The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-07-17
DE LA HUEIRTA MOVES !.
INTO CASTLE SHUN ND
]. By FORMER PRESIDENT
Quaint History 4. Surround.
Castle Il, 81 Char ultepee - |
:..... h. Gated in Mexicro City L
II BY Ralph II. Turner
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:sts City OF Mexico, July l7.--Famoais
& Oh ap,iltepec Castle, splendidly poised
d high aboyethe park bearing the same
name and overlooking the wide valley
: Of Mexico,sis once more the home Of
q Mexican ruler. : s<...--. 4 >a,.s;: - -
1t was this historic, castle, employed
as a fortress: that the Americans
Btormed and captured back in 1847;
Sid on the same spot many years be
Bfore, one Of L the Montezumas con
verted THE fortress intosss,a summer
residence, where he established his
4 harem,: baths and hunting lodge. L
4 Chapultepec, besides its historic
associations and the magnificent view
~, ! commands of the, Mexican valley,
also wins tame from the fact that IS
is one 81 the most luxuriously APP
pointed residences on the American
continent But it held few charms
tdE the bcwhiskered old ranchman,
Yenustiano Carranza. ! Fl. Carranza
), spurned Chapuftepec, summer and
winter. On rare occasions he used
the palace as a place for entertain
I ment, ( but as Ia living place he pre-
/ ferred the simplicity OF a plain dwell
ling in the capitals residence dist
rfct.: g.ssa= (. Mr. 8 ,7E I
VII To the more cultured, eye of fAdolfo
de la Huerta, the new provisional
president, Chapultepec had more ap-
peal De la 7Huerta moved into the
castle, bag and baggage. a few days
after he, had been inaugurated. It
is not meant to create the impression
that the new. Mexican, ruler is fond
OF frills. Far from it,. In many lines
!. of administration, De la Huerta has
abolished forms of pomp that even
Carranza tolerated. But De la Huer-
ia, the practical Sonoraite, probably
reasoned that the castle was already
furnished, that If he didn't occupy it,
It would remain vacant and that
experiments in Mexico City, were
mighty scarce. So he called the now
ing van and Chapultepec Castle is to-
I day the regular residence af "a
= Mexican President for the first time
since the days Of the other Huerta,
the one who drew the frowns OF Pre-
sident Wilson. IA ssI1.:*z = !
! ~. ..!.'The view is; unsurpassed as the
real estate boomer might say, but
/, Adolf0 de la 3Huerta, as he stands on
the castle balcony. won't survey the
same, scenic, beauty as filed the eyes
OF his historic predecessors. Bayard
!, Taylor, thought the most beautiful
view OF, the world was that Of the
vale of Cashmere and after it, the
valley of Mexico from Chapultepec
heights. But ics-revolutionary
politics changed the vista since
..Montezuma sought distraction from
administrative cares and communed
with dryad ;oracles In, the hallowed
groves of ancient 5Ahuehuetes.". ~
Construction ofIthe castle. was be-
Z gun. in 1885, but did not reach its
! present state, until many. years after
ward. Today 1t covers almost the
, whole top of Chapultepec, which, > In
theotAztec language, means Grass
:, hopper Hill, so called from the num-
bertt insects that once infested the
regiOn.& ag.3 r. ~. III ,:E.F. j 4 r III
~ iUnderythe Carranza regime visitors
inspected ,theslcastle upon obtaining
special permits. ~ IT is still open to
b visitors, u but, being. the president 3
residence, permits are moro difficult
: to obtain and the hours of inspection
more limited. .,'d . n :s ..: q q. Is