The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22

board tho palatial train of Presi-
dent Diaz and will go to Mexico with
him.
In Juarez President Taft, his cabi-
net officers and the others of mis- party
as we'll as the city officials of Ell Paso
will be guests at a banquet rendered
by President Diaz.
The federal government of Mexico
is expanding $4,000 in the erection OF
banquet hall, 7lx72 feet, in the patio
of the federal building. The decora-
tions of the reception and banquet
halls are magnificent.
From the Juarez banquet ball. Presi-
dent Taft will be escorted to the
Chamber of Commerce building in FL
Paso, where me will be rendered Il re-
ception by the Ohio society.
The Usual Automobile Ride.
From the Chamber of Commerce he
will be given five-milc ride in an au-
tomobile over paved and macadam
streets and roads to the FL Paso
Country club.
In the golf courses the president
will find something unusual at El Pa
so. Instead of plodding over a green
course the president will 'hike" over
gravel dotted with greasewood.
After returning to the club for re-
fresnments, he will be rendered a re-
ception by the Yale alumni from all
over the southwest. The President
probably will find time for an inspec-
ton of the military post and then will
be escorted back to the city.
While President Taft is being en-
tertained on the American side in the
afternoon the citizens of Juarez will
be entertaining their President. Presi-
dent Taft will leave FL Paso about
eight o'clock this evening, and the
President Daz will start soon after
that hour on his homeward trip to
Mexico City.
Every precaution was taken to pro-
tcct the two presidents. Secret SER
vice men, city detectives, soldiers and
police co-operated and it is confidently
expected that the day will pass with
out any untoward incidents marring
the great occasion.
Police Are Big Men Physically.
All of the four men assigned from
the FL Paso police department as the
presidents personal body guard while
in the city are more than six feet in
height, their total height being TWEEN
ty-five feet three and one-half inches.
They are native Texans, but long ago
they discarded the broad brim hat
commonly worn by peace officers as
we'll as others in the early days and
today are attired in metropolitan uni
| forms.
"The Big Four as they are called,
are G, F. Fletcher, six feet three inch
| es; C. H. Haynes, six feet three and a
half inches; c. r. Tillman, six feet
four inches, and r. Z. Parsons, six
feet five inches Their bulk is in pro-
portion to their height.
The four are quiet, unassuming men,
ALWAYS to be relied upon when needed.
l. Il. B. Parsons, the tallest, has had ex.
perience in guarding presidents, as ne
was with President Roosevelt when he
visited Sherman, Texas, in 1905.
Washington Is Interested.
Washington, Oct. Washington
ians are greatly interested in today's
meeting between Taft and Diaz, partly
| for the reason that it is the first time
such meeting has ever reached a
serious stage, although repeatedly
! proposed during recent years. Presi-
dent Roosevelt would have arranged
such meeting during his last trip
to Texas, bad it not been for fthe
! fact that President Diaz who is now
seventy nine years old, was too i'll to
: aiadetfake@ journey to-3the front Ter. {.
Theoretically ~ president ef the