Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 17, 1914, Page 10

Queretaro, . Historic Mexican City, Lies in the Patkr Villa Must Take to the Mexican Capital — Is Commer- cial Cenetr of Southern Mexico—A Hotbed of ‘Revolutions—Most of i+ the Unbleached Cotton Used in Mexico Is Manufactured in Que- retaro—Quaint Points of Interest About the City. HE historle city of Queretaro, which is the objective point of the rebel army under Villa, with Mexico City in view, is situated at the junction of the National and Mexican Central rallways, the two great systems of Mexico. it is a busy eity of about 45,000 inhabitants, and is the commercial center of south central Mex!co. As the crow flles it is about 125 miles due northwest from the federal capital and by rail 167 miles. But these day the crow is not much in evidence in the belligerent country to the southwest of us; but the buzzard, with an intuition rare even in his kind, is circling around, waliting for his prey, for since the time of Cortez Queretaro has been the scene of revolutions innumerable. Coming down from the north by way of Zacatecas, the train winds around the mountain side, passing directly over some of the famous silver mines for which that region is noted. Since their discov- ery 300 years ago it iz estimated that they have a total output of a billion dol- lars. As the train winds in and out one | gets beautiful panoramic views of the cultivated valley below, with Queretaro in the distance. * * % It is & manufacturing place, and here are located huge cotton factories, which produce the major part of the unbleached cotton used in this country. It is about a mile from the city, and from the out- side presents the aspect of a medieval fartification, with the high loopholed stone wall surrounding it and ® small company of soldiers always on guard whether in times of peace or war. In this way the proprietors have main- tained their position since about 1840, and. in spite of frequent revolutions which have swept the country, have been able to_carry on the manufacture of this most necessary product, which is used to make the white pajamalike garments which clothe one-haif of the male population of Mexico, and the one-plece low-neck ent worn by the Indlan women of he southern country. The Mexican peon seldom varies his costume except on fete days, when he is partial to putting on a shirt a la Ameri- can. But, instead of wearing it as in- tended, he allows the skirt to remain out as a sort of tunic falling over his wide, A CHMILD NURSE IN QUERETARO pantaloons, and presenting much the appearance of one of our fash- gowned women of the present an ornithologist could find no the days of can still be seen | commodates hundreds of tourists Who old-world-looking and | houses, and the scenes which figured | fights. s0 prominently in the closing davs of life of the Emperor Maximilian. The carrying on of trade the fine old churches which have been | fitted up as shops seems a desecration, and one feels like driving the money | changers from the temple. One marvels at and children in the streets. constitute themse and with _thei escort following very portals of the historic places, giv- ing ludicrous and garbled accounts of | faithful followers and admirers of the between | emperor erected to his memory. and that the number of The latter tha | permission of Pr The battle cry Mexico is not death to the gringos, but though one ~ morth, | This little sanctuary occupies the site centavito!™ may enter the country from cry that greets the ear; for the Mexican the Furopean duke, Though he may spit upon it, he tucks it away snugly in his straw belt and holds out his hand for more. These children look like little old men and women; the boys in their long e of the exquisite feather work | trousers, and the girls in thelir lon i & P M°ls Gone | dresses, and always with a burden o for which the country is noted Is Gone | eort on their backs. = This Is e 1o the piumaxe of the birds and | usually a_baby; for when they reach e e hnt even | the age of five or six they become the O e A e | nurse for a smaller member of the | (-‘mn(‘l’nrs‘fi\m!l_\'. which is swung in a rebosa— royal robes were made of feathers, the | Wide scarflike shawl—to their backs, hangings in throne rooms and the o nificent fans used in royal processions. Some of these robes in the musetms. and if they play it must always be with this load. They do not play hop-scotch, eross- stick, hide-and-seek and