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AN INDEPENDENT DAILY N EWSPAPER
DEDICATED TO THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE THAT NO GOOD CAUSE SHALL
LACK A CHAMPION AND THAT EVIL SHALL NOT THRIVE UNOPPOSED.
H. D. Slater Editor-in-Chief and controlling owner has directed The Herald for 14 Years;
G. A. Martin is News Editor.
THIRTY-SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION
Superior exclusive features and complete news report by Associated Press Leased Wire and
200 Special Correspondents covering Arizona. New Mexico west Texas. Mexico. Wash-
ington. D C and New York.
Published by Herald News Co.. Inc.: H. D. Slater (owner of 55 percent) President; J. C
Wllmarth (owner of 20 percent) Manager; the remaining 25 percent Is owned among
13 stockholders who are a3 follows: H. L. CapelL H. B. Stevens. J. A. Smith. J. J.
Mundy Waters - -vis H. A. True. McGlenonn estate. W. P. Payne. R. C. Canby. G. A.
Martini Felix Martinez. A. L. Sharpe. and John Ramsey.
'. PASO HERALD
Editorial and Magazine Page
Thursday July Twenty-fifth 1912.
Water Rates
PERHAPS it was almost worth the shock of having water rates increased 50
percent in order to share the sweet solace of a reduction back to the
original figure a few months later. The mayor in his message recommends
a reduction of the meter rate from 30c to 20c which will save tens of thousands
to consumers. He maintains that with most of the heavy new construction work
now completed the waterworks will clear enough each year above all costs to meet
necessary new construction in future and to retire the debt incurred in its pur-
chase. The reduction in water rates is by far the most welcome news in the
mayor's message and will he received with appreciation by everybody "regardless"
of political affiliations." Of course it is pure accident that it is announced two
days before the primaries.
The increase was made says the mayor at a time when immense sums were
going into new construction in order to bring the water plant up to the require-
ments of the growing city and the demands of the insurance companies. The mes-
sage shows that $176000 has been put into new construction since the plant was
purchased. About $90000 of this was available at the time the purchase was
made being part of the bond proceeds and premium; the balance has been paid out
of the net earnings of the plant or out of the general funds of the city temporarily
transferred.
The mayor asks for a bond issue of $150000 in order to re-fund fhe note in-
debtedness incurred on account of the purchase. He shows that $50000 of the
notes were bought by various sinking funds while $50000 falls due this October
and $50000 more next year. There is no reason why these large sums payable
on purchase price should be taken out of current revenue. The waterworks is for
all time and the purchase and construction cost should be distributed over a long
term of years. The short term paper should be replaced with long term bonds and
part of the burden handed down to future citizens. The bonding plan is the only
practical way- to handle this problem and taxpayers will unanimously favor it
when they understand its purpose.
According to the mayor most of the complaints about water charges recently
have come from persons whose service has never before been metered. Over 1200
meters have been put in and more are being installed at the rate of 100 per month.
The mayor says that many of these people whose bills for the first time are being
based on meter measurement have been in the habit of using several dollars worth
of water every month without themselves knowing it and it comes with a shock
to have their bills suddenly raised from 90c to several dollars.
How far this may explain the universal complaints cannot be known; but
certain it is that the metered service is the only service that comes anywhere near
being fair to alL If any consumers be metered all should be. In El Paso the ma-
jority of services are metered and it stands to reason that 100 percent of con-
sumers should pay on this basis if -any do. This is the only way to prevent waste
and equitably distribute the cost of water service. It is notorious throughout the
country that metered service saves about half the water; the average householder
paying a flat rate will use and waste at least twice as much water as he would
use if his bills were based on -meter measurement. Meters will continue to be
installed in El Paso at the present rate until practically all consumers are placed
on this basis. There are still more than 1000 to be installed with an additional
30 to 50 per month necessary on account of the normal growth of the city.
Besides the bond issue oc account of the waterworks the mayor suggests the
necessity of providing by another bond issue for sewer extensions. This is neces-
sary and should be approved. There is an immense amount of new sewer con-
struction mains and laterals to be done before the city will be adequately drained.
A large part of Chihuahuita is still without any sewerage facilities and the east
end of town where most of the recent growth has been is far from .being covered.
