El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-09
WANT BA5SETT
As 4 DIRECTOR
Chamberof Commerce Asks
Him to Run; BAD Beans
Here: Silk Industry.

the race for a dictatorship IN the
chamber Of commerce. The entire
board of directors, at their meeting
Tuesday evening, discussing the com
ing election of five new directors, de- Z
Z cided Informally that request would
+ be made OF AR Bassett 10 make the
race for membership In the board. /
believing that in doing so he would
be performing a duty to the entire I
city and one that would meet the z
unanimous approval Of all members of Z
the chamber Nominations for direc- /
tors will be made at the annual meet Z
ing Of the chamber OF commerce the Z
last Friday before the last Wednes- /
day In January be specific. on Jan. Z
% At that time 10 names must be I
placed in nomination to fiji the five
vacancies. AS many more names as is I
desired can be placed in nomination, I
but the bylaws call for the uomina-
ton of at least ten.
The directors who retire this year I
are II. y Ellis 3. L. Farrar. r E I
hines, i. NJ Hurd and j. ". Lorent- I
zen Others who hold over next year I
are Herman n. Andreas, Otis c. Coles, Z
j. w Kirkpatrick, q. A Martin, 7. h. Z
Rogers. George b. Ryan. Maurice /
schwartz. W. H. shelton, Jos. A
Wright and John N. " yatt
AIR. wyatt has asserted that he viii .
not be president again next year and 4
a new man viii have TO be selected
The directors. in informal session,
also approved heartily the Instructions ]
of judge W. ID. Howe. of the saith dis
tricL court TO the grand jury regard
ing the probe Of poll tax payments. I
Several of the directors are members
OF the grand jury
Bad Eeans; Army Waste.
Score AIRY George j.. Clements. food
u i'm -H Hl HH.H
ed correspondence To the board from
Washington asking him TO investigate
the condition or $1,000 sacks or Next
can beans stored in FL Paso and said
TO be unfit for consumption They
We're said TO be wormy.
llr. Clements also read correspond
euce in which he was urged 70 take
up with the army officials the matter
OF FOOD conservation 1t had been re-
ported Co Washington, he said, that
people were loaIn to sign pledge
carus when they witnessed waste Of
GOOD by the army.
Want 10 LING SILK Worms.
Let-e-s from - ~. Griffin and
Y. X Cslslau, of the Austin silk Pan
larlun notwithstanding COMPANY rela-
i've TO the p0zsiDII4,les or establish
.us silk worm In4u-try in the b I
l-asO valley, were read ana referred to
director Maurice Schwartz Air. Dsl-
-Ian Offered To bring "a display OF
would total ABOUT $3.50, MIR. Griffith
wrote that excellent success hau at
teu-el tlelr Work at AUSTIN this year Q
Already We have h1tcled live lots Of
eggs he wrote, ana we expect SIX o.
SCI en- next year IL only requires SIX :
or seven weeks from the time OF
Matching the eggs until the compile
ton OF cocoon" He thinks null
berries grow wen IN the FL Baso val
ley anu believes the industry woulu
tn4iye here.
Herman Andreas said muIberries
were the mot rapid growers Of any
tree grown in the Ii Blso valley and
that he had bought 10000 as wind
brakes for his upper valley orchard
near Anthony he would like 10 see
The silk wolms given trial here.
Want Baseball Club.
The National AssO- cation for the
Advancement OF the ColOred people,
Leroy ~ nice, secretary, was accepted .
TO membership in the chamber Su-
berDers Bros. were also voted IN as
members.
Several designations were accepted I
and number Of members were sus-
pended for non payment OF their due
Directors r. NJ. Audreas, George 3.
Ryan and ". H Shelton were ap-
pointed by president wyatt 10 inves-
tigate the matter OF securing e park
for the Chicago Cubs for training
here this winter and 20 get in touch
with the management and attempt 70
land the organization
A leave OF absence for two weeks
with pay was granted 10 George Il.
Clements, secretary who expressed a
desire TO visit New York.
School Of Mines Purchase.
a letter was read from c. NJ New Z
man regarding the purchase Of the
site for the Texas school OF Mines
ana setting al rest rumor which I
president Wyatt said was being cir
culateQ, that the property had been [
bought from the First National bank I
The letter from Mr.. Newman follows
The bill passed by the Texas leg
islature creating the School of Mines
to be located in FL Paso. stated that I
same would be located here. provided
the citizens OF FL PasO donated TO the
state Of Texas, free OF charge. the
property owned by the FL Paso Nil
llary institute. This property was al
that time owned by Neszrs. Felix Mar
unez, j. j. Muudy. II. Z. Stevens. A.
CourcHesue and myself We were
waited upon by G committee from the
chamber OF commerce and asked at
what price the school Of Mines could
he purchased. and after consultation /
q committee was appointed by the
chamber OF commerce which reviewed
the property and reported back to
the chamber OF commerce recommend
ing the purchase at $4,000. same be-
ing approximately one half Of the
orlCincl cost OF the property tt was
found imnossi1le 20 NJ that time raise
the $4,000 necessary TO pay for the .
property outright and the owners Of
the property finally consented to &C
cept the obliga ton Of the chamber Of
commer-e NJ the city of Fl Paso to
nay said $50 600 in ten annual in ]
s-almeutS Of $1,000 each, plus the in
terest and I'm order 20 secure the same
same a. citizens Of FL Paeo executed
thei- personal notes p~vable in Ten
instalments, guar uteeinE 10 the
owners of the property that the
chamber OF commerce would meet its
OBLIGATION
There IS probably no one in the 2
citv now hut who realizes that the 7
school n Mines is one OF the greatest L
assets the city now h-s AMI t1at it Is
certain 10 grow 70 be a most impor-
tant institution
GERMANS pin PpTTTcU