El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-11-03

/ TRAFFIC conditions IN France are
1 the worst IN the civilized world.
take them all around Nowhere
else is there such confusion at the
stations and terminals. the crowding.
pushing. hurry, delay, headlessness
and heedlessness, the wild scrimmage.
the hopeless taugle Of the baggage,
the incivllity Of railway officials and
employees IN all grades. the disregard
for the comfort and convenience Of
! the traveller, that one encounters in
I France.
It IS not quite so bad as that ia and
around Dublin and on the railways
I leading out OF the capital but there
is still time 20 reach the French level
if that IS the object. I got used 70
brusqus and impatient railway "serv-
ants in France, but suffered them
nowhere else On my travels Some Of
those around Dublin seem 20 have
taken lessons from the French More
over the trains run with little atten-
ton 70 schedule
This was my first Impression the
day LETT Dublin for the south. IL is
pleasure 10 record that I did not
again encounter this sort o. thing in
the Island Train service was not all
IL might have been, but there was
never anything 20 criticise in the
Il
who were, IL anything, more than
average polite and attentive and care
ful.
20 Dec. ls19-Left Dublin for Kill
kenny Just average country passed
through. neither very good nor very
paq, Ordinary farm houses and small
villages, population not at al dense,
even close - Dublin.
kilkenny is a right neat little town.
Great number OF little shops where
a variety OF things are sold. chiefly
small general stores. like our coun-
try stores. but a number Of pretty
gQQd speciality stores Considerable
evidence OF new buildings, paint,
progress and new stocks and modern
methods, and none OF the squalor /
expected TO see, from what / had so
often heard about the south OF Ire
land The town is cleaner on the
whole than places OF similar size in
France OF italy
There are practically no shops
@nere lllnEs are made. y saw half
dozen boot and shoe shops. several
@Alellenl ones but not one OF them
could put a half sole on a shoe. each
proprietor said he had no tools. no
machinery, no help, 20 DO the lob
and would have TO send my only pair
Of shoes 10 Dublin for mendinE while
waited in my stocking feet for four
- i've Gays TO get them back
finally induced a girl shoemaker 10
uail rubber cleats on my shoes and
they are there yeti she nailed them
an right.
. I saw one little carpenter shop. but
there appears % be nothing approxi-
mating local lndustry-not even a
cat was 90 be mad in Kilkenny. a cat
Of carved wood or paper or clay or
anything Tor souvenir. I'm another
country than Ireland. there would
have been stacks Of souvenir cats 10
g q
q Dee, 1919-Sunday az waterford,
ireland, on the south coast, a rather
tidy and not unprepossessinE town,
some progressive small shopss new
or rebuilt churches- DiEsenters are
evidently strong in proportion here.
Very little shipping IS being handled.
though the bay or estuary has the
makings Of a fine port. Practically
no dock Improvements. Purely COM
mercial town. practically no Indus
tries.
The sunday 7 spent in Waterford
i was cold and rainy. i was sitting
alone by the little fire In the smok-
ing room Of the hotel On the after
noon reading a lot OF old copies Of
vanity Fair dated 1879 and getting q
good deal Of amusement and informa-
tion out Of them, when there came
IN an elderly man who sat down,
I lighted his pipe. and said nary a
word he smoked and smoked and
said nary q word He read and II read.
and no doubt we were both thinking
what idiots we both were 20 be there
anyhow and not strike hands. So by
and by 7 ventured 20 read TO him a
/ particularly genial paragraph from
Vanity Fair Of 1872, and he fhaWed and
offered me his tobacco pouch while ]
supplied him a match. We became
old crouies then.
Life story followed Name, A n.
Jackson; occupation. following the
sea- IN other words a deep sea pilot
home port, Glasgow, nationality,
hraw Scotch Had Just taken out
New Zealand iiner. and had been
made his way TO Waterford for the
purpose OF returning with another
ship 70 Glasgow. Had lost two sons
IN the war, and another was in the
South seas, he being also a pilot.
Ardent lover Of, Robert Burns. this
that comes with the winds over the
storm stressed seas.
poked Up the fire, and he settled
deeper In the big chair as the winter
gust from the Atlantic dashed the
rain like a shower Of shot against
the panes overlooking the harbor.
Ny turn now From Texas, r. Raso,
etc
"E1 Pasog' his eyes CLEANED II
was about there On 1874" said lie.
Turned out, during the debate thar
now ensued. that A. H. Jackson had
come 20 the United states in 1855;
that he had soIdiered in the civil war
and had then drifted west: came to
Fl paso in 1873 and was WeilE-FargO
agent there and on the line between
there and Tucson and San Diego for
several years in the old stage coach
days. After that had lived ln san
Diego and other places on the coast,
and had mastered and puoted ships
up and down the coast in the Panama
and South America trade kemem-
bered what Fl Paso was like in those
days. and remembered old landmarks
Z living and dead. mau-made and Cod
made; called the names or remem-
] bered as I called them Recalled his
American life with pleasure and per
haps a hint OF regret that he had not
] stayed Odd little experience Wasn
l it, I had several as oddly natural
CAfter returning 20 u Paso sent
my pilot friend copy Of the III Faso
I Booklet Here Is an extract from his
letter Of acknowledgment
"The book on El Paso was rev
D elation 10 me. AS I looked at the
I birdseye view Of the city I was sur
I prised. for beyond the surrounding
hills and the river there was nothing
] I could recognize. There does not
/ seem 70 be a single adobe house left
] We Scotsmen have the reputation Of
/ being keen on the pounds-snill inEs-
/ pence, but 7 am certain that IN me re-
! construction OF the new city fhe olo
I Ponce de Leon ranch house would
I have been spared or preserved as the
pioneer house Of the city 7 nave
I spent many pleasant Notwithstanding
I al the book. trying 10 place some OF
/ the old enacks. but the layout mas