El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-13

INTERVIEWS

ia RY legal residence is the Shell
nj don hotel and not outside
the city limits" said Burt
Orndorff today, when asked for a state
ment relative to the charge Of W. H.
Burgess that he has no right to vote in
the city. I'VE have a country home on
Dyer street, outside the city limits"
continued Mr.. Orndorff. but my legal
residence is Hotel Sheldon. My family
and I live there often and we eat reg
ularly as often at the hotel as at the
residence At one time, not so Iong
ago, we lived at the hotel for seven
moQths at a stretch. We reserve suite
OF rooms permanently in the hotel for
our own use Mayor Kelly knows this,
for he has entertained his friends in
them. Mr.. Burgess says the schools are
Of a letter which l sent to the school
board relative to the tuition charged
me for my little girls. 1 did not request
a reduction of taxes, as he says, but /
wrote the board relative to tuition
charges and inside Of a week the letter
was turned over to Mr.. Burgess"
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NO. it is not true that have
changed my party affiliations in El
Paso as often as Mr. Burgess SAYS" de-
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consistently and persistently against
the ring for eight years, with but one
exception. Two years ago, when James
A. Dick ran as an independent against
Henry Kelly, I supported Kelly as the
regular Democratic nominee. I told
him did it against my own best judg-
ment and desires, but that L did not
care to scratch a party nominee"
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Il have been oysr large part Of the
west and ] am fully convinced tnat III
Paso Is the Invest city in this whole
section said c. F. Spalding, of Louis
Vile. Ky. I was looking for some good
real estate investments and in this
conn ectiOn 1 visited more than a dozen
western cities As soon as / reached EI
PasO l knew that had struck the right
spot and / have already made an in
yestment here. In my opinion realty
values here. are real, not bOlstered up.
and the opportunities for a good, legit-
innate profit in 4 few years is surer
than in any other city ] visited. FL
Paso's location is such that it cannot
help but grow. Persons here have prob
ably had the advantages OF the dam
and the possibilities of the valley told
them until they are a little weary but,
to an outsider, these big advantages
are the first thing taken into consider
alton when an Investment is consid-
cred"
Eel Paso is the best paved and worst
street signed city in Texas" said F.
Goodson Grey, Of Fort Worth. "EI
Pasoans probably don't notice this, as
they have become familiar with the
streets, but it is almost impossible to
find street, or house, outside the cen
ter Of the city. I arrived here a week
ago and the other night had occasion
to look up house in the Government
Hill section. The auto driver was
green and it was case Of getting out
every block or so and striking matches
to see the lettering on the cuTbs. Even
this makeEhift street lettering has been
omitted in some parts"
I'm spite Of the frequent Interrupt
tons Of the mission work in Mexico
By the various revolutions, the work
.as never been wholly abandoned said }
Rev. Laurence Reynolds. with every
-ull in actual hostilities the mission
work has started Up again. The great
est encoure cement for the workers has I
been the attitude Of the people toward
The missions, for, with all the distrac- /
lions caused by the wars, the people
are more responsive than usual to the
efforts Of the missionaries among
hem"
Now that the city has appropriated
10000 to the fund for the creation and |
operation Of the proposed playground I
and recreation system in FL Paso, our
llans Will move forward rapidly" said |
j. Tighe, superintendent of 7
;ity schools and chairman Of the play !
grounds and recreation committee. !
The matter Of selecting a supervisor |
If Fairgrounds will be brought to the |
attention of the board of education, I
whose duty ii is to select him. at the 4
meeting next Wednesday. I brought up {
he matter at a recent meeting. recon- !
nending J. II. Stein, of Seattle. but, al |
hat time the board postponed action 4
IN the ground that it would be pest 20 /
irst have in hand the money. The ap- !
,ropriation Of $4,000 by the city means /
hat the movement will get $500. the /
'oard of education having agreed to !
a sum One-haif Of that ap- 4
'ropriated by the city"
FL Paso impresses me very favora-
ly, said H. D. Ross. recently of Bisbee
Iriz. 1T has a metropolitan air. borne
ut by well paved streets and imposing
ulldlngs, a well as by modern stores
nd heavy traffic It is ertainIy far
bove any other city in the southwest
nd seems destined to be a much larger
nd greater city"
one big reason why I wish to make
be Y NJ c. A. hexathlon a success in
i Paso is that the records will be pub
shed all over the country and show
eople elsewhere what we have" said
+ L. Holm. when I started for FL
aso I expected to find cowboys riding
Ike mad through the streets whooping.
also expected to see indians in fun
egalia and steers roaming through
ne STREETS. And expected to find very
tile paving. These opinions were
1ared by many fasteners, particularly
/ the New England states"