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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27
MISS HORN ENTERTAINS
 FOR MISS HARGROVE

Complimenting Miss Meta Hargrove of Tuscaloosa, who Is the guest of Mrs Sam King, Miss Annie Lee Horn was hostess at delightful 800 party. The three tables were arranged on the porch. At the conclusion of the games q delicious salad and ice course was served.
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morning at s o'clock at the home of the brides parents, Mr and Mrs. George Eustis on Mountain avenue. The Key. M. S. Barnwell of the Church Of the Ao- vent will perform the ceremony
 Only a few relatives and close friends have been asked to witness the marriage. There will be no attendants
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27

Miss Bowie hostess for Miss Drennen and MT Bissell. Country club luncheons Nebb-Davis wedding takes place. Informal dance at the press club.
 THURSDAY, JULY 1. Bissell-Drennen wedding at First Methodist church. Mrs. Godbee to be luncheon hostess.
 SATURDAY, JULY 3, Country club dinner dance. Informal supper dance at Roebuck club.
 THURSDAY, JULY 15 Garber-Evans wedding solemnized'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27
STRICKLAND-MOORE WEDDING
 TO OCCIJR WEDNESDAY,

At 9 o'clock Wednesday night the marriage of Miss Byrd Moore and Mir. Roy NJ. Strickland will take place at the home of the brides parents, MT. and Mrs. ]. w. Moore, on Sycamore street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27

Wynne, Miss Will Alice Atkins, Miss Hallie Porter, Miss Ollie Davis. Miss Lillian Jenkins, Miss Emily Krauss, Miss Emily Gordy Miss Elizabeth Wingo, Miss Emma Stockmar, Miss Elizabeth Powers. Miss Vera Nell Bat son, Miss Minna Glass.
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of the judges and the absence from the city of another the decision was delayed from flag day, which was set for it. until Saturday. The judges were Mrs. C. H. Ohme, Miss Perryman of the Lulie Comp ton school and Mr. c. c. Certain of the Birmingham High school
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27
MRS. GODBEE TO
 ENTERTAIN VISITORS

Miss Ida Bell Cross and Miss Lila Mcclure will be joint honorees at luncheon given by Mrs. Sidney S. God bee at her home in Norwood Tuesday. After luncheon the guests will go with Mrs Godbee to the baseball game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27
MRS. BONNYMAN TO
 BE DANCE HOSTESS

Mrs. James Bonnyman will be hos tess at an inforssll dance Tuesday evening experimenting Miss Zenobia Boston and Miss Jeanette Pomeroy of Atlanta, guests of Mrs. John M Cart wright.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27
EDWARDS EROS

MT and Mrs Joseph Eros of Anniston announce the engagement of their daugh- ter Eleanor, to MT. Walter Moore Ed wards of Jacksonville Fla, the wedding to take place in August
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27
LUCAS-EUSTIS WEDDING TO
 BE SOLEMIZED WEDNESDAY

The marriage of Miss Helen Jeannette Eustis to Mr. John Howard Lucas. Jr., will be quietly solemnized Wednesday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27

Orline Perkins. Miss Gula Glines. Miss Anne Gordon, Miss Dorothy Hellar Miss Elizabeth Marvel Miss Leila Cor don. Miss Annie Gordon, Miss Annie Moore Provost, Miss Agnes Gray, Miss Caroline Sproull, Miss Gertrude Meg Icy. Miss Orline Perkins and others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27
ENGAGEMENTS ANNOUNCED LEE-DAVIDSON

Mir and Mrs. James Randolph Nicholson of New Decatur announce the engagement of their sister Maud Davidson, to Ma rion Jackson Lee of Birmingham, the wedding to take place July I, at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27
BISSELL-DRENNEN WEDDING
 EVENT OF THURSDAY

