The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-10-16
PRES. DIAz IN
CIUDAD JUAREz
CITY Is MEXICAN CAPITAL FOR
THE SECOND TIME.

Mas Refuge for Patriot Juarez III
1SG6-Diaz Visits Old Adobe
Capitol-CathedraI Was Erected
in 1910.
By Associated Press.
JUarez, Mex, Oct. 16-For the
second time Ciudad Juarez has been
the temporary capital of the Republic
of Mexico, but under widely differ
eut circumstances. In 1856 when
Benito Juarez, constitutional presi-
dent of Mexico, was driven in de-
feat before the troops of Maximil-
ian, self-appointed emperor of the
Mexican people, he took refuge and
established his capital in the little
city that lies across the international
boundary stream from Ell Paso. For
almost a year, surrounded by a small
band Of half starved. poorly clad and
almost defenseless patriot soldiers,
the president of the Mexican repub-
lie waited and hoped and watched
far the aid that he expected from
the United States; there, after
weary waiting, he finally rallied his
forces and set out on the return
march to the City of Mexico that
finally resulted in a brilliant VIC
tory at Queretaro over the emperor
and his foreign troops; the execution
Of the emperor and the re-establish-
ment of the Mexican Republic
4 There was no preparation for the
coming of the first president who
made Ciudad Juarez the temporary
capital of Mexico; unheraIded and
heartsore from his long journey and
frequent defeats, Benito Juarez rode
into the little adobe village that
vas tEeu known as PasO del Norte,
on a mule. Through its narrow.
dusty stree, between low mud
houses, the patriot president rode
IN silence. Few, if any. recognized
him when he rode into the little
city and settled down on Plaza
Guadalupe HidaIgo in the shadow of
me ancient Church of the Guadalupe,
IN a long adobe house. to establish
the capital of what was left of the
Mexican Republic
Preparations for Today.
It is different today For months
the preparations have been In pro-
gress for the coming of President
0]az Troops have been arriving
daily for weeks to police the city
and serve as a proper military es-
cort for the president and his dis
tihguished guest. the president of
the United States Emissaries have
been arriving from Mexico City to
complete every detail for the COM
fort of the president. Architects.
decOptors, florists, cooks of repu-
tatan. and secret service men have
thronged the little city for days and
weeks; $4,000 alone has been spent
rebuilding the Juarez custom house
as a reception room and banquet
hail for the meeting of the two pres
idents; q large SUM was spent in
the erection of the Grecian columns
Down the side of the streets that the
two presidents were to traverse;
streets were paved, sidewalks were
laid, and finally seven florists from
Mexico City. using up a carload of
flowers. put on the last decorations
few minutes before the presiden-
tial special train rolled into the sta
ton and the president arrived
Cathedral of Guadalupe.
President Diaz on his present Wis
it, while he is not making his cap
itol in the same building occupied
by General Juarez, was a visitor to
the Old adobe structure on CONNER
eio street today and in fact. in com
pany with President Taft, he ad-
dressed the people of the border in
front of the one time capitol The
building has been remodeled ana
has a new front of brick Inside.
the mails to and from the United
States are distributed and worked,
for it is the postoffice of Ciudad
Juarez. In front is the same old
cathedral OF Guadalupe that stood
there when Benito Juarez rose each
s1OyninE and went to mass: the same
Old cathedral that was erected in
1910 by the friars in their march
aorthward on their mission for the
cross; as substantial and imposing
today as when erected by those mas
ter builders over three and one half
centuries ago. This building was