Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12
Desert Thirst Drives Adventure Seekers to Race With

sillo and had demonstrated their civtli-
Zation by cutting of the hands Of an
8-year-old girl and shooting a China
man.
Topping a rise at the rag-enu Oh
blistering hot dag, We gained a view
OF the Horcasitas River that circles the
flat-roofed city. A vision of Zion!
Tropical Oriental! The river meandered
through g richly cultivated country OF
corn md sugar-cane, OF BLOOMING
orchards and groves of oranges and tall
date-palms. The shadovy deprcssion9
and sUn-tisscd enircnces were dotte.5
with tiled or thatched adobe houses.
Here was beauty LIBERALIZATION!
Our troIE2rs were patched Eayont'
recognition, end our khaki shirts tori
and Etreakcd With etains Of sweat and
travel. After our long weeks in tho
dce2rt the urge in US to regain contaet
With the ordinary routine of city life. to
feel at leisure and veil dressed, became
imperative. we wanted decent attire
and o decent hotel, where we could
pathe end lo1 around for a day or two
Defore Fighting cut fer the Rio Yaqui.
Come what might, We had to have
something clean
e
WE dcc.ded to desert Prince. ana
wiiled him to a passing Indian.
We made quite ceremony Of it, telling
the Indian all CT Princes good points
to impress him With the fact that the
animal deserved the best of treatment
And, inCeed, it was rs hard to mar;
With Prince as Il would have been with
Some one with whom we he'd had long
ara intimate compromising. Every
tnlng good or bad. humble or sublime.
wlth which human being is associated
nas the poweT to root itself in the affec-
lonsi a1d Prince had been an integral
r1rt c. ell Cur harGsh.p end sfriyins
these East fcs' a-Gucus r1onths
me G~IVer Ct our cob. convinced that
we we're miners VINO had struc.:
| DcnacZa, lashed lis thin nags up 10 thc
Arcadia Hotel-to us ct that moment q
mcst luxurious piace-2nd then de-
manded whole Collar. four times thu
rSTular tariff. The proprietor of thu
notei. Uorr1-Sh7red. bilious, lazy Yau-
zee, also OWNED that we had struck s
bonanza, end signed us I'd for a room
with cath ct So day, fabulous Eric
for IIernaosillo and for us.
But that bath! We luxuriated In il
al tnat nrSt afternoon, laving ourselves
again end again before going to bed
Two Gays we lived at the Hotel Arca-
dia M:;ur-cusly, improvidently, lazily.
TOT caring to reckon Up cur fast-evap-
eating funds.
We decided to change to a cheaner
hcteI, the Hotel Juarez. where we could
Get room with cots for so centavos a
daT---o bath. We checked out of tho
Arcadia and hailed a cab to take rs
over.
Arriving at the Jrarez, 1 dug into nv
pocket to pay the fare No money!
paved through my pockets. Not 2
Stsn q cur money. We had lost 1t. we
stood there on the curb in front OF thc
hotei blankets on our backs staring a.
each other stupidity. No money! Not
cent?
We walked ain1lesSly UP one stree
and down another. We came TO the
river on the southwest fringe of town
py the river-bottom. Poor reouIe SQUAT
ted here in Slovenly huts of stray pieces
| OF board, hattened oil cans, draped rags.
We very much doubted whether We
could get job. Our Spanish was afro
clously poor; we we're badly dressed.
Nevertheless We bad to find something
to do ct once, or starve.
Ralph.
you stay with the blankets and I'll
see what I can scare up" I replied.
Under the hot sun I walked slowly
back to town and turned in at the Ar
cadian Hotel. The Yankee owner was
lounging in wicker chair in the hotel
lobby, chair from which he never STIR
red all Gay long. Telling him of our
plight, ! inquired about work. As nc
mad been his guests. expected some
sympathy. but he listened uninterested-
iy. Work! There amt none" he
drawled, starring out at the sizzling
street. He stretched slowly: then lifted
himself up from his creaking cfaair.
Give m fifty cents" he ordered his
Mexican desk clerk. lie slouched onto
the patio. adding over his shoulder.
Then tel him to get out
tCopyrisht, 1922