El Paso Daily Herald. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 259, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 15, 1898 Page: 2 of 8
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EL PASO DAILY HERALD TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15. 1898.
THE DAILY HERALD
TUESDAY NOV. 15 1898.
Published Every Evenlna Except
Sunday
BY THE
Herald News Company
EL PASO. TEXAS.
LITTLE PLA1A. - - TELEPHONE 116.
An Independent Republican
NEWSPAPER.
Rigid Enforcement of Existing Laws
la the First Step Toward Mu-
nicipal Reform.
J. A. Smith - - General Manager
LT. D. Slater Editor
Henry L.Capell - Business Manager
Entered at tha p-Mt office at El Paso Texas
for transmission through the malls at second
class rates.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
Dally one year - . $ T.00
six months 8.60
three 1-76
" one " - .60
Weekly one year 00
- six months 1-00
three " -M
BY CARRIER.
The Dally Hsrald Is delivered by .carrier
a El Paso Texas Jnares. Mexico and at the
El Paso smelting works at fifteen cents (16c)
per week or sixty cents (80c) per month.
Subscribers falling to get the Herald re-
gularly or promptly should call at the office
or telephone No. 116. All complaints will re-
ceive prompt attention.
ADVERTISING RATES.
Kates of advertising In the Dally or Weekly
Herald will be made known upon applica-
tion at the business office. Those who pre-
fer can have a representative of the business
department call upon them who will quote
prices and make contracts for space. Call
telephone No. 116.
Clashlfied advertisements or locals ten
10)centa per line for first insertion and five
6) cents for each additional insertion.
Special rates upon five hundred (600) or one
thousand (1000) lines of local to be used In
one month will be furnished upon appllca
lion.
AS TO MUNICIPAL MORALS.
- In another column we reprint an ar
ticle from Sunday's Times. The ar
ticle is headed "Life in the Tender
loin." It is a short account of the re-
vels that nightly disgrace this city
and help to drain it of life blood. The
Herald might spend its time and use
up its space In detailing these things
but some people would say that our ac
count was prejudiced and unworthy of
belief. But the Times is the acknowl-
edged organ of the corrupt city admin
istration.
It has used every means to discour-
age any agitation of the questions of
public morals and enforcement of Btate
laws which we have voiced from time
to time. It has used that last argu-
ment of a morally weak man over and
over again that the city of El Paso
is no worse than other cities.
It has taken the stand that It Is best to
overlook and forget these things since
the airing of the truth concerning
them might give tne town a bad name
In the eyes of outsiders. It has upheld
the police and the mayor it has patted
the city administration on tbe back
and has tried .to draw the wool over
the eyes of the people and to lead
them to believe that the attitude the
Herald has assumed was taken from
political motives purely.
Now we find this same paper giving
up its space to an account of the very
deviltry it has Deen in effect if not in
words upholding. Note the use of the
word "prosperity." Prosperity lndeedl
So hereafter we will know what the
Times means by its grandiloquent ap-
peals for unity and cooperation in up-
lifting the town and In taking advan-
tage of the prosperity that is at our
doors.
The Times seems to be a little proud
of a prosperity that is debauching
young men ruining girls and breaking
up families causing tragedy after
tragedy many of which never come to
light and breeding crime faster than
the brood can be disposed of. The
Times does not lay it on very thick.
Those dance halls are more vile more
depraved more poisonous than any
who nave not Been them can ever
gdess.
And the finishing touch to the Tlmes's
jBhamelessnessJis found in the column of
that paper immediately adjoining the
one in which appears the article else
where reprinted. There tbe following
note appears;
"Policemen complain that the city is
so set in its good behavior that an non
est man in their profession cannot earn
his salary."
The police ought to be thankful that
they have two such devoted advocates
as the Time9 and the Graphic. We do
not blame the police so much however
for the non enforcement of law in this
oity. They are working (or rather not
working) under orders from higher
authority. The mayor of the city
Joseph Magoffin has the power in his
hand to shut up every one of the dens
of infamy which infest our city. He
not only has the power but he violates
his official oath over and over again
because he refuses to close up these
ile places and require some sort of
conformity with the laws of the
state of Texa. If the mayor says
the word the police are bound to obey.