From $100000 to $150000 should be spent in the next two years in perfecting
the sewer system. Frittering along at slow rate with what funds can be taken
from the general revenues is only inviting trouble. The city must have sewers and
there is no reason why heavy permanent construction work of this kind should not
be paid for in part by those who come after us the taxpayers of the future. The
general revenues should provide for current operation and maintenance of the
government and repairs and renewals but so far as our bonding power may allow
heavy permanent investments of capital in public works for the general benefit
should be met out of the proceeds of bond issues as the fairest way to distribute
the burden among the beneficiaries.
A recommendation of the mayor that deserves unanimous approval is that
.for the abolishing of the fee system of garbage collection substituting full free
service at the public expense through the general tax. No service based on house-to-house
fees will ever be practical especially in this city where so large a propor-
tion of the population is indifferent to sanitary rules and personal welfare and
not impressed with a sense of duty to the community. To enforce the sanitary
regulations adequately would require four times the total police force concentrated
upon fhe work.
Citizens Otherwise "respectable" throw their garbage or rubbish into alleys
in the rear of neighbors' hotlses or secrete it in order to avoid paying the nominal
fee hitherto charged by the city. Thousands of householders have refused to pay
anything except under drastic pressure of the sanitary department But the
prompt and regular collection of all garbage and rubbish is not a personal or do-
mestic matter it is a matter vitally affecting the health and welfare of the entire
community. It may be of no importance to John Smith whether his garbage be
hauled away or not but it is of vital importance to his neighbors and the whole
community to keep the city in decent sanitary condition despite the hoglike pro-
pensities of some of its citizens.
The fairest and only efficient way to keep the city clean is to instal a com-
plete free service of garbage and rubbish collection and pay for it out of the gen-
eral revenues. The city knows now by actual experience what the service costs
and there should be a much higher standard of municipal cleanliness under the new
system than under the old.
There is a suspicion that some congressional committees take delight in sum-
moning great men before them merely in order that they may see them close to
and find out whether they have claws and forked tails. To men of a certain type'
there is lifetime inspiration and localized fame and glory merely in having sat in
the same room with J. P. Morgan.
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We are not going to intimate that a large part of the campaign bunk going
around about now is decayed to the point of offensiveness hut .we do venture to
suggest that a little powdered borax refined chloride or something be sprinkled
around the cracks.
As the Oregon man boosteth his red
sound forth the praises of his saint.
One-Sentence
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
(Philadelphia. Record).
It doesn't take a prestidigitator to
make an automobile turn turtle.
It Is quite Impossible to swallow a
hard luck story without coughing up.
The woman investor is always ready
to buy stocks cheap that are damaged
by water.
Any -iri is apt to think a fellow's
heart is in the right place If It's in
her keeping.
"We all admire a man who does good
things unless -we happen to be one or
the good things.
The Cynical Bachelor rises to re-
mark that marriage is a pottery for
making family jars.
REFLECTIONS OP A BACHELOR.
(From the New York Press).
A kiss without a blush to go with
It tastes awful flat.
A man seems to think the way to
catch an early train is for" everybody
else in the family to get started about
!t earlier than he does.
Marriage is a school where couples
who once couldn't do without each
other learn to endure each other.
The most astonishing thing to a
wman about- a man k. k. . ..
1 tica'opimons he can have without a
sEg:e idea among them. i
To Be Cut
apples so doth Zacharius Lamarius Cobb
Philosophy
JOURNAL ENTRIES.
(Topeka Journal.)
There are not as many good listen-
ers as there should be.
A little more work and less cheer-
ing will help any cause along faster.
if more men were treated like some
dogs they wouldn't have much cause
for complaint.
Unusually hot weather Is also a boon
in that it makes most folk forget
their other troubles
Any number of people never knew
what popularity was until they be-
came owners of automobiles.
GLOBE SIGHTS.
(Atchison Globe.)
Maybe you are getting the bad luck
you had wished the other fellow.
If you do as much real. work as a
mule you may be entitled to kick a
little.
As a general proposition a burglar
Is about the poorest paid gent on flie
night shift.
An artificial palm is all right in a
beer garden but doesn't appeal to
sober people greatly.
Probably you have disappointments
enough of your own without sharing
those of other people.
One gets the impression that a boy
is mostly legs intii the capacity of his
stomach js nuted.
