The Sentinel=record., 1909-10-17
TAFT AND
 DlAz MEET CONGRATULATE EACH OTHER ON THEIR RESPECTIVE MERITS
 AND ACTS.
Each President Was Guest of Honor to the otner--Meeting Took Place Amid Sautes
 and Cheering.

El Paso, Texas, Oct. i6.--The lops expected meeting between President Taft and President Diaz, of the Re- public og Mexico took place here to- day
 outwardly 1t was attended with display of soldiery, a flare of trumnats a boom Of cannon and pomp of eere- lliony' suggestive of supreme aa,thor,. | 'y' put m the actual handclasn of .ha two executives and In the exch.o.a Vi courteous words which passed e,am,, lip to lip there was simple bnt co,. dial informality.
 rresldent Diaz was the first to sp7aA' lie assured President Taft of a'is warm personal regard and h,s ihsh esteem of the man who had ao. eohnpanied so much in the philip,rnas III .upa and elsewhere and who ba-, now the honor to be the chief ,. u''se or so great nation as tba United States. o
 President Taft, in simple Amar,oa. lashion, declared he was elad tn ,,,aat rfesident Diaz. He was glaa to n,,,v, me president of such great nation especially glad to know the nresans lresldent who had made the nat,r great ' sN
 Both presidents Iwelt mon tba. uiallty Of the relations existing ha. tween the United States and Mexico i'fesadent Taft declared tha. todav.. meeting was not necessary to n,a1,.. stronger the bonds of friendship # merely typified the strength of tba ~cnds as they already existed.
 There were less than score os persons permitted to witness the maat Ing of the two executives Even tb-sa were excluded later when President iaft and President Diaz withdraw into an inner room of the Chamoer of Commerce building. where the his. 'olac meeting took place, and wera only attended by Governor creel os
 ne state of Chihuahua, former ann hassador to the United States. who acted as interpreter.
 The acene of the days ceremon,.a shifted from time to time from tb,s thriving little American city aeresx the shallow. wandering Rio Grande Riyer to the typical libtle Mexican set. tlement of Ciudai Juarez.
 In the customs house there prest. cent Diaz received return call from President Taft and late this evening asain entertained the American priesi- dent, and the large dinner party at q. state banquet which. in all it's lavish decorations of brilliancy in color or wealth of silver plate handed down from the time of Emperor Maximilian. and in every carefully considered de- titl, probably was the most notalyge least ever served on the American continent.
 It was al this banquet tonight that the more fcrmal and public express Ions of regard between the two exec utlves as the representatives If the Feople of the United States and of Mexico, were exchanged The ban. quef also marked the end of the day of international pageantry--a day Of cloudless skies.
 The day was marred by but one un- toward incident A Lad of 15 years was tabbed to ceath by school conn panion just as President Taft was stepping from his special train upon it's arrival in the center of the city lat 9.30 o'clock this morning.
 The boys were in the crush of peo- Ile gathered in the Plaza and in push ing forward to catch a glimpse of the president, became involved in a fight. Non Morgan, II years olc, pulled a knife and before bystanders could re-
 lize what was happening. Lawrence Wimiber, 15, was lging mortally wounded at their feet. a rel flow from his heart marking the ebb tide of hiss |l.fe.