The mayor is the delinquent. But the
most abhorrent part of tbe spectacle
perhaps is the eight of the Times and
the Graphio boldly flaunting their own
Infamy before the people and trying
to lead the people to believe that thl9
city is decently governed. The Graph
ic of yesterday reprinted our edito
rial on the subject of the police -engaging
in the business of buying up Mex-
ican votes for the democratic party on
election day. -It then comments as
follows:
The stranger who reads the Herald
has probably concluded that the El
Paso policemen are tough citizens
combining1 all the cussedness of the
ward heeler bully and Chinese high
binder with none of the good qualities
but in truth the force of this city will
compare favorably with that of any
city of twice El Paso's population.
Perhaps they voted lor the men or
their choice as all good citizana
should but the Graphio has yet to
learn of an instance where any mem
ber of the force exceeded his authority
as an officer entrusted with tbe duty of
maintaining the peace and dignity of
the city at the polls and elsewhere.
Tbe peace and quiet of the city the
safety of life and property and the
almost total absence of tne usual cri-
minal classes found in border cities is
convincing proof of the faithful ser-
vice efficiency and bravery of the men
who wear the police uniform of El
Paso and the mad fro thine of an en-
raged and disappointed partisan news-
paper can in no way affect their stand-
ing with the men most interested in the
true welfare of the city.
If the Graphio has in the above writ-
ten sincerely and with a desire to speak
the truth which we doubt then it
merely exposes its own blindness and
Ignorance wilful blindness and wilful
ignorance it appears.
In reading the article reprinted to-
day from the Times let it be kept in
mind that the Red Light mentioned is
the place run by Jim Burns for many
years; that Charley Patterson as
Burns's attorney did his best to pro-
tect his client one of the worst of of-
fenders and to keep him out of trouble
with officers of the law; and that this
same Patterson now recorder Is the
acknowledged boss of El Paso so far
as active work is concerned and so far
as outward evidence can show.
TBE testimony In the Burns will
case now on trial in the district court
promises t disclose some rich morsels
in regard to the rotten political condi
tions in this city. Charley Patterson
and George Wallace will be forced to
paint themselves in their true colors
before the trial is over and as they
know more about the inner workings
of the Gang than almost any other man.
it is likely that the disclosures will
not help the Gang any in the coming
municipal campaign.
Some people seem to think that
when a man has money backof him he
is all right. It often happens that the
man who has money back of him has
none ahead of him.
Political economy says the Chica-
go News is the art of getting the most
votes for the least money.
Why doesn't Hobson put some of his
air bags under the Philippines and
float them nearer home?
Some humane people are advocating
making football playing a penitentiary
offenoe.
(.Reprinted from Sunday's Times.
LIFE IN THE TENDERLOIN.
The Dance Halls Are Doing a Rush
ing Business and There Vast
Crowds Flock Every Night to
Swell the Giddy Throng Pros-
perity Is Everywhere Appar-
ent. Prosperity seems to have come to El
Paso in full force and every night the
evidence of the fact can be seen by a
visit to the Tenderloin. Thither the
crowds flock every night in ever in-
creasing numbers and at the dance
halls they are to be seen in their night-
ly revels.
During the dull summer months busi-
ness was slow in the Tenderloin and
the dance halls closed their doors and
their aevotees sought other fields.
Now all this is changed. Two of the
three halls the Monte Carlo and the
Red Light have reopened their doors
and there are indications that the
Bonanza on Stanton street will soon
reopen for business. At each place
twelve girls and scores of supposedly
respectable young men of frostbitten
virtues keep up the giddy whirl.
At the Red Light on Utah street the
floor is crowded all the time every
night with the devotees of Terpsichore
and the music is seldom silent as tbe
dancers glide around in the mazes of
the dreamy waltz or the voice of the
caller sings out the movements of the
quadrille. The bars there are doing a
rushing- business in dispensing liauid
refreshments to the weary dancers
while money is constantly changing
bands at the crames.
At the Monte Carlo on South Ore-
gon street are the same evidences of
prosperity. All night long the "dance
goes on" and the crowds come and go.
Scarcely does the musio stop for a mo-
ment before the voice of the caller
sings out: "Get your partners for the
next quadrille." In a few min-
utes the dancers are in their
places acd the musio be-
gins. 'Hon-or to your part-ner and
hon-or on the cor-ner S-w-i-n-g the
1-e-f-t hand lady round and all pro-men-ade"
sings out the floor man-
ager in a way peculiarly his own find
so on through the dance. At the gam-
bling tables there is also a rushing
business done and tbe glittering stacks
of coin are heaped up high in front of
the dealers.