UNCLE WALT'S DENATURED POEM
The Soda Fountain
By Walt
HOW dear to my hearF is the big soda fountain that stands in the front of the
pharmacist's store all gleaming with silver and celluloid mountin' and
loaded with syrups and flavors galore! How sweet when the weather is
hotter than Cadiz to go to the shop of the druggist it is and order some suds for
yourself and the ladies from out of that fountani that's loaded with fizz! That
big marble fountain that cold clammy fountain that brass mounted fountain
that's loaded with fizz! And equally dear is the clerk who attends it thj beau-
tiful youth with a dignity high; if you are too flossy he speedily ends it by freez-
ing you up with a glance from his eye. The hauteur of kings and the beariiit; ot
princes the frigid reserve of Napoleon are his while mixing his extracts of leuiona
and quinces and working the fountains that turns out the fizz; the tall stately
fountain the gas inspired fountain the cold gleaming fountain that turns out the
fizz!
RED WHITE AND BLUE
IT WAS a red white and blue world
vrhich he saw. All about him pop-
pies cornflowers and marguerites
yielded their quivering stems for the
passaf of his lurchins limbs. Bound
around his wounded breast from which
dripped blots of blood redder than any
poppy were the tattered colors of his
regiment red white and blue
the flag of France.
He had saved the colors from the
Prussians. Ee would save them still.
His comrades lay dead on the battle-
field behind the black eagles of Prus-
sia rode rampant victorious. But the
colors of France were still his. ?e-er.
living would he yield them.. He re-
membered the captain's last words the
merry-exed handsome captain who
now lay cold as wax upon the blood-
sodden earth. "The colors. Gustave.
mon vleux save the colors."
And he had seized them from the
stiffening hand of the standard bear-
er wrenched free from the lance that
held them and bound them about his
bleeding body. ....
Then turning. he had run blindly
away from the field of red. white and
blue into green fields full Of red.
white and blue flowers.
It wis early morning but the sun
beat warm upon the uncovered fields.
He ran crouching crookedly among
the swaying grasses as run drunken
and wounded men and the long flow-
ering things opened and let him pass;
then hid him again. It was as if they
knew what he carried.
Of a sudden as he ran he came up-
on a hedgerow that bounded the end
of the field. In the patch beyond a
girl slim and brown and young dug
potatoes.
He eyed her longingly as a thirsty
man eyes the water.
"P-s-st" he called quaveringly.
She raised her head wonderingly
one wooden-shod foot upon the earth
filled spade.
CATHOLIC CONVENT
ASSURED FOR MARFA
Construction "Work on Cath-
olic School Progress-
ing Finely.
Marfa Tex. July 25. The building
under construction by the G. C. Robin-
son company to be used for the Catho-
lic school is progressing rapidly it is
large modern and well ventilated. The
fVitfmlioa ln-o TirrlinQAl ih& Alfl ftiinrlm
' Murphy home and will have it remod-
i a11 111 d 4- . .1 fWVnfATl Aj4 l.A...l
ing school. Several sisters will be here
by September to take charge of the
schools.
With the good Protestant schools al-
ready in Marfa and the Catholic free
school and convent that are being es-
tablished here Marfa will have schools
that will give to her children education-
al advantages not to be found in towns
of much larger population.
jj. m. iiuuuia una fjuitiuafivu tue nomc
1 of Chas. Crosson.
Mrs. Harry Hubbard entertained the
Auction Bridge club at the home of
Airs. A. O. Hubbard. Delicious refresh-
ments were served those present being:
Mesdames Harry Hubbard A. 0. Hub-
bard W. W. Bogel K. C. Miller Jim
Pool Frank Pool A. M. Porter Clara
Sheilds R. B. Russell Wm. Cassin oi
San Antonio Joseph Sweeney of El
Paso Capt. Adams. Mrs. Joseph Swee-
ney won the highest score. The club
will meet next with Mrs. K. C. Miller
who will entertain at the club rooms
of the Marfa Literary and Social club.
The Marfa History club met Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. Oliver Billingsley
at her ranch home 12 miles from town.
The members left Marfa nhrtnf 1 il-
in automobiles. The lesson was well
conducted by Mrs. A. M. Porter. Very
interesting papers were given by Mrs.
