El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-18

INTERVIEWS

LL-HERE is no city in the south
west that is going to receive
4 as mucn favorable advertising
on account of the Panama exposition as
FL Paso," said George d. Hunter, Of
Dallas. ION account Of the European
war, travel to the coast viii be greater
than it would have been under normal
circumstances. Ell Paso has put in a
strong bid for the routing Of much Of
this traffic through the Pass City
through advertising the free car rides
and by placing the chamber Of COM
merce booklets on practically every
railroad ticket office counter in the
east. The persons who will visit III
PasO this year can be counted in thou
sands"
eff out Of the way towns like Las
Vegas and Reno can draw huge crowds
for a championship prize fight, El
Paso on the main line of two of the
big transcontinental railroads, should
certainly double the number for the
Willard johnson fight said c. l..
Graves. 'El Paso, however must re
member that JuareZ is the logical fight
center now and viii be for some years
to come and the people here should act
accordingly. At Reno the fight fans
were lucky if they got out of town
with their trunk, much less any real
cash The prices charged for every
thing were doubled and trebIed. The
result is that Reno. even should the
state allow it, could never get another
big contest There viii be plenty OF
money brought into FL PasO on ac-
count of the fight and it will continue
to come here if it is given a square
deal"
The program of the literary depart
ment of the Woman's club next We'd
nesday may be of especial interest to
all women, as the study topic is the
Phillips. while all the supporters of
the feminism movement are suffragists
they go further than that in their stand
for women as individuals. Any woman
interested in the suffrage movement
and the feminism movement viii be q
welcome visitor to the club Wednes-
day"
'If the people Of the Texas coast
knew Of the climate and the great
benefits to be derived from few
weeks spent in FL Paso. they would
come here in ever increasing numbers,"
said Mrs. II. a. Thomas. Of Texas City.
This is my second visit here. The
first time / received such great beue-
fits that 7 have decided to try the eli
living in low attitudes to get into the
mountains and I presume a change
from a high altitude to the coast is as
desirable in the interests of the best
sIrable as health resort because in it
are combined a healthful climate and
all the advantages OF a city
THAT Elephant Butte dam is a great (
piece of engineering" said !. NJ Wall
ing. George Pende1 and I made the
trip to the dam last week and we
spent several hours at the site We
were informed that the dam viii be
completed in about six months. That
is good news to the valley, for we have
been waiting a lOng time FOR the dam Z
to be built. The government road to I
the dan, is cut out of solid rock along !
the side of the hills and in itself is I
quite a work.
''EI Pasoans may think the Made in /
FL PasO exposition was purely q local /
affair" said George u. TTartwell, OF /
Denver. But in so thinking they are
greatly mistaken. Many Denverites
were discussing it during the past
month and suggesting that it would {
be a splendid thing for Denver to have /
the same kind Of an exposition. In /
fact. it has been discussed to such /
length in Denver that it is not at all T
unlikely that Denver viii have a Made /
in Denver exposition next year."
next TO Portland Ore. 7 believe El !
Paso is the finest city in the United 4
States said Harry Pollock, captain 4
Of the fire department of Portland. /
Having been born and reared in Port |.
land, and it being a splendid city. I [
naturally think there is none finer. ;
But I will say that El Paso runs Port /
land close. second at the present time I
and is far ahead Of what Portland was /
when il was the same size as Ei Paso. I
Take my own line. the fire department, (
for instance. When Portland was the !
same size as EI Paso It had a partly 1
paid fire department supplemented by /
volunteer service. The equipment OF /
the department consisted Of one engine (
and few other pieces of horse drawn (
apparatus together with a few Old hand (
drawn hose reels. On the other hand /
IL Paso has two motor, triple cOmbi- {
nation pieces OF apparatus and as I