Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-02
HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THERE.
Bv Earl Goodwin.

per cent more than you pay that is. if
Non have been there before and turn a
hard heart and "A deaf ear to the store
Keepers protestations that you are ruin
ing him.
You are only allowed a dollars worth
OF merchandise in crossing back to the
nited States. so you only spend about
81" on souvenirs for the folks back home
and after padding out your trousers and
shirt with blankets and other useless
articles. you leave a pair of Nl-cent moe
caslns on view in the car
You haven't much more than a dol
lar s worth at that
Tia Juana is an army post SO the
next thing to visit is the fort
Yes. they have fort | didn't see it
on my first visit because there was a
man standing in front OF it.
think it vas built to keep cannon
pals from rolling in and hurting the SOL
dfers feet. because 1t is only little more
than knee high
1t is built of mud .Dobe. they cali
II down there. It is circular in form and
there is a little whitewashed chicken
coop in the center used as a barracks.
There Is a guard outside of the mud pie
who won't let you get more than within
twenty feet of the stronghold | think
they are afraid some tourist might lean
against the wall and bend it, We tried
to take photo Of it, but thu. guard OBJ
lected and let out Yell that brought
the rest Of the army out Of the hacking
case inside the fort
Ey the time We Were. Through IRON,
ING with the officer in charge we had
about dozen pictures of the fort and
the animals ii sheltered.
There Is no difference between the
uniforms of the officers and rho nriv,tas
with the exception that the officers wear
shoes.
think a cake OF soap would create
| more havoc IN the fort than a ten-inch
BY this time you have seen about
an OF Tia Juana. 50 YOU wander over
10 a. little hut decorated with a sign
inscribed Hotel de Paris
~ rms Is really interesting in way
ne old man who runs 1t shows YOU
Where the dining room tables and chairs
nave been riddled with shots from the
ireauent battles in the town. You sit
down. wondering if YOU are going to
| De treated to beans or bullets
| They have battle down there most
any day, unless 1t is called off on ac-
count of darkness or wet grounds
ErerS day or SO some sreaser will
| get fun Of mescal, a drink made of
cactus, and imagine that lie should he
president. II he has a couple of dol
lars lie viii treat the soldiers who are
| always N a saloon. and they will rush
out yelling, 'Vive la Presidente Jasbo.
| rush out and answer. 'Vive la Presi-
dente Ginko'
Then they will ire off their little
guns, put few more holes in the
chairs in the Hotel de Paris. and 90
| back into: the saloons
/ Once man was killed and it made
a lot OF hard feeling.
After being treasured that there viii
| be no war that day. you sit down to
| genuine Mexican meal
/ eli
! that the Mexicans eat a little food with
their pepper.
There is pepper in everything. Loads.
mountains. clouds of pepper
4 by this time you are saturated with
red pepper and unutterable ideas of
| Mexico so YOU get back into your cal
| with a sigh Of relief and almost cheer
at the sight of the Stars and Stripes
on the United States customhouse as
you near the border
g Z: :: i
/ Men around the House of Represent
| atives will not forget old Coates-the
| colored man who handed out hats and
| canes and wraps Of all sorts in the demo-
| cratic cloakroon. Coates died a few
! days ago. leaving wealth of renlnis-
! cences. Repre- sentative Borland of Mis-
| souri, was telling me about the old feI
low only day o. two ago:
| Coates could actually claim speaking
I, acquaintance with every big democrat
| every democrat for that matter-that has
snone in Washington in half a century.
| 1nnk of it. That old fellow used to
| hand out hats-the od-time real beaver
kind. with the fore and aft brim and
| big bell crown-in President Lincoln s
! day. | don't know that he ever claimed
| an acquaintance with Webster. Clay or
/ Calhoun. but I guess he had the right
I 10. One of the odd things about him was
/ that he recoliected. or claimed recolec-
ton of every historic character in the
-! las; century. Once I going oat to
Rockville TO deiive, address on the
rinyciiing OF the Brdddock memorial
there.
That day | saw Coates near the mar
ket where he would buy the stock of