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SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS: SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1916.
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REVENGE PROMPTED MEAL DENIES
TWO CULMINATING
CRIMES OF VILLA
LOPE£ EXPLAINS CAUSES OF
SANTA YSABEL MURDERS AND
COLUMBUS RAII).
MEXICAN DECLARES CHARGE HE
FOSTERED ATTACK IS MADE
BY ENEMIES.
CONSIDERED U. S. COWARD HIS FORMAL STATEMENT
P.y Associated Tress.
CHIHUAHUA. Mexico, May 2fl (By
courier to El Paso, Tex.).—Squatting: in
a • orner of Lis cell-in-the Chihuahua peni-
tentiary Pablo Lopez, the captured Villa
bandit, today gava the Associated Press
Correspondent the vHlista explanation ol
the two rulinUintiug crimes of Francisco
Villa's career Ihe Santa Ysabel massacre
and the Coin minis raid.
Lopez was the bandit's closest hench-
man, his chief lieutenant and his prime
aid and his executioner in both affairs.
Sitting in tho shadow of approaching
death, for Pablo is to be executed just as
soon as his wounds are healed, the bandit
declared that in killing eighteen Americans
at Santa Ysabel last January he only
_ obeyed Villa's orders. Lopez, asserted that
"Don PanchoV motive both at Santa
Ysabel and Columbus was revenge mixed
with a desire to waken his country to the
danger of "Gringo domination."
"Don Pain ho," he said, "was convinced
that the United States was too cowardly
to try to win Mexico by arms and believed
that it "would keep pitting one faction
against another until we were all killed
©if, when our exhausted country would
fall like a ripe pear into their eager
hands." ..
At times also Lopez said \ ilia would
charge Carranza with "selling out to the
Gringoes." On such occasions ho said
Villa would assert that he must try for
intervention before *4the Americans were
ready" and "while we still had time to
become a united nation.M
SONORA SECRETARY RESIGNS
Enrique Moreno Quits After New Gov-
ernor Is Seated.
International News Service.
DOUGLAS, Ariz., May 26.—Enrique Mo-
reno secretary of state in Sonora under
General V. Klias Calles, resigned office
yesterday following the seating of Adolfo
de la Huerta as the new cUrilian gover-
nor. ,
1)6 la Huerta. who is without a follow-
ing here, and without any military
strength, is making overtrures to General
Calles to patch up the breach. General
Calles, with the army at his back, re-
fuses to* treat "with De la HueTta. For the
' second time within a week Calles has re-
i fused to honor an order given by First
! Chief -Carranza" to the 'Cananea Cattle
Company permitting them to export sev
eral thousand head of cattle.
A few days ago General Calles forcibly
stopped the exportation of cattlfe. When
' the matter was referred to I>e la Huerta to
Carranza the First Chief again Instructed
the new civil governor to see that the
companv be permitted to ship cattle into
the United States. Calles interposed, plac-
ing his soldiers between the border and a
herd near Naco, with instructions to kill
the cowboys if necessary to carrv out his
orders. Calles demanded $2(1 gold export
tax pef head. While Carranza cut the rates
almost in two, which resulted in the Can-
anea company doing business with the
First Chief.
To Send Airship Today.
Staff Special to The ErpresB.
WASHINGTON, D. C.# May 20.—The Na-
tional Guard of New Mexico is soon to get
a big aeroplane, a gift of the Aero Club
of America. Chbinet heads, members of
the Military and Naval Committees of the
Senate and House, and army and navy of-
ficers today inspected the giant military
tractor aeroplane in which Victor Carl-
strom flew from New York to Washington
yef^erday morning, making the 225 miles
in 187 minutes, with Alan R. Hawley, pres-
ident of the Aero Club of America as a pas-
senger. Saturday morning the aeroplane
will be shipped to the National Guard of
New Mexico.
700 SOLDIERS AT DONNA
Third Battalion, Second Infantry. State
Guard, Arrived There Yesterday.
Special Telegram to Tta Express.
DONNA, Tex.. May 20—The Third Bat-
talion of the Second Infantry, State Guard,
arrived here this morning at 4 o'clock.
Major Weathorred 1" in command. They
have been busy all day pitching camp
alongside the Twenty-eighth United States
Infantry, which has been stationed here for
some time. This makes a total of about
700 soldiers for Douna. .
Alleged Bandit Killed.
Br Associated Press.
