Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-12-13
Writes From Mexico.

NJ. Engel of Clark street interest as
showing how easy travelling may be
made And attention may be called
10 the fact that now the journey from
Mexico City TO the border Is made In
two days and when Mr. and Mrs
Fisher went from the border to MeXi-
co City few months ago il took four
days to make the same trip, This in
dicateS the effectiveness of the work
Mr. Fisher has done and makes one
wonder what will be the next difficult
task given this brilliant young man;
On the Train Somewhere in North
Mexico Nov %, 1921.
Dear Folks:
We are travelling again. and the
train is quite shaky, making it diff
cult to write. will mail this on the
border when we arrive, which will be
at I tomorrow morning
We had planned to continue home
from Houston. after Sam had finished
business there. and had everything
packed and ready. But something
turned up and we will have to go
back to Mexico City before coming
home.
We left Mexico City last night at
! and expect to be at the border in
the morning. We will go to Browns
vile, Eagle Pass, Houston and Laredo.
we have Sans steno. along and
the inspector OF the road but he will
leave us this evening to 90 on an
other section OF the line,
We are now riding through noun
tains, but as have described the
scenery in previous letters, | win not
tell 1t over We are certainly travel
ing In great style, and ! will be thor
oughly spoiled for even Pullman trips
after this. We are nightly comfort
able. There is living room with
desk and bookcase, two dayenports,
two large arm chairs and several
small ones. The furniture Is uphol-
stored in green velour. Then there
is a smoking room with davenport
and chairs and a table Then there
is a bathroom Next Is our room,
which has brass bed, clothes
closet and bath.
Then there is another bedroom pust
like ours, only it has no bath. The
stenographer and inspector use this.
At the end is the kitchen and two
rooms where the cook, porter and
helper sleep.
We sit in the living room. When
the table is not in use it fits in the
corner by the bookcase. There is a
large dining table, fine dishes and
silver and very good food.
Houston, Nov. 30.
| mailed you a letter from Pied
rasuegras, Mexico, where we spent
two days. We then went to Laredo
for a couple of days, and left yester'
day noon, arriving here about mid
night. 1t is raining but in the train
shed we do not feel it.
The general agent Of the Mexican
lines was here to meet us this morn
ing. was on the train before 1t came
10 full stop.
We are invited out already for
half dozen things. My only regret Is
we cant stay to some of them.
In Piedrasuegras there is a very
wealthy gentleman by the name OF
Sam Wah, who halls from the celes-
tial kingdom. He is worth several
millions. is highly educated and Is
very fine man. He heard we were In
town and wanted to do something nice
for us, so the evening we arrived he
sent a huge bouquet OF beautiful now
ers, and the next morning sent d
large, very large basket OF various
kinds of fruit, huge cake and
turkey. Wasn't that pleasant,
A man was sent from Washington
recently to interview Mr.. Wah about
his views on China, and this informa.
ton is now being used for reference
in Washington at the conference.
had the pleasure of meeting him and
talking with him. He certainly is a
brilliant man.
Piedrasuegras is real frontier
town-lively and wide awake. On
every corner there is either dance
hall or a gambling place, and as 1t is
warm all the doors and windows are
open
There is little park right in the
center of the town where he sat in
the evenings and listened to the
music, different from every window,
and mixed with noise of all kinds,
bowling alley and billiard hall being
near.
| bought few things in Laredo, for
things were cheap, and my friends
had asked me to get some things. The
general agent sent his machine and
chauffeur for me and just went from
one store to another. They have
some good ones there, with huge,
complete stock The town is not
large, but it certainly is lively. The
boy driving the machine came in
handy, fer he directed me to differ
ent places and helped pick out arti-
cles. He said he had lot of sisters
and always helped them shop and
liked it. We stopped in Corpus
Christi for a few hours, and had
ride around that beautiful little city.
We will probably be home arousd
the first of the year, but will start
from Mexico City, as we return there
in a short time.