El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-11
Intervention Not Popular
Charles r. LOOmfs Returns From the
East and Says People Do Not Fa-
vOr Sending Troops to Mexi-
cO-IiffIe InterNieWs.
s6H HE majority of people that

has returned from a trip to the east
while I was in the east many men,
both in the profession and business,
as well as capitalists, inquired about
the Mexican situation. As soon as they
learned I was from Ell Paso they fired
questions at me about the situation
below the border and the possibility
of its readjustment
The consensus Of opinion was not
IN favor of Intervention. The men
declared that the Americans had gone
/ into foreign country seeking gain.
Their properties are threatened and
now they expect US to send our SOL
diers down there and spend our money
in protecting those interests. Many
! said that the big financial interests
wanted us to intervene and strai ghten
out the tangle.
"A minority favored Intervention on
the ground that there is no stable gov
eminent in Mexico and could be none
unless the United States or some other
world power would go in there and es-
tablish one and maintain it until the
people were ready and willing to do
that themselves
4 myself do not favor Intervention.
I met a congressman in Washington
who has interests in Mexico, and he
did not favor Intervention. I found
many in Washington who We're stand
ing by the president in his Mexican
policy, merely because he is president
They will stand by him no matter
what their opinions are, for they rec
ognize that at this time they must do
So
While 7 say that personally 7 am
opposed to intervention and I found
many of the same mind, yet like them,
do not see how the United States is
going to get around the situation in
any other way With Huerta elimi-
mated and another president elected,
conditions would not improve. There
would be revolution after revolution,
and no one could tell which one would
be the last"
His hair is not red and his eyes
are not blue Neither has he freckles-
But he is the son of ruby Robert just
the same. Bobby FitzsimmOns, heir
of his father and a prize fighter in his
own right-Once-is playing at the
Crawford theater. When the spotlight
is right and the laddie buck has a
little extra touch Of rouge on his face,
he strikes pose with his slender
legs apart which reminds the old tim
ers Of the famous fighter who trained
in Juarez for his fight with Maher,
down the river.
MY old man tried hard to make a
fighter out of me. although I was never
strong for the fight stuff" Bobby boy
said Wednesday afternoon between
acts of the rehearsal, while the chorus
practiced whistling an Isle Of Spice
number. I took on a couple of fights
Just to please Dad. The first one
pleased him for I got away with it
before the New York Athletic club.
But the second one pleased him less
and me more for I got the wind
knocked out of my lib sail and I had
an excuse for quitting the fight game
for all time Not that I was a gutter,
but I felt that I did not have the phys
ique necessary to get by with it, and
my heart was not in the work
He is a great old scout is that Dad
OF mine. Back in Plainfield, \. J.,
where he makes his oath that that is
home, his quarters smell like a wild
animal cage. His bug is wild animals,
and he has a lot Of them around his
quarters all the time He is doing no
active work now, but he keeps in train
ing and he gives an occasional spiel
on physical culture, the care Of the
body and the other e-goOd-and-you-
will-be-lonesOme thing I think the
world of the old fellow who gave me
my name, and I intend to work hard
TO make good in this stage stuff to
please him"
R. a. Walton, the man with the ex-
cess baggage who sells trunks and
suit cases, is at the Sheldon. He does
not stand on ceremony, Bob doesn't He
just stands on the frailest little suit
case he has in stock to show that his
$50 odd pounds will support the pro-
duct. To appreciate this acid test, one
must see big Bob. 4 have been sell
ing trunks, suit cases and other trav-
elers' jeWelry for many years and 1
have never failed to make good on my
old best bet with my $50 pounds I can
stand on any suit case or trunk IN my
line. and it will not show the slightest
effect from the strain. From Hugo,
oklahoma. to Hueco Tanks have
made this test and I have my first
suit case to cave in. If it will with
stand that test, I am sure the baggage
smashers will not get to it"
TT is a fine place and I am glad my
old friend Zeiser has leased it, but it
will be a long time before I will be-
come accustomed to seeing the sigE
Zeiger hotel in any other place than
on oregon and Overland STREETS" an
old time lobby lounger said Wednes-
day, when Charles Zsiger took posses
sion of the St. Regis AMI changed the
name to the new Zeiger. THAT old
Zeiger hotel was a gathering place for
the cattle, mining and statesmen clan
of the southwest More big deals, |
more important political conferences, !
have taken place in the old Zeiger than
in any hotel in FL PasO. When I first !
came to Ell Paso, the Zeiger was one
of the leading hotels and its cafe serv-
ice was uneXcelled anywhere. It was
a treat for the cattle and mining men
to come in out of the WiIds for
square fed at the Zeiger, and its rep
utation spread throughout the south /
west There was something fasCinaJ-
ing about the lobby Of the old Zeiser. I
with its high back chairs and large |
cuspidors, which invited the weary
traveller to rest and no one was ever |
turned away from the Zeiger who was
respectable. and there was no house |
detective either. With the passing Of |
the old Sheldon under John Fisher, the !
Pearson and the Orndorff as CONNER ]
ciaI hotels, FL Paso is losing many OF |
its most famous taverns of the good, |
old days"
DR.. P. NJ Darlington, of the United J
States public health service, is in FL
PasO en- route to his new station at
San Diego, Cal. DR.. Darlington is the
man who took old Fort Stanton. an
abandoned military post and con-
verted it into the present modern tu-
berculOsis sanatOrium He was sta /
TONED there for eight years and has /
many friends in Ell Paso. 7 notice |
wonderful growth in FL Paso since I /
left here a few years ago" said DR..
Darlington today, but that is tvp5cal /
of the west. Everywhere. it is grow |
ing very fast. The right kind of peo- [
pie have things in charge" DR. car