One of the most interesting events of the week will be the wedding of Miss Margaret Drennen to MT. Harold S. Bis sell which is to be solemnzed at the First Methodist church Thursday evening at s O clock.
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oaist church will have Bible study at

odst church will have Bible study at the church.
 The Womans Missionary society of tho North Highlands Methodist church will have a mock trial for a breach of promise suit on Tuesday night, June 2S. at o'clock
 There will be an important meeting of the board of control of the Boys club at the Tutwiler July ,, at 10 a. m. All members are requested to be pres- cnt.
 Circle No. 1 of the Southside Baptist church will meet with Mrs Fred Thomas Friday morning at II o'clock.
 A garden party and dance will be Eivcn Tuesday evening at the home of Mayor and Mrs G. H. Mclaughlin for the benefit of the East Lake Orphans Home.
 The senior Epworth League of the First Methodist church vii have an ice cream festival at Capitol park Tuesday evening, June 20. from T.30 to 10 o'clock, Music and motion pie lures free. The public is cordially in- vfted
 The Ida Ramsay class of the First Methodist church will give a musicale In the parlors of the church this morning.
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tcontinued on Page Twenty-five)
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American refugees boarding the u transport Sumner

fire was caused by the escaping gases
from the well being ignited by light
ming. 1t was not fired by the revolu-
t.on!sts a. some wells are reported TO
have been The cost of fighting this
fire, which ragged for five months, ran
into the millions of dollars The COM
pary put an army of 5000 poems 10
work under command of its best en-
gineers damming the oil and confin-
ing the fire TO a small area where 1t
finally was eXtinguished with chem!-
Gals.
Some idea of the task may be gained
when it is told that the seepage from
the we'll amounts to 10000 barrels
and covers over twenty acres.
\ scene on the actual firing line is
shown with Col. Fierros, chief of rail-
roads for the Constitutionalists direct
ing the range of artillery. The
trenches are patterned after the
trenches in Europe and are very well
constructed and equipped with tele-
phones and strategical lines of rail-
road to the ammunition depots
In April the United States transport
Sumner was sent to Tampico to bring
away American residents there, whose
condition was daily becoming more
desperate. Tampico was cut off from
the world and the oil industry closed
With no steamship lines running and
their employment at an end American
citizens faced starvation. The illustra-
tion shows the Sumner ready 10 sail
with 249 refugees.
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a bonus of 81 week To every man
who would work six days out of the
week. Ii was rare that We ever had
a chance to pay the bonus.
Since Gen. Villa has held Torreon
he has ON several occasions when l
have been there distributed beans,
corn and beef free to the people and
] have seen. not occasionally hut in
hundreds os cases. an able abodied
man, able to work or serve in the
army. lying up in his hovel, making
his wife and children dress in rags
and sending them to the free depot TO
secure food. AS long as they could
get ii for nothing he would not turn
a hand at work.
"A Mexican does not depend upon
what he can buy or even raise by
cultivation for his food | would be
willing to wager that | could start a
penniless Mexican into Mexico at FL
'aso without a cent. and he would
come out at the Guatemalan border
fatter than he entered the country.
They can live off the land. and many
of them do il. They eat all sorts Of
wild herbs and roots, they are adopts
AT snaring rabbits and birds, and
there is no wild game that they
Will not eat--eVcn wolves are not
barred"
The MeXiCans need a better money,
however. or they will soon he without
clothes. No man, woman or child can
buy clothes with money that is worth
but three and "A quarter or three and
half cents on the dollar, for all clothes
are imported, either from France II
the United States, and are bought for
gold and must he sold for gold at
prices equalling those demanded in the
United States, plus the excessive
freight charges and profit for the
dealer for the risk he takes With his
stock in a war ridden country.
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more than the name Of the leader who
issued II.
Throughout Mexico the prices of
many things are fixed by law. and
these laws in many instances have not
been changed. An example is the
street car fare which the IL Paso
Electric Railway Company is per-
mitted to charge. Its concession from
the Diaz Government provided that
1t must accept as fare from Juarez
To IL paso 10 cents Mexican money
and must give transfer upon it TO
any other point in FL Paso. At the
time the concession was granted
Mexican money was worth so cents
gold on the dollar and Porfirio Diaz
was the ruler.
The concession provided for It's au-
tomato expiration in the event Of its
violation by the company. The law
has never been amended and to-day
the street car company must accept
from any passenger in Juarez 10 cents
in Villa money for a ride to FL Paso
and must issue a transfer to any sec
ton of FL Paso upon demand. The
result Is that Americans and Mexicans
alike have supplied themselves with
Villa money-bought at three and
half or three and "A fourth cents on the
dollar In FL Paso-and tender this in
Nariably as car fare on returning from
a trip to arez.
The distance from Juarez to the
street car transfer station in FL Paso
is two miles A passenger may then
secure a transfer to Fort Bliss, which
Is Ave miles from E'l paso and GOT Tho
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est street car fare in the world. The
redeeming feature about 1t, from the