BROWNSVILLE, Tex.. May 2«.-T'ahlo
Trevlno. an alleged Mexican bandit, was
Ihot and killed early today along the San
Benito Canal, according to a seemingly
inthentle report here. Details of the kill-
ing are lacking, but it was said that
United States soldiers arrested another
Mexican 8nd turned him over to the civil
authorities.
Dr. S. J. Porter, Pastor
First Baptist Church
Will hare for hi* »nhjwt Sunday morning,
at 11 o'clock
"Our Covenant."
Erory member of the Flral Baptlat Churrlt
la v«M to be present. Visitors welcomed.
Ham-Ramsay
Meeting at Night
NEW YORK. May 26.—Antonfo I. Vil-
la real, the Mexican statesman, who has
been accused by representatives of Car-
ranza of inspiring the bandit raids in the
Big Rend district of Texas, issued a state-
ment today from his apartments in the
Hotel Majestic here in which he deuh'd any
participation in the recent uprising and
border troubles.
Senor Villa real says he is persona non
grata with both Villa and Carranza, be-
cause of his earnest efforts to maintain
the National honor and dfgnity of Mexico.
He gives this situation as bis reason for
being a refugee in the United States.
• The statement follows:
"I have read in the press of this cit.v
that Kliseo Arredoudo, ambassador of Car-
ranza's government in Washington, asserts
that I am the principal fnstlgator of the
recent disturbances at Glen Springs, Tex.,
'and, besides, that there will very soon oc-
cur new raids on American territory under
my instigation.
"Since I have been away from Mexico I
have refrained from making any public
declaratfons or giving interviews for news-
papers, as I thought this would bo the best
course from the patriotic point of view. If
I speak now it is because I feel the need
of denying the absurd accusations that are
made against me by a man who represents
our country here, but who, it seems, does
not realize the perfect seriousness and fair-
ness that one would expect of him in his
difficult position, especially at the present
moment.
ACCUSES CARRANZA'S SPIES.
"I have lived now for more than a year
in the United States, always under the
eyes of many spies of Carranza's govern-
ment. A few weeks ago the agents of Car-
ranza were able to deceive the Depart-
ment of Commerce and Labor into giving
an order of arrest against me, under the
pretext that I was an undesirable foreign-
er who had entered into this country vio-
lating the IrumPgratlon laws. The immi-
gration agents in San .Antonio, Tex., made
me answer a series of questions, all of
them of a political character, and then I
was allowed, under bail, to tome to Wash-
ington to defend myself.
"I spoke with the Secretary of Labor on
the 26th of last month and told him that
Carranza's agents, were asking the Govern-
ment of the United States to make an im-
proper appllcatfon of the immigration laws,
as they wanted It to act against Mexican
political exiles. Secretary Wilson prom-
ised that lie himseJf would read the docu-
ments rotating to me. A few hours after-
wards. having rend them, he gave orders
for my absolute freedom, releasing me from
baiL This clearly shows the unfairness
of Carranza's agents as well as the fact
that the Department of Labor will not be
deccfved into sending back to Mexico a
political refugee who would become the
victim of political fury.
PRESIDED AT AGUA8 CALIENTES.
"The. new accusation now made against
me, although it is more absurd and slan-
derous, comes from exactly the same
source. Carranza's government is anxious
to suppress me at any cost, or if not. at
least to have me away from this country.
It. is not difficult to discover the reason
of this. In the convention held at Aguas
Caller)tes, October, 1014, of which I was
elected chairman, and where the deposition
of Senor Carranza was voted, the delegates
who were against both Carranza and Villa
tried to have me elected Provisional Presi-
dent of Mexico. From that moment a bft-
ter Campaign of abuse has been waged
against tne by the Carranclstas, and now
they have gone so far as to make a slan-
derous denunciation against a Mexican cit-
izen before a foreign government.
"Anybody who knows my political ca-
reer will understand that It Is impossible
for me to be associated, directly or indi-
.rectl.v, in the preparation of the Glen
Springs raids. It is absurd even to think
that I could have any previous knowledge
of the occurrence of these or any others
of the same nature. I have condemned and
condemn now with all my energv the acts
of the raiders of Columbus and Glen
Sprfngs.
"As a Mexican, especially, I condemn
them. Since the welfare of our country
should be our principal concern, and such
outrages will do nothing but add to our
National misfortunes, I desire to have my
country's sovereignty respected by all na-
tions and. therefore. I protest against any
unjustified act that will tend to involve
Mexfco in international conflicts.''
PLANS LOANS TO FARMERS
De Facto Government Organizes Com-
mission Backed by 25,000,000 Pesos.
