The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-18
HUERTA ENJOYS HERE
WITH QUIET TONGUES
Delegates to Mediation Confer
ence Guarded by Secret
Service Men.

There was little ceremony connected
with the arrival in New York last eve
ming OF Huerta's three delegates to the
Niagara Falls mediation conference.
Seniors Rabasa, Rodriguez and Elguero.
They were met by the Mexican Consul
General to New York, Manuel A. Esteva,
and five attaches from his office.
This city did not have any one on hand
to greet them nor did the nation. unless 1t
could be said that william j. Flynn. chief
Of the United States secret service, and
Ave Of his men constituted an official
reception committee.
II became apparent even before the
train from Washington arrived Mt the
Pennsylvania Station at s :o7 O'Clock that
in New York the delegates would continue
their policy OF scrupulous silence. Such
was the intimation given newspaper men
by the Consul-General and he spoke
with an assurance that seemed to indicate
he had rehearsed his remarks previously.
Later the Consul General was thor
oughly justified. To all inquiries there
was but one answer from Manuel Mar
tinez del Campo. the delegations spokes-
man:
They will say nothing. absolutely moth
ing. and I think It probable that they
will continue to say nothing"
When the delegates. accompanied by
their secretaries. attaches and wives and
children, making In all a party o: fifteen.
filed through tho station in leisurely
fashion to half dozen taxlcabs there
was a little stir of curiosity on the part
Of chance spectators, but only little
The delegates were guided from their
train to the cab entrance at the south OF
the station by a representative from the
Hotel Astor. who had accompanied them
from Washington. II seems the delegates
had arrived in town with the impression
that they were going to stop at the Wal
dorf-Astoria and they retained that i'm
preston until they faced the Astor
register. Their hotel arrangements had
been made by the Mexican Consul
General
The young ladies' in the party. the four
daughters OF Senior Rabasa, all looking
very much OF one age. about Is. walked
arm In arm. They were dressed ns II
they had Just stepped out OF a girls school
on Riverside Drive and their walk in
dicated that the present style OF walkin.
on Fifth avenue Is also the style in Mexico
city
Preceding them in the little procession
that filed through the station walked their
father. dark mustached. keen eyed man
OF middle age, with the Consul General,
and behind them came Envoy Rafael
Elguero with his young wife and Attache
del Campo with his wife. A nurse carried
Senior del Campos four-months old son.
The party, as II marched through the
station was practically surrounded by
secret service men. The file of taxicabs
on the way to the Aston also was well
protected. and as the party alighted In
Broadway and went into the hotel the
secret service men were again much in
evidence.
Several New York Mexicans called
during the evening. but all were received
by Attache del Campo. who presented the
excuses of his principals that they were
extremely fatigued.
Del Campo also received newspaper men
| and gave them the same excuse. and II
was he who said that the delegates prob
ably" will remain In New York until
tomorrow. leaving In time to reach
Niagara Falls Wednesday.