El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-29

lie Is a foreigner In strange lana.
Soldiers scrutinize him. Tall lean
westerners gaze down upon him from
their varying heights.
He feels he is a tenderfoot.
Alert young men in varying STYLES OF
uniform pursue and inquire the bust
ness Of all the arrivals. They are the
war correspondents at the supply base.
A hasty trip around the village shows
half a dozen frame buildings of various
sizes, twenty or more 'dobe huts-"Mex-
lean bungalows" someone called them
several corrugated iron shacks, a smat-
tering of tents hastily put up to pro-
vide eating places for the influx OF pop
ulation and the moving picture house.
The latter is an institution. 1t is OF
corrugated iron, decorated with daring
Autographs Of cowboys and beautiful
girls Of the golden west in desperate
battles and various other hours Of need.
Picture Show Man Prosperous.
The proprietor is the happiest man
In the state.
Ulster give one show a week." he
says. -Four a day now and full house
all evening"
A young woman OF blonde inclina-
tons and pinked cheeks smiles in regu-
lation style, just as in New York as the
boys buy their tickets. In this almost
Womanless town she passes as the
reigning beauty.
The soldier boys prefer to stand out
side to see her rather than take
chance with the doubtful one-reel thrill
lers inside.
She has but two rivals, the postmast-
ers youthful aide. who passes out
stamps with impartiality to all, and the
dignified but polite little girl who helps
her eastern mother serve ham and eggs
three times day TO the newspaper men
and others, while father writes impas-
stoned poetry to his cOuntry's flag and
the like O. that
Electric Lights Now.
Electric lights blaze from the NOV
ing picture house, where a coughing,
spluttering gasOlene engine turns out
the Juice" Internationally
The newspaper mems telegraph office
and headquarters, hurriedly established
in ide-tracked freight car, is also
lighted from this doubtful power plant.
Just think OF it." said one "one
hundred million Americans have TO de-
pend on whether that old engine keeps
news"
Torches flare. candles are reoulsi-
toned and all lanterns appear to light
up the gay white way" of unch tents
and sandwich counters.
Everybody in town is engaged in pro-
viding food and shelter for those at
tracted here by the boys across the
track.
Plenty of Music.
All the regiments sent to the front
left their bands behind them, with the
result that daily concert is provided
from to s. Troopers, machinists, auto !
truck drivers, mule handlers, horseshoe !
ers, aeroplane mechanicians, cowboys,
scouts and Indian chiefs gather around !
in motley group.
The night / arrived in Columbus a
friendly Mexican rushed ito camp and |
said band Of Mexican miners formerly |
WIN win VIVA was going to raid the town |
A courier had come in by mule train |
rom Casas Grandes, Pershing's nearest |
base, with news that General somebody
'r other was leading 5000 troops out 4
II sonora and threatening the precious 4
me Of communicate
Prepared for Trouble.
The town seethed with excitement.
At dusk whole troop Of cavalry
lurrled out TO some vital pass through
ne nils All outpOsts were doubled
'entries were placed every twenty feet
part at important points A SQUAD of
Wenty was concealed behind an old
dobe wall next the Hoover House.
tltlzens were warned off the streets
tier II o'clock and asked not to come J
ut IN case Of a raid, lest they be mis-
AIKEN for bandits.
whole regiment was sent to bed
Nth it's boots on.
me newspaper men prepared to sleep
n their box gar and lamented that the
ar did not have the thick adobe walls
mich bullets viii not penetrate.
Major w. r. Sample, commanding, is
ued passes to the newspaper men. PTbfs
9 the first time 1 ever had q written
emission to stay out all night
The Town Alarm.
Along about 10 o'clock two rifle shots
ere heard.
The town, asleep with one eve and
9th ears open. jumped out OF bed, |
ugles sounded and guards clattered by.
For twenty minutes there was sus-
ense.
The guards returned.
A very much frightened negro sentry
anne with them.
lie certainly had seen a whole pas
Pr OF bandits creeping, creeping. (
Keeping up all around him and he lust
p and shot at a couple Of them.
Well, that's one sentry we know
asn't asleep anyway" remarked a face
Gus lieutenant
Inere has been some criticism about
he way the sentries let the Villa MUIR
erers surprise the town, and Just at
resent IL would be a serious matter {
" civilian to have anything to saw
bout sleeping soldiers
Camp in Action. q
By sun-up the camp burst into action
Thirty auto trucks lined up and were '
AIDED with candy, gold, Mexican silver, /
nts' alfalfa, biscuits, gasoline. tin