El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. ELEVENTH YEAR, No. 192, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 26, 1891 Page: 4 of 8
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branch to .that City, and then running
it on via White Oaks toward the gull ‘
So far as the extension from Espanola
to Albuquerque goes, that is proper
enough and has been urged by the News
for years. But the balance of the
scheme is a palpable attempt to cut off
Las Vegas and kill the El Paso-White
Oaks-Las Vogas-Trinidad line. As
such it should receive no assistance
from this city. Denver cannot afford to be
a party to any plan to injure any
New Mexico town. Rather than lend
its capital and influence to such an act
of murder, it might better keep out of
either convention and allow Las Vegas
and Albuquerque to light it out.
As it is, however, having recognized
the El Paso movement, this city is in
honor bound to stay by it and not be
switched off on any side issues. The
only other alternative is to draw out of
the contest entirely.
The News reaffirms the proposition
which it presented at the very start of
this discussion, and that is that Den-
ver needs an extension from Trinidad
southward by either the Rio Grande
ortho Union Pacific to Las Vegas,
White Oaks and El Paso; and also an
extension of the Rio Grande from Es-
panola to Albuquerque. As to the
connection across from Albuquerque
to White Oaks it is indifferent. Let
either company build it that wants to
This will secure a connection with both
the prominent parts in New Mexico
and benefit both. The News favors no
scheme gotten up by either point to
kill the other.
Albuquerque has not benefited itself
by the palpable attempt to forestall the
El Paso convention. It would have
maintained a far better position by
confining its attention to the Espanola
extension alone, and not burdening
that enterprise with the White Oaks
business.
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El Paso, Texas,
THOSE LINES TO NEW MEXICO-
(Denver News. I
It looks very much to an outsider as
if the railroad convention proposed by
Albuquerque was a deliberate move to
head off the El Paso-Las Vegas scheme
and to leave Las Vegas out in the cold.
With the war between Albuquerque
and Las Nogas Denver should have
nothing to do, and the chamber of
commerce of this city should not be
party to any of the tactics which either
one of these points are liable to invent,
one against the other.
It will be remembered that a railroad
convention was called to meet at El
Paso to promote a railroad line from
that city via White Oaks, Las Vegas.
Trinidad and Pueblo to Denver. The
date was originaliy fixed for July 21,
but postponed until September 21. The
Denver chamber of commerce became
a party to the scheme by virtually ac-
cepting an invitation to send delegates
to said convention.
In the meantime a plan is suggested
by Albuquerque to extend the Espanola
A writer to the Galveston News says:
Chicago Ranch, Midland county,
Tex., Aug. 20. The Chicago ranch is
an interesting locality just now because
the experiment of producing rainfall
by means of explosives is now being
tried under the direction of General
Dyrenforth.
Candor compels the writer to say that
the whole tiling is a fraud of the th-st
magnitude. The use of the word fraud
is not intended to convey the idea that
the party is deliberately practicing a
deception with a view of gaining an un-
lawful or unfair advantage, but in the
sense that the experimenters are the
victims of a cheat so far as the methods
employed are concerned,
Of the theory the writer kuows noth-
ing, neither do the scientific gentlemen.
They will never, judging from present
appearance, be able to test the theory,
because they are too much afraid of
their own explosives.
The idea is the inflation of balloons
ten feet in diameter with one part of
oxygen gas and two parts of hydrogen
gas. These small air yachts are loaded
with cartridges made of powerful ex-
plosives. When the balloon is suffi-
ciently high the cartridges are exploded
.by means of electricity scut through
wires, and the two gases unite, forming
water. This serves as a nucleus to pre-
cipitate the moisture of the atmosphere
and there is rain.
The party maintains that the explo-
sion that would occur if a twenty-foot
balloon was employed would cause the
most terrible report ever heard on
earth, and it is right here where the
scare of the experimenters comes in.
