The Washington times., 1913-12-31
g1lY X OLD MEXICO
FOR VARIED REASONS
Stories Of Some VINO Fail to
Take Advantage of Offer to
Aid American Refugees.

MENICo CITY. Dec. 31.-Here's the
blank which American citizens. fleeing
from Mexico, must sign before they re-
ceive assistance from American con-
suls:
II declare that I am an American citi-
zen, a refugee on the steamer -,
fro.n my home in Mexico. and that at
the present time ] have with me -.
and that the American consul at this
place has furnished me- with s. anc
with ticket transportation from --
TO -, which cost s., from funds
placed with him by the Department OF
State of the United States to defray
the cost of my transportation -,
or as temporary relief while in Mexico.
Ny reason tnr leaving Mexico Is -.
/ am employed by -. am unable
Al the present time to get funds from
relatives or friends This statement Is
made to secure relief.
But there are two sides to this refu-
seeing business. There was time, it
will be remembered, when the United
States had no extradition laws with
Mexico, and the American, fleeing from
justice in his home land, rushed into
Mexico. There are some of him here
yet 1t may prove warm for him here,
he knows; but it will probably prove
warmer for him back home. So he re-
mains.
You can't tell this sort of a ''stayer,"
as Americans who won't go home are
called. from the 'stayer" who Is stick
ing by his business siInply because it
is a rule of his life that he won't run
from anything. Some Of these stayers
are successful business men; others
of them are hangers-on in the various
sporting establishments IN Mexican
cities.
The "stayers" of this latter type took
instant and insistent advantage of/the
offer of Uncle Sam TO give them money
and tickets home. They were the first
to rush TO the consular Offices. Then
most of them sold their free tickets and
spent Uncle Sans money, in the can
tinas and gambling houses OF Mexico.
Some of them had the nerve to 90
back TO certain consuls second time.
Explaining that they had been taken ih
aud been forced to dispose OF their tick
els and money. It's safe to say that
no American has been able TO graft
q second ticket home
Up in Chihuahua, in the very heart of
the rebel district, where federals rule
one day and the rebels the next, and
where every change means a corpse
strewn street, there lives an American
VINO hasn't moved, and won't move.
His consort is a Mexican girl, and they
have three children that are famous
throughout the mining district for their
beauty.
7 can't 90 back he explained to the
last Iittls knot of Americans to leave.
But Wen stand all the expenses of
moving your family" they offered
Thank you. very much" he said.
I'm afraid I'll have to stay here and
see IL out"
He is a Harvard man, the refugee mi
ners say; more than that. and the fact
that he's fine, strong man. with some
mistake in his past they know nothing.
In Mexico in these DAYS you don't ask
about q mans past Why a, man is a
slayer" is his own business.
Another American who won't flock
from Mexico. no matter what happens,
10 a little doctor, who had made HIM
self very rich UP along the northern
border. The story the refugee Ameri-
cans tell about him is thirty years old,
and he's a gray-haired old man who'd
probably like to go back TO the United
States and spend his days in peace, if
he could.
The story is that he lived in a certain
large American city, and that one day,
while he was travelling in a transconi-
mental trail along the boundary be-
tween the United States and Mexico. the
train was wrecked. and then took fire.
The little doctor was missing. HIS wife
put in a claim for his life insurance,
72S.05f. The insurance company could
rot prove that his body was not among
The charred and unidentified corpses, and
the wife got the money. A few weeks
later she went to a certain Mexican
town, near the border, only a short dis
tance from the scene of the wreck and
met her husband, whole and sound.
They started their life anew. and built
Up a small fortune, but il is one they
cannot enjoy in the United States.
The rebels had cleaned him out over
night and left him only money enough
20 get TO Mexico City. He had been
used to having plenty of money, and
one of his practices was TO buy a ticket
IN each monthly government lottery.
One of those tickets was in a pocket of
his only suit when he entered Mrs. Por-
ter's hotel i'm Mexico City.
Let me put up here, will you?'' he
asked that good dame. ''TU get some
refuge money from the American consul
10 pay you. All I've got is a lottery
ticket
, Lets see the ticket" said Mrs. Por
ter. who knows a good deal about lot
teTies
he Gshed out the crunpled bit OF It's
sue p2pcr.
You can stay in this hotel $1,000
WORTH said Mrs Porter calmly. He
didn't know how to dyaW the money,
so Mrs. Porter went with him 10 the
headquarters or the national lottery and
saw clerk hand ten packets of $1,OGd
each lMexican money to the penniless
man.
Me for Chicago" he declared.
He's on his way there now. He said
his name was Albert Dwinginghacn, and
that Chicago was his home.