By Associated Press.
EL PASO, Tex., May 26.—In its effort to
better the economic conditions in Mexico,
the de facto government Is turning at last
from arbitrary decrees to direct subsidies,
according to an official message received
at the Mexican consulate here today from
the City of Mexico.
A commission, backed by 2.1,000,000 pesos,
gold standard, has been organized by order
of the First Chief to make loans to corn
and cotton raisers In the Lagune district,
which lies between iMirango and Coahulla.
This section, formerly* prosperous has
been ruined by five years of revolutions
and its value reduced to penury. Mean
time the arbitrary economic remedies put
into practice by the government remain
in force throughout the Republic. Mer-
chants are compelled to accept government
paper at its legal rate and their prices
are also set by decree. General Benjamin
lltll, military commander of the City of
Mexico, settled the strike In his district
yesterday by forbidding employers to re-
duce the number of their emploves or to
dismiss any man for having struck. This
decree holds for three months. The gov-
eminent reserves the right to take pos-
session of and work any offending estab-
lishment.
ROBBERS ARE CAPTURED
Meq Who Made Big Haul of Carranza
Currency From Train in Custody.
Special Telegram to The Express.
LAREDO, Tex., May 26.— Pedro Pedraza
and two other Mexicans who robbed the
car of the paymaster of the Constitutional-
ist Lines of Mexico in Nuevo Laredo in
March were taken to Monterey from Nuevo
Laredo today bound together and lying on
the floor of an express car.
The three men. two months ago. when
the paymaster's car arrived and was side-
tracked in the shop yards for the night,
broke into the car. took the safe therefrom
and removed it to the brush, where they
broke It open and secured $70,000 in Car-
ranza currency.
The identity of the robbers was unknown
until about two day* ago. when a Mexican
who was deported from this city wan ar-
rested in Nuevo Laredo on another charge
and confessed to having tAken part in the
car robbery and implicated two other men.
Two brothers of Pedrara were arrested
in Nuevo Laredo today on suspicion of be-
ing accomplices and were taken to Monte-
rey with the prisoners. It is believed the
men will be ordered executed by the Car-
ranza authorities.
Rancher Shoots Mexican.
Py Aswvt.ted Press.
EL PASO, Tex., May 2#.—Resident! of
Dona Ana County, New Mexico, are taking
extra precautions today against trouble,
following the shooting last night of a Mex-
ican by C. D. O'assad. a rancher. Nine
Mexicans are .aid to have approached the
Cassad place last night and were ordered
away by the proprietor. Antonio Bermu-
dex disregarded the order and was ahot
by Cassad. who then surrendered to the
Sheriff at Lu Crueea.
PRISONERS OF GLEN SPRINGS RAID CHAINED TOGETHER
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BENEFIT OF LOCAL
IIOME-COOKED FOOD AND FRESH
COUNTRY PRODUCE WILL BE
OFFERED PUBLIC.
Jjeft to right: Deputy Sheriff M. H. Hargus, Natividnd Alvarez, colonel in the Carranza army: Manuel Torres, Deputy Sher-
iff ,T. L. Shoemaker. Alvarez and Torres, With the chain around their necks, were two of the Mexicans captured by American
mining men while the Mexicans were taking them into Mexico, following the Glen Springs and'Boquilla, (Tex.) raids. The two
prisoners are to be lodged in the jail nt Alpine.
WAR DEPARTMENT STARTS TO
CARRY OUT NEW ARMY BIIX
PROVISIONS.
Staff Special to The Express.
WASHINGTON. I). C., May 26.—Steps
are being taken in the division of militia
affairs of the War Department to prepare
Slans lor reorganizatfou of the National
uard under provisions of the new army
increase bill. The authorities realize per-
haps more than the National Guard offi-
cers the immense amount of work that will
be necessary to bring the State troops up
to the standard that Is set forth in the
bill.
The National Guard under the bril must
be maintained at the minimum strength of
sixty-five men for an infantry company
before any of the mtmbers of an organiza-
tion are entitled to pay. If a company,
troop or battery is not kept at the required
strength ft will not be entitled to this pay
or recognition by the Federal Government
under the bill. How short the National
Guard is of this required mimimum
strength is ehown by the fact that if the
present organization had complied wfth
this the strength of the National Guard
at present would be 1R2.000 instead of 134,-
000. It Is stated that Wisconsin is the only
State which has complied With this feature
of the bill at the last annual Inspection.