standpoint of the street car company,
is that it may charge the regular five
cents in American money To all pas
senGers riding from this side of the
line into Mexico. The result is that
the street car company is operating
its cars for about what il makes from
the fares paid on the American side
of the line
Americans knowing these conditions
do not wonder at famine reports in
Mexico. Still the famine conditions
are not as bad as Americans would
believe, according To those who are
acquainted with the people and their
habits. Many who are in business in
Mexico assert that the MeXicans. en-
cept In "A few isolated cases, are little
worse of at present than any time in
the history of the country.
An American who owns a large
manufacturing enterprise in Torreon
and has been in business there for
twenty years has just returned from
looking over his plant, which the villa
Government has been operating on
rental of 500 gold a day and asserts
that famine conditions are not as bad
as represented and he is borne out
by many others in a like position to
get the facts,
"Mexicans can always live on what
an American would starve to death
on" he said, 'and they appear to
have as much to-day as ever. or
Sh,,t
down and this means that the wages
are not being paid as they were be-
fore the revolution, but a Mexican
never works more than he has to, re-
gardless of how much wages he can
secure. At my factory we always
paid our hands sl.25 day and gave
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Up to May II Gen. Pablo Gonzales,
was in command at Tampico. He was
succeeded 10y Gen. Triv!n.u. The Vii
listas in the n-ighhorhoud are said to
outnunfber his forces 10y about 1000.
\ few days before this picture was
taken the Niilistas succeeded in blow
ing up the tracks and In r!ddling
similar troop train with artillery fire.
Since then trains have been able to
get no nearer the trenches than Ebano.
Ebano is in the heart OF the great
Tampico oiifields. The gushing oil
we'll shown herewith is Naranjos we'll
No. .. II is throwing stream of oil
$50 feet high. The harnessing of this
well-that is, the devsing of a system
to collect the oil and prevent ii from
going To waste--offered hard prob
lem for the engineers. Some figures
regarding II give a suggestion of the
vast natural resources of Mexico.
whose development has been completely
paralyzed by the succession of revolu-
tions. This well has a varying pres
sure Of from 200 to 400 pounds per
square inch and flows 10000 barrels
a day. At an average price of so cents
barrel this equals $65.000 day. or
$ls.5OO,OO0 a year, counting 800 oper-
ating days.
The burning oil well shown is the
POtero del Llano, which is owned by
the Pearson interests. Ii Is the great
est oil producer in the world. aveyag-
ing over 100000 barrels daily. The
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ITls a fact well known to every
one in touch with the business
Of International news gathering
tina, the public is far better in
formed on the course Of events along
The most distant fighting line in
Europe than about actual conditions
IL Mexico, right at our southern door.
The news Of bending Of Russian line
anywhere from the Baltic to the Car
pathians reaches America and is noted
on the bulletin boards and in the press
Town to the smallest weekly of the
most rural community. But battle
might be in progress in Mexico the
result OF which would mean a com
plete shifting Of the complex warning
factions without anything more than
garbled account tiltering out of the
maze OF Misrepresentation.
Every reader entertains his own per-
sonal opinion about the reliability Of
the official statements made daily or
twice daily by the various war offices
Of Europe. But even allowing for a
certain tendency Of the wish to be
'a'her TO the thought that might lend
color 10 the European official state
mthts, they are concentrated truth be-
slde the mass Of misrepresentation,
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duced in Mexico their money is worth
considerable, but as soon as they at
tempt to buy in the shops whore
foreign wares or food are sold they
find that they can't buy a meal or
a shirt on less than a weeks or a
months wages.
The result has been considerable
dissatisfaction among the men. who
from the first have had faith in the
statements of their leaders that they
would soon be able to make the money
as good as money in the days of Diaz.
This failure is causing many deser-
tions from the ranks. the men seeking
to reach the United States for en-
ployment
Villa In his territory, in an effort to
prevent foreigners from taking ad-
vantage Of his cheap money in the
conduct of their business has issued
a decree that all foreigners must pay
their employees in gold or its equiva-
lent. 1t had another effect. for the
wages have proved so alluring to the
soldiers in his army that all Of them
are trying to get Jobs in the mines of
foreigners and Villa Is being forced
to resort to conscription to keep his
army recruited up.
Villa when he first commenced the
printing and distribution Of his paper
money announced that he was going
to establish n bank. coin silver, gold
and copper and redeem it all in coin,
but aside from striking off a few silver
pesos and some copper pennies and
five and ten cents pieces uhe two lat
ter coins did not contain cents
worth Of copper) he failed to keep his
promise and to-day all that his money
stands for is his promise to pay. Car
rama never made any attempt to coin
either silver, copper or gold. None of
the other issues Of this so-cal!ed
money was ever backed by anything
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often not hiding single grain of
truth. clicked of by the official type
writer in the camps Of Villa. Carranza.
Zapata and the other revolutionary
MeXicans.
Everything that has been said of
news is doubly true of pictures. Every
