El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-03
Fl PAS0lNSMAY HAVE ANNUALF FAIR;
COMING EXHIBIT TOBE STARTER
Rotary Club to Boost made in Ell Paso" Week as the
Beginner of an Annual Fair For the City; f. H. X@e
Tells Rotarians Some Interesting Facts ABOUT
Transportation and Transfer Business.
III annual al that Is q

til it becomes an annual laF ina"
credit 10 the city. oLam-
Der of committee ~ 0uo
of the affair. declared loD+s from
mittee had received agreements AtGsi
SO FL Paso manufacturers to MAKE US
DIavs and he said he believed TINS IN
cluded all manufactures IN I'll fasO "a
cept five or six.
Music and Display.
II was -nnounce that the expense OF
the exhibition would be borne by Ile
exhibitors, each paying ms sn@,S ~
proportion to the size OF the usPIaS
space occupied. -os
NJ. p. CarIock announced that II was
the idea to have electric archeS IN Va
rious points about the plaza mat coi-
onnades would be erected bearing var.
GUS inscriptions, and that q Danu "ouIu
be secured to furnish music each eve
On suggestion of A. E. Rowlands It
was decided to erect a banner
how much one is sent away LIN
home when articles are bought mat are
not made here. He said 70 perceht U
the money goes out of town for an ar
ticle made out of town while 1OO per
cent STAYS in E Paso for all artlcIes
made here.
Committees Named.
The foUoWfng committee was ap-
pointed to cooperate and assist IN ar,
ranging for the Made in Ell PaSo
week: Robert Krakauer, chalrman, II
R. McClintock, J. r. SegalL r w NJ
ton, George E. frost, Crawford HarVi6'
Dan Rathbun, NJ. ?. CarIoeK, ID. 1;
Bowie. Leo Ferlet, S. c. Aubrey ana
George a
The following committee on duNeI-
Using for the Made in FL Paso' week
was appointed: r. E. Sherman, cnalr-
man; Maurice Schwartz and NJ + Gar
Hauling AID Freighting.
The address of the luncheon Thurs
day was made by /. d. lade; u come
pany- His talk was on the TRANSFER
and storage business
He told the Ell PasOans Of the Won
I derful advance made IN FL Paso since
transportation lines entered the city IN
1881. Prior to that time ne saldl
freight was transported from Indlanola
overland by way of San Antonio to ~
Paso, at a cost of " 100 pounds, and
it was as days on the road At PLes
eut the freight rate to FL Paso IRON
I New York is only $3.50 a hundred
This demonstrated, he said, what an
road transportation has done IoF T.
Paso. The first railroad to reach here
he said, was the 5. P, on May L
1881. The Santa Fe was next, arriving
here. he said, on June Il, 1881. The
Texas & Pacific's first train arrived
in January. 1882. The Mexican Central
came in 1854, the Northeastern came
AAE4AH AANaA ia
west, in 1902.
The FL Paso freight business last
year was 3,l37,527,S40 pounds, he de-
clared.
Heavy Hauling.
Referring to hauling, Mr.. Yale gave
! some experiences he had had in e
4 Paso. The heaviest single article eve
J hauled in FL Paso, he said, was tht
/ great vault door for the present FRS
J National bank. which weighed $3.50
pounds. It required five days to hau
[ it from the station and place it II
the basement Of the bank. There wer'
no blocks and tackles big enough t
/ handle it, so in letting it down int
the basement it had to be cribbed u
then each side lacked up alternately
| and 4 piece of cribbing removed, to lie
it down. The second heaviest thini
ever hauled in the city, he said, wa.
the vault door Of the new Union Banl
and Trust company, which weighs 26,
700 pounds.
Mr.. Yale said the transfer bushes