The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 02, 1920, Image 7
ESflCANS THtE
OF^ FIGHTING
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in Mexico.
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LkGE TOWARD AMERICANS
B ft Flrtt American to
?^J(<g#volutlon ? Slashed Repub
I He After Fall of Carranxn?
I People Want Peace.
I MAKO' ? M Sutherland
Lpi to the Chlcagu Tribune from
EJJarey, Me* , what he calls a dls
Eoted tale of, a Journalistic pilgrim In
Ct a data in Mexico. It treats of
RTentry of the first American Into
Ej resolution-slashed republic since
K! roada were cut.
? With pa saport In hand, 1 approached
Ltllooalian, the guardian. for Uncle
Eitthe Laredo international bridge
Cut la, the R16 Orande ? there's no
Ejjge, Somebody burned the six-apan
E*i structure ten days ago. They
Ere built a pontoon nearly across the
E^ard-wlde stream. Just now you're
?JJoied across in skiffs.
| Mooahan looked at my passport and
L, and told me to forget the Mexican
Etui's viae, as there are as many
?ciciuls in Laredo as there *re factions
hVexlco, and to proceed and to pray
Kod to give mercy to my Immortal
Col.
I I stepped from civilisation to Ave
(centuries ago, to old shacks, narrow,
pithy, streets, to crawling, fly-dotted
Ktfltra, to rqen In tatters, women in
Etf* and children In lees than fig
Karri There Is one tram of one*
?mule power, dozens of 111 smelling,
hake-shift dirty saloons, and hanging
like n pall over all the people and
mslnessea, the "wish-to-flod this thing
boold stop and we could get back to
lirork" feeling. Every human express
?a more confidence in this regime than
In any srlnce old Porflrlo Dlaac departed.
Jind there is n new spirit toward
?Americans. Somebody ? and sone ven*
|ture? to credit General Obregon with,
[tbe Idea? passed the order everywhere
ftto defer to things American and/ cut
put the nonsense. Obregou visited
Ksereral American camps during the
?War and the Great Lakes to see the
?United States when we meant business
land had stifled the pacifists. Every
[body on both sides of the river told
[menoonp could go South. So I jump
led Into a coach and was driven to the
Barracks where Col. J. F. Borqnes
?commands the border, between- Eagle
?Pats and Brownsville and south to
uonlere.v. T told him who I was
land wlmt I wanted. After officially
?Informing me of Monterey's fall, he
?promised to comply with nil my fe
pietti. ?
Obtains Safe Conduct.
Telling lue to return at 10 a. m. Fri
Ljr, lie dictated a safe conduct pass.
Is the most complete document I
saw and has worked wonders
only hope I don't present it to the
rsiiig faction and get shot during
confusion. " . ,
Borquez. voicing what nil the other
Brebel generals have, told tne since, said
|a?lemi)l; and earnestly :
"We're tired of fighting. Ten y<?ars
E strife have sapped us uuttl the last
exicaft virtues ? patience and for
tranoe? have been exhausted. Car
nta would have had us In trouble
?ltb America, and we can't stand for
Jtiit. We want peace and a chance
0 work. That Is all. To get It we
iU8t be at peace at home and abroad.
JjThe rebel chieftains all rally to us be
use Carranza meant trouble, and our
bbn means the simplest program of all
f-peace and work.
What Carranza Stood For.
"Carranna represented pro-this and
pr*that, political autocracy, pergonal
frigidity, private revenge and pure
?graft. You will notice the revolution
most of the republic without ^
l^mdrcd shots being fired. That show#
?t once that. Carranca wai not w&at
I they wanted and what our plan Is.
I Please be good enough to send only
*>e message to your people ? -have a
Uttla patience and we will make the
1 was at the station at ten Friday. |
Ttore was a water tank car, a flat ?fr
?ad a cshoose made of a converted
tox car. llorquerB and the director
Weral of railways in the North? J. D.
tongues? were deaf to all aufrgea
'?M to buy a ticket.
i Bit dirt we start at ton? We did
We left at three in the afternoon,
had just one engine at Nenvo
*4redo, the most important northern
of Mexico, and that one engine
tot work. They filled It With
and oil and surrounded it with
profanity and finally with twenty san
Wed native workers secured by a
r*|and an Improvised draft act v4
"?Ped awny. ] use the word lirtlp?l .
M'lsedly. There Is not a wheel In j
J*11*? Mexico that has not bean dl?
*l>idate<l by Old Father Time and Kid
Solution.
ftvrntf BridQe Map# Him.
After ten miles of horrible jolting
fearful I. ^nt we atopped, Abridge
burned. Incidentally the Oh
r*oni*ta? who burned ten between
Rl"i Monterey were trying ta
nrtl ^RrrR"zlsta reinforcements to
J**?* lis and did not want to de
?"?7 mori. than necessary. Thla waa
hv the fn'ct that they wreck
culverts and not large
7*1* ' volntionlsts think they
!? in Belgian) Wa alight
'futeM ?.f taring la and rewor
lnj; the ? harn t) tle& unci twUu>| rails
;md building u new culv< rt 'he
OUtfll K;?| ?|(?WU JO t Jltllk . They l4|,L?,t
?n(i T|,e> ,av rtr? uh 0 ( )
hip and suw>kixl com 9)iu?*k CigurettCM,
"K'u and luy -on tlif orhiT
ht|K thinking rapidly nil [[w wWUs |
took u picture tuou, mentioning thai I
thought they might lU> something.
