The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-27
But II Is Of Many Kinds and
Needs Censor.
ACCEPT CONFEDERATE BILL.

For Price Of Two Two Cent Postage
Stamps One May Buy His Breakfast
American Money Three Times as
Valuable as Mexican scrlp-seere'
Service Watchfui
For the price of two two-cent post
age stamps one may get breakIaS'
of coffee and sweet bread In vera
Cruz these days, for with an Amer
lean dollar. worth five times as much
as a Mexican peso land they are OF the
same size, too, two twO-cent Amen
can stamps are worth 20 centavos In
Mexican money, which is sut1clent
sum TO buy the coffee and bread. That
Is the price in the lesser porrales' the
sidewalk restaurant and drinking
place lust off the Plaza de la Consul
tucion and opposite the ancient pafo
chial church, which in 1874 was dedl
Gated to Nuestra Sonora de la Asun
cion-Our Lady of the Assumption.
In these portales the men Of the mid
die classes and the enlisted men OF the
American army and navy sit about the
fables and drink their coffee or beer
or what they please, while in the next
block. under the pOrtales OF the Hotel
Diligencas. facing the plaza, the Mex
lean refugees of substance, the erst
while federal generals, the cientifcos.
the ousted ofticehoIders under Nicto
riano Huerta and the officers OF the
United States army and navy do like
wise, albeit not quite so cheaply, for
it will take the price Of three two-cent
postage stamps to get the coffee and
sweet bread in the Diligencias por
tales
Not that the coffee is a bit better il
one place than in the other, and the
bread all comes from the same baker
les. 1t is all a matter of caste and
location, just as one may get the same
beer downtown in New York for
cents glass that he must pay 25 cent,
for III a marble tiled and gilded cafe o.
some ultra fashionable hotel uptown
In both portales the coffee is black a.
ink and strong as aqua FORTS.
Gold Buys More.
But for all this the cost Of living Il
much higher in Vera Cruz than it uset
to be-before the American occupation
of the port That is. it is far higher il
Mexican money and much cheaper Il
gold money When a Mexican pes
was worth 80 cents gold one could bu,
the coffee and bread for 10 centavos In
stead Of the 20 it costs now. but the
it would have cost ~ cents in Amer
costs now. with exchange at five t
one.
Two years ago the Mexican who wa
making so a week in Mexican none
was getting the same as the America
who was earning sos a week golC
Now surprising each gets the sam
salary; the Mexican still has his 5
pesos a week. and the American wit
his $25 god has l25 pesos, two and
half times rs much A. the Mexican
If the Mexican mas 70 pay pesos
day to support his family he has onI
Is pesos a week left over, but tn
American after paying out pesos
day has ~ pesos left over
All sorts OF Mexican money passe
in Vera CRUZ nowadays at its fac
value, no matter whether II is in tn
form of National bank bills, Huertst
bills. which We're printed by the mi
lions in the City Of Mexico, or the Cor
stitutionaliSt bills of Carranza or Will
The fractional currency bills are eve
more varied but no one ever thinks {
refusing one. no matter by whom i
sued Many are issued by local bank
in Vera Cruz Others are IN the tOrl
of tickets very like milk tickets in II
United States All are equally goo
here Street car fares are Il centavO
or | Is cents gold \ first class faI
from Vera Cruz to the City OF Mexlc
including berth III Pullman cos
S19,p Mexican or $392 America
money. for an all night Or all da
journey
Confederate Bill Passed.
A twenty dollar Confederate bill W;
passed the other day AT ii rurio stOr
and the man who pissed 1t received
r,.s,,,, .,.,utI. at mar. hrudfS ~ and