El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-04
HERALD MEN ON
AREAL OUTING
Over Thirty Make a Trip to
Dripping Springs With
Cooks and "Eats."


Thirty odd employees and depart
ment heads Of The FL Faso Herald be-
tween the hours oflnOon Saturday and
dusk Sunday, made a trip to Dripping
Springs. \. H.. and return. All had
fine time. The trip was made table
l'hote meaning that the crowds went
in solid punches, rather than in road
sters and limOusines. There were no
casualties despite the fact that several
of the party ulned on scenery on noun
tain tops and regardless Of unWleldy
nature Of Stats who is the o1Ilce
bow and his 'coufederates three. This
contingent talked loudly all night Ions
1t Col T. V Smith, Of the Sixth re
giment Of L. ) infantry contributed
to the Joy of the outing with an eN-
pert cook. in O. $. Robinson, of the
sixth infantry band, and an able as
sistant. q. g. Caster of company 3.
sixth infantry Robinson introduced
the night-euders TO a marvellous break
fast food which was dubbed Jam Ia
males while Caster could keep two
skiuets with fried eggs going at one
time He could reNers- the contents
of a skillet with a turn Of the wrist
which ought to win tennis tourna-
ment
- The deans o. the mountain climbing
contingent We're H. D. Slater. John w
Harm and H H Fris. Mr.. Fris with
the usual luck that follows a clrcula-
tor. completed his climb of the noun
tain peaks and was back in camp IN
time for the MONDAY luncheon Sunday,
but Mr.. Slater and Mr. Harm, in de-
scending a steep wall Overhanging a
canyon. reached a ledge where Jhey
could neither set up nor down ana,
after they had missed luncheon, were
found and rescued by a bunch of anna
teur climbers and rope They ate
their lunch all the more heartily when
they did get TO IT, however
some First Class Trucks.
Two International trucks were the
means Of taking most Of the plcnlck-
ers to and from the camping grounds
Each truck made the trip up and back
without a bobble and at a speed OF
is miles an hour regularly.
One of these trucks contributed py
A. H. EImOre. general manager Of the
Oakland Auto sales Company, and dri-
ven by G. A. Martin. made the trip
from FL Paso to the 5000 level OF Drip
ping Springs IN { hours and fOrty-five
minutes. A Ford car preceding the In
ternational truck, carried Cooks hoo-
insOn and Caster and was cap
tanned by f. H. Fris- This car was
furnished bv j. w kirk patrick. OF the
Tri-State Auto Co. When the Inter
national with its cargo Of men ana
provisions arrived in the pocket OF
2reeu and refreshing trees at S-l5 sat
urdav night. a supper was in the
course of being. prepared Until
o'clock the remaining members Of the
party continued TO arrive with great
racket and hUIlabaloo-
Among the most interesting episodes
was the late arrival Of foreman O. =
Ward. T. a. Jones and W. T. Deatou,
who set out from FL PasO after the
pink sheet had been struck off ward
insisted that the pleasures OF camp he
rehearsed for his benefit and as a re-
suit rehearsels vepr on until early
morning. ably assisted by Stats ana
his comrades three. who continued their
noise and racket through perIecliy
good and decent still hours Of the
morning
Mr.. Ward and his party arrived In
a Ford after breaking down at Las
Cruces. in the touring car that took
them out of FL PasO. and hiring
second car at that place. They got
in shortly after midnight, Just IOl-
lowing the arrival Of y E Neazey and
party. who made the trip safely all
the way from FL Paso in AR Neazsy's
Maxwell
Some Bad Luck.
About midnight another big crowd
arrived in the Jitue truck
Last TO arrive after a mere sprint