'V f,,ouK'?t that .? snappy Idea and
immediately flxed the bridge and went
on| only loHiug ho hour.
Another Bridge Burned.
. KlfU'en miles further we atoimed
OKttlu. This time It wan a burned
bridge, and ? temporary track way la d
beside It over the shallow creek hcd.
?f thw ul*ht ,H,fo,v !
softened the creek bottom, so thai the
track sagged like Palmers May da\
K?d aprltriog. The )W?- K01
PIVEK, and shovels <?nd ran some hh !
timbers lengthwiae under the ties, I I
took ft plc'ture, mucked a cigarette, and
thought: "What a long way to Ueglcc
t'ity and real news." They gave |h<
slfual l to start- the Mexicans
k?? 'a*01"110 president, favorlt?
ull fighter, patron saints, and favorlt*
brand of beer. I ?(<M?,| a hundred feci
to one side, watching the train through
the camera and waiting for it to turn
over it did not, and my watchful
walling produced nothing.
Finally we advanced. That Is,' we
advanced 13 miles to a place where
they had removed, rails and by burn
lug had twisted them. We laid new
ones on pew ties and proceeded. When
we reached Rodriguez 36 miles from
Laredo, It was seven o'clock. There
w? found an engine which had been
derailed apd overturned the day be
fore. It had righted Itself, and It
hooked onto our train and took it back
north, ?vr engine tnd tank car con
tinuing south.
I climbed on the narrow platform In
the rear of the tank car and we went I
on.
We reached Lampaaos at nine. l|
was immediately surrounded by arm
ed rebels in a bewildering variety of
ralme.pt and escorted before (Jen. Juan
M. Garcia, governor-elect of Neuvo
Leon and commandant ofhtlie army of
the N'orth.
?>Vl letter frfcm Borquex produced tho
itropcr effect and I was told I might
go south on the military train at
dawn. >
There were no hotels nor restau
rants, and I was famished. The tow^
Is flve> miles from the station; 1 saw
a lighted doorway several hundred
yards away. I went over, found some |
women, and asked for food and shel
ter.
"It's American ? and Young."
The women held a lantern up to my
face and, exclaiming In Spanish, "It's
an American, and young," they said
they woi^ld do their best. ?
By' the light of a smoky lantern they
prepared and gave me the starboard]
thigh of a young goat boiled In grease,1 d
onion*. and cldll hotter than the hinges
of the Inferno. I gobbled it down with
the appetite of a starved coyote and
ate several flftt cakes of corn pone
and drank a glass of goat's milk.
Meanwhile a wrinkled, withered old
relic of nine matrimonial engagement*
? amf willing to go further ? had pre
pared the war correspondent's conch.
This consisted of one blanket spread
on ? narrow rfdewalk outside the
house. I looked It over and scratched
my head, in which the "young visitors"
already had found breeding place. I
His Bad Chamber Furnished.
I asked for a pillow ana they gave
me a small sack of corn in a pillow
slip.
' I asked for a sheet and they gave
me a tablecloth. I gave up ? took off
the Bill Hart puttees and shoes and
lay down. * * ? ? * V '
Just as I was about to doze off I
was startled by a wild fusillade at
the station. The women screamed, and
moaned. I rolled into a near-by gut
ter. It turned out to be Only rebels
at their third bottle of mezcal. I dozed
off, only to be reawakened by a "cabal
llto de gas" ? a little horse of gasoline
?as the Mexicans call a railroad ve
locipede.
"JCt consul Americano!" screamert
several rebels.
T dressed and rushed over to meet
Randolph Robertson, the liveliest wire
in the American cons^ar service in
Mexico. He baa taken dozens of Amer
icans and Britlah Out since the last
trouble began. He has smoothed over
a doxen "causes of war" in the last
two yeara. His station .at Neuvo
Laredo has more f Heads than any in
Martcp. ^ \ ;
Ha waa bringing in two Americana.
They ate fried goat and went on north,
and I returned to bed and to sleep at
twelve, with the stars close down' over1
my bed.
?raakfaat la Served.
One of the native woipen wakened
me at five wRh a cupful of coffee
placed on the sldewatk by my pillow.
T turned to get a cigarette and turned
back to find the family parrot parched
on the rim of the oup drinking my cof
fee and swearing at my fluently in
Lampasos Spanish.
. At noon the military train with Gen
eral Garcia started for Monterey. He
kindly consented .to let roe ride. I
crawled In the cabooafe an ? went 'to
Vlllaldama, where the drat passenger
from the North In t?m daya overtook
ua and we awlt?hed, arriving here at
ftve with Robertson, Who is on /bis
flfUi trip guarding American lnteresta
And who !a taking this message North.
