El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-11
Brandy, His Good Nature
and Three Days Growfh
of Beard, Back On Job

When the Sunset limited arrived I'm
the well known union station Wedues-
day evening from the east. il had
abroad "a big bearded man with sun
burned face and a travelling cap. No
one knew him and the station cop
was about to call the Julio jitne~
when Joe Glass. the Sherlock Glucl
OF the Associated Press service. rushed
from behind, near marble post and
identified the mystery -'man from
Egypt by his black trimmed glasses.
IL was Carlos Santos Brandebury.
bureau chief of the Associated Press.
who had been missing since Sunday
morning and had been wandering I'm
the Big Bend" district without regu-
lay food. Gillette shave or baths This
is sad, sad story.
Fron3 the Bronx Wilds.
Coming from the wi.ds Of the Bronx
soon after the Columbus raid. Brande-
bury was at first happy i'm his new
surroundings. but rs warm weather
came he began to dream of big league
games, of nights at the Broadway roof
gardens and of sundays at Coney where
he could sit in the shade CT the hot
dog trees. His dream grew into a
nightmare. He raved of Polo park
and today's batteries When his as
sistsnt was recalled 60 New York
Erandebury wept like old Porfirio Diaz.
the crocodile in the plaza pool Then
came the long hoped for order to re-
turn. To Tommy Thompson. his Juarez
man. and to JOE Glass. second i'm com
maud. he pictured the Joys he would
have when his train pulled into the
Grand Central station and he was once
more back i'm George Cohanville.
OFF For Home.
His train left here Sunday morning
with Braudebury waving goodbye to
his staff from the observation plat
form. He settled back for diner
breakfast A messenger entered the
car az Fort Hancock. Business of pag-
inr
Telegram for Mister Brondybury,"
he shouted.
Stock in the Hope Deferred COM
pauy dropped to nothing as Brandebury
read the message which informed him
of the Glen Springs raid and suggest
ed that he get off at Alpine.
For three days and three nights he
covered the big story Of the Glen
Springs Boquillas raid as only a post
graduate Associated Press man can
cover n big story The telegraph Op-
orator at Alpine could not send fast
enough FOR him as he pencied the
dramatic story Of The Second Alamo
at the adobe house in Glen springs.
He gathered news like bee gathers
the sweet stuff. There were no other
correspondents on the job and the
Back on the job.
Then came the message that he was
not TO continue on to little old New
York. but to return to FL Paso and
take charge again. -Four days after
he had left for New York. he returned
from Alpine He found his typewriter
iu The Herald office decorated with
ported tomato plant, nice big lemon
and Mexican and American flags. Above
these was hanging q big key to the
city and streamers Of the tri-color OF
Mexico.
Brandebury is again bumped over
his Remington No. 10. coat off. sleeves
rolled M and grinding out hot copy
for the world to read; the same good
natured. big hearted boy who never
crew up that he was when he left Fl
Paso for his dear New York. Trouble
rolls off his soul like shot off sloping
roof and he can have anything I'm III
paso from the McGinty cannon In the
plaza to the combination to the vaults
of the First National bank. II ne asks
for it. Even the office boy likes him.