Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-08

on the roof Of the building. as he OBJ
served to The Star correspondent:
Il have waited long time for this. as
you can we'll imagine. It does my old
heart good.
Nearby. also. none the less affected,
stood a British subject, Mr.. Rorke. the
brave young correspondent of the Cen
trail News agency Of London. uncoverfne
with the Americans as the great flag took
the breeze.
Beautiful colors you chaps have. Glad
TO see them there" this Englishman said,
as others of his race nodded approval.
and those present relaxed from their
rigid stand at attention"
In the glaring, burning tropical sun
whose rays have shriveled every palm or
other evidence of vegetable life which has
tried to force existence from the sandy,
dusty plaza before the Terminal build
ing, the troops raised their eyes to the
colors'' that have called them to death
on so many foreign Shores inspired. as
they said afterward. with the belief that
now that the American flag is formally
waving over Vera Cruz. in at least one
prominent place. the treacherous Vera
CruZan assasSins who have been shooting
Americans on the sly will take real heed
and warning of what the Stars and
Stripes stand for.
Capt Delano said to me. as he came
down from a little temporary platform
that had been built around the pole on
the roof:
Look at the faces Of the men! We
don't often get a chance to raise this
Sag this way in a foreign country, Long
may she wave. God bless her!'
American Spirit Prevails.
The spirit of Thy country. right or
wrong" was everywhere manifest among
the Americans. The event was taken in
no matter-of-fact way by those who saw
1t, and although there was at first but a
small gathering of Americans. because II
was not generally known that the flag
was to be raised. great numbers of them
came running through side streets ana
avenues as they saw the troops take
position before the depot. Soon the crowd
was swelled to a large one.
Blond young barbarians. as the
swarthy Vera Cruzanos call the Ameri-
cans, in some cases gazed with apparent
cheering Americans. who have overrun
this city and who are showing them-
selves so capable and efficient that they
are arousing the Jealousy of Vera cruz
amos. who cannot even run their own
post office But this pity is today short
lived, evidently. for the blond bar
barians," the marines and blueIackets.
have one point of view terse. and seem
ingly to the point.
why pity them because We run up
the Stars ana stripes IN place VI lho
Mexican flag" these men say Ihey
don't know how to honor any flag,
their own or the Red Cross insignia
under which they prove themselves as
sassins."
There was no Mexican flag. however,
on the headquarters building here to
come down today. although there has
been from time to time. Occasionally.
too. there has been an American flag.
run up there unofficially by some of
the boys" Until today the only IN
stance of an American flag flying Off
cially in Vera Cruz except over the
consulate was the incident of the
Michigan's battalion running up the
Stars and Stripes over the barracks of
the 18th Federal Infantry and the men
of this command took that down short
Nv after when Consul Canada advised
them to get out because of the small
pox and spinal meningitis record of
this barracks.