El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-22

~ L PASO'S international bridges are
II used by $50 passengers every
- hour. not counting the number of
peopIe who cross in the street cars.
This number reduced to minutes, means
Is people a minute are examined by the
customs inspectors, immigration in
spectors and United States soldiers on
the bridge outside of the street car in
I SpectiOns.
These figures were taken by actual
/ count during a moderately busy hour
/ in the middle of the afternoon after
/ the race track crowd had gone to
| JUarez, and before it returned, so that
none of the race traffic was included IN
I the figures. Out of the $50 there were
about 65 Americans, and these fur
nished the automobile part OF the pro-
! cessiOn, the balance being Mexicans,
crossing on foot, most OF them, the
wagon drivers and those in autos num-
bering only $50.
On account of the immigration sta
| ton being located at the Santa Fe
bridge, it naturally is traversed the
most One hours count Of the stream
of humanity passing over the Santa Fe
bridge amounts to 598 passengers,
while 365 crossed the Stanton street
bridge in the same time. The Santa
Fe bridges crowd included S18 men,
I 172 women, and so children, who
trudged on foot across the bridge, go
ing and coming, while IS wagons
passed. with 80 passengers, and %
automobiles, with so passengers
Rush Hours Morning and Evening.
The rush hours at the bridges come
/ in the morning, from about to 1880
o'clock, and about the same time in the
evening. when the great mob Of Next
cans who work in FL PasO are work
bound or hOme-bOund. The races make
( no peTceptible difference in the thrOnS
of foot passengers, although they In
Z b.. - h.
spected, and also the number of street
cars, and make extra work in that
way for the bridge guard, and customs
and immigration inspectors
Saturday, Sunday and Monday are
the busiest days at the bridge, for it is
on those days that JUarez comes over
to FL PasO to do its marketing and
seek its recreation Saturday pro-
, visions have to be taken over to last
over Sunday, SO there is one unending
regular mOving-picture procession OF
push carts, to be filed with groceries
and provisions, and basket-laden
women bound for market Ihls lasts
all day, for the mob that came over
empty handed in the morning returns
at night burden laden.
Sunday being a holiday. there is the
biggest amount Of traffic Monday
everyone in Juarez has to replenlSh
their larders emptied by Sunday s
feasting, so there is the Saturday
market-bOund procession repeated.
JuareZ Needs Ell PasO.
FL PasO might do without Juarez,
but it would be impossible for Juarez
to worry along through existence with
out FL PasO.
The imports that amount to any
value that come into Ell PasO through
Juarez are big shipments coming in the
railroad cars from interior points,
lumber from the MADEIRA plants, ores
from the mines in the interior. cattle
from the interior, wheat from down
Casas Grandes way and the Mormon
colonies. From Juarez itself. FL PasO
imports chilli, Beans. fresh meat, and
curiOs Another import that Ell PaSO
brings from Juarez is wagon loads OF
sand for contractors work in the
building of FL PasO.
But with Juarez, what 1t imports
from FL PasO is another tale. Juarez
buys all of its groceries in FL PasO,
excepting frijOIes, chill. onions garlic,
and mutton tallow. Groceries mean all
kinds Of canned goods, -four salt, eggs,
raisins, apples, oranges and bananas.
Kerosene and gasoline oil for almost
the entire population of Juarez is pur-
chased in FL PasO, and mostly by the
gallon can. The stores in Juarez also
purchase the bulk Of their oil stock on
this side of the Rio Grande.
Gets SOup in FL PasO.
Soap is another important thing that
the population Of Juarez has to cross
the international bridge to secure. and
$50 cases of soap were exported from