H. M. Fennell. on Grover Cleveland;
Mrs. R. R. Smith on John Hay and
Mrs. "VV. W. Bogel on Taft and Roose-
velt. After the lesson a salad and ice
course was served. The table was deco-
rated with pink and white carnations
The club members present were: Mes-
dames H. Colquitt M. Mahon J. K
Brown H. M. Daughty W. "VV. Bogel
L. C. Brite. R. S. McCxacken A. Ill
Porter T. Snyder J. Livingston A. S.
Carver H. M. Fennell R. R. Smith
Jesse Pool R. B. Russell A. Billingsley
Chas. Kramer. The guests of the after-
noon were: Miss Dorothy Mooney.
Mesdames Lee. Kilgore Wm. Cassin and
Murbach of San Antonio; Messrs. L.
C. Brite H. Colquitt and A. Billingsley.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Winters and children
went to El Paso to visit relatives.
Mrs. W. B. Mitchell was called to
San Marcos Sunday by the death of
her father.
Mrs. Wm. Cassin who is the guest
of her sister Mrs. W. W. Bogel will
leave for San Antonio this week ac-
companied by her niece Mrs. Harry
Hubbard and the children.
Mrs. G. C. Robinson gave a party
Wednesday afternoon in honor of the
birthday anniversary of her little
daughter Helen. A large crowd of lit
tle tolks enjoyed the afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack K. Brown and
family will leave Marfa in a few davs
to mnke their home in Yuma. Ariz. Mr.
and Mrs. Brown have lived in Marfa
many years and their friends regret
very much to have them leave.
STREET CAR WOULD BE
BUILT TO CLUB RANCHO
If the Mt. Franklin Rancho club is
located on the north mesa the Fort Bliss
street car line will be extended to the
club grounds.
This is announced by the men who i
are working lor the winter resort. Al-
though a paved auto road will be built
from the Country club to the entrance
to the Rancho club grounds the street
car line will be extended t' Turnish car
service to the patrons of th" club and
the visitors to the winter resort i.
Mason.
The Herald's Daily
Short Story
"Who calls?" she cried.
"France" he said in a husky
whisper. .
It was as if a spark from the flame
of his soul set her"s afire.
She came running to his call. Over
the hedge he handed the tattered re-
mains of the colors to her. His wound
opened afresh as he tore them from his
side.
"The Prussians are coming" he
gasped. "Save these!"
Obedient. her sunburnt hands
reached out and clutched across the
flowering hedge at what he held.
"And you what of you?" she asked.
He shrugged his shoulders.
"Run" he bade her. "Quick before
they come. They will not suspect if
thev do not see you."
She eyed him gravely without sur-
prise or remonstrance. One grow
used to meeting men over open graves
in war time.
"God be with you" was all she said.
"Amen." he answered "and with
France."
For a moment he waited watching
her speed across "the garden first cast-
ing aside her wooden shoes to run th
swifter and holding fast to her brown
breast what looked as she receded
into the distance like a bunch of
parti-colored flowers. Only when the
door of the thatched roof farmhouse
had closed upon her did he turn away
and crawl stumblingly the length of
another field. At the end he fell prone
and lay quite still. -
"When presently a detachment of
Prussians came upon him they found
only a dead and useless man lying
face upward upon the sun-warmed
earth a cloud of gossamer midgets
danoing about his head whilst all
around him red white and blue
stretched the colots of France.
But they were merely flowers.
The regiment's flag lay safely hid-
den at the brown breast of a peasant
girl.
(Continued from Page
closely with the case that "John the
Barber" was placed on the stand. It
Is believed Mr. Whitman Is laying his
lines to force from "Webber a state-
ment which will implicate those
"higher up" In the case.
It is at the door of "the police sys-
tem" that the district attorney places
the responsibility for the murder of
the man who had charged that the
police were extracting tribute from
gamblers.
The proceedings last evening were
sensational. Keisler was the first wit-
ness called. He declared he had seen
Webber In Broadway near the scene
of the murder after Rosenthal was
slain.
"Was he running?" asked Mr. "Whit-
man. The witness shifted uneasily In his
chair and let his eyes drift toward
where Webber Paul and others were
sitting.
"I don't know." he replied.
"Didn't you tell me ten minutes ago
that he was in your own words 'run-
ning like V "
"1 yfas excited and don't remem-
ber." said Reisler.
