Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-25
HUERTA'S PAST YEAR OF STRIFE HAS NOT RUFFLED HIS CALM
TAKES THINGS AS THEY COME BUT GOVERNS HIS OFFICIAL
 AFFAIRS ARRooANTLY.

stamp upon his features. Six months ago some of his friends and most of his enemies predicted early physical collapse and there were some who would not have been surprised had his intellect suffered as the result of the enormous odds.
 Take things as they comeD seems to have been the lifelong philosophy of Huerta, tempered always, however. with the belief that all things come to him who waits. especially to him who waits for an seizes the big ops portunity. Worrying has never been one of Huerta's failings. Nor is he creature of routine. Regularity does not characterize his methods. Hel does his work when and where it suits his convenience and all mem bers of his official family, the public. and his private family as we'll have to yield.
 Long ago he tired of the regular cabinet meetings and announced that there would be no place regarded as sacred to that ceremony. And sol it has come about that questions Of the greatest import are as likely tol be discussed in his private home as in the National Palace and not at all infrequently he sends word to his min isters suddenly that he would like tol meet them that very morning in the woods about Chapultepec castle.
 To the famous and ancient park in which the castle be located he drives in his automobile His ministers, also arriving in their cars wonder in just what part the president is going to see them. Their chauffeurs or aids sight the presidential car ahead on one ol the many drives and there begins a chase which may come to an end be- meath one of the great shade trees, or beside the lake. Ministers and presi- dent alight. sit on the benches orl walk along one of the intersectine footpaths and there talk of affairs which perhaps are of international i'm portance. Back of all is the presi- dents whim. He may be late. The min isters wait. He may have altered his mind regarding affairs of state and tue ministers are told to meet his later in the day or night at his home.
 Nelson o'shanghnessy lately was the innocent cause of forcing the min isters to waste what doubtless was valuable time. They were walking with the president in the Chapulte- nee grounds when the American charge d'affairs drove by. The presi- dent recognized his car. and remem- | bering that there was something that | he wanted to talk to the American representative about signalled him to | stop. O'Shaugnessy alighted, joined the official group and was preparing | to continue his drive when the presi- dent asked him to get into his car with him. The two drove of together leaving Ministers Banquet, Alcocer and other counselors of the president | staring after the car. Half an hour later Huerta set O'Shaugnessy down near his own car and resumed the Interrupted cabinet meeting.
 It is not uncommon for the presi' dent to summon his ministers to a meeting during the middle of the night and cabinet meetings, or what would pass for cabinet meetings. have taken place in cafes.
 Huertn does not indulge in physi- cal exercise as a means of recreation
 he derives his recreation in talking
 astronomy with any one who can in
 terest him in the subject-and the
 man who does must be an expert
 or in dining and visiting with his
 intimate friends. The time he retlres
 appears a matter of indifference, as
 does his arising in the morning Usual
 ly he is up early. The lightest kind
 of breakfast, coffee and rolls, he gets
 as soon as he is awake. A, little work if he thinks of anything to do, and then almost every morning walk up
 and down on the sidewalk in front oi
 his house in the district known as
 San Rafael, After that more break
 fast and then lot Gf work He may
 go to the Chapultepec woods or to
 the National Palace but It's just as
 likely he will do his morning work al
 his home. summoning to him there all , who may have business with him Without much routine, and with exec
 utive mastery showing all he can onto his subordinates. he ploughs through
 the days work until seven or eigh' , o'clock when he is ready for dinner
 Dinner may be. in his own home ol
 in that of one of his friends Huerta'' ideas of democracy do not prevent hin
 from dining where he pleases-ver,
 likely in one of the public restaurants
 There is one central restaurant tha s has received the greater part of hi E patronage. Here the entrance of th'
 president accompanied by one or tw' U of his aides, perhaps persona '- friend or two and possibly membe E of his family, has long since ceased t
 be a novelty. In the days of Porfiri
 Diaz the visiting of public dininl
 place was something of a state cero I. money. His coming and his goinI Twas carefully staged and those priv legged to witness it were reckone If among the fortunate. To the music c