Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-19
THE nExICAN APRIL roof.
How the Unvary are Made the Vic
tins Of Cruel Jokes-President-
Elect Cleveland KILLED"
C.ty o MoTioo Two RepublicH.

CITY o. Mexico Two Republics.
Sunday, the llih inst, was the Mex
lean April Ool's day, a day msrked
ia Catholic calenda ~ that OF the
holy Innocence.
Ii is season given over TO practical
Jokes between friends at each others
expense. III lover Wits his juliet
and she wants 20 play the piano he
hands her a piece Of blabk paper to
play from. The wooden boxes made
TO represent books are presented 70
students Fruit, luscious in appear
anee, turns out 10 be wsx or clay. Nuts
are passed sround, which. on being
carefully baBdled, spring open aud
present not the delicious meat, but
SWINE toy. The children are told the
most improbable stories and their little
minds have 70 grasp great things. The
custom Of borrowing Is the mnst deep
rooted Money, jea els, books, and
articles OF use and utility are borrowed
10 every direction. When these ar
ticles are finall returned they are &C
compaaied by visible denominations
Of the loaner's childlike gullibility snd
innocence II the lOsner is lady she
receives her things again accompanied
with 4 doll and some candy as
II she were girl. II the
loaner IL man he Is re.
minded Of his boyhoOd with q drum
or hall or tin trumpet. Sometimes
the Joke Is carried so far that the Dor
rover remains in possession Of the
property he acquired through the dis
| traction or thOughilessuess OF its
owner, who forgot that II was limo
eeuts' day. Ameng the poorer classes
| Il IL customary to give, rs gifts, articles
| for the kiichr u, and common candy
| Thus IL the day celebrated that msrK-
ed the bloOdiest chapter in the reign Of
/ King Hefod, when the streets Of the
Judeau village ran with the blood II
the innocents among whom HerOd
] hOyed 10 include the baby Christ.
] Rut Que Of the amusing incidents OF
! Su lday was the notice that Gov.
| Cleveland, the newly elected president
~ the United States, had been killed.
No one dared to deny it till the day
passed, and many were seriously
alarmed about IL.
La PatriA MADE several newspaper
men remember Innocents' day. IL
published an interview said u have
been had with John MOTehouse, an al
legged American architect at the GillOw
hotel, about the New A merican hotel,
be on exhibition ON Sunday at the
Mexican Central telegraph office. Mr.
Brown states that some forty people
called tosee the plane, among them the
newspaper men. The de, cription Of the
new hotel, as given by Mr.. More
house, was seductive enough to make
any reporter yearn TO see the plans
hence the Patria's bait was well bitten
After stating that the Mexican Bote
Construction company was organized
IN New York v it'll q capital of $40 90,
0OO, with Vanderbilt, Gould, MRckey
Huntington and Samuel j. Tilden 81
directors, and that the hotel 10 be buili
here WAS 10 be called the "Great HI
dalgo hoteI,n snd t. Guido the Fifth
Avenue and the Windsor in New
York, the Palmer IN Chicago and tn,
Palace IN San Francisco, ali OF which
Mr. Morehouse, raid be built, he state'
that the "Great Hldalgo" would hav
800 feet Of frontage and $50 feet a
depths, with nine open courts, tn
MIDDLE one to be occupied by statu
Of HidalgO TO cost SIS 900. The from
Of the hotel WAS to be OF Puebla mar
BILE The hotel was 20 have eigh
stories. and six gTta1 elevators were
be used A concert pavilion was to b
erected In one of the courts for siXt
musicians, who would play ever
night. There would be 1900 rooms, I
hold 10, 400 people The rooms were
be furnished eSquisitely, the contTaC
for their furnishing alone reachin
50 225. 900. A theateT, large ibTar
and two chapels-Catholic and Protes
aut-were 20 be run In connection wit
the hotel, while on the ground tio6
were to be large stores. The entii
building was TO be lighted with ele
tricity.