"Didn't you tell nje In my office in
the presence of Mr. Moss that you
were afraid to tell of the case? You
knew the gang you were up against
and you were afraid you would be
killed?" asked Mr. Whitman.
"No" replied the witness in a fright-
ened manner.
AMSIstant District Attorney On Stand.
Mr. Whitman then placed assistant
district attorney on the stand. Mr.
Moss said that just before the hearing
Reisler had told him and Mr. Whit-
man that he came from the subway
at Times square about 2 oclock and
in front of the Cadillac saw Webber
"running like ." He then heard
of the murder. Mr. Moss said Reisler
did not want to talk about the case
for fear of being injured.
Reisler was again placed on the
stand and declared that Mr. Moss's
statement was not true. Whon pressed
as to whether he had seen Webber
at all he hesitated made several
starts and then said he thought he
had seen him. The witness declared
he was not afraid of being killed him-
self but did not want to connect his
family with the affair "as the men in
the case are bad."
"Didn't you say that the men who
testified against Webber would be
killed?" persisted the district attorney.
The witness denied this and the
questioning was brought to a close.
Reisler lArrested For Perjury.
As Reisler was about to leave the
court room he was arrested on a
charge of perjury. Late yesterday
Reisler requested that the district at-
torney call on him at the prison as he
wanted to "talk" but Mr. Whitman
will not see him until tomorrow.
The district attorney has issued sub-
penas for all the attendants at the
La Fayette baths where It has been
stated Harry Vallon "Bridgle" Web-
ber Sam Paul and "Bald Jack" Rose
appeared shortly after the assassina-
tion and remained for the night.
Mr. Whitman said he had not yet
received an answer from his letters
requesting that the three detective
lieutenants Becker. Riley and Costl-
gan appear as voluntary witnesses be-
fore the grand jury.
"If lieutenant Becker comes" said
Mr. Whitman. "I will ask him if he
had a conversation over the telephone
with Jack Rose the night of the shoot-
ing and I may say that the telephone
company will furnish us with the calls
from Webber's or the baths on the
night In question without our issuing
a subpena."
ROCK FOR CITY STABLES
FROM STANTON ST. QUARRY
All of the rock being used in the
-walls and stalls for the city stables
on North Magoffin avenue and Dorches-
ter street is being quarried at the citv
qu.irrv on North Stanton street All it
o t the cjt- is the blasting and hauling
to the warehvuse.
PHOBE UDE IF
IHMMHEI
l.)
FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF HUMAN FACE
MADE BY A PHILADELPHIAN IN 1839
Photographs Taken In Homes Are Rapidly Taking the Place of Studio Sit-
tings; Great Growth of Photography.
By FREDERIC J. HASKIK.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa. July 25. The
32d annual convention of the pho-
tographers' association of America
which Is in session this week in Phila-
delphia is attended not only by the
leading photographers of America but
also includes a number of European
photograbers of international reputa-
tion several of whom are presenting
some new discoveries in the photo-
graphic art to their brothers of the
camera. A feature of the convention
is the best collection of foreign photo-
graphs ever exhibited in this country.
There also is a school of posing and
lighting as one feature conductel
by masters in the art of portrait pho-
tography who are demonstrating their
newest methods.
The photographer's art In America
reached its first practical stage chief-
ly through the efforts of two Phila-
delphians who improved upon the
methods of Louis Daguerre the in-
ventor of the process which resulted
finally in the production of the old
fashioned daguerreotype. Daguerre
was a theatrical scene painter in Paris
and he made his famous diorama in
1822. An account of this was publish-
ed In "Poulson's Advertiser" an old
Philadelphia publication which led
Joseph Saxton an employe of the Unit-
ed States mint in Philadelphia to ex-
periment along the same lines. He
made a camera out of a cigar box us-
ing an ordinary magnifying glass as
a lens. With this crude apparatus
he made a photograph of the Phila-
delphia High school which is still pre-
served by the Pennsylvania Historical
society. In November 1839 according
to the annals of the American Philos-
ophical society in Philadelphia. Rob-
ert Cornelius obtained the first pho-
tographic portrait of a human face
known in the world. Encouraged by
his success Cornelius devoted himself
to perfecting his art. He concentrated
the light upon his sitter by a series
Of reflectors set up at different angles
and used blue glass to screen the
light falling directly upon the subject.