In fact there is every evidence that
prosperity is here and the business
people of the tenderloin all wear satis-
fied smiles and look as though the
world was treating them very well in-
deed. But ere tbe city readers of the Times
have finished their morn in ? paper the
life of the tenderloin will have vanish-
ed-and the ringing of church bells will
be summoning the parishioners to their
Sunday devotion.
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Many New Books Received.
A number of the new books have
arrived at the city public library 119
Sheldon Block. The remainder and
larger part of the consignment will be
in later in the month. Those received
are as follows:
School for Saints by Craigie.
In Kedar's Tents Merriman.
The Sowers. "
With Edged Tools.
Hugh Wynne 2 vols. Mitchell.
The Godfly Voynich.
Helbeck -of Bannisdale 2 vols.
Ward.
The Story of Ab Waterloo.
Penelope's Progress Wiggln.
Paris 2 vols. Zola.
Lourdes 2 vols. "
Rome 2 vols. "
The King's Jackal Davis.
Folks from Dixie Dunbar.
Silence and Others Wilkins.
Pembroke Wilkins.
Caleb West P. Hopkin6on Smith.
Charles Auchester 2 vols. Shep-
pard.
Propnet oi tne threat omoity jut.
Murfree.
Aurelian Wane.
Reds of the Midi Gras.
Kings in Exile Daudet.
Tartarin of Tarascon Daudet.
Iceland Fisherman Loti.
Romance of Zlon Chapel La Gal
lienne.
The Quest of the Golden Girl La
Gallienne.
The Odd Number De Maupassant
The Seven Seas Kipling.
Damnation of Theron Ware Fred-
eric. The Magio Skin Balzac.
Cousin Pons Balzao.
Tbe Kentuckians Fox.
Story of a Bad Boy Aldricb.
Marjorie Daw Aldrloh.
St. Ives Stevenson.
On the Face of the Waters Steel.
Ghosts I have m et and Others
Ban sb.
Shrewsbury Weyman
The Soapegoat Caine.
The Bondman Caine.
Zoroaster Crawford.
Reflections of a Married Man
Grant.
Man Without a Country Hale.
Uncle Remus Harris.
Rise of Silas Lapham Howells.
Young Mrs. Jardine Mulook.
A Noble Life Mulock
A Brave Lady Mulock
Simon Dale Hope.
Dolly Dialogues Hope
Mind of the Master Maclaren.
Upper Room Maclaron
The Little Minister Barrie.
Dreamers of the Ghetto Zangwill.
King of Schnorrers Zangwill
Boots and Saddles Custer.
Hedda Gabler Ibsen.
Doll's House "
Aztec Treasure House Janvier.
The American Commonwealth
Bryce.
Condition of Labor George.
Progress and Poverty "
Science of Political Economy
ueorge
Story of Jesus Christ Phelps.
Because I Love You Mack.'
Poets i
Burns
Coleridge
Virgil
Goethe
Hemans
Ingelow
Pope
.Proctor
Scott
Swinburne.
Thousand and One Gems Chapman
History of England 5 vols. Ma-
caul ay.
Ferdinand and Isabella 3 vols.
Prescott.
Remember the Alamo. Barr.
Bow of Orange Ribbon. Barr.
Pony Tracks. Remington.
George Sand. Caro.
Memoir Alfred Tennyson. Tenny
son.
European Artists. Bolton.
Girls Who Became Famous. Bol
ton.
Life of Louisa M. Alcott Cheney.
Joan of Arc Twain.
Dolly Madison Goodwin.
Bitter Sweet Holland.
Katrlna "
Aunt Serena Howard.
One Summer '
Ramona Jackson.
Eyes Like the Sea Jokai.
Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe.
David Elglnbrod Macdonald.
Pan Michael Sienklewicz.
With Fire and Sword Sienklewicz
Caesar Froude.
Wake-Robin Burroughs.
Autobiography of an Artist Breton
legends of tbe Madonna Jameson.
Walden Thoreau.
Life of Lincoln Arnold.
Children of the Poor Jacob Riis.
Labor Movement in America In
graham.
The library is open the following?hour8
to accommodate members in taking-out
ana returning; books:
Tuesdays 4 to 6 p. m.
Thursdays. 8 to 9 p. m.
Saturdays 10 to 12 a. m.
Telephone 156.
pany.
El Paso Dairy com
t Industrial and I
Commercial. J
Hopef ifl Signs In the South.
Dallas News.