Different organizations of the National
Guard must not only be maintained at the
minimum strength, but officers and men
will be required to pass a physical exami-
nation. This examination, it is generally
conceded, will reduce the present strength
of the National Guard. Accordfng to dis-
patches from the border there has been a
large percentage of rejections in the Texas,
Arizona and New Mexico National Guards.
It is stated that a comparatively small por-
tion of the enlisted personnel which was
in the guard when it was called out will be
retained. The guard of the three States
is virtually beftig reorganized and recruit-
ed up to the required strength before as-
signment to duty on the border. In some
of the companies it is stated that not. over
10 or 15 per cent of the original guardsmen
have qualified for field service.
While the physical standards of a good
many of the States which have expended
money on the guard is hfgher than that
of the border States, it is conceded that
there must be a weeding out process in
bringing the guard up to the requirements
of the bill.
For this reason the division of militia
affairs fs preparing regulations under
the new bill so that they will be ready
for publication shortly after the bill be-
comes a law. While the authorities at the
War Department would have preferred leg-
islation on the Massachusetts plan, now
that Congress has adopted a policy they
propose to co-operate with the State au-
thorities in bringfug the guard up to the
requirements of the law. There will be
no disposition to haggle over technicalities,
but the division of militfa, affairs intend
to exert every effort to make the National
Guard efficient.
and a wlley leader of the Vi 111st a outlaws.
It Is presumed he believed the ten Amer-
icans would fall an easy prey to his attack
or he would not have made such a bold on-
slaught—bold because the American pa-
trolling cavalry was not far distant.
ATmy officers consider the death of
Cervantes as an Important accomplish
ment. It practically breaks the backbone
of the outlaw activities in the vicinity of
Namlquipa and the line of communication
back to casae Grandes for the present. Cer-
vantes had proved himself, to be almost as
elusive as Villa. That he was found In
thfs section was taken to indicate that his
superior. Villa, is in that district of Chi-
huahua State.
Information reaching headquarters last
asserted that there are several hundred
Carranza horsemen operating In the imme-
diate vicinity of Cruces, near which the
bandits made their appearance. Farther
south and to the east it is known that
Carrancista troops number between 5,000
and 15.000. How Cervantes managed to
make his way to Cruces Is not clear.
—
Latest Army Orders
GETS REPORT
Corporal Merksbury, Shot Through the
Lungs, Dies Hour After Battle.
Fight Lasted Nearly an Hour.
Soldiers of Pershing's column have elimi-
nated another bandit leader. Candelarlo
Cervantes was killed in a ffght Thursday
He was second to Villa fn command and
Is known to have taken part In the Colum-
bus raid. Private 11 nil tt of the Seventeenth
infantry fired the shot that killed the out-
law.
Jose Bencorne, another bandit leader,
was killed, also by Hulitt. I.ance Cor-
poral Davis Ilarksbury was shot through
the lungs and died wfthln an hour. Two
Americans were wounded. They were:
George F. Nicholson, arm and leg, serious,
rank not given; Private Hulitt, knee, not
serious. The three belonged to the ma-
chine gun company of the Seventeenth in-
fantry. No Mexican casualties except the
two deaths were mentioned specifically.
Engaged in the fight, which lasted
three quarters of an hour and was ex-
tremely savage, were twenty Meifcans led
by Cervantes and ten Americans. Seven
of the latter were of the Infantry regiment,
two were engineers and the tenth was an
employe of the ynartermaster's Corps.
The engineers were on a mapping ex-
pedition and the Infantrymen were hunting
cattle to be bought by the commissary de-
partment. The attack was mude near Cru-
ces, fifteen miles south of Namlquipa. The
ftien of the Infantry did not have a uia-
chfne gun. but carried their rifles.
Information of the fight reached Gen-
eral Funston at Southern Department head-
quarters about twenty four hours after it
took place. It was the first message other
than of a routine character for nearly a
week.
The telegram said nothing of Mexican
wounded, but It waR presumed there were a
few, for Indications were that the bandits
carried wounded men with them when they
fled from the deadly fire of the little
handful of "grfngoes."
Trlvate Hulitt. an expert rifleman, was
the hero of the skirmish. He took chancei
to get clear shots and the result was a
knee wound. ,
Immediately after the fight the men re-
ported to the nearest detachment, which
was made up of cavalry, a number of
mounted men were sent In pursuit of the
bandits. They reported later that the band
had been dispersed
Cervantes' home was at Namlquipa.
body mi Mentlfled beyond doubt, it was
His
declared, both bv papers found In his
pockets »nd by Mexican prisoners. The
man had beta ramoui w a "gringo hater"
Btaff Special to The Express,
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 2fl.—Colonel Louis
Brechemla, Medical Corps, retired.
