El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-09
Ell PASO HERALD
Editorial and Magazine Page
Friday, January 1914
LITTLE
INTERVIEWS

tCD I'D you know that millions Of
dollars worth of eggs are
II broken in transit every year
in the United states?" asked Edmond
Rebr. as he sat at his desk in the
Herald editorial room. porting over
little five by seven book.
New York alone, in the space of
one year, received 11,5OO,OOO dozen
/ cracked eggs, out of total cOnsump-
! ton of 127.6S9,60O dozen according to
! figures compiled by egg merchants OF
/ fbe metropolis" he continued, IN the
! tone of a sage. Most of these eggs
| we're cracked in transit and the ma
| iority of them were unfit for use so
! serious has the problem become. that
! the department of agriculture IS eX-
| Derimenting to discover the safest
| wav to pack eggs for shipment. 1t IS
| Directly affected by this loss in transit:
Never heard of that before, did you
! he asked as he smiled at the be
! yvfIderment of the office force w ell,
/ that is only one of hundreds of inter-
| esting bits of information contained
| in the new Handy Almanac, Encyclo-
| pedia and Atlas that The Herald IS
/ now distributing to its SUBSCRIBERS.
''9
Gel Paso is considered such a good
! show town that We passed up san An
: tonic this year to show here" said
! James Whittendale, manager Tor
| "MilestOnes," a comedy coming mere
/ next month Eve play NasnVlIle,
! Tenn. New Orleans. Houston, FL Paso
( and then to San Francisco, ne con-
/ tinued 1--WE haven't time to play all
! the towns along the route and IN
| choice between San Antonio and II
( Pasol we took Ell PasO Milestones,
: is comedy by Arnold Bennett and
! Edward KnOblaucn and IS BENG pre-
/ scented with a company OF EnSlisu
! PLAYERS. It tells the story OF the
/ Rhead family in three acts, laid IN
/ 1850 1885 and 1912. With much
! kindly satire and at the same Tune
! sympathy, it shows how each genera
! ton makes the mistakes of the last,
| and of how little value the experience
of one generation is to the next
W J LLOYD, general manager of the
I mountain states district of the Western
! Union Telegraph Co, accompanied by
/ E E McClintOck, district CONNER
/ ciaI superintendent of the same com
( pany with headquarters in Denver,
/ spent Yesterday in FL PaSO. This is
/ not in our district, but our wires eX-
| tend to the Texas line, so we came on
! down to FL Paso to visit acqualnIances
and look over your live CITY,, sara MI.
! LLOYD "El PasO is growing fast and
/ we are doing fine business here.
Somebody ought to enforce the law
against splitting in the street cars
( said H H Fris today. There is a
! sign in all the cars informing the pup
/ lie that it is a $40 fine to spit IN
! car. yet almost every morning when
I 7 come down on the Fort Bliss car,
! see great pools of tobacco juice on
! the floors and often on the seats. II
I the ordinance was enforced rev
times, it would stop this nasty prac-
tice."
81 have learned a trick that saves
a lot of gasoline" said Harry Walk,
as he piIofed his big Cole touring car
I'D to the sidewalk like a Barney Old
| field The trick is to burn air instead
| OF gasoline in your car. 1 have cut
/ my carburetOr down until am rum
ming almost exclusively on air, 1t
seems, and am getting better results
| and saving money nave 10 prime
the carbureter on starting when 1t is
I cold, but after the engine warns up
] have no more trouble" Mr.. WalZ
; and Jim Maple went down to Guada-
lupe. Mexico yesterday, in Mr.. Walz'
car, on business
ct do ont mean to knock 81 Paso.
because it is a charming city OF
( charming people, but the filth and I'M
| cleanliness of the Mexican quarter of
I FL Paso is horrible" said Col Fred
J erick Perkins, of the goth infantry
/ 1T is worse than anything / nave
! seen in Havana, Cuba, before the
/ which followed the Spanish American
| war. 1 cannon understand how city OF
I such Importance and prominence as
FL PasO, with such a body OF SpIen-
/ did people living here can be so in
! different as to tolerate the filthy, un-
/ sanitary conditions that are so glar-
ingly apparent in the Mexican
quarter"
"Pancho Villa said before he left
Juerez the last time that he intended
( to drive the federals from OjinaSa or
/ sacrifice every soldier in his army IN
the attempt to do il" said an intimate
/ friend of the rebel commander. Mrs.
I Villa and a number of friends were
! present when he made the statement
! and I know he meant it. Although
! he did not say so in so many words,
| il was easily seen he regretted that
| he had not gone to Ojinaga himself in
! the first place, instead of entrusting
/ sUbOrdinates to assault the town. He
! underestimated the fighting strength
I of the ederals-probably the first
time he has made military mistake
Z since he organized the revolution in
Chihuahua"
Few FL Pasoans are leaving the
city nowadays" says H D. AIcGregor,
city ticket agent for the Ell Paso &
/ Southwestern railway. "A good many
{ transients, who have stopped over here
Z for few days are purchasing tickets
for points east and west Of FL PasO,
/ but people who really belong here are
apparently sticking pretty close to
I home I suppose it's because the
/ Christmas season depleted a good many
! pCcketboOl1s, and there is little extra
! change left for travelling purposes"
x
want ads carry a line of human in
terest that is not to be found in any
! other section of the advertising de-
/ partment," said Mrs. LeOla BUrweu.
of the want ad department of The
! Herald" There is not a day passes
! but what some heart interest floats
in with the daily grist of classified
I advertising. Just the other day we
/ had one signed Tom in which he said
I he was doing we'll and was ready to
! care for his family. Another adver-
! tises for a home for her little girl
: while the mother goes out to work.
| The sale of household goods almost
/ always follows the announcement of
a death among the health seekers.
This means that the widow or husband
/ is going back home to start over
! again. Work ads have their special
! heart thrObs for many men come to
/ the counter asking for work who are
{ actually hungry and are depending
J upon an answer to get their next
/ meal for themselves and often for the
! little ones at home. The classified