The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-01
GAY time AHEAD
Mexican With Much "Giit" Nears
La Belle France.
Twelve Million Francs In His Jeans
viii Compensate for Discomfort
of Passase--Is said to Have
Betrayed carranza.

A stoker with 100000 francs In
his enough TO pay for at least
one square meal and the convert
charge in any Paris restaurant--is
nearing the shores of France today
bent on having his fling In the land Of
Tight wines and dancing while his
franking privilege holds out
Being member of the high Mexl-
can traitocracy the man Is travelling
incog, aud not even his nom de stoke
can be made public at this time. All
well.informed Mexicans In this city,
however. know his name and his his
tory, and the only mystery is how
the hotel bell hops and taxi drivers of
New York ever let him get away with
all that gilt-edged tlppage, says the
Evening Post Of that city.
As an Indication OF the exalted
position he formerly held, 1t need only
be said he was the man who had
personal charge of the safety of Car
rama when the late president made
his recent exit from the Mexican mise
en- scene. 1t Is not known just where
he was when the body fell but soon
afterward he arrived here in town
with money enough TO set him up for
the rest of his natural (Mexlcan)
life.
Some one connected with the hotel
on Herald square where the visitor
stopped recognized him and Is said 10
have given him the Mexican equiya-
lent OF the chautauqua salute. but
the man who had done so much to
/ make Carranza safe for the undertake
ers failed to reply in kind. He even
put himself down in the hotel reg
lister as somebody else-but those who
knew knew.
For days and days the generallssl-
motor he was one of thOse-rrled
vainly to get the necessary o. X. to
book passage for France. The city
was filed with Representatives OF all
Mexican governments, but none Of
I them would do the honors. The Car
rama agents turned him down be-
cause they didn't exactly like the way
( he had looked after the safety of
their chief. The 0bregonzlstas refused
to function either because they didn't
/ like his technique or because they
[ thought he had more money than an
ex-safety commissioner ought to have
/ with but one president to his credit.
4 Something Of the same train of
( thought is said to have affected the
dc Ia HuertlStas.
At about this point those who had
reason TO feel friendly towards the
ex-generalissimo came forward with
the suggestion that he ship as a
stoker At first he was not inclined
10 take the tip, but when they told
him how nice and warm II would he
down IN the stoke hole and how near
he would be TO the part of the ship
where the revolutions take place he
decided II was worth trying--once
St0kers were scarce and full-iledged
Mexican traitocratic stokers were ex-
tremely hard to get, so he had no
difficulty in landing job All the
fine Jewels and precious silk shirts
which he had bought while here were
cashed in before sailing. When he
took TO the high sens he had nothing
but his stoke clothes and the 19,000,-
600 Of French currency.
When he gets shore leave at Havre
or Brest or Bordeaux, II is expected
the company will have TO advertise
for a new stoker. But Paris will
have a new Latin-American spender
7 70 conjure with.