Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-12-06
HUERTA VALIANT With CUP,
IS THE COMMON REPORT
Mexican Dictator Familiar Figure al Cafes-FearS Violent
End and Follows Indian Mothers Advice, Never Go the
Same Way Twice %<<. j.. -.*# =s
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MEXICO CITY. - By common re.
iport General Huerta. Mexico's present
dictator, is much given to conViyial
| pursuits, and his prowess with the
1 eognac bottle is much lauded, but how
/ mi1ch truth there may be in this COS
sip Is hard to tell. One hears all
! sorts of stories, but 1t is serious
question whether his alleged devotion
/ to the bottle ever interferes seriously
with his mental processes or with his
work -. 81. s
Save for his poor eyesight. he looks
physically fit Probably he is much
/ more robust and active mentally and
bodily than the average American APP
preaching sixty. Huerta is nearly
that age He has led an outdoor life
working hard. sleeping long and eat
/ ing simple food Indeed, he eats what
ever Is set before him and seems 20
assimilate IL. One who sat near him
recently at q banquet noticed that ey-
cry cover. as Il left his place, was bare
except for the bones He appeared to
| be as valiant with the trencher as
with the cup.
a Plain Old Indian. e.. Il
'T'm just plain old Indian" is a
| phrase Of which Hnerta Is fond in al
lusions to himself and his democratic
tastes. He Wanted that humble ORR
gin not long since at a BANQUET to
which the fashionable Jockey Club in
lvited him. 3 BE- y
"a few weeks ago couldn't have
| got inside this place." be. said to his
-. :, s1. -, 49,, \ :. =
change IN me. am the same old In
dian that ] was Yet now you let me
sit down and drink champagne with
you as It You thought me as good as
lyou are 2 81
The Jockey Club hosts laughed fee
bly,. as though they didn't quite see
the joke.
Huerta talked in much the same
fashion Sat the dinner given in his
honor in the American embassy s.
few days before the then Ambassador,
Henry Lane Wilson was summoned to
Washington. Wilson wanted Huerta
| to meet the so-called kitchen cabinet
/ of the embassy, composed of men who
would like to have Huerta do things
their way. All through the dinner
Huerta, between bites and sips, de-
liyered himself of a continuous mono
logue based upon his keen apprecia-
Itien of the cohdescension of the am
|bassador in bidding the "pIain old In
dian to thrust his legs beneath the
official mahogany. ~ =. 81
He doesn't seem to take himself too
seriously and bften INDUCES gift of
~, ~, =, ,,,,tI t;v ,,afiya
lshrewdfess T.he editor OF a comic
weekly, given % cartooning public
men, called on HIM q few weeks back
Ito learn how much cartooning he
would stand without making life mn
pheasant for the editor. 8
don't suppose you would give
me 80. said the. editor, referring to
the number lof the constitutional pro-
vision for the exile of ""undesirabies" =.
Bullets Tor Cartoons.
@Oh, nothing SO bad as that, Huer-
Ia replied quietly, "but we might give
you 1890, which is the caliber Of
weapons used In the army.
There have since been no cartoons
printed on Huerta, even good-natured
ones. sas5sz $500 M IS
Huerta's soldier guards have been
chosen from Blanquet's 18th battalion.
As contrasted with the princely gilt
ter of Diaz's retinue the Huerta men
are not pretty to look at or speekless
IN uniform or equipment, but they are
all fighters, and it would be suicidal.
for any one to try to break through
their defense with fell designs on
their chief. These smeary warriors
chatter with bare Footed peon women
for bananas and other fruit in front
of the presidents house, litter the
sidewalk with skins, and cigarette,
ends and play tricks on one another!
all through their watch, when there is
no urgency for them to act otherwise.
All the time, however, they keep a
wary eye out for 1oiterers in the
|neighborhood, and when Huerta looms
in sight. arriving or quitting his home,
they stiffen up as though they had
stepped on live electric wire and
their salutes for Mi General lack
nothing of dignity. -, ~ -<<.y7
Any one Interested in studying HUI
|erta at close range may easily do. SO
about o'clock any afternoon at Ell
FGlobo, a cafe in Avenida San Fran
cisco, frequented by him in other
times, and which he still visits as in
formally as II he were in humble sta
ton. The cafe stands midway between
the national palace and the head Of
the street. BY courtesy it-is-eaIfed
a tea room. It has an efficient bar
attachment which accounts for its
popularity. The place is quiet and
the lights always shaded to degree
grateful to his decrepit eyes Occa-
sionallyl he patronfzes other cafes in
the neighborhood,a although Ell Globo
remains his regular place. One of the
cafes he never visits is around the
corner in the Avenida Cinco de Mayo,
where the Reyes-Mondragon plot