The Ace of Steel declares that a
great industrial awakening has taken
place in the sisterhood of tbe southern
states. "Their resources" the same
paper say "are being exploited and
nature's rich endowment of raw ma-
terial in the way of iron ore coal etc.
is being vigorously appropriated while
ts sugar and cotton industries are oe-
ing persistently acd intelligently cul
tivated. In furnace and field forest
and mine and in mill and workshop
we see tbe aroused energies of
what is yet to be an industrial
empire. If tnese lacts are not mis-
leading and the signs of the times are
not at fault the commercial destiny of
tne eouth is practically assured. The
forces working to this end are in mo
tion and sooner or later must accom
plish their purpose. Moreover tbe
circle of opportunity widens as the
capacity of production increases. The
road opens as me iooc pusnes iorwara.
Tbe south has its hands on the key of
foreign trade in China Japan and the
far east. In the Pacific trade it will
be an important factor and the
more distinctly so when a
trans-isthmian canal becomes a fact.
Foreign traders and shipowners are
already forecasting southern import-
ance in this trade and according to
tbe report of tbe American consul
general at Bangkok plans are being
already laid to secure tbe commercial
plum when it ripens. The cotton of
the south will find new markets in
China and Japan while in the ex
change of commodities such southern
ports as Norfolk bavannah Galveston
Charleston New Orleans Mobile etc.
will be important points of im
ports and exports. With Asiatic mar
kets in reach and with a plentltude of
products both raw and manufactured
to meet their demands and the coin-
cidence of geographical advantages
no sane man can question the possibil-
ities of southern commerce." On the
same line tbe Philadelphia Record
says: "The people who are now in
vesting their money In southern pro-
perties are doing bo intelligently and
there is every reason to believe that
they will receive good re-
turns in due season. Tbe
south is rich in minerals of all
kinds and her progress in develop-
ment within the past ten or fifteen
years has been rapid; but even so tbe
surface of nor store of mineral wealth
has scarcely been scracbed.
From are and coal fig
ure most prominently in this re
cent development; but there are gold
fields in Georgia and elsewhere which
were formerly operated successfully
and which though now long neglected
are certain again to yield up their hid
den treasures as soon as
the capital shall be forth
coming for their operation under
modern methods. There are several
rare minerals found in tbe south which
are even now being profitably mined.
Among those are tbe refractory ele
ments from which incandescent gas
mantles are made.and also the mineral
called bauxite frem which alum and
aluminum are obtained." To show
that the southern ports are maintain
ing their record of regular progress as
handlers of exports of merchandise the
Manufacturers'Record gives the follow
log figures of the past fiscal year com
pared with those of 1897;Southern ports
1897 8375487890; 1898 440905.889; in
crease 8bo4l7yw; gain per cent
17.42. Other ports 1897 $675505666;
1888 8790424061; Increase 8114918
395; gain per cent 17.01. Total for all
ports 1897 81050.993556; 1898 $1-
231329950; increase $180336 394; gain
per cent 17.15. The people of the
south have had heretofore many dif
ficulties and disadvantages to contend
against but tbey have today many
chances and prospects to make them
hopeful.
Notes.
Grain exports have much to do with
the' balance of trade but in this re
spect the account stands largely in.
favor of the United states. For tbe
first nine months of the current year
the balance was only a little below
$400000000 in favor of this country
and It looks as if it would continue to
grow.
Mail advices from California state
that the Walnut Growers' Joint Asso
ciation representing the producers of
that state has advanced prices i cent
per pound on all stock unsold October
20th or 61 cents for hardshell and 7 J
cents for softshell. This action was
due to the short crop of California wal-
nuts. Houston Post.
This season's grain crop is beginning
to move freely. The gulf lines are do
ing a big business in transporting
wheat to Galveston from Oklahoma
and Indian Territory for export. Daily
train loads are seen passing through
Fort worth. J. be wheat in JNortb
Texas is not moving to any great ex-
tent as farmers are holding it for bet-
ter prices.
Denison's force of cotton buyers have
been'reiuforced recently by the advent
of two buyers for the big-cotton firm of
lnman & itead with Texas headquar-
ters at Houston. This is one of the
strongest cotton firms in tbe United
States and Messrs. Z. H. Lasseter and
J. M. Keller representing them in
Denison have addei much to the al-
ready strong force of buyers in that
city. Farmers are rapidly taking ad-
vantage of the inducements Denison
offers as a cotton market as the crowd-
ed condition of the streets and stores
every day in the week testifies. "Veri-
ly Denison do move." Pottsboro
Picayune.