other violent games American children indulge -in, but play games that require little exer- tion, or sit and gamble with picture cards on which are printed horses, bulle, men and birds. Everybody gambles here, from the crippled bes- | gar, who stakes his crutch, to the senor, who revels in the races and bull- * | * * On the Cerro de las Campanas, a bar- ren hill on the outskirts of the city, is the historic little chapel that marks the spot where the execution of Maximilian land his two faithful generals, Miramon | and Mejia, took place in the early morn- | ing of June 19, 1867, Two vears after the execution, with the esident Diaz and the ap- 1se of Hapsburg, a few | proval of the h | of his brave comparions in ‘death, this j tiny_expiatory chapel; and after this dip- lomatic relations were once more resumed between Austria and Mexico. of the stone wall before which Maximillan and the two generals were commanded to stand for their execution. It is built of white stone, simple in architecture, with the outlines softened by the growth of A I.Au,i';nx Dor QUERITARO A CLOISTER OF LA Cruz WHLRE MAXDMILIAN SURRENDERED Prote By Watn, Muxico Cirg lichen, which has taken for the walls of these old buiidings seem well nigh impregnable. cooking _range looks like a fortification, and the bal fashioned bricked-in labs which natives have a ous dread of kneeling upon, be- at the ghost of the fair Austrian of fortifications, buildings like a spectral-looking white like a new lighted place and tell just beyond In this old cloister of Tracking down a gang of fleeing train robbers in an automobile, and thence, single- handed, ~capturing them at the point of the pistol, sav- ors more of the dime novel of boy- hood than of the routine work of a civil officer. Yet at his desk In his cozy quarters in the House office bullding sits a square-jawed, keen-eyed but whole-souled, genial and, withal, modest man who, less than two vears ago, passed through that nerve-racking experience. He is Representative Carl Havden of Arizona, formerly sheriff of Maricopa county, out there: it was during his term as sheriff that he put through that feat. “A lawless gang of train robbers had held up and looted a train just south of Phoenix, In my county, and had made a get-away before I got word of it,” said this doughty ex-sheriff, after much per- suasion for the story. “Without delaying to collect a posse, I got an automobile, commandeered a chauffeur and, picking up an Indian na- tive fn;’l mker, I struck out in pur- suit. We picked up th the gang had ridden south toward the BRlo Grande, evidently headed for Mex- ico and safety. Across mountains and deserts the trail, picked out by the skill- ful Indian, led us steadily southward. As we crossed great reaches of waterless wastes, we noted signs of weariness in the bandits’ horses and blessed our own tireless steed of steel. ‘On_and across the line into Pima county we followed the trail and soon our Indian tracker warned us that the scent was getting hot. Far ahead, the 4im track swung ‘round the base of a rocky promontory Jjutting out Into the desert. Just behind this, I knew, was a small grove, shady, but waterless. Be- yond this the lone and level - desert The. bandits, would mare a efore braving the desert beyond ‘Go_skipping lively ner vonder, with yo: around that co ‘And don t. instant until you're arou “As we swung corner. we saw unsaddled. Iving beneath the trees could have picked us off with ease, out manner had disarmed them they lailed us. you love yvour life, give us some came strolling out to the car. suspecting. n an instant my rifle was covering wholly un- your hands! astonishment while I kept them covered and Indian disarmed and tied them. “.We thought when we heard | gotten you all {leader of the gang. pected nothing when chugging so fussily 'found the corner.’ “‘That's the reason I came a chug. .chugging!’ I replied, for his satisfaction.’ To the Point. R e pr esentative I command- and | the chauffeur was mining men coming or growled the ring- etic mien and chis- eled profile s Byronesque, is a man of fluent, rounded speech ing assembled Con- in the privacy his office. But, with the written as Carlyle: brief as a telegram: and as direct. Witness his biography in the Congres- stretohed, BUD-#00rched and unbroken, to!slonsl Directory, written, embellishied and | graphed. ‘I'm eatirely finished.’ ] 1 eni | repr ve or senator—perhaps thé | shortest ever printed. Where others in | the public eve have seized this as an ‘OTTS WINGO, democrat. of De Queen X That's all; Mr. Wingo says it's enough. et Entirely Through. * | m Apropos of spec- ulative schemes, Senator Norris of | story of the far west which has a pathetic little tinge to it. “There was a man in the east who had some money Wwhich he wanted to invest,” he says, “‘and at the fatal moment when he was trying to declde what to do | from a western corporation. “This corporation told how it would { millionaires at the small cost of $10 a share “Well, the man bought some stock. Soon thereafter he received a notice that shaft. And after that he received an- other notice of assessment and another and still another. “At last, one fine day, the man who had invested was moping at his desk when he received this announcement: is almc ¢ finished.” answer back by tefegraph, collect ““Then I the body of Maximilian was interred, but | Austria op the Aus trian ship Novara. on which in his vouth he had made a tour of the globe, for he saflor prince.” ching the place of execution Max- ted Gen. Mira- | was later taken to me to give you the place of honor turning to ! was calied | _ wueretaro might Brooklyn of Mexico, numerous are the wound to remind his | Zing of bells deatening: regulated by and though law to specified times, interpretation is generous and there is a jangle of discordant When this pon it for the last time, and that e were alive— s she last saw him. he cloister of La Cruz, | from morning 'and in which | accompanied—as it frequently is—by the place_on the | barking of strest austere cells occupled | children and the braying of donkeys, pan- rs and the sixteenths | demonium is c The beautiful Carlotta—if s member him | continuous church of Santa Rosa, | where the Emperor Maximilian and his|three mon ick ersham and the student represents | i suite heard mass, was ruthlessly dese- crated by the French soidiers during their | invasion, but is still very wonderful and | Interesting, aside from its historic sk | nificance. Charles Dudley Warner in hi description of it says: It is one of the finest chapels in the world, rich in wood carving and overlald with gold leaf. sl most gold plate. In some places the gold is covered with transparent tortol shell. The French in 1866 tore down the great altar and burned it to ot the §old, securing, it is said, the value of | $1,500,000. * * * The steps of the churches here, as ir other parts of Mexico, are used as tem- porary hospitals and almshouses. I riy in the morning the sick, the cripplec and povert ricken beggars of the neighborhood are brought and put on the steps of the. mearest church, that they may gather alms for the day's ra- tions and excite the sympathy of the sightseer. : Clothes are a neglible quantity. so no | thought is given to them, further than | to tulfill the law; for there is a law on {the statute books reciting that wmed {must wear decent pantaloons—insten of the unbleached cotton makeshfts | they ordinarily wear in the city limits | ""The customs here, as in all parts c | the country, are very unique, and if one | questions them they are told with a | Shrug of the shoulders that it is “la | costumbre”—and that settles it & E nes in the narrow streets of Iike a miniature white squadron, or, to be more accurate, the Spanish armada under full sail. But at a nearer view it is seen to be only a procession of men | and bovs bringing home the week’s wash. At first it is embarrassing to see one's laundry ¥ floating to the breeze in the public streets, showing the beauty or defect of every garment but it's the custom. The flat pieces are | folded In the bottom of the basket, but {the dainty lingerfe is pinned around the outside edge and when inflated makes a most grotesque sight To Americans this city has a special significance, as the Mexican congress | sitting here in 1548, on the 30th of May of that year fied the peace treat between' the United States and Mexicc | which had been concluded at ( | joupe Hidalzo on the previous 2d of | February. President Polk. on the fol- {lowing July 4, finally prociaimed peace | and the Americans evacuated Mexico in himself: the shortest of any | OLD RITE O morning _and long-handled E WALKING AN RE WAL the miracle of | contipuniiy whipyed with thin boards the | glowing mass opportunity to tell the story of their| lives, Mr. Wingo has been content with | an | the foilowing: TWATARI,® is a_prolong: cted to the Sixty-third Congress.” | was imported