phase of the European conflict is
being pictured and all the war offices
are showing increasing willingness To
permit photographers. motion picture
men and artists to get somewhere near
to the actual fighting. Very little. ON
the contrary, in the way of photo
graphs that portray actual present
conditions Is coming out of Mexico.
THE SUN. however. is able herewith
to present some recent pictures taken
by a traveller who has just returned,
in the great Mexican oil fields, which
show not only the character of the
hordes that now pass for armies in
Mexico but give an idea Of the tre-
mendous interests of the outside world
that are endangered and the great nat
ural resources that are lying idle and
in danger OF hopeless ruin. II has
been said that the destruction of the
oil wells about Tampico would he as
great a blow to the industrial world
as the shellins of Rheims Cathedral
was to the world Of art.
One picture shows a troop train
leaving Tampico for Ebano, a station
on the Mexican National Railroad forty
kilometers from Tamplco. where the
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will illustrate: 1t Is $50 miles from
FL paso to Torreon and the railroad
fare rema ins the same as ii did under
Tho Diaz Government-$+2,35. The
American may purchase this amount
of Villa money in FL Paso for $1.+S
gold. With that amount he may buy
his ticket and ride for twenty-four
hours-for two cents less than a dol
lar and a half. He may stop at the
best hotel in Villa territory and have
a room with a bath at IS a day. or
.ess than 80 cents American money.
However, the American must eat. and
here is where Mexico becomes the
highest priced place in the world If
the Mexican money is used.
The Pullman Company has a special
concession for operating over the Mex
lean lines. which permits 1t to make
all charges in American gold. The
result Is that a Pullman berth from
Juarez to Torreon costs the American
s2.55 cents gold. considerably more
than the railroad fare, or close to
SIS in Mexican money. All prices on
the Pullman menu are in Mexican
money. but figured on gold ratio,
and all hotels are allowed to charge
at about the same rate. A bowl OF
soup is $3.50. cold sliced ham is 1915,
chicken salad Is the same. a bottle OF
beer (pinD Is IS, a drink OF whiskey
is the same, two American cigars are
s625. a cup OF coffee is $3.50 and
a cup OF tea Is $3,75. These prices
are taken from Pullman menu used
between JuareZ and Torreon.
Va thair trnans
in money OF their own making at the
rate OF 81 day, which amounts TO
six and one-half cents in American
gold in the first case and about ~
cents in the case OF the Carranza men.
As long as these soldiers confine their
purchases to products grown or pro-
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to keep up the value of their own
money in their own territory. have de-
creed that no person may refuse to
accept their money and in most in
stances prices are fixed by decree.
Mexican raised products must be sod
at about the usual rate--the rates they
brought in Mexico during the regime
Of Diaz, when the Mexican peso was
worth so cents in gold. Imported
goods, however. are sold at much
higher rates, both Carranza and Villa
recognizing that merchants cannot
buy with gold and sell for their rev.
olutionary money unless the price is
fixed accordingly.
In the matter of hotel accommoda-
tons. house rents, street carfare and
such things the old rates prevail, As
a result an American can get the best
hotel accommodations In Mexico at
dollar a day in CarranZa territory and
at about 80 cents a day in Villa ver-
ritory. To do this. however, the Amer
lean must buy his Carranza or Villa
currency in the United States. II he
has gold or American money In Mexico
and offers 1t in payment for bill he
il likely to have to pay dollar for
dollar in god.
Americans or other foreigners are
the only persons permitted to carry
gold or silver in Mexico. All natives
are searched on every train entering
or leaving Mexico and all gold and
silver are taken from them and Mexi-
can paper money Of the leader in
whose territory the search takes place
given in exchange, dollar for dollar,
Even Americans and foreigners are
searched for Mexican gold and silver
and are forced to liquidate at the same
rate
As an example OF what an Amer-
can may do In Mexico the following
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MI peculiar anomaly of being
the cheapest Place and also
the highest place in the
'Or'd 10 I've. 1t depends upon what
"'ohey one has 10 spend. Gold, and liv-
"s is as cheap as anywhere on the
s'ooe' Mexican paper money, and
'..oo is the price Of a bowl of soup.
Inc condition is brought about by
Ne hoodlng Of Mexico with so many
H'u Mles OF evolutionary paper money.
ma Car!anza Zapata, Gutierrez
'arza and several minor leaders have
"sueu money and every State has is-
sued us own money. There Is no ex-
.Hahge rate on the border for any of
ne money except the Villa and the
Carfahza currency. The Villa cur
.ency Is selling for 3A cents on the
1Adr American gold among the
money brokers in FL Paso. Carranza
currency brings 6 cents, but until re-
wh'ly Ia, been higher than that,
".eh double that price.
ihe pf'', pf this currency indicates
hrgr "N'ent the faith the money
"ohefS- most Of them shrewd Span
aus 'rI'"n out Of Mexico by the rev.
o.u,Ioh aat" in the survival of either
Tue Go'""uments. \ few months
eso 'h' ,u'r"ucy OF each leader was
%.lhg us ash as 80 cents on the
dollar.
The misfortune Of war of the two
.auerS not wholly responsible for
,"e pf''' ap"cycr. The rapid manner
:" "iI'' "ach Of the leaders Is work
mk ms pilni!ng press is partially re-
sponS.'.' Tor the drop in price 1t is
,a" 'hh' each leader prints tonight
W" "'''" which he uses TO pay OFF his
no"ps tomorrow
ho'h 'arianIa and Villa, anxious
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-20
THIRTY GUESTS
 WERE AT WEDDING