The entire experiment so far has
been the explosion of a few sticks of
rack-rock on the ground, and the ex-
plosion of one balloon last Saturday
evening. The result has been, or rather
they claim it as a result, large rains at
Midland and Stanton, twenty-five and
| thirty-five miles away, though none ha t
! fallen on the C. ranch, the scat of oper
j ations. Why a few shots of dygamite
fired on the ground would cause rain-
fall thirty-live miles away the scientific
gentlemen, perhaps, could explain, but
only a scientific talker, and a fast and
furious one at that, could.
Cause and effect are operative at long
range in this instance.
The atmosphere around the ranch is
d9cidedly more heavily laden with
scientific terms than moisture. The
cowboys even talk fluently and flip-
pantly of thermometers, hydrometers
and rainology in all its ramifications,
and even a casual visitor like the writer
learned to distinguish a cirrns from a
cumulo formation.
The experiment of sending up a bal-
loon charged with explosive gases was
made last Sunday evening. It took
the scientific outfit four hours to
charge the balloon and attuch the fuse,
and when attached no one wished to
set off the fuse. The chemist said it
was the balloouist’s duty, the balloon-
ist said the chemist should do it, and
thus placed the duty on each other,
all afraid to set it off. At last the
chemist fired the fuse and the balloon
sailed away and exploded about two
miles distant from the point of ascen-
sion.
The chemist then became quite bravo
and an altercation of invectives ensued
between him and the balloonist a reg-
ular Kilkenny cat tongue fight, with
General Dyrenforth wearing the
honors but none of the powers of a
leader.
Since Sunday the rainmakers have
been trying to get up another balloon,
but so far their efforts have failed, and
it is the opinion of the practical but
unscientific people of this section that
the whole thing “died aborning’' for
the want of nerve, organization and a
.ittle horse sense mixed with the
wealth of scientific- learning possessed
by the genial and impracticable gen-
tlemen of the exhibition. The grand
experiment is yet to come of and it is
the unanimous opinion of every man
on the ground, disconnected with the
experimenters, that it will not come off
for the reason suggested.
No one seems to understand his busi-
ness except the balloonist, and he is
hampered by the others, every one of
whom is determined to direct the ex-
periment. It is patent to all observers
that the entire party is unacquainted
with the use of explosives and are very
timid and uncertain in making and
handling them. The boom of Jerry
Rusk, so far as this expedition is con-
cerned, is on the eve of collapse.
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WHISPERS ABOUT WOMEN.
Miss flarnet Claine, the secretary’s
daughter, is sa'ltobe one of the most
expert of the society ladies who ph.y
billiards.
Mrs. Georgia Kendrick, wife of the
late Rev. Dr. Kendrick, has been elected
to the lady principals’;;p of Vassal' col-
lege, and has accepted.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has a calm,
lovely face which is suggestive of the
Madonna, a clear, pale skin, deep, dark
blue eyes and soft brown hair.
Two nieces of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane,
th'e Arctic explorer, live on Chestnut
hill, Philadelphia, in a house that oc-
cupies the highest point of land in the
city.
Miss Frances E. Willard says that her
rising hour is 7 or 7:20. and that 10 p. in
is her latest hour for retiring. To i Ids
habit she attributes her lifelong good
health and steady cheerfulness.
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Until the Close of This
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No shots were fired on the day the
raip came, for there was a mutiny iu
the general's forces and he could not
have his orders obeyed, or rather the
! members of the party would have their
I own way.
This is the rainy season iu this sec-
I tion. The winds for some time have
| been in the southeast, which is. or
| rather was before the advent of the ex-
perimenters, a sure indication of rain,
j and the country has had fine rains
: through this section for the last two or
j three days. But the irony of fate has
visited the rainmakers, as uone has
j fallen on them except a few drops
I about a week ago, and then not enough
i to wet one outside, though dressed in
fabrics suitable to the* temi>crature.
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Remember we have the Agency of the Old Staten Island Dyeing & Cleaning Establishment
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