The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-06-29
HUERTA LAUNCHES
\ BUSINESS BOOM
Forest Hill, |, l., Gets Pos
porous as Result of His
Locating There.
New York Herald.

Barcelona to dwell just beJOnd rH.
range of his beloved Mexico Fof-,r
Hills. L. L.. became assured of a b.sj-
ness boom that has stirred il amaz-
ingly. There Mr.. Huerta has elected
to dwell and there his family. With
collection of the most representative
appetites in Mexican lore. have de-
cided to eat, with the desult that every
butcher. vegetable clerk and VINE
purveyor in Forest Hills is WORKING
night and day and is many days be-.
hind his orders.
In Mexico family and home does my
mean papa, mamma and Willie" it
four room fiat. A Mexican family -
pecially those who are not kept busy
saluting the United States flag. con
! sists of every available relative M,
came into the world following the ar
rival of father. And when Mr.
Huerta arrived in Forest Hills ne
brought his family. Every green
shutter in Forest Hills clicked ac-
lively as the parade passed.
The Huerta cook. who is a man os
few words. mostly Mexican, went 70
the butchers and took a look around
AS there were only a couple OF care
fully carved cows in sight he asked
if the butcher had any meat. The
butcher, thinking the bronzed person
a foreign kidder. remarked that meat
was his middle name and opened MS
one cylinder icebOx.
Good said the cook. in worse
English than that, send it up - Mr..
Huerta's home"
Stockips the Huerta-L:Aier
Send WHAT asked the butcher.
twirling a string of bullet PROOF san
sages.
The meat" said the cook. with 4
gesture which took in the contents If
the ice box. w want il for sup
per"
The town butcher of Forest Hills
will send anything once. He DESPATCH
ed every fragment Of meat in the ice
box to the Huerta home. 1t was paid
for on delivery. Since then new meat
rains have been rolling east on tho
Long Island Railroad. hi town veg
etabie man has a garden shipped d.
rect to the Huerta home each MORN
ing. He does a nall general vege-
; table business on the side just for
recreation.
:. The news Of what the Huerta fam.
lily ate and the rumors of what the
Huerta family had, despite their ex-
travagance, travelled long and low. 50
: that the real estate dealers. who are
usually found with their ears TO the
. ground. soon learned that there was
3 a noise strangely akin to money IN
the neighborhood. They went to the
butchers. the bakers, and the various
persons already enriched by the stu
+; alton in Mexico and. having looked
over and carefully bitten some OF the
:, gold coins, made their advance m
: the Huerta home.
Within two weeks there were offer
: ed to Mr.. Huerta vast areas Of Long
Island and by the foot, yard, quart or
s mile. They were willing to sell HIM
everything from an open lot with cleo
trio grass growers to a seventy-tWo
room palace to be paid for on the
death OF his pet spaniel: Circulars
describing how to live on long Island
and to make $1,000 a year for merely
doing so were thrust under his door
into the incoming laundry. onto mo
n seats Of his automobile and under h5
derby.
!, Why Not Some Life Insurance:
n The life insurance companies sent
> leather lunged persons who assured
him that they would give him a poi
icy covering death. Illness. loss OF sleep
or insanity and that for a period 81
sixty day from the twelfth Of ine
fiscal month they would allow hlm -
come in under a rate usually allowed
:, to children Of five years and under
Then the book agents rose To f's,
mark as they tapped long string ~
limitation book backs past him thai ne
would be President Of Mexico To-Day
had he as a youth read Philip bon
heads Nights and Days Under \
Freight" They told him frankly th4l
in order to settle up the BOnehead -
tate the books were now seillHS t'i
A S37 a ton net.
MIR. Huerta obtained four M"Nl IN
dogs which ark in Epo1iSb and thpr-
has Of lata boon loss ira f6c over ha
lawn. He said that the racket NOT
ried his family. but the butcher Dl
indicates that they were not serio"9-
ly upset by the strange gold T"N'
which their arrival precipitated.
Pho mort fn DniIx o,o ab1IT q .Ltt
)S d bit socially, usually as a unit i47'
week the Of the 9hA'
necock games thought it was a GOO
ar idea to. send Mr.. Huerta an lnVltat'''
We to the affair, and did. The ticket re-
We and family Inc games "tfT