The new Linz building now being
completed on the corner of Main street
In Houston at a cost of over 8100.000
will be one of tbe handeomeet office
structures in the State Tbe general
offices of the Missouri. Kaneas and Tex-
as Railway company of Texas will oc-
cupy the sixth and seventh floors. In
its newquarters the Katy will have as
one general offices as any road in Terap.
The general offices of tbe Postal Tel
egraph company will also be located in
the new building. The Linz building
will be a credit to the city and both
the Katy and Postal people were con
gratulating themselves for having Be
cured offices therein.
JOSHUA 8. RAYNOLD8 President;
IM.Y88E8 8. 8TEWART Oashler;
-THE-
FIEST NATIONAL BAM
El Paso
Capital and Surplus.
H. L. NEWMAN Banker
W. H. AUSTIN OaahUir;
El Paso.
A General Banking
Mexican Money and Exohange
Bullion Bought. SAFETY DEPOSIT
O. R. MOREHEAD President;
d.O. LAOKLANO Oaahier;
STATE NATIONAL BANK
Established
A legitimate banking business transacted in all its branches F.Tihkn n.
all the oitles of the United States bought
ican Dollars.
JUAREZ BRANCH
OF THK
Banco Comercial of Chihuahua
CAPITAL $600000.
Bjy and sell Mexican Money and Exchange on all the principal
Republic of Mexico the
A General Banking:
uireotobb: iuia xkkka.zab; knuiuue O. OBREL: JOS. M. FAr.nnvr
UAilMU KBAKADBBi
Cl idad Jnares
ADOLFH KKAKADER Manager
H. LESINSKY A.. SOLOMON. B. P.
President. Vice President. Secretary. General Manager
H. LESINSKY CO.
Wholesale Gr
and JOBBERS- OF DRY GOODS.
We carry a comnlete line of S tn.nl .! trunov nwu... -jt . -
class. We solicit the trade of dealers onlyTand
Shoe Quality: raa
"Hanan & Son's" Men's Famous Fine Shoes.
"uanan & son's" .Ladies' Swell Dress Boots.
"Krlppendorf Dittmann Co's. Medium Priced Good Shoes."
"Cowles Bros.' " Misses and Children's Fine Shoes.
AND
Our Own "Pew's Princeton" $3.50 Shoes for Gentlemen.
$5.00 Value for H3.50."
CAN YOU BUY ANY BETTER? O WE CAN'T
"F Hj V SOUST Ban Aptonlo fet. Shoe Men.
Jt' JM. MA Mf. -fr
3
-Still
Another
My closing out sale is a great hit. Last week
I let things go at - - - .
WHOLESALE PRICES
i
And we had a big rush of bargain hunters. This
week I make another cut and all goods go on the
counters at - - -
10 PER CENT LESS. 001110 e&J and secure first choice ft
Remember the place. g&
.MX SOHUTZ'S.
DEDADTMENT STODF nn b Aiieni sun cw
Both TIME
SAVE YOU
7WZ
On the purchase
i JOINING MACHINERY f
BOILER WORK
Write for
Estimates.
Fine Merchant Tailoring
And dents' Furnishing Goods.
i'4 AIL PASO STRUT J6L PA80 TXXA8
H. P. NOAKE.
;
Cor. Overland and Santa Fe 8ta
M. W. FLOURNOV Viae-President
JOS. P. WILLIAMS Asst. Oashler.
Texas
150000
H. L. NEWMAN Jr.. Asst. Oashler.
Texas.
Business Transacted..
Bought and Sold. RnM .nH un
BOXES FOR RENT.
J08EPH MAGOFFIN Vice-President;
d. H. RUS8ELL. Asst Oaahier.
April 1381.
at par. Highest prices paid for Mex
cities of the-
United States and Europe.
Business Transacted.
LUIS TEBBAZA8. Jr. .
ot?ef Btneo Miiiero of Chihuahua.
MIOHELSON. B. J. PBEUDENTHAL.
gl espedal attenttoT to mail ordSs.
We are sole agents In
this city for
At It-
- V W W bHLniW Jla Wm
and MONEY
of any kind of
A SPECIALTY.
Big Cut I
El Paso Foundry 6t Machine Co. w
DEALER IN
Fine Vehicles
Mitchell and Old Hick-
ory Wagons.
Harness.
Whips and Robes
I have the only machine for
putting on Kurber Tires in
the Southwest.
Old City Hall Building.
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