He opened a place for taking pictures
by the Dauguerrean method his ex-
posures averaging one minute !n
length.
All of his apparatus he manufactur-
ed himself and his lenses were of
Philadelphia make. Daguerrean por-
traiture was thus established in Phil-
adelphia and attracted wealthy and
artistic people from all parts of the
country. Sittings had to be engaged
by appointments a week in advance
and no pictures could be taken upon a
rainy or cloudy day. Many of th
Cornelius pictures are still in exist-
ence and present some fine character-
istics worthy of the study of the
modern photographer.
Early Photographs Expensive.
At the beginning photographs were
only for the rich but now owing to the
development of photographic science
they are within reach of all. They
hate become so cheap that they are
used extensively for advertising pur-
poses and with the simple methods for
their production have developed hun-
dreds of thousands of amateurs who
make their own photographs some-
times with a skill almost equal to that
of the professional. The fact Chat
photographic supplies have become so
simple to manipulate has made re-
sults possible now which even a -decade
ago would have been impossible.
The photographic supply industry
now has become of sutflaient import-
ance to merit consideration by the
governments of at least three nations
of the world. For fhstance one com-
pany making these articles is the
largest user of silver in the world
outside of a government mint. The
production of photographic paper is
counted in miles each day and the dai-
ly output of glass plates might easily
be measured in acres. The question of
the supply of raw materials is a seri-
ous One. For instance one of the
great photographic houses after
months of costly experiment abandon-
ed the use of a new paper because
it was found that the known world's
supply of one of the ingredients would
not have kept them running for three
months. There Is one factory which
orders its supply of potassium bro-
mide in 30-ton lots. England and
America produce the greatest quantlty
of phqtographlc supplies although
they are manufactured to some extent
In Germany and France and in small
quantities in several other countries.
Climatic conditions so far have
tended to restrict the manufacture of
most of the chemical supplies used in
photography so that they must be
made In the temperate regions. Be-
cause these product? are unstable dif-
ferent attempts have been made to
produce them In the localities In
which they are to be used but so far
without success. Although films are
sOld which are guaranteed for use In
the tropics there is as yet no means
known by which they might be manu-
factured there.
Additional branches of the photo-
graphic art are being developed each
year. One of the latest is the repro-
duction of the pictures by the old
masters not by photographing tho
painting themselves but by posing sit-
ters or models to represent the fig-
ures in the paintings. This Is one
form of high art photography. An-
other Includes the photographing or
landscapes and other scenes with a
view to producing pictures of high ar-
tistic value. Then comes the photo-
graphing of interiors including stat-
uary and other art objects with a
knowledge of the different effeots to
be secured by various processes and
materials.
Great Advance Made.
Portraiture is usually considered
the highest art in photography and
is perhaps the most in demand. In
this respect great advances are being
made each year and the modern pho-
tographer of human faces must have
a knowledge of many things other than
how merely to secure the reproduction
of forms upon his negative. He must
know enough of psychology to under-
stand his sitter's temperament and to
bring oflt in the portrait the best ex-
pressions of it Willie cheap photo-
graphs such as may be secured on the
curb or street corner while you wait
for a cent apiece have had a run of
popularity their day is practically
over. The public gradually Is recog-
nizing the difference between the
work of a cheap tradesman and that
r a fin artist and they are willing
to pay for it. The prices for good ;
portrait photographs were never nign-
er than they are now.
In this conneotion mention should
be made of the exhibition Of the works
of Baron Adolph de Meyer of London
which recently was held in .New York
the finest selection of high art prints
by any one man ever exhibited here.
One of these called "The Silver Skirt."
presumably a portrait of Baroness de
Meyer wag purchased by a New York
collector for $150 and another enti-
tled "The Sliver Cup" was purchased
for the Albright Art gallery of Buf-
falo. The exhibition Included por-
traits of the late king Edward queen
Alexandra and other members of the
British royal family. In contrast to
these were portraits of three old wo-
men of the slums In London which
portray these poor worn out old toll-
ers as skillfully as any painter. The
Baron de Meyer charges a hundred
dollars for a single portrait. He may
have his sitter come and pose several
times before making a photograpn. i
In this vi he -.tii'Ws 1 is pergonal- i
Ity and tue tracts wiu.h should be j
brought out prominently In the pic-
ture. Home Photography Popular.
