El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-15
CELEBRATION At
JUAREZ IS STARTED
Statutes Inaugurate Three
Days of Patriotic
Program.
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= UAREZ began the celebration of thu
1Osd anniversary of Mexico's indie
y pendence with a carnival in the
| plaza in front of the Guadalupe ca
| thedral Sunday evening.
! The national colors were raised on
] all public and private buildings al
/ 6 o'clock Sunday morning and during
! the day the town made merry Bal
/ looms were sent up during the morn
J ing and evening, and there was music
| everywhere.
The program started Monday with
I the salute of q guns, fired at s o'clock,
! and the band marched about the city
. playing "dianas," announcing to the
popuIace that the national colors
should be raised.
At 10 o'clock toy balloons were sent
up from the plaza and the band played
from IL o'clock in the morning until
1 o'clock in the afternoon At noon
another salute of 81 guns was fired
Shortly after o'clock a parade OF
horse drawn vehicles and automobiles,
many of them prettily decorated, viii
march toward the Juarez monument,
where school children will recite and
sing.
At o'clock, while a salute of q
guns is fired, the national colors Will
be lowered
Gals of the army, the city and the
state viii meet at the city hall, from
where they will march to the plat
form in front of the church There a
musical and literary program Will be
given. Speeches Will be made by Urtel
Navarro and Romulo Escobar. Miss
Josefa Arguelles will give reading
Just as the bells on the old church
tower ring II o'clock, Guillerfno Cruz,
presidents municipal, will grasp the
standard of the Mexican nation and
raising it above his head will give the
famous ''grito" of Miguel Hidalgo- Y
Costilla thrice, and thrice the crowd
will respond. Then the band VIII
strike up the national anthem; young
men and women and little school chill
dren Will sing and finally the whole
populace VIII join in the singing OF
the anthem, while heads are barred.
Tuesdays Program.
Tuesday at sunrise salute of Il
guns will be fired and the band will
march about the streets playing patri-
otto airs At $50 the officials, mill
tary and civil, together with members
of the various societies will meet IN
the street in front of the Guadalupe
cathedral, where a stand has been
erected. The band will play and Luis
G. Martinez, a lawyer OF Juarez. will
make a speech. The band will play
again. In. the name of the army. Capt.
Aureliano de la Mora will deliver an
address. Following this the band will
play again Miss Maria Velarde will
The next act on the program is
the most impressive of all. School
children of the city, ranging in age
from five years up, will stand with I'M
covered heads and sing the national
anthem, which the band will play.
They will all carry the national col
ors-
The parade of the soldiers will be
the next act on the program, the
troops marching through the principal
streets of the city, carrying their ban
ners.
society Women to Feed Prisoners.
Shortly before u o'clock a number of
prominent society women of Juarez
will visit the Jail, taking food to the
prisoners confined there.
At y o'clock. sharp. another salute
of 81 guns will be fired.
There will then be a rest until 4
o'clock in the afternoon when the chill I
dren will hold a celebration at the /
Benito Juarez monument The little 1
ones will sing several PATRIOTS songs J
and recite poems while Guillermo /
Cruz. presidente municipal of the i
Juarez district, will deliver an ad- /
dress.
Horse races, foct races and other 4
sports will be held at the race track 4
from 4 to o'clock in the afternoon. !
The national colOrs will be lowered on /
all buildings at o'clock
There will be a band concert in the |
principal plaza from to o'clock
The kermess will be held IN the plaza
from 9 o'clock in the evening until II /
o'clock at night and fireworks will be
shown between the hours of and 10
o'clock.
EI PasO MexIeans Celebrate.
Many business houses of Mexican |
merchants in FL Paso are decorated
n honor of Mexico's independence ceIe-
)ration and the Mexican residents of /
his city are following the example of
uareZ in a smaller way. Among the /
Exercises on the FL PasO side is a kerr
ness in the Spence building on South I
stanton street, where patriotic ad- 1
lresseS and music will be features
Mrs. +. NJ. deBauche AlcaIde VIII
axe part in the program.