The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-19
COST
OF The Me .idtiOn Meeting Is
Large
Daily Expenses At Niagara
Falls Is Sl,4OO
Newspaper Men Have Hard
Job Getting News

mediation now swings on through
conversation after conversation and
conferece after conference, this neck
of the woods Is dull and uninterest-
ing spot for Mr.. Ordinary Man. Far
back through the ages the cry of all
revolutionists has been to restore the
lands to the poor poems OF Mexico,
but if a poor peon showed up around
the Clifton Hotel where they are now
endeavoring to settle his affairs he
would probably not only lose his lands
but his shirt.
1t is pay, pay pay and the medi-
ators and delegates to the mediation
conferences are paying at a lively
rate. When it is all put down in cold
figures the cost of the conferences
here will be astounding. After the
first furry when special correspond
ents and near-diplomats from every
direction focked into Niagara Falls,
the colony has now simmered down
until there are approximately 56, in
Guiding the mediators and their
suites, the Americans, Mexicans and
newspaper correspondents. A con-
servative estimate of the average
cost of "mediating" so each of these
So is $25 a day in hotel bills, meals
and automobile hire. This makes the
average daily ordinary Giving ex-
penses" of the colony $1400 per day.
Figuring on this basis mediation in
the Mexican trouble has cost $39, 200
But war for the same length of time
would have cost far more, not to men
tion casualties.
This does not, of course, include the
salaries of clerks and the various Sec
retaries of the three mediators, the
American and Mexican delegation.
There is also the inestimable amount
spent in telegraph tolls by Eews.
papers; the coast of transmitting long
code messages between the Prospect
House and Washington; similar mes
sages received and sent from Mexico
City and the communication the me-
diators have had with their own coun-
tries. But mediating is a great little
sport with no time thought as to
expenses.
The following is the general scheme
of mediation as followed at Niagara
Falls
At II o'clock each morning da
Cana of Brazil, Naon of Argentina
and Suarez of Chilli, go to their CON
ference room. There is no set sched-
ule for the holding of conversations
with the Mexican or American dele
gates. Sometimes an engagement
may be made in advance but not often.
After gathering in the conference
room and automatically discussing
the carpet on the floor or the weather,
the MeXicans or Americans may be
invited to appear or ask that they be
heard. If 1t Is the Americans who are
to be heard, the state department
chauffeur is aroused from the rear
seat of his machine and he rolls up
In front of the Prospect House. JUS
tlce Lamar, Frederick w. Lehman
and their secretary, II. Percival
Dodge, followed by Robert f. Rose
ponderous representative of the state
| department, enter.
The car progresses from the Pros
pect House to the bridge, where the
ENJOYS, Dodge, Rose and the chauf-
feur, pay 10 cents each to pass on to
Canada. The car circles the Clifton
Hotel. Across the river the Falls are
roaring and glistening in the sun.
light. Stopping at the door the medi
alton delegation alights, diplomatical
ly and with great dignity. Judge
Lehman, however, can't suppress O
laugh and so he laughs. Newspaper
men greet the delegates and learn
nothing. They enter the elevator, as
send to the conference room, the
doors are closed and mediation is on
The secret service guard at the
Clifton has been reduced by two men
but whenever conversation is in
progress pair of the kings sleuths
pace back and forth before the door
They march solemnly and with dig
nifty befitting the occasion. After 9
time the American delegates come
downstairs, Justice Lamar may oil
may not have something to say. He
is extremely careful of every wort
he uses. He talks slowly and with
extreme caution. When he is through
the job of the newspaper men is t.
decide what he meant.
Justice Lamar compares the worl
of the correspondents here to fishing
in bath tub. When there are mo- de
velopments, he will say:
Now, there really are no fish il