El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-16
PRIEST. DIAZ
WILL ACCEPT
Invitation Committee Salts
fled That he Will Visit
Chicago.
THE INVITATION PART
Depot by Citizens. or Otherwise Shown
Courtesies.

Courtesies.
The committee on its way from Chi
cago to invite President Diaz to attend
the laying of the cornerstone of the
new Chicago federal building arrived
here this morning after enjoying q very
pleasant journey.
The gentlemen comprising the .nvi-
tatiOn committee are:
Chss. U. Gordon; Chairman; Walter,
Q. Hately, VIM. d. Washburn, Josiah
Stiles, Edwin F. Getchell, John Ward
Amberg, VIM B. Roberts.
The committee was accompanied by
Mrs. G. U. Gordon, Miss Pate, Miss
Stiles, DIR. Brown F. Swift and Gordon
Hately.
The entire party was entertained by
the Commercial club of Albuquerque
and expressed great pleasure at their
treatment all along the line.
Mr.. Gordon, the chairman says that
he has no doubt but that President
Diaz will accept the invitation, as he
has virtually expressed himself to that
effect. The invitation is made from
wood taken from the door of the old
Chicago postoffice and is'enclosed in an
elaborate mahogany box lined with
silk and is signed by J. r. Tanner,
governor of Illinois; Carter Harrison.
mayor of Chicago; Charles U. Gordon,
chairman of the general COMMITTEES: w.
P. Williams, secretary of the general
chairman of the invitation mmittee;
Thomas G. Mcmillan, secretary of the
same.
The committee will also present
President Diaz with an elegantly
leather bound book containing 260 let
tiers from 81 governors and 20 mayors
of the different cities on his route.
Mr.. Gordon says that Diaz will receive
the greatest reception ever given to
any foreign representative visiting the
United States. Immediately after en-
tering this country all the cities along
the route of travel will givs him grand
ovations. In fact, to quote Mr.. Cor
don's own words, President Diaz will
receive fully as great q reception In
this country as our hero Dewey will.
ALI the leading journalists are unit
ed in their efforts to secure his accep-
tsnce and the Invitation is signed by
500 of the leading citizen.
Strange to say when the train arrived
on the Santa Fe this morning with the
distinguished. party, there was not on
representative citizen of Ell Paso at the
depot to welcome the visitors. They
simply got off the train and after Sc
curing what information they needed
In regard to our city from HERALD
reporter thanked him and strollsd
off by themselves to see the beauties
of the little CITY on the Rio Grande.
The need for q Commercial club,
was made apparent by this
incident and if the citi-
zens OF Ell Paso do not soon wake up
and prepare themselves for Just such
emergencies Ell Paso will soon secure a
pane for lacking hospitality that will
not be by any means fattering.
DIAZ COMING.
A dispatch to the Dallas News from
Chicago says:
President Diaz of Mexico will be a
guest OF Chicago during the fall festi-
val and exercises attending the laying
of the corner stone of the new federal
building On Oct. 9.
This Information was conveyed to
Richard S. Lyon, president of the
board of trade, in a letter received
from the president of Mexico to-
day.
He wrote that if his health permitted
he would certainly accept the invita-
ton, which he understood would be
rendered him, and which the commit
tee, which left Chicago Saturday night,
is carrying to him.