China and Korea the ash always to the center, and ca handfuls of salt, which they take in pass- as the teachings are|ing from a interfused that the num- | ™ ently near. At each end of the pyre a canvas mat is ckly with salt, on which On account the caribou, is commonly in Immense Claus will ich are really which-a Japanese | the parents | br Shinto delty. compound of nature-worship, incantations so foreign 5 interyals to gesticu- twist their fingers afd spread their S raine the. evil weird scene, closest at- Nebraska tells a| | wiashing sound Wickersham tells a story jrits to depart one which claimed of the em- Alskan native f At a store at which this ‘particular I government Finally the chief priest entered, dressed sleeves and fastened at the waist with ked devoutly bowing his unclasped hands pyre to the god and prayed him to de- A prolonged pavse en- sued: then a priest struck a spark from was supposed the Chinese word Goddess of dedicated the | which depicted a large party scend on the bed. with it he received a glow#ng prospectus One day an old Indian came 8048 invitation w. their progress to- soon be paying dividends of 20 per cent| po- | and how early subscribers could become is observed twice an- was witnessed by visit to Japan at the Temple | of Ontak, Kudan Tncle Sam Uncle Sam the_writer The chief priest walked with calm dig- nity across the bed, followed by the oth- apparently oblivious of the tre- heat which seemed unbearable to the spectators thirty feet away. crowd pressed forward and participated. children being their parents and aged carried on the shoulders of It was certainly a mest impressive seemed possessed with a certain religious ferver that made them unconscious of burns. As they walked so aliy one would pick up his foot and hop then he would seem to remember it was an acknowledgment This was lighted |and he would plage his foot firmly @own an expression of pity in his deep The agent ture represented a state gf fact Uncle Sam the temple ised overlooking the court nd seats reserved for the embassies and visitors to witness this most ancient and interesting stockholders had been assessed to SInK 3| djan tramped out into the snow days. he was back again z bundle on the platform was t laid a small | and young, Sam got no shoe: “Me and wife sit up two r 10 make these—send them to Uncle The agent opened the package and there two beautiful moccasins of the soft est deerskin. fit_for an Indian b The agent once, but gave. them to a man who pri while to the he donated goods many times the value of the pyre was srescribed lines “‘Another assessment is required to i) sand from purchase . certain equipment. The mine . sticks of pine, ““The man seized his pen and sent his charconl about inches deep. Bot the mine beat,’ he tele- seven feet of impurity and cighteen feet 1ong. F SHINTO SECT. | and walk on.. If they are pure in spirit they are immune And can traverse the bed with perfect safety: and rite is the test of perfect purity. * * * | While the procession was in progress the traveling companion of the writer. |an American girl, slipped away un- noticed and appeared in the arena | Gathiering her clothes closely about her she walked on the'bed of coals fearlessiy | and _absolutely without burning. When the auclence realized it was a foreig making the ‘test-‘they gave her a mendous ovatfon. ~ On inquiry if she foumd t"hot, she replied that she did not linger long encugh 1o test the degree of heat. The Japanese theory is that the spirit of water descends from the moon and drives, the spirt of fire from the coals: and the lesson taught by the rite is that evil may be driven’ from the heart of man and omly good survive. The only explamation of their being able to walk Without burning to the normal mind is that the salt cools the surface of the bed. e the ceremony is over every priest prods it with long poles, stirring up the e foals froin the bottor and dismissin the spirits of fire if any lingered throug the ceremor The Too Calm Public. ENATOR LA FOLLETTE was talking about corruption. . “The public is to blame for this cor- ruption,” he said: “The public accepts the corruption in politics and finance oo calmly. The public, in fact, reminds me in this conneetion of the old lady. “An ‘old lady sat knitting in her arm- chair when a young girl burst in on her. ‘Oh, grandma,’ she said, ‘father has Just fallen off the-roof! I know, my" child, the old lady an- gwared. placidly, *L saw him pass the win-