WASHINGTON, Dec 2o - Mrs Edith Boiling Galt. member of a prominent Virginia family and Q de- scendant of Pocahontas became the bride of Woodrow Wilson. the Presi- dent of the United States. Saturday evening. The ceremony took place at Mrs. Galt's home Tn the fashionable district, at S:3O o'clock, the service being read by the Rev. Herbert Scott Smith. rector of St. Margaret's, the church which Mrs. Galt attended. The Rev. James H. Taylor. pastor of the Presbyterian church which the Presi- dent usually attends, also was pres ent.
 Thirty guests were present, With the exception of Dr. Cary Grayson, the Presidents physician. Joseph P. Tumulty. secretary to the President and Miss Gertrude Gordon, the brides intimate friend. the guests were all relatives of President Wilson or Mrs. Galt. by blood or marriage.
 Formality Wac Lacking.
 Simplicity was the principal ele- ment of the wedding arrangements. President Wilson reached Mrs. Galts home at o'clock and dined with his daughters and the bride. AS he en- tered the Gait home, the President passed through a lane of the curiosity seekers who were kept back from the home by policemen. Tbe guests to the wedding also were scrutinized by the crowd. which numbered several hundred.
 No bridal march preceded the cere- mony, and ushers and attendants also were dispensed with. Guests said 1t was more like a quiet home wedding than that of the chief executive of the nation. The President and Mrs. Galt knelt on a prayer rug during the wedding ceremony. The bride wore a travelling suit, of blue serge. Follow ing the ceremony a buffet supper was served. The bride cut a huge wedding cake without the usual ceremony.
 Leave For Virginia.
 President and Mrs. Wilson left at 1O:30 for the railroad station by au- tomobile and left for Hot Springs, Va, in the Presidents private car, which was attached to a special train.
 Hundreds of wedding presents were received by the President and his bride They came from all points in the United States. Hawai-, the Philip pines and Alaska. in spite of the re- quest from the President that none should be sent except those from rel atives.