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El Paso Herald from El Paso, Texas • Page 4

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El Paso Heraldi
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El Paso, Texas
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Come Here Monday and I ee our fall display of Riding and Dress Skirts We do not ask you to come and make the inspection with any obligation of buying, for we know that they will sell themselves in a few days. All we want is a visit from you to tell us if you think they are correct or not. They are the very patterns that are so popular down east and we are the first in El Paso to show them. We are confident that you will say they are by far the prettiest and best ever displayed in the city and the prices are certain to please. In this new display you will find prices ranging from $2.95 as high as you care to pay.

The increase in population produces a corresponding increase in the value of real estate. This is sometimes called UNEARNED In order to understand this more thoroughly let us consider the two classes of people most interested in real THE TENANT AND THE OWNER. The tenant pays a rental pimply for the use of the property; he has as much at the end of ten years as he had when he began. The owner, however, is in a vastly different position. The rent has paid all of his expense on the property, such as taxes, insurance, interest, but at the end of ten years he has not only made a profit on the rent above his expense, but the property is worth a great deal more than when he first bought it.

Besides drawing interest at full rate on his capital, the capital itself has greatly increased. This unearned profit is the secret of many of the largest fortunes that have been accumulated in the country. Even the wealthiest men in this city are the ones whose investments in real estate are the largest. Consider this point is the keynote of all success in real estate investment. There never was a better time to buy a home on easy payments than now.

There will never be a nicer place to live than GOVERNMENT HILL. There you can get a lot for $150 to $200 for $10.00 down and $5.00 a month, no taxes, no interest, no mortgage. You have the advantage of electric cars, and all city improvements, and only 30 minutes from the postoffice. Monday Will Be a Busy Day so we Will Make Low Prices to Insure Quick Sales What Others Advertise We For Others Advertise We Sell For 200 Texas Street Phone 352 Phone 271 eral years. lie was 32 years old.

No arrangements have yet been made for the funeral as the parents of Mrs. Brady are expected to arrive Sunday from their home in San Bernardino, to attend the funeral and the remains will be held until their arrival. Teak Lyons took charge of the remains after justice Watson had ordered-them removed. A streak of ill luck seems to follow the Sorenson Morgan firm of conj tractors from one contract to another, While working on the new apartment house block on South Paso street last year a derrick fell and injured one of their workmen. While erecting the Kress building on Mesa avenue a eave- in similar to the one that occurred Friday came near catching several of the workmen, and while the excavation for the new Richard B.

Stevens building was being done, a Mexican laborer had his foot badly crushed while working in the basement. SLAYER OF ASA HOY DEFENDED hen 1 the Club Was Making1 History (Continued From Page One.) in our power to keep him away from Bisbee. He secured a position on the and one of our union men there, Joe Cooper, sent him money to join him in Colusa, Cal. The union would not let Billy do any picket duty, and, in fact, practically ordered him. to keep away from Bisbee altogether.

We know of the feeling between the two men. hen Pfaunkuche was here last week, he expressed a fear that Hoy would shoot him. Under normal conditions, Billy Pfaunkuche is one of the best men I ever knew. He would give his shirt to help a friend. If he had been in" his right mind he would not have committed the terrib-le act for which he must now suffer.

kuche was crazy, and those who know him will believe nothing the lowliest member was equal to the visitor of highest rank, and as much attention was paid to the details of these informal meetings as was given to the reception held lor president Harrison. l'p on the Sometimes the meeting place was 4 changed from Chihuahua street to the mesa gardens up on what is now A set heights. In this case a parade was formed in front of the waterworks office and the members and invited guests would hike up the smelter hill behind the band, or if the band was not working that night, behind a quartet of guitars, mandolins or any old thing that happened to be handy around the headquarters. The mesa garden was decorated for these occasions as elaborately as the Castle hall grounds and dozens of Chinese and Japanese lanterns were hung from the yucca plants that still stand on the crown of the mesa garden hill. The invitations to these meetings were as much sought for as invitations to attend a state reception at the white house.

The number was always limited to the non-resident friends of the club and no self invited persons were permitted to intrude their presence on the McGintles. This rule was very strict and on a number of occasions the president was forced to request the withdrawal of uninvited persons who had butted in to see the fun. Must Go or Stay Out Always. Another equally strict rule of the club was that if a non-member of the club was invited, to attend one of the meetings and fitiled to come for no good and sufficient retison, he was black listed on the books of the club for all time to come and was never again given an opportunity to witness the antics of the McGintyites. The invitations which were issued for the various entertainments and open meetings were printed on bright green cardboard and contained the significant clause: to attend forfeits all future It is needless to add that nothing short of sudden death prevented the fortunate ones from attending and even then the death was only considered as a good excuse by the sons of Erin when it happened to the invited one himself.

As in all of the activities of the McGinty club, music had a prominent part in these meetings and a program selected from among the dozens that were arranged for the various meetings shows that more than two-thirds of the entertainment consisted of vocal and instrumental music. The McGinty orchestra was always present and opened the session with an overture from or some of the other operas of the time, and followed with the playing of the official hymn of the club, the then extremely popular ditty, Went McGinty to the Bottom of the The Refreshments. While the orchestra was sawing Away on opening overture, Ed Watts, chief keeper of the bung starter or some other equally important officer in the club, would start his assistants around with trays loaded with the official drink of the organization, which by a strange coincidence was the same brand of brew that put Milwaukee on the map. The hop ale was served in immense tumblers which were originated by the club and which bear the name of the old club to this day. The origin of the McGinty glasses is said to have resulted from a call down one of the officers of the club gave a member because he could not fill the ordinary sized glasses fast enough.

