El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-03
HUNDREDS Of YEARS OLD, TUCSON
HAS BEATEN OLD PONCE De LEON
City Is M0dernized New Bright and Handsome, Full Of
New Buildings, More Being Erected; So Many Tour
lists Turns En- Away Until More Hotels and Apart
ments Can Be Built But Climate Counts Most.
D HIHERT HTNTER.

one Of the Oldest towns Of the
y southwest has become new-new
and larger. and. like Ponce de Leon
tried TO do. it has become young since
turning TO water For Tucson, Ariz-,
has done more rejuvenating i'm the
past five years than IL had been able
o. do in the Is years preceding. ale
though the rejuvenation had started
FAR back Perhaps the past few years
or prohibition have had nothing 20 do
with IT, but the coincidence is
marked.
Tucson is one Of the few places in
the southwest where there is actually
considerable building under way
They haven't stopped because Of the
war. though they probably viii be-
fore great while because Of the
mounting cost Of materials. Perhaps
the momentum Of building IN the past
i've years has been so great that lr
is just carrying the town on
But that the building should be
strong feature with Tucson is not to
he wondered at Mayor o. c.. Parker
told me- when I visited recently the
town after three years residence
there and five years subsequent alb
seuce, that last winter they turned
away about 1900 people for whom no
accommcdalious were available Most
II them were tourists Tucson bids
for tourists and gets them, lots Of
are winter residents of the kind who
have plenty Of money and like TO pick
cut nice. Comt0rrabl bic climate and
an attractive place 10 live during the
months when living in the east and
north calls for lots Of clothing, coal
and p5etv. There are families who
travel 20 Tucson every winter as reg
ularly as they 60 TO church on sun!
day. and some more so. The fact
that SO many desirable residents
were turned away last winter shows
the need for still more hotels. apart
ment houses and small houses for
renting purposes and those are being
provided now
new and Pretty BUNGALOWS.
There IS q part OF Tucson. between I
the Southern Pacific station and the
University OF Arizona which used 10
have many vacant blocks some OF
them were rough, cleft by arroyos.
and some seemed destined 20 be given .
over 20 a poor class OF houses 4hil
section has filled out remarkably in /
the past few years. There are new .
houses everywhere block after block 4
of them And 7 think Tucson has IL +
on any Of us, even FL Paso, In the D
matter of bungalow architecture Los
Angeles and Pasadena have no better 4
types Tucson architects design the +
most charming bungalows ] have ever /
seen and some OF their finest work is I
found in houses Of the five room
class. worth about $3.50
If the architects have shown pre-
eminence In design the contractors /
and craftsmen show equal ability, for
if Tucson is a city Of homes built dis
rinctiTely, ir also is city OF dis
tinctfvelv wei built homes The
builders are past masters in the use
of stuccO. it looks wen and il sticks
Originally effects and first class
~ workmanship are continually eucoun-
tered In these new Tucson homes.
Moreover. the Tucson builders have
the advantage Of being able 10 use
for Foundations porch pillars fire.
places and sidewalk fences cut stone
and eobhle stones such as are found T.
elsewhere and also a dark, semi
porous volcanic rock not encountered I
in many places VERY handsome eL-
fects can be produced with it. anc
although 10 looks as though IL would
readily, il has been so