El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-10-23

for rent-and call to you to ride
sometimes they drive alongside
bunch Of Americans for blocks urging
them 70 ride
The fares are reasonabIe-a peso to
any part OF the city from any other
part, and it you have party and will
argue Tor a while YOU can get a car
for from $3.50, Mexican, an hour. up
ward
Lottery Tickets window Shopping.
Next TO the chauffeurs. the ped
dlers Of lottery tickets are the most
persistent vendors Of wares in tn,
CITY. Everywhere, you ind men.
women and children selling lotter5
tickets The police often halt them
10 inspect the tickets % see II they
are forEeries. Lots OF forged Tickets
are sold. &c is said
Window shopping one Of the
great American diversion at night. e
not possible in Mexican cities Every
store WINDOW is covered with a
wooden shutter. fastened with a pad
lock, or with sliding iron shutters
Even the hotels close their big. heavy
wooden doors after midnight and il Is
necessary 70 hammer Justify T.
awaken the concierge 20 open up
and let you in Hotel Guardiola ana
Hotel Iturbide have wooden doorr
that are several inches Thick. and tht
constant hammering at nights has
worn of the wood in places 10 a con
siderable depth
Shoe shines and HoteIs.
BootblacEs are numerous in an
Mexican cities and a shine is much
cheaper than In Fl Paso, and they
take more pains with the work. :
shine costs but IS centavos. 1t IS not
uncommon Tor a bootblaclz TO step on
your foot as you pass down a street
ana with great p0lteness. beg your
pardon, and then offer 70 shine you
up again for Is cents
Hotel prices are not so bad. but the
same cannot be said for the beds
Three OF us have a room with three
beds and bath az SIS a day. Mexi-
can but the beds are very hard and
knotty and uncomfortable. although
they are clean. They explain that 60
Has been impossible 10 get IN new
DedQlug az reasonable price during
the war. and this may be true
They have the American habit hero /
OF blaming everything pad on the
war IL was not the same war o. /
course, but it serves the same pur-
pose.
Much work OF remodeIing and inn
proving Is going on IN almost all thu I
nolels- In fact, almost every estab- I
llsnment here is making improve /
ments and putting things in shape I
AGAIN Tor the peace that everybody /
hopes has returned 20 stay.
And Mexican labor, by the way. is /
much cheaper than American. and /
most or u that we have seen is bet
ter A Mexican mechanic draws less
IN pesos than an American draws. in I
dollars, yet the Mexican woodwork is
superior % the same class Of work
nlansnip IN II FasO. and the Mexican ]
stucco work lasts for years while 10 j
Deels Off in FL Pasu in "a few brief
has been general comment among thu
Fl RasOaus on the high class wood I
work done by Nexicams
Bell boys and pOrters at the hotel
DO not give you checks for grips and
overcoats and canes deposited for
safe keeping, but none Of us have yei l
ost anything They pile the thingg
lp In a room and Jet each man picl I
Tut his own stuff when bis room is
-eady.
The hotel employees all seem accom-
uodatinE and obliEing and. Of course
Expect the usual tips. but they are nc
worse than Americans. The maiC .
Who keeps our room told US she
works from in the morning 10 g at
night, and gets Is pesos a month and
Ter board One night a week she gets J
IF at q This would please the hear
II an Fl Paso housewife. wouldn't il:
Host Of the women at work in thu I
lotels bring their babies with them
4 special room is Kept in the ser
-ants' quarters for the children.
Plenty Of Statues.
The city Of Mexico ranks with the
.ity Of Washington In the number. o.
tatues in its parks. About the fin
st is the one erected in 1906 70 Ben
70 Juarez OF white marble. II is a
inc big colonnade surmounted by a
-roup OF statuary with Juarez in the
enter. Two immense lions support
he statuary group. 10 Is almost az &
arge as the monument to Gen. Grant
n the botanical gardens In Washing
on.
As a business city. Mexico City has
on Washington the American cap
tai In a large measure. There arc
more large stores and more stores
nd shops Of all kinds.
VII SON TO RECOGNIZE