The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-02
FUENTES, FOREAD0R
HERE WITH PICADORES AND BAN
DERILLAS IN HIS SUITE.
Cleaned Up SIGs! 900 in the Mexican Bull
Ring Largely with the Help of Enthusl-
sstic Amerlcanos Back TO the Chicken
Farm in seville Now Sightseein e.

Nleaneu Up HIOS UNIV III uc "oA''ah WI
Ring Largely With the Help of Enthusl-
astic AmerlcanoS Back to the Chicken
Farm in, seyIneZN Now Sishtsee'n E.
Hos not a darK daredsEn.
1hiS matadot Of SeNlIc,
\ Mes plain Tony f%uentcs.
| Hes somewhat past bis tventss ,,,n,v
ayear. -
N,rodest farmer person.
Addicted not 10 .cursln'
1HI ne pa 9rH no E II; r % as H R.GTis:s' ID 'Ae nns'
nj pG dSj yoa c sSi bet 1Stt ptse,as hes Tho Thing,
When he's not missing chickens,
With all The women on the bull ring sdes.
Because OF his demeanor-
When calmly he the Wild bulls heart dlvldea
-Hotel America chorus.
1t wal well enough for Bombita and
! Chichiela TO boast before Senior Antonio
Fuentes came. They were alone, but
Fuentes, with merely a turquoise adorning
his black tie and one lonesome little dia-
mond on his hand, comes with two plea
dores and three banderillss. He, too, is
of one of the best families OF Seville, but
as for di~amonds-they are not the badge
OF gentility or genius. Sometimes they are
not aver diamonds.
The manager of the Hotel America, where
Sehor Fuentes is stopping, acted as inter-
prefer for him last evening. He admitted
| frankly thai it was abou all a good Spaniard
could do TO learn his own language and the
art of bull fighting at the same time. He
regretted that he knew nothing OF the
American tongue, because the Americanos
had been very kind to him-even generous.
1t was strange, but nearly 90 per cent. OF
the patrons of the Mexican bull rings we're
Americans.
All, they had the true spirit OF the pio-
neers who killed of the Indians, What
would the Mexican bull ring be without the
valorous Americanos2 They had contrib
uted most of the $2S, 600 that Senior Fuentes
had received at his benefit before he left
Mexico, and also most Of the $4,000 that
he had acquired in his season OF six weeks
there.
Bombita and Chichiela were good mata-
doris, but they were young as yet. lie,
Fuentes, was a veteran OF 80 and his boy
was nearly old enough to go into the ring.
He had slain mar bulls. It was truly
u real sport, and the Americanos, If no
one else, appreciated 1t. Else, why should
they gather around the ring and cheer
and throw their watches and other jewelry
TO the matador?
The Senior said he had eight gold watches
that had been hurled at his feet by the
impetuous Americanos. Originally Ire had
wone who had thrown them and forced
them TO take them back. He could not
find eight persons, and, therefore,, he was
obliged to keep the watches.
He had advertised for the owners in the
Mexican papers, but had received no re-
sponses He was not a commercial person,
Or he would have sold them. No, as a
maj of honor. approaching the intent OF
those who admired his art, he must keep
the watches as memorials. He would
turn them over to the Sonora, who, with her
mother and father and his W folks, were
helping to keep his big poultry farm out
side of Sevflla.
One gift he priced OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES tur-
qlolse stlckpin, given to him 10y a director
Of the Equitable Life Assn rance Society
who was soiourninR in Mexico. He could
not recall the name Of the gentleman, and
maybe the gentleman would not care
TO have it made public. anyhow. He was
an enthusiast, and at one fighC requested in
Spanish that the Senior should kill the bull
III the name Of the distin guished Americana.
The Senior threw his cape up from the arena
to the Americana. This indicated that the
Senior would despatch the bull for the
Americana.
He did, and when he looked around for
his cape after the fight he learped that this
Americana, who did not understand the
etiquette OF the ring, had supposed that
the garment was q Rlit from tie lnatldOr.
The Americana had gone around the city
with a lady displaying the cape in his auto
mobile Later he presented to the senior
the turquoise pin.
The Senior rode in the subway yester-
day and pronounced it better than either
that of Paris or London. He also hired a
Seeing New York automobile for himself,
his troupe and his friends OF the Hotel
America and looked at the tall buildings
and the homes of the wealthy and dis
tinguished. He says he is going to make
his farm one Of the finest AID most .Ameri-
can-like in the Seville district.
He has bought half L dozen American
windmills and to-day will visit a poultry
dealer in Peck Slip and have him ship sew
real hundred of tie finest American chickens
h the farm forfcrossinR with the Spanish
breed, and also For breeding 10y themselves,
He is fond of chickens and has no more
objection to a cock fight than he has to a
bull fight.
He will spend most of to-day looking
over and selecting things for the farm, and
tomorrow morning he will sail for Gibraltar
aboard the North German Lloyd steam
ship Barbarossa. Among his fellow pas
sengers will be the American athletes who
are going to take part in the Greek games.
Senior Fuentes will go from Gibraltar TO
Algeciras and take a train thence to Sc
Vile. He will open the bull fighting there
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