On both sides of the road fof a hun
dred miles to here are evidences of
ten years' revolutions' destructions.
Houses have been burned, fields are fn
weeds, there are no cattle, no land ta
cultivated, people are apathetic, dumb
daxed, and hopeless.
B?t all bare hope In tbla new crowd,
aajk^L "it they cannot straighten II
mtt who la leftT" The answer la, ??
body of Mexican blood.
THE
GO-BETWEEN
Bjr ALVAH J, GARTH
, (Copyright. |?3*. W?at?rn N?wap?p?r Union- 1
j "You art* surely uiy friend, Tresh
j am."> projected Yffllie Burton.
"No! mo much as 1 was." seriously
j replied liugh Tresham. ' "I don't like
: tlur bright. tlippant way in which yotl'
j treat what you call your 'tiff with a
I youitK lady for whom 1 liave the high
est admiration ami respect."
"Surely you areu't hit yourself lu
that direction!" raited Burton deri
sively.
"We won't discuss that," replied
Tresham with dignity. "You aud t
have kuowu out* another for a good
many yearn aud I am * passably loyal
fellow, hut the autocratic and indiffer
ent way iu which you treat the wound
ing of a trustful. sensitive heart hurta
tue."
"Oh ! fix It up for me. ambassador
royal!" spoke Burton airily. "Of
course. I broke til engagement to take
Vera to an entertainment and did
some flirting with others under the
provoking hufliuess of the little scold
er, but that Is uo reason why she won't
make a move towards a reconciliation.
Honest, I'm sorry, and I think a lot
of her. Tell her so, smooth it over.
She's got a cool $50,000 In her own
right, Is pretty as a picture and I'll
marry her tomorrow If she's agree*
ble."
Hugh Tresham was something more
than annoyed. He did not at all like
the mission upon which he was being
sent.
? "You are straining my sense of pro.
priety and Justice, Burton," he ob
served. "You a np asking an extraor
dinary duty of me, but I will hope
that If I break the Ice and open the
way for you to effect ft reconciliation,
you will prize the treasure among
womankind as she deserves to be."
"Yes. I'll turn over a new leaf,' de
clared Burton. "Of course, I'm not
going to report JUL Uciv lu tears or any
of that rot, but If Vera will let by
gones be bygones with nothing more
said. I .am* wllllpg to be reasonably
meek and humble. '
There was the trace of sneering ao
dacltv and egotism In tones of the un
worthy lover and Tresham went his
way with compressed Hps and ?
pained and thoughtful- face. Burton,
the son of one of the most Influential
residents of Bnyville, had been known
to Tresham, just establishing a op
erate law practice, for a long rime.
The latter owed many favors to I. ni
ton and until the past year bad bold
him I" regard, lie had been
pained and disappointed at a giv'it
change in bin), however, but was ?<>o
lovAl to tell other* HO.
It was a hard task he had assumed.
There was a basis to the Insinuation
on the part of Burton that Tresham
thought more than ordinary of the
belle of Rayvllle society. ? V torn the
first time that Tresham met \ era
Drlscoll he had realized that be had
come across the only woman he could
ever love. ,
: Tresham reached the Driscoll home
to find Vera seated In a garden ham
mock. She greeted him graciously, but
her brow furrowed,' those chaimlng
lips lost their smile aAd there was i J0 j
encouragement in h?r eyes as _ ?
am clearly and at once dlvidged the
motive of his call. He ^ ha
promised Burton to say. The da
expressive eyes flashed with something
like scorn. , V- , ..
"Do vou not think that the P?u^e?* |
tlal appeal of Mr. Burton should have
'come C> his own lip. dlrbetr .he
"Sr\aTe fulfilled a mission to ?
friend," responds Tresham simply.
??May I hoar ? B
"I will think over what Mr. Burton
has said," was^Vera's reply.
Then the fair face cleared and sb*
became the entertaining hostess com
pete with a man she respected alld
esteemed. Tresham sighed
he left her presence. Its chara en
hanced In his estimation the gulf of ,
wealth between them, while emphasis
Ing his convictions of the
ness of Willis Burton more decisively
rrrwont by. B"rton.f"r?f1JS2
then sulked when he found that Ml*
Drl.coll was ?ot at all "fV.40
him back lato her good *??<*?
T,ter'cT.,,ot,Verr,wW^,"at^
la^eUDmanoracWrioit h*d?
fined, and It wa. said hat all of
Vet*" fortune had been lost In the
,hen
Reived a note from Vera, ainati|
to call. He did oot rtply awl ?he
TO#?? dad for reasons of her own.
?e mid that a penniless brlde wa. not
the fancy of this very world^r and
^?awSSSs,
?srs^s.ystt5S!
ness and exerted her helpful Influence
Sr:s-;r2
S&J s ?"~SF
dl^ Ion for very qolckly and eer.
Vera Indicated that she needed
!?' ? 'pTe.'^"
to bless the money
dtaanter that had led to lore a?d If
choicest blessings.
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