A tumbler with a bowl as big as a wash tub (more or less) was ordered for that particular special use at the meetings and it was such a hit that they were ordered for the entire club. However, this version of the tale of the tumblers cannot be verified in the Reckhart scrap book. Cosmopolitan Membership. The membership of the club in its palmiest days included every known profession with the single exception of saloon keepers, if that work might be dignified by the name of profession. No saloon keepers or bartenders were permitted to become members of the club.

To serve everyone who attended these meetings, be he banker lawyer, preacher or stone mason, the list of refreshments was varied to accommodate the demands of the different classes. Soda water was provided the temperance element and a few fancy drinks for the epicures in a mixed drink way, but the great mass of the club, the men who made the McGinty club famous, drank beer from the McGinty glasses and sang the club songs with all the gusto of a German peasant after a work in the field. The Light Guards. Next in importance to the band, orchestra and other musical organizations of the club, came the McGinty Light Guards in command of the invincible, if stump legged Peg Grand- over. The Light Guards were present at every meeting of the club and had the prominent place on the program that such a military company deserved.

This company, like the club of which it was a part, was the most unique military company in this or any other world. Commanded by a man with but one leg, the Light Guards had but one lonesome private. All of the rest of the members were officers of one kind or another and when the command to the was roared out by captain Peg, every son of the company would march to the front and present sabers with the single exception of a skinny fellow in the rear file who stood at attention. forward thundered Peg, and up came mister private, his file in perfect alignment. One night the Light Guards were down on the program for a fancy drill and everyone was expecting something especially fancy from Capt.

Grandover and his guardians of the peace. When the time came for the drill president Reckhart announced the feature and the Light Guards, including the one private, marched onto the open air stage and saluted. But where was captain Peg? It was like Hamlet with Hamlet away on a fishing trip. Just as the president was about to announce that the number would be called off, whizz came a nog legged dy from out of the heavens airl Peg unfastened himself from the rope on which ah had made I have hoard it said That McGinty was dead, Away down at the bottom of the sea. But never did a song Seem so completely wrong As that well known air This did to me.

(Continued from Page One.) It was not the McGinty club that paraded the streets, their flambeaus flaring, the band blaring its favorite marches, and the members firing Roman candles into the heavens; nor the McGinties that entertained the prominent El Paso visitors from president Harrison to John L. Sullivan, that reflected the true spirit, the spirit of absolute democracy of the McGinty club. There was but one place to and feel this true democracy that outdid the dreams of the most rabid socialists. That was at the McGinty club hall or the mesa garden when the famous old club was holding one of its monthly meetings just to entertain themselves, and a few non-resident friends. The meeting place on Chihuahua street was an out of doors pavilion where the club met under the foliage of the trees in the evenings and witnessed the antics of the members who performed as much for their own as for the amusement of the audience of which they were a part.

On these occasions the meeting place was decorated with national colors, the bunting wound around the tree trunks and draped over everything. It was the belief of this cosmopolitan club that HELD OX BURGLARY CHAltGE. Manuel Encisco, charged with burglary, who was arrested after a long chase by detective Harold yesterday morning, was given a preliminary hearing before justice Watson yesterday afternoon and bound over to the grand jury in the sum of $500 in default of which he was remanded to jail. Special train to Las Cruces and return Thursday. One fare for the round trip.

Free cantaloupe feast. Train leaves Union station at 8 a. m. HELD ON ROBBERY CHARGE. Pedro Fuetene is being held in the Juarez jail on the charge of robbing Martina de la of two dresses, a pin, and a ring.

His case has been transferred to the judge of letters. SLIGHTLY USED Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians. as the damage chey will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F.

J. Cheney Toledo, contains no mercury, and is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J.

Cheney Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c. per bottle.

Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Will Move to Herald Building Sept. 1st or on Has Payment Plan BAGGAGE TRANSFER BAGGAGE PHONE BELL 1. AUTO 1001. Will be up right away.

Careful men. Reasonable prices, Transfer, 116 SAN FRANCISCO ST. REFRESHMENTS. Hot Barbecued Veal, Solids Pickles LIQUID E1 ES ENTS. Ice Cold Soda.

Sarsaparilla. Lemonade. Water. (Next week will appear the fifth of the reminiscences of the McGinty club, gleaned from the D. W.

Reckhart scrap book. Baseball was as dear to the hearts of El Pasoans in those days as it is today and the leaders in this, as in every other activity was the McGinty club. The next scrap book story will tell how the McGintles entertained the various baseball clubs of the southwest that played the old El Paso Browns. Also a write up of a baseball game in rhyme by one of the members of the McGinty club). 406 San Antonio St International Book Stationery Co.

ODOM TRANSFER CO. Baggage and Moving. All Kinds of Hauling. PROMPT ATTENTION Bell Phone 1054 Auto Phone 1966 109 Main St. EL PASO ROOFING CO Rubber and Gravel Roofing.

Roof Painting and Repairing. Orders filled promptly. 109 S. Florence. Phones 1431 and 110.

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