The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-25
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port to Iapatistas. Nillistas or TO Con-
su~tutlonil sts-to any side-and then,
ara only then, will order he restored
The politics OF the various Mexican par.
ties mean nothing to me. and ! don't
care which party the United states sides
win SO long as 1t acts emphatically at
once.
But together with all Americans and
others OF education In Mexico ! should
rather see Mr.. Wilson take up the cause
ut an educated Il AN like Carranza. who
ut All the Mexican leaders has proper
Ideals, has made some effort toward
lifung the Mexican people out Of the
depths Il Ignorance by systematic edu
cation and h alone among all the
warning Mexican leaders. has estab-
lished relief stations and generally has
tried to conduct warfare in a civilized
manner"
Kept sights From children.
Mrs. Burton. her children-a girl Of
: years, another girl s years old. a hoy
OF I and an infant-and her brother-in-
law. Francis Burton, and his four chill
dren decided to try to get TO Vera Cruz
when, as Mrs. Burton said yesterday.
the sights even In the streets of the
American colony. which liz in about the
most restricted residential section OF
49, vi Nh'l lhhl We ! ~ y
had to keep the shades drawn SO this
children could not see"
MY little girls" she went on. would
be awakened early I'm the morning by
the shootings and the yells outside.
oh. mamma they would cry. it's an
other feast day. Every day is a feast
day now, isn't II. mamms?' What they
thought was the noise Of the feast day
exercises was the banging of guns as
N go stN .a ~ -
the nigh. II into the day.
Smallpox of the most ,irulent kind
was everywhere. How many were down
with it when | eft early this month
] don know. but | do know that even
In good quarters Of Mexico city some
houses contained five and six cases
simultaneously. SO what must It have
been in the lower quarters. which are
horrible at best"
Little Food, No water.
Food had been growing more scarce
day by day for six months. until there
came "A time just before I fed whei
there was no corn. no milk, no fou'
n actually no water. 10 the Zaps
tistas had got hold of the pumps at the
Lake OF Nochimilco. the municipal water
plant, and finally The only drop of water
in town was IN a few artesian wells or
private grounds.
by this time every store. including
bakeries and diaries. and al the rostau
rants. were closed up tightly. For q
woman to walk along the streets mean
the vilest insults. or worse. one Lowell,
woman I knew. a French girl, who wa
the wife OF the proprietor Of the fines
hotel In the city. was seized by four %
Nilla'S men. who drove up TO the hote
a.. AYn 80 N-9ff.fp .a~a l,ayDaI hos tat.
the automobile and drove her off to
house occupied by villa. where she wal
outraged.
"A family OF dear friends of mine
Mr.. and Mrs. Margaret Hughes. anc
their three little children. all Americans
who had a pleasant home In the suburb
Of the city. called C~hiribusco. wer,
raidcd by the Zapatisias shortly befor'
left.
Zapntistas PillaEe and XIII.
"As the outlaws attacked the hous
Mr.. Hughes sen Margaret. his w.f'
to the roof with the children and toll
them TO lie there Nat. Then he tried Il
ward OF the m~arsuding soldiers. bu
they beat him senseless and then boun'
him. While he lay there they took al
his horses. pillag.d the house and thef
as consciousness returned TO him an,
ne pidNels NEH'h W IiS' AGAIN III u'ielt
OF has home they fired many shots "A
him and rode away yelling wildly.
The Xapatistas saw him drop and sup
posed they had finished him. But whs'
his wife and little ones dared to com
down from the roof they found that a
the bullets had entered his legs, ! be
lieve n. recovered
As the first Of March approached. Mr.
Burton said. she was growing desperate
She knew OF no way TO leave the cit
which was surrounded by the hord'
oil Villa and Zipata sh" had no foo
for her children and not a single dro