The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-29


revolution. to unite the railways
Of northern Mexico In a now system Is
revealed In letters and messages pub
lished in the New York Herald yesterday.
Letters published in that newspaper,
with the announcement that II has more
in its possession. show that Capt. Sher-
bourne G. Hopkins Of Washington, who was
associated with Madero, was the interme-
diary between Gen. Carranza and MT
Pierce. The First chief Of the Constitu-
tionalists was urged TO organize and
operate the railroads in the territory under
rebel control. deposing the present drec-
tors OF the National Railways Of Mexico
and putting in their place men agreeable
to Mr.. Pierce and the waters-Pierce oil
Company
In return for this Mr.. Pierce and his
associates were 20 give financial aid to
the revolution. In return Mr.. Pierce was
TO get privileges enabling him to Renter
the northern Mexico oil field on advan-
tageous terms.
Charles II. Flint, the New York mcr-
chant who has long been In close touch
with Latin America. is described as one
OF tho men principally interested with Mr..
Pierce in the railway scheme.
Others who had hand In the project
we're Luis Cabrera. Carranza's Minister of
the Interior. and Rafael Zubaran Cap
many. Minister OF Foreign Relations In
the Carranza Cabinet. and the rebel spe-
cial agent IN Washington. Jose vascon-
celes. who kept watch on the mediation
conferences at Niagara Falls, reporting
their progress to Gen. Carranza, saw
Mr.. Pierce about the railway proposal
and Roberto v. Pesqueira. Carranza's
representative in III Paso was present
at conference between Capt. Hopkins
Cabrera and Mr.. Pierce.
NascOnceics Got Cash.
Mr.. Pierce paid Capt. Hopkins various.
sums while the endeavor to persuade Gen.
Carranza TO agree to the scheme was
under way. and Vasconceies seems TO have
received s200 at one time from Mr.. Pierce.
Hopkins had trouble getting the money
he said he absolutely needed from Pierce.
The man selected TO head the new or
ganization OF Mexican railways was AL
berto PAM. at present designed to become
Carranza's Minister of Communications
when the Constitutionalists finally tri-
umph. PAM was not known 20 Mr. Pierce,
but Hopkins's frequent references 30 my
friend PAM" seem to have satisfied the
oil man.
Gen. Carranza listened In polite silence
| to Hopkins's arguments and reasoning
| but seems not to have concluded any
agreement with him or Pierce 1t is said
that Carranza finally got ready to pu,
In -
Gen Francisco villa. who was ignored in
the negotiations. kept PAM out. Gen
villa was partial to his own director OF
| railways, Euseblo Galzado When villa
refused to let Carranza put PAM in al
| Capt. Hopkins's labor of months went 10,
| nothing.
Sherborune G. Hopkins. who Is oreditet
with lacking the name "Constitutionalist'
to the present revolution in Mexico will
| the hope OF winning sympathy for 1t II
the United States. is the son of Capt
Thomas Smell Hopkins. a cvll war vet
eran. who Is senior member of the Law
hrm OF Hopkins az Hopkins. Washington
with practice mostly confined {.
diplomatic matters and international law
As long ago as last August Senator VIII
lam Alden Smith Of Michigan charge,
on the floor of the Senate that Sherbourn
Hopkins had received $4,000 to represen
the revolutionists at the Capital Hopkn
denied II.
Railroad Ncrx, Recalled.
Henry Clay Pierce and the Waters
Pierce oil interests have been the grea
rivals In Mexico of the Pearson interest,
at the head OF which is Lord Cowdra,
with their immense oil and railroad in
vestments. When the Mexican railroad
were amalgamated in 1905 Mr. Pierce ha
large holdings In the Mexican Centra
Railway. These he disposed of to tn
railway merger. receiving in exchang
securities OF the National Railways. Nj
, Pierce then became chairman of tn
National Railways board of directors.
: The Pearson oil interests came to tn
support of Gen Huerta and the forme
adherents of Porfrio Diaz when Nader
! was deposed and killed. MIR. Pierce faile
1 to be reelected as a director of III
, National Railways in October last. TIL
has been ascribed to Lord Cowdray's IN
fiuence.
Capt. Sherbourne Hopkins suggested
Mr.. Pierce that n way to get railway cor
/. troll again would be to induce Gen. Cal
I rama to form into one system the raj
!, ways of northern Mexico with suitab
] rson at their head
I There was correspondence back M
q forth and by January 6 last matters la
Y advanced far enough for a conference
0 New York. Mr. Pierce. Luis Cabrer
r Roberto V. Pesquera and Hopkins m
Y in this city and two days later Hopkil
wrote to Gen. Carranza as follows:
e II went to New York on the 9th in.
for the purpose of comforting with ii
3 Luis Cabrera and Mr.. Pesqueira relati'
e TO the railroad situation, and returned Il
a following day. ] presented these gentl
r men to Mr.. Henry Clay Pierce. who /
n dictated TO them that he would rend
I all the assistance possible. He stated
Z Mr.. Cabrera that YOU would be rende
= ing the Constitutonalst cause n gre
I service by organizing ana operating {
National Railways Of Mexico in N
a northern States under a separate systel
70 first for military ends and second, (
II purposes OF commerce. We discussed I
@ matter IN great detail and consider tn
8 the advice given by Mr. Pierce was
d great value"
J. First Chief NOncom INITIAL.
d Hopkins added that he would send Ca
rama full memorandum OF the confe
v ence. lie did this on January H. Ge
q Carranza medtated In silence for thr
h months on the scheme, At the end
n that time the First Chief replied polite
d hut without committing himself In n
10 way about the Pierce Hopkins propose
In his memorandum Of January