Evening star., 1923-09-01
TALKS and TALES
With and about
CAPITALS GUESTS


New York, president of the Oliver
| American Trading Company and one
| Of the founders Of the American
\ Is 100 per cent game.
Seated alone in the lobby Of The
| Hotel Shoreham as the shrill cries o'
/ newsboys told him that the United
| states and Mexico had resumed diplu-
! matte relations, this live. eucrgntic
! American business man who for the
last year has been persona non erat,.-
IN the republic TO our south and who
| TOR more than eleven months has had
| vast sums Of money tied up in the
| courts of New YORK, due to a suit
| brought by him against the Mexican
! government. merely ran his hand
| across his forehead and smiled
| Anything to say at this time, Mr.
! Ol!ver?" asked the writer as ho drew
! up a chair
| Nothing more than I lose" came
back with laugh through a big
| cloud of cigar smoke. Il have jusr
| peeh contemplating sending It dis
patch to President Oregon couerat-
| uIatlns his government and E.isniuer
| the people Of Mexico the best Of good
business men should that resume
! ton of friendly relations wit!. Mex
! .co VIII mean much - til" United
| States right at present, and VIM.
| such action is Knockout for ne
! III swallow my medicine ANA lct Ii
| go at that"
Oliver?"
| Not unless carried there. : en-
| JOY the proud distinction Of having
| Articles SO hanging over nv head
| which means that while I may be CON
| sldered d perfectly reputable citizen
| when dining in the University Cluu.
| New York, ] am looked upon as a per
nicious character if ever found on tn.
| sacred soil Of Mexico. No, / hardly
! think / will return"
| Ihe trouble between the head Of
the Oliver Trading Company ana thc
several succeeding governments of
Mexico which followed the assas.ns-
tion Of President carranza, grew out
! or certain disputes arising from rne
lcompany's freight-hauling ac :yities
ana resulted in the cnnfiscat!pn b.
| Mexico of more than fourteen loco
motives. 400 box cars Mr. O!fv.-,.-
palacial home in Mexico CITY and all
| OF his private belongings
Ihe American returned to New YnrI.
ana immediately brought suit against
/ me! me government Of Mexico. t.e.ng up
| EaSt sums OF money. and proceeded to
o1taln redress from Mexico through
| cInclal channels in this country
ne recognition Of Mexico ~ Inc
| onlted states. Will, according t" Nj.
o!lNer, end the squabble ana ans.
! him to come out on tho shOrt ,rT oP
| .he transaction. He does il with a
smile however. and that helps :. INT;
IN these troublesome times.
With the Mexican situation en-
! ,reSh in mind, a hurried skip around
! 70 the hotel Lafayette was made to
see what Judge \. 5. Wall.r. one
! II.,' ~ tne most prominent lawyers in
| matter
Finding. the genial Texan praviag
! Tor cool September morn to in:, le
jPteaSa5t j1s trip h. was 10 take l
earned from him that recognition Of
| Mexico would mean a great r..II N
! a commercial way for the An4ari,.lrI
| people especially those in th.. south
ern part of the country.
! hope that my old friend Il. Is. Creag,,r
| - appointed Ambassador to Mexico
! tie IS well qualified for the post.
haIing spent thirty years of his life
az at BroWnsEIlle t.s right on the border,
! no man understands the temperrnerit
1 OF Mexico better than he He is the
I r"Puhlcan state chairman of our
stat" and has done fine work for the
! party down our way"
II was further learned from Jud1a
/ walker that the CorSicana oil fe,d.
! which IS Just sixty miles from Dallas
and is now being developed promises
TO be the largest in the Lone Star
- ate Hress,f.. re" i,I wrlis ARE are being drilled
! business is at a standstiL owing 10
| low prices, and nobody thinks Of
drilling who doesn't really have 10.
OF course, for protection TO offset
Dor. we'll will be started. otherwise,
there is not much activity in the oil
/ country"
- Referring to general conditions n
Texas, Judge Walker said things
We're rather slow. that while farm
land live stock were little on the
!up grade. the cattle industry was in
ithe dumps, the market conditions
iWhlch frightened a bit last spring
lhaving gone bad again, and that dur
ilng the past few months several Of
the largest rauChers in the state had
become bankrupt. A moderate cot
ton crop is being harvested. however.
iselhns at 23 and "a cents per pound.
And speaking of troubled countries.
n was most refreshing to learn from
a T. Corcoran OF the Freenan's
journal. Dublin, ireland. who has Ar
rived at the Hotel Raleigh TO sperd
a months vacation in WASHINGTON.
that things was running most smooth
ily over in the land of the Shamrock
fright now.
ITO he sure. there are still few
iructions every now and then said
the athletic young Irishman as he
ichecked his big golf bag. But on
the whole. ireland is going ahead at
little more than garden. with
inothing taken very seriously. Today
Ireland is hard at work. and making
rapid strides. All the time formerly
wasted in talk about blood. race ava
oppression is now being devoted q
real honest work and il will not be
long before the old country comes
into it's own"
Wearing the broadest OF sonbreros
and swinging his 1.-THE. rangy body
from side to side, Brant Elliott Of
Three Rivers. New Mexico, breezed
into town. registered at the Hotel
Washington. gave the surrounding
.neighborhood hurried up-and-down,
and then breezed right out again.
Brant, who is ever on the lookout
for big land deals down in his Three
Rivers country, owns a farm IN Va
ieinia also, and il was to inspect This
THAT he made the trip north.
Asked how things were rIDninr IN
New Mexico, the tall athlete said:
i"Couldn't be better. We've had rain.
lots OF rain. and that's all we want
in that section-just rain"
| Thinking how easily satisfied Three
Rivers folks must be, ] shook thr out
stretched hand. and wished him more
rain.
| I had hardly left the New Mexican,
when my eyes fell on Roy L. Nru-
hauser, local broker leading 4 clean
cut. broWn-eyed lad up TO the desk
and was never SO pleased in my life
to hnd it was Midshipman Everett
| burroughs of the United States Naval
Academy, on of four sons Of the late
Sherman Burroughs, representative
from the first district of New Hamp-