Home photography is rapidly be-
coming a popular feature In the work
of the portrait photographer "a well
known photographer predicts that
within a few years the fashionable
photographic studio will have become
a thing of the past. In place of it
there will be workshops located on
side streets from which orders will
be taken for photographs to be made
at the homes of the patrons. The
skilled operators will be sent In au.
tomobiles carrying a full equipment of
apparatus and the pictures will b
posed in the home of the sitter. Of-
ten they will have an added valae be-
cause of the Introduction of some fa-
miliar piece of furniture- or for hav-
ing a favorite corner as a background.
This is especially desirable for wo-
men who desire to be photographed
in a number of different gowns. It
also is the best arrangement for se-
curing natural photographs of child-
ren since they are always more at
their ease among familiar surround-
ings. Special outfits are now being
furnished for home photography which
insludes a series of screens and re-
flectors as well as the latest achieve-
ments in flashlight and other addi-
tional light supplies.
Press photography is a branch of
the art calling into play all of the
newest developments for speed and ac-
curacy. One of the record feats of a
press photographer last year was in
connection with the Long Run wreck
which took place in Kentucky one
evening in January. Two passenger
trains were crushed into each other
and the wreckage piled high. The
photographer was called from a party
in hi3 own home about nine o'clock
and by 10 o'clock a special electric
car had conveyed him to the scene.
It was bitter cold and he had the
greatest difficulty in setting up his
instruments in view ot the strong
winds. He managed to secure an. 8x10
negative however and by half past 12
that night he reached bis shop and
proceeded to develop It with such suc-
cess that his paper the next morning
was able to print a clear page-
kwlde picture of the wrecked trains.
Taking Pictures In the Air.
Aerial photography is perhaps the
latest thing. It consists In birds eye
views of whole towns. With the In-
crease of the use of the flying craft
these will no doubt become numer-
ous within the next few years. An-
other means of obtaining a birds eye
view is by means of the tower cam-
era. This Is placed upon the top of
a colapsible metal tower which is
raised by means of windlasses. A
birdseye view of a. large manufactur-
ing plant recently was taken from a
camera elevated upon a tripod a
hundred and .fifty feet high. This Is
said to be the highest ever used.
The camera was set In place by means
of pulleys and the exposure was
made by an operator standing upon
the ground who closed the shutter
by means of an electric button.
Years Ago To-
Tnxa. The Herald Of
TilsDate 1898
day
f
Rev. Mr. Milllcan preached to a. full
bouse at both services yesterday.
Mrs. Lieut McClure and daughter
boarded the train today for White
Plains N. Y.
Electric fans to keep you cool are
new and timely features of the Santa
Fe dining cars.
Bob Lyons of the G. H. yard office
is expected home today from a 10
days' visit with friends in south and
east Texas.
Morris Calisher returned today from
an extensive summer trip to Santa
Monica where he enjoyed the bathing
in the 3urf.
Mrs. J. W. Purnell who for some
time past has been visiting the Misses
Sullivan of Juarez left yesterday for
her home in Baltimore.
This afternoon about 3:25 a great
deal of excitement was caused by the
valve blowing off the boiler in Buchan-
an & Powers planing mills.
The White Oaks Eagle says that W.
S. Ross has been appointed postmaster
at Jlcarillas. and the office has been
moved to his place nearly two miles
nearer White Oaks.
Last afternoon the finals of the ten-
nis tournament were played by H. L.
Newman jr. and Owen White who
won the semi-finals and resulted in
a victory for Newman.
One of the most interesting tennis
tournaments ever held In El Paso was
played yesterday. This afternoon the
finals will be played between the two
winners of the half finals. C. Newman
and Owen White.
Superintendent of construction 101-
lister had a force of men out yester-
day and this morning erecting the new
telegraph poles which will connect the
new city depot with the general of-
fices on Mesa avenue.
Brldgers and Krause were in the
points for the railroad team while
Markley and Sierra were in the same
fERSEY f ITY
(Copyright 1912 by
JERSEY CITY is a large region lying
west of New York city according to
the geographers. It is separated
from New lork by the Hudson river and
about 1000 through trains and is
rumored to be peopled by vast numbers
of inhabitants who have attained a high
degree of civilization using street cars
phonographs and safety razors with
great fluency.
