The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-21
LOCAL HISTORY
SEPTEMBER 2t 1910
Birthday Of the Mexican conaueror.

On September 81: 1885, HeEnando lr,a1a EHre Tbe
! character OF This explorer, whose haNeh
lures in Mexico are still related as a
vital part OF It's history. was rather com
plcX he seems to have been NOT otiis
gra5ping and avaricious, but also sInsur
high class families, whose fortunes OWL M
died. fernando was destined lor my
study OF law. but disliked the profession
and turned adventnrer: A.. o-e,t world
took him to Santo Domingo. wheh ne
was 10 years OF age. and mere ne
Quez was sent to conquer Cube, Coriea
went with him and did such good service
that he was rewarded With larSe estate
and was made the acaide oi Sahi,a55od ,,n ha ! dis
covered Mexico. but had made no az.
tempt to occupy it. This Gnrage1 dnr
governor Of Cuba and he placed i,+,, h'46 161
men and a supply Of cannon ana noIseJ5
for the conquest OF the newly discovered
territory. .,
IL was on the site of Vera CRUZ that
Cortez landed and that city was found-
ed by him. He found that he had pene
trated into an empire where veal Wehi'n arasn a,,n
mined TO win all this for, Spain; :. ~.
Marching to the CAPITA VIII which LIS is Iee IN.
But suddenly the head OF one OF his
soldiers he had left at Vera Cruz was
brought to the capital. with the news
OF a successful attack upon that place
The people had found that these were not
gods but men
In his own palace, burned alive before
the palace gates those men who had at
tucked Vera Cruz and only spared Mon-
tezumi when he swore to be only as sup 70
OF Spain, and after paying Corte5 an
enormous sum In gold and precious
stones.
Time as II passes has shown that. WITH
all his cruelty and oppression, Cortez
was mild In his methods when they are
compared with what the Aztec tribes IN
flicted on each other.
There Is one standing monument 10
Cortez In the City OF Mexico and that Is
the Hospital of Jesus. which he founded
In 1927. 1t stands on the street that was
the road over which he marched when he
first entered the capital of Montezuma
He endowed the hospital with haci-
of Cortcz still have voice in its con-
troll.
II is we'll to remember that the first
schools. colleges museums and hospitals
or the American continent were founded
by the Spaniards. The first printing
office on this continent was in Mexico.
In 1886. The first university was found
ed by the Spanish crown in 1901. in the
City of Mexico and is now the national
conservatory OF music
On the site OF the first school on this |
the Indians, stands today the National
Academy Of Arts, The national pre- |
paratory school with perhaps 1000 pupils,
was the college of San Eldef9nse. erected
library occupies the splendid old church |
and convent of st. Augustiu. There are |
more than 100000 books In this instltu-
In 1924 the great Humboldt said that
no city Of the new continent, NOT ex-
cepting those of the United States, had
such scientific institutions as those OF |
the City Of Meco
After years OF service for Spain Cor
teZ suffered from the ingratitude that
princes invariably show, One day. after
audience with Charles ", Cortez jumped
on the step of the emperor's carriage TO
demand a word with him
who is this audacious man." ex-
claimed he.
Il am the man who has given you
more provinces than your ancestors left
dent he never tried 10 claim recognition
from Spain. but spent the rest OF his
Ike In almost entire seclusion.
treaty of peace with the Narragansett
Indians; Wesleyan University was opened
AZ a., Middletown. Conn. in 1881. The bat
TIE IN oil Ha5 HM95nterey' Mexico was begun In
topkinSon; the lawyer and author Q737)
James Jackson Georgia statesman G757I
LOUIS Bonaparte. King of Holland C71Sl |
douglass Houghton. physician and natur.
ilist 1S09). Abraham h Cassei. the
ANTIQUARIAN GS20). and BriGadler Cen
eral Michael Corcoran GS27 and DR. |
edward b. Dalton. originator of the am
ouance system GS2D, II is the date OF
ne death of Edward H., OF England
l32O: Emperor Charles V. OF Spain
i5aSl; and Sir Walter Scott. novelist