Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-08
Our Bows at FL Paso

Most of the Harrisburg soldiers will
be in camp at Ell Paso, Texas. before
the end of next week. Mrs. w. ].
Peck, a well-known Philadelphia golf
player, says:
Most people in the North have an
entirely wrong conception of Ell Paso.
AS matter of fact, 1t is regarded as
the finest kind of summer resort by
people in Texas and Louisiana The
town has nearly sixty thousand inhab-
itants, and is built on a plateau about
$500 feet above sea level. The air
is very dry, there being very little rain
during the year, the total ranging from
two to forty inches, and there is al
most no humidity. Even when the
mark in the shade, you feel it much
less than on a hot. sticky day in Phila-
delphia when the mercury is only
about 75, but the humidity is up in
the ninetieS.
The water all comes from artesian
wells, and is about as fine as you can
find anywhere; fresh vegetables are
plentiful and cheap; the best of meat
is easily procurable, and the air is so
healthy and hfe-giving that invalids
from all over the country are sent
there to recuperate. The Philadelphia
troops are fortunate in going to FL
Paso. They will really have a fine
time, the wonderful air and the out
door life in their tents, coupled with
the usual drills, will put them in the
pink of condition. Why, will venture
to say that their best friends will have
difficulty recognizing some of them
when they get back home.
The business section of Ell Paso lies
along the bank of the Rio Grande,
with Juarez opposite on the Mexican
side, the two cities being connected by
the famous International Bridge. Back
of the city proper the land rises
abruptly, and the residence section is
built on these bluffs. Heavy cannon
are mounted there, and hold Juarez
at their mercy.
tremely difficult for any considerable
force OF MeXicans to get close enough
to Ell Paso to make trouble. For there
is nothing but fiat country south of
Juarez with no cover for miles, and
there is the river between FL Paso and
any possible enemy.
The table land on which El Paso
stands extends west to California and
east for more than 500 miles, until it
level at Brownsville. The prevailing
winds are from the northwest, it is al
most always cool. yes, really cool. at
night, and one can always sleep we'll
and so recuperate from the fatigue of
a day spent in the open air.
The social life of the city is delight
full. 1t is a well governed city also.
and while there are plenty of things
to do in the amusement line, it is no
wide open town. There are several
resorts nearby where there are large
summer colonies, notably Cloudcroft,
where there Is a big up-to-date hotel
and MANY private cottages.
Motoring around Ell Paso is de-
lightful. The roads are fine and there
is wide variety of scenery. The
ruined cities of the Pueblo Indians, the
villages of present day Indians and
Mexicans, mining camps, forests
ranches, broad mesas. wonderfully fer
tile valleys-all contrast Interestingly
with the twentieth century civilization
of the many prosperous towns and vii
lagos of that section.
NO. I don't think the relatives oi
the Philadelphia troopers need have
any anxiety about their well-beine
while in E Paso, and now that the
war clouds seem to have blown away
1t looks as though the Guardsmen were
only let in for pleasant two month!
or so in a very delightful location"