves and docks
stretch along the water front great piers
are there ships loading and unloading,
and all with an entire absence OF the
uncleanliness that marks the river front
of busy American city.
Leave the wharf section, and you go
back century or two, for the old town
of Antwerp Is the ouaintest of places.
The streets are narrow and winding with
houses leaning drunkenly against one an
other and nodding at the shops across
the way. Half the furniture of both
shops and houses lives on the sidewalks
and the people live in the streets, es-
pecially the children and the dogs. They
play and squabble cheerfully in mid
street, while wheel traffic makes its way
as best it cana motley traffic it is.
too, carts drawn by dogs and filled with
glittering brass milk cans, smart and
cheap taxicabs, open fiacres with small.
wiry beasts of some equine breed,
though hardly recognizable as of the
same species as the magnificent Perche-
rons, which do all the hauling and heavy
work
These great horses swarm, splendid
fellows with enormous shoulders, fea-
thered fetlocks and the kindest of faces.
They are driven, if one can call it that,
by rope passed casually round the nose,
hitched to a long low skeleton of
wagon and they tower above both wagon
and driver like mammoths. Navigation
of the streets on foot is thus rendered
extremely difficult, for though the gen.
TEST of beasts. they could crush a traveller
under foot without seeing him and hatten
him out with the completeness of
steam roller,
Antwerp was the home of the great
Peter Paul Rubens The town possesses
some several miles of his canvases, and
a few that STAN out from the ruck with
forgettable-the Descent from the
Cross" the "scourging of Christ and
few others: also Leonardo da Vincis
head of Christ in the cathedral. that is
painfully alive Antwerp owns these
treasures and the citizens know them
individually and collectively, visit them
frequently and love them with keen
appreciation.
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United States. Ultimately, it had to
be placed in London, Paris and Ant
werp, at eighty-six and half: This
was not because Uruguay's credit was
market was tight Uruguay hopes that
future loans may be placed in the United
States on better terms.
BY far the larger part of the public
debts of the South American countries
is held in England. While some of the
loans which have been placed through
London have been apportloned TO otner
monetary centers in Europe, ana nave
been absorbed on the continent, probabiy
between 20 and rs per cent of the ooi-
cations remain in England.
When the officials of the British ex-
else department are going over the m
placency on the schedule of foreign
government securities as 1t relates to
South America In one year recently
the returns showed more than S15,0o0.-
Chilean securities alone.
In spite of an occasional default by
minor South American countries. the
British public discriminates, and it al
ways has looked with favor on South
American government securities The
return is more than the 4 per cent
which is supposed to satisfy the con-
servatiye English investor. London
financial institutions of high standing
have been careful before Offering South
American loans to their clients. ana
this has helped to inspire commence
Between IS and 90 per cent of Chile's
foreign loans have been taken by Lon
don. The same proportion sould apply
TO Argentina Brazil has a smaller
amount of English capital in its loans.
Practically all the Uruguayan govern
ment loans have been f1oated in Eng
land.
France has participated in some de-
gree in Argentine and Brazilian loans.
A group of Belgian capitalists. with
French connections, has done the same
Germany, until recently. has not In
vested much capital in the public debts
of the South American countries with
which it has developed trade. 1t has,
however, interested itself in Brazilian
government securities. At one time the
Deutsche Bank of Berlin held about 10
per cent of the Chilean public debt.
Later. the German bank took small
Peruvian loan.
1t has come about that two great Eng
fish banking groups have financed the
leading South American countries. al
though not exclusively. The London
Rothschilds are the bankers of chile
and Brazil. Chiles foreign loans are al
ways placed through the Rothschlids,
and this house is credited with having
exercised potent influence IN keeping