Little is actually known of Jersey City
beyond these unauthentieated faets.
Natives of the place who escape to New
York are very reticent about alluding to
it and usually register -from San Fran-
cisco or some other well known place.
Explorers from New York have occa-
sionally penetrated into Jersey City as
far as the police court but have brought
back little except tales of great hard-
ships. In 1906 a New York man got off
a Pennsylvania railroad night train in
Jersey City by mistake and swam the
river because there was no ferry at that
hour. He eseaped safely but his hair
turned white during the trip and the
Pennsylvania railroad afterward altered
its route and tunneled through to the
country beyond in order to insure pro-
tection for its passengers.
Jersey City according to the census
officials contains almost 300000 people
all of whom have first names and or-
dinary features. North of Jersey City
lies Hoboken which is inhabited by a
peculiarly fierce breed of hackmen who
infest the steamship piers and prey upon
Ah MsS
Nothin's as hard as goin' back t "work
after you've been narrowly defeated for
a fat office. Blowin' up th' stumps an'
stringin' wire fences is drivin' th' coun-
try boy t town where he kin git a. seat
CREDO.
I know no sin except the lack of. love
I recognize the victory in defeat;
No gulf divides life here from life
above.
I spell perfection In the incomplete.
A fee to dogma still I hold a. creed
For I believe that all life brings Is
good.
That sharing bread and wine with men
who need
Is the new sacrament of brother-
hood. I know the way we tread Is rough and
long
And yet to pain and toil am nothing
loth.
And thus I journey homeward with a.
song.
Since In the very struggle lies my
growth.
And when. I reach that last green
hostelry
Whence none have ever yet been
turned away.
The slumber will be sound which falls
on me
Till dawns that longer new divise
Today.
Joy! only Joy for Love Is there and
here
Peace only peace! though desperate
my distress;
I find no f oeman in the road but Fear
To doubt Is failure and to dare suc-
cess! Frederick Lawrence Knowles.
positions for the town team in the
baseball game that was played yes-
terday afternoon on the grounds near
the Santa. Fe depot Pitcher Markley
struck out eight men while his op-
ponent Brldgers struck out seven.
Private Robert Bailey of the First
volunteer cavalry who nails from
Santa Fe. K. M.. was shot In the thigh
during the advance on June 24. and
Robert W. Reid. another one of the
Rough Riders who was shot In the
body said to the reporter: "I pulled
through all right and I hope that if
Col .Roosevelt Is going to do any more
fighting Til be with him." When asked
if the colonel was a. fighter the Rough
Rider said: "A fighter! You'd give a
lifetime to see that man leading a.
charge or to hear him yell- Talk about
courage and grit and all that he's got
it"
PROHIBIT GAMBLING
ON IT. S. STEAMSHIPS
San Francisco Calif. July 25. A
crusade against gambling on Pacific
liners was instituted yesterday when
United States district attorney. John
L. McKab of the bortern district of
California received a letter from John
N. Mills of Evanston I1L complain-
ing that fan tan flourished on the
steamer Korea during the the vessel's
last trip to this city from the orient
Mills who is living In a local hotel
writes that he and Others who were
aboard the Korea have laid the mat-
ter before the steamship officials.
Mills is authority for the statement
that Chinese members of the crew con-
ducted the games and that first class
passengers crowded about the tables
and gambled. According to the letter
many of the passengers held a. meet-
ing and filed their protest with the
officials of the vessel. The gaming
continued however in sight of offi-
cers and passengers alike. McNab
says he will take the necessary steps
if he finds that federal statutes have
been violated.
BY GEORGE FITCH
Author Of "At Good Old Swash"
George Mathew Adams.)
incoming passengers. South of Jersey
City are Elizabeth Rahway Metuchen
and other explored regions consisting
mostly of smokestacks.
The Geographical aoeiety of New York
has offered a medal to the first member
who will explore and chart Jersey City
and as soon as the expeditions at present
exploring Patagonia and Timbuctoo re-
turn an effort will be made to accom-
plish this feat. Owing to the entire
dearth of lobsters soubrets cabarets
roof gardens ehanipagne and other
necessities of New York life however
great hardships are sure to be encoun-
tered and the police may prevent tho
rash attempt.
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