Following officers Medical Reserve Corps,
relieved Army Medical School and will proceed
to uoHts specified: First Lieutenants Clarence
S. Ketcham. Fort Rlocutn; Charles W. Riley,
Jefferson Barracks; Robert I'. Williams, Col-
umbus Barracks.
First Lieutenant Norman F. Ramsey to Sixth
Infantry.
Captain Frederick G. Turner, cavalry, now
attached to Thirteenth Cavalry, assigned to
that regiment.
Second Lieutenant Dwlght K. Shurtleff to
Thirteenth Cavalry.
Second Lieutenant Burtou 0. Lewis to Third
Field Artillery.
Captain Clarence M. Condon, Coast Artillery,
one month leave.
Bull Fights Prohibited
in City of Chihuahva
By Associated Tress.
EL PASO, Tex., May 2H.—As the first
step in the restoration of a constitutional
government, the Carranza administration
has issued a decree calling for municipal
ejections, and the establishment of free
municipalities, according to a message
from tue City of Mexico received here to-
day by Andres Garcia, the Mexican consul
here Following tho municipal elections,
orders w ill be Issued successively for slate
and congressional elections and for the
choosing of a president of the republlo.
The first election is ordered for July.
Information also was received from Chi-
huahua City that Governor Enriqucz had
published a decree there prohibiting bull
fights, cock fights and otner sports con-
sidered immoral and corrupting.
PROCURING AFFIDAVITS
Tom Love Says He Will Procure
Enough to Prove His Election.
Special Telegram to The Express.
DALLAS, Tex., May 26.—Thomas B.
Love, who was defeated in bis race for
National committeeman at the State Demo-
cratic convention at San Antonio last Wed-
nesday, is securing affidavits from the
delegates of counties voting at the con-
vention to prove that the count as an-
nounced by the officials of the conven-
tion was erroneous and that he shold have
been elected National committeeman in-
stead of Judge Polndexter of Cleburne.
Love returned to Dallas Friday morning
and a number of delegates called at his of-
fice to give him affidavits.
When asked if he intended to secure
affidavits from those counties whose vote
was contested by him in statements fol-
lowing the count, Love declared that he
intends to secure" euough affidavits to
prove that he was elected.
FARMING TAUGHT BY FILMS
Methods Pursued by Zerofino Domin-
guez in Corn Growing Shown.
Successful corn growing Is taught on the
film. Zerofino Domlnguea, known as the
"Corn King" of Mexico, now engaged In
raising the standard of corn on the farm
of Governor Ferguson In Bell County and
the Kleberg ranch at Santa Gertrudes, haa
reproduced his methods on moving picture
flints. An exhibition was given last night
in the Trincess and attracted a large audi-
ence.
How to test the corn grains, how to se-
lect the strung and vigorous plant and
how to Improve the standard of the corn,
was clearly demonstrated. Each picture
was explained In brief, terse sentence. Th»
manner of planting was also explained.
Mr. Domlnguea plans to have the films
exhibited throughout the country and In
this manner to Increase the corn produc-
tion throughout the land.
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Was Going ta See That
Militiaman Mustered In
A laconic message reached army of-
ficials at Fort Sam Houston yesterday. It
came from Vernon and was as follows:
"Is Sam Randall in Company H, Fourth
Texas? if not. let me know and I will
see that he *ots In."
The telegram was signed "Jo® Ran-
oall." Presumably he was the father of
Sara. Cofficers had a mental picture of a
fiery old veteran of the Civil War get-
ting a hint that his son had refused to
muster for Federal service and determin-
ing that "the boy'' would enlist whether
or no.
The matter was looked into on instruc-
tions from General Hulen's headquarters.
The Information was sent hack to the
brigade adjutant from thp headquarters
of the Fourth Texas and the matter was
cleared.
Joe Randall will not have to "see that
Ssm Randall g*ts in." for the informa-
tion was that Sam belonged properly in
everj detail to Com pan/ H, Fourth Texaa.
WAITE "IMBECILE"
SAY HE HAS NO MORAL SENSE
AND SHOULD BE IN
ASYLUM.
