Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-03
IIOEN ~ OlNL1 lIlINOO1E1 TEAM
Dictator of War-Ridden Nation Has Interesting FaIySuo-
cessfu Suitors for Hands of His Daughters Are Re-
warded With High Military Office

in the army. The face of more than
one aristoerat has blanehed at Huer-
ta's suggestion of this sort. In the
exclusive Jockey Club, in the capital,
where Huerta was never admitted
before he seized the presidency, he
delights to stand at the bar, and, in
sinister tones, grumble out his threats
to seize all men in Mexico, rich or
poor" and place them in the field.
Analyzing the Huerta family, social
ly, their standing is nil and, what's
more, neither the dictator nor his
wife care for society or its gradings.
The eldest child of Huerta is
Sonora Francisco Colon, of Monterey,
wife of a civil engineer. The Colon
family is now in the capital, having
fled from Monterey just before the
rebels seized it. She's a woman-no
nore," is the way Mexican society
men describe "a woman who has no
social training or brilliancy IN con-
versation, and | have heard the
Huerta girls so described to me by
Mexican clubman. Under that same
rating society people Of the capital
place Luz Huerta, who is eighteen
years old, and who in December was
married to an old sweetheart of hers,
whom her father Immediately made
colonel In the Mexican army, though
he had before been only an employe in
a business house. Luz, however,
under the American rating of girl
hood, stood high in the capital.N She
is pretty, vivacious, always laughing.
She likes Americans, and once when
she was a little girl of thirteen she
acknowledged that she idealized Ar
mold Shanklin, the American CONSUL
general, and would marry no one but
an American. Leonora Huerta is
now sixteen years old, but, like the
rest of the marriageable Huerta chill
dren, she has made hay while the
sun shone on her remarkable father,
and has become engaged, with the
hopes of having a White House"
wedding. The lucky young man to
whom she is engaged is named
Quiroz. He is twenty-five years old.
and he was a clerk in q government
Office until Leonora's favor settled
upon him. Leonora told her father
about her selection, and one morning
young Quiroz awoie to find that he
had been appointed a general in the
Mexican army Only recently when
Huerta suspected that the chief of
police of the capital was plotting
against him, Quiroz was made head
of the capital police, with some 1900
armed policemen under him.
0eOTB6 I1ueIldy NlClOIldUO elutSl
son, can be disposed of in few
words. in much the same fashion that
Mexico City's social leaders dispose
of him. They say he's impossible"
In the .old days folks used to pity
General Huerta, because. as they
said, George never worked and was
always living off his poor old father"
The taste for cognac and for wild
auto rides and for chorus girls has
descended, it appears, upon George.
Crude. arrogant. selfish, all the social
attention he gets in the capital is
given to him through fear He, too,
had a white House, wedding about
year ago. George Is about thirty
years old. He has a brother, Victor.
about twenty-five years old, who
went through white House" we'd
ding on April %, the day after the
Americans landed at Vera Cruz. Vic
tor. too, has the cognac-auto habit.
and, in Mexican slang, loves polio"
polio" meaning fast girls. Incl
dentally, polio also m eans
Chicken"
Two other boys. Of fifteen and
twelve years, make up the Huerta
household