Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-29
ALBUQUERQUE MORNING JOURNAL MONDAY. NOVEMBER g. 1915

scfipiural Injunction. Ee NOT fauhles
but GeiieVius as you choose
AS / suggested. this was one o
his minor experiences. one OF the 'h
the way on just for instance kinc
I Personally. I wish Go believe that an
an has other stories and when ] re
I eah his frank Ingenious face ana in
I n0cent blue eyes. with their framinl
/ Of whitening hair / generally 10 be
/ lieve them. but } remember. viii
/ some degree OF modification still. in
I stances In which Z have been TO,
Icredulous. Perhaps this is another.
While waiting 10 Bowie. before
I Preached the main line from my side
trip, J learned that there is For
Bowie. about fifteen miles south and
that it was SO named for Colone
Bowie. ! wonder II he was that Col
James Bowie for whom. as ! read IN
my youth. the bowie knife wa,
named and who. ] think. fen at the
Alamo. When ! meet the cycIope-
dias again / mean 20 inquire about
that
Bright Future for II Paso.
You an know so much more about
FL Paso than I do that will only
say passed a day there very pleas
antN found q few New MeXicans
knew and numerous old MeXicans
/ didn't know Tho latter. II Is said,
are going by hundreds 70 the portion
Of Mexico where Carranza's sway is
not now questioned VI ct armis By
way OF san Antonio and Eagle Pass.
Il wish TO put on record my pass
ing belief that El PasO is destined TO
be a large city AS 1 have no real
estate or other property interests
whatever there / trust shall be
credited with sincerity even though
my Judgment may be questioned on
that point
From El Paso / proceeded east by
the Texas Pacific. in order TO reach
Nicksburg. and 10, for me o. novelty
The porter of the car ! Was i'm was
what We term a Mexican In an my
railroad travel before / had only seen
colored porters for the pullmans. un-
less possibly. very early Ia their use,
there We're some white porters--my
memory is not quite clear on that
point. The porters of the other cars
on the train were cOlOred, but. on in
quiry ! learned that il is not uncom-
mon to have Mexican porters The
one We had was a good one, barring
his incomplete command of English.
The River ut NlCksburg.
"Our train, minus the engine was
tcrricd across TO Nicksburg, where [
made a halt on account OF the his
toric events of which IL was the scene.
but ! learned or relearned other in
teresting events in its annals II is
situated on high bluff at the foot
VI which. AT the time Of the civil war,
ts everybody knows, ran the Mlssis-
'ippi That rather crratic stream, at
hat time made long loop i'm front
)f Vicksburg, coming first 10 a point
A little below the city. then turning
northward and running two or three
niles or more past the city but at a
distance Of mile or more from it,
hen turning a point and running close
% the city ana along the bluff on
which IL stands down past the point
Nhere il first struck the narrow pc
llnsula have named A vessel follow
ms the river therefore passed the city
vice in plain view and within cannon
ange although the cannon OF that
line may not have been able to
each the outer arms of the loop with
.reat effect. The necessity OF passing
through the outer arm first in going
Town stream must. however, have /
realty helped the watchers at the /
uns on shore, TO detect the approach I
i the federal vessels, ON their way to j
~ running the gauntlet past the city. /
ieneral Grant had Il canal cut, or (
artly cut across the peninsula below /
he city, purposing that the MISSISSIPPI /
ii should pass through, enlarge the |
hannel by use and leave Yickshurg
o one side, without river front.
nut the Mississippi scorned the /
roposed channel ana presently filled I
up with snags and mud, then. years /
fterward, in 1895 think, as if To !
how II knew its own business and /
'ould attend TO II when good and
eady, it cut the peninsula itself
title above the place where General
rant attempted It,, and in fact left
ieksburg off its course Then the
Id of Uncle sam, against whose arms
he city was SO strongly defended, was
lvoked and he kindly and of course
I great cost, cut n canal from the
02oo river which joined the MiSsis-
Ippi by a series Of lagOons or bayous
u about that neighborhood into the 4
Id channel nc the foot of the citys i
luft, and thus far it works well and !
ne city has a good depth of water off
8 wharves. although not strictly Mis-
ssipp water, unless at high stages
the river or as It mingles through
ne cut it made in the peninsula with {
ne much smaller body of Yazoo wa
n.
National Cemetery.
In the National cemetery at Yicks-