Dy Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 20.—Alienists sworn
by the defense in be-half of Dr. Arthur
Warren Waite testified today nt his trial
for the murder of John E. Peek, his father
in law, that the young dentist was "a
moral imbecile" and "an immoral monster*'
who had only an Insane knowledge of
right and wrong. Tho defense rested its
case upon the testimony of the mental ex-
perts. The alienists of the prosecution
will appear tomorrow in rebuttal.
Wane's wife was in the courtroom again
this afternoon and heard the medical wit-
nesses for lier husband testify he had toM
them he married her only for her money.
Dr. M. J. Kafpas and .Dr. A. R. Dlefen-
dorf testified that Waite was a moral im-
becile and declared they • had arrived at
their conclusion without consultation to-
gether. Both admitted Waite knew what
lie was doing when lie was plotting the
death of Mr. Peck, but they declared he
had no moral sense. Roth asserted they
did not want the prisoner set free, ^nd
Dr. Dlefendorf said lie should be kept in
an lnsaue asylum as long as he lived.
Dr. Karpas declared that while moral
imbeciles had no moral sense, they ap-
peared like rational men.
Dr.. Dlefendorf said that when he first
examined waite on May 13 at the Tombs
he found the defendant composing a poem
on "Love,"
"Life is one hollow, miserable shell;" the
dentist told him. Dr. Dlefendorf asserted.
"Have you had disappointments in love ?"
"No. I don't believe I ever loved," Waite
answered.
"Not even Mrs. Horton?"
"I fear that is only a temporary mat-
ter."
"Waite said his degenerate habits, he
thought, had brought about a lack of
feeling in him," the witness testified. This
and his weakness for women were chang-
ing Mm. lie added that he had a "buzzing
noise" in his head and sa}d finally, "It's
no use. I can't understand."
"Ho said he practiced medicine for the
sole purpose of learning how to get rid
of people," Dr. Dlefendorf declared.
Railroad Improvements at Macie.
Special Telegram to Tho Express.
RRACKRTTVILLR, Tex.. May 2fl.—Word
has been received from Made, ten miles
from here, to the effect that the railroad,
under the recent ruling of the State Rail-
road Commission, has already begun the
building of a switch and siding and also
installing a platform for passengers. This
little town has shown much growth in the
past few months, and it is improving much
in growth.
Campbell in Wilson County.
Special Telegram to The Express.
FLORKSVILLE. Tex.. Mav 20.—Thomas
M. Campbell, former Governor and candi-
date for United States Senator, addressed
a large and representative audience of
Floresvtlle and Wilson County voters at
the airdome here Wednesday night. The
speaker was Introduced by Judge J. h.
Canfield. Governor Campbell was given
close attention throughout his speech and
was frequently applauded. He stated his
position clearly on all National Issues,
praised President Wilson's stand on for-
eign matters and complimented the Ad-
ministration on what It had done and
what it now stands for. He reviewed his
tecord as Governor and was warmly con-
gratulated at the conclusion of his re-
marks.
Ill ILFf & MARX STORE
The most ambitious, and still the most
democratic benefit affair yet staged in
San Antonio, will be the Red Cross mar-
ket-and bazaar, which opens at 10 o'clock
this morning In the auditorium of Wolff
Marx store, and continues thrortgh the
day till 5:.10 o'clock, at which time all
unsold go«ds- will he offered for auction.
The officials of the three San Antonio
Red Cross chapters have through Mrs.
William Aubrey, chairman of the market,
and her various committees, asked that
the public, whether resident or visitor,
patronize this best, of all causes, the
American Ited Cross. They announce that
all prices will be reasonable -and fair,
many articles to be sold below the market
rating.
Many San Antonio women, several San
Antonio organizations, all representative
business houses, and a few San Antonio
men, have for the past ten days devoted
nearly their entire time to the arrange-
ments for this market, at once massive,
artistic, and all inclusive.
The "home-madeness" of everything of-
fered for sale in the culinary line Is easily
the most attractive feature, not alone
of Mrs. Harry Landa's country market,
but of every booth where eatables or
drinkables are displayed. Twelve dozen
fresh country eggs were donated for -the
market by Ivan Fisher of New Braun-
fels.
After being lifted to the seventh floor
in special express elevators, the far-sight-*
ed San Antonio shoppers intent on sup-
plying their Sunday dinner table will step
into an atmosphere of Araby. The fumes
of freshly roasted, newly percolated cof-
fee will be an invisible guide to the sand-
wich, coffee and buttermilk booths, which
first will ne encountered. A thatched
country ehallet, behung with garlands of
pepper and drying fruits, next catches tho
eye and beckons to the country market,
where hanging home-smoked hams and
suspended sausages will offer seductive
charms to the material appetite for tooth-
some and tender things.
Fresh country eggs, almost with the
warmth of the nest still clinging; butter
Just from the old dash churn; sausage
that smacks of the clean-kept German
kitchen, with the pungent aroma of fresh-
cut cedar smoke; home-made jellies and
Jams and fruits, plump fattened fowl with
satin skin; tamales, too, and garden truck
with the earthy smell of good old Texas
dirt J buttermilk and salads of every kind;
home-made breads and rolls and good old
and many more will be in stock in
ngs
the
Southern beaten biscuit ; all of these things
any
Country Market.
Miss Elizabeth Camp, who was Princess
of the Battle of Flowers, will represent
"Cherry Ripe" and sell baskets of cherries.
Bamboo and wicker baskets heaped high
with eggs, like monster oblong pearls in
cluster settings, and blushing fruits in
baskets and in neaps. Then too here will
be displayed the more, modest vegetable
array of lettuce heads and cabbages fit
for a king, and nearly everything but
"Shoes and shins and sealing wax.'" The
golden glory of the Texas sunflower will
lend a yellow ndiance and a country air
in massive vases through the market, and
here may markets baskets be secured to
carry home the good thlriga that may be
purchased.
But the sweet tooth has not yet. been
satisfied with all this great display of
things to eat, and so the next booth
in the line will capture taste and hold at
tent Ion. This is the cake booth, under
the directions of Mrs. Herbert Sla.vden
Clarkson. The color scheme here will be
white and gold, baekeft by the green of
fern and palm, while the tables will be
draped with Philippine embroidered lin-
ens. Great bunches of Shasta daisies in
brass jardinieres will add the flr>ral touch
in harmony with the decorations. This
booth is in a corner of the auditorium,
and here on a table more than thirty feet
long the home-made cakes will be arranged.
In the center of this table a giant cake,
made by Miss Alice O'Grady for Mrs. Au-
brey will be the hub from which radiant
lines of frosted confections will extend.
Ilere also home-made candles by the girls
of the Cotillion Club will be sold. And
here, the handiwork of Mrs. Henry Trol
linger, may be seen and will be sold a
wonderful white frosted cake, embossed
with monster pink roses and wide-eyed
morning glories, in natural size and color,
sculped in sugar.
One hundred paper boxes for the cakes
have been donated by the Burnett Box
Company.
From the celling baskets of gladoll will
be suspended backed by the patriotic flare
of the National colors. The next booth,
the official one from which the market
takes it name and which is its cause of
being, is that of the Red Cross, under
charge of Mrs. Frederick Funston. Here
will the demonstrations he held in band-
age rolling and kindred Ited Cross works,
and hf re 1,000 yards of bandage material,
the donation of Wolff & Marx Company,
will be cut up and rolled and formed Into
bandages and surgical compress. Ju*t be-
yond this booth is the stage, covered and
draped with oriental rugs on which the
various concerts of the day sre to be
held. In tho center a great Red Cross
banner will he hung, before a background
of the National colors. The tepees of
astrolocrer and crystal gazer are Just be-
yond the stage, and between these tents
and the long gypsy "Tombola" will be dis-
played the various donations of San An-
tonio merchants, ranging in vaiucs up
to $1..
The booth of the gypsy fortune tellers,
under the chairmanship of Mrs. E A.
Wilson, will be in the form of turee tents
draped in the exotic colors of the Orient.
At the "Tombola'' mysterious packages
containing articles of value will be sold
for the uniform price of -o cents ea< h.
Among the merchants of San Antonio
who have donated articles for thl^table
are. .Joske Bros., lOinil Blum Company,
Saul Wolfson Dry Goods Company. Ran-
som & Silsbee, McNeel Jewelry Company,
Washer Bros., E. Rabe, Newton. Weller 6c
Wagner, Hertzberg Jewelry Company,
Stowers Furniture Company. L. P. Peck,
Edwards Millinery, Bell Jewelry Company,
Kress Company and others. Flowers for
decoration purposes throughout the audi-
torium have been donated by the Ha user
Floral Company., Mrs. Schumann. Miss
Monard and by F. Suchy. The gift auc-
tion will be in charge of Mrs. Sterling
Price Adams and Mrs. Winchester Kelso.
Every hour of the day will be tea time
in the. Japanese booth, In charge of Miss
Laura Lee Dorsey, where beneath the glow
of Japanese lanterns, under the matted
roof of a tea house, six Inlaid tables will
be spread. The attendants here, all dressed
in the Japanese costume, will be twelve
St. Mary's Hall girls. Assisting at this
booth will be Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee and Mrs.
Georg« ('. Vaughn.
The next booth is that of Mrs. A. L. Mat-
lock, with the ladies of the Knob Hill-
Highland Park Red Cross Chapter. Here
lemonade and sliced cake will he served.
The Catholic Women's Club of San Anto-
nio hnve charge of the next booth, under
the chairmanship of Mrs. II. B. Rice, Mrs.
F. A. Riley and Mrs. J. F. Doyle, assisted
by several other members of the club. Here
will be served ice cream and orange sher-
bet. The decorations of this booth will
run to pink and lavender.
The masculine shonper and the man
about town with no home to supply with
food stuffs, will be clven opportunity at
tho next booth to niaae his little offering
to the cause, by purchasing his week's sup-
ply of smoking materials. This booth
will in charge of the Daughters of the
Republic of Texas, under the chairman-
ship of Mrs. O. N. Farnsworth. Next Is the
booth of the Equal Franchise League,
where a monster punch bowl will offer
its cooling draughts to the thirsty ones,
who, when they reach this, the last bootlj
in the Bazaar, will doubtless need thisi
Delaware drink.
This booth will be In charge of Mrs. T«
T. VpnderHoeven, Miss M. Eleanor Bracks
enridge, Miss Marin Fenwlek, Mrs. E. S,
Maury, Mrs. Benno Kayton, Mrs. Hal
King, Mrs. Leo Cotton. Mrs. James M,
Young, Mrs. John Sehorn, Mrs. Harvej<
Steele and Miss Lottie Sehorn.
The Daughters of the American Revolu*
tion will have charge of a booth, under th<f
chairmanship of Mrs. Harry Hyman, where!
cut flowers and fans will be sold.
All retail selling will cease at 5:30
o'clock and an auction of all materials and
goads left will be held. The auction will
be opened with the offering of a beautiful
doll, dressed as a Red Cross nurse, which
was donated by Mrs. Hal Sevier. The doll
will be displayed throughout the day bv
Miss Jean Aubrey, herself a first aid
graduate and one of a class of six who
recently received diplomas from the first
aid class conducted by the Young Women's
Christian Association. With her classmates,
all In Red Cross costume, a corps of ushers
has been formed, who will also have chartre
of the selling of membership pins and
buttons.
Among the donations for the bazaar is
a beautiful parasol given by Mrs. Alex-
ander .Toske Donations of flowers also
have been made by Mrs. S J. Porter and
Miss M. Eleanor Brackenridge. The use
of a Chickering Grand piano for the con-
certs has been donated by the South
Texas Music Company, a victrola for in-
cidental music by the San Antonio Talk-
ing Machine Company, and 1,000 programs
for the concert havp been furnished free
by the Maverick-Clarke Printing Com-
pany.
The musical program through the day
has been divided into three sections. From
10 to 12 the Sixteenth Infantry Band win
flay a scries of patriotic selections. From
2 to 2 Smith's San Antonio Band, with
Madam Petitclerc as soloist, will occupy
the stage. At this concert Madam Petit-
clerc will sing "The Star-Spangled Ban-
ner," "Dixie" and "The Bonnie Blue
Flag."
From 2 till 4 o'clock the various Ger-
man singing societies will sing in chorus
a program of patriotic songs. The musi-
cal program follows;
Men s chorus
"Lullaby" Mozart-Claassen
"Old Black Joe" Foster-Stucuen
Beethoven Maennerchor, conducted by.
Arthur C la as sen.
Contralto solo, "Still wle die Nacht"...
Bohm
Miss Florence Turney.
Piano Solo -
"Valse Brilliante" Chopin
"To the Spfing" Grieg
Ruth Blngaman.
Soprano solo—
"Mavourneen" Lang
"His Buttons Are Marked U. S."..Bond
Marlon Raborg.
Baritone solo, "To the Evening Star"..
.. Wagner
W. L. Herff; A. Claassen,, accompanist.
Contralto solo—
"Sweet Thoughts of Home".... Edwards
"Mother Machree" Ball
Miss Mary Aubrey, with cello obllgato by
E. F. Goldstein.
String quartette—
"Cansonctta" Godard
"Huraeresque" Dvorak
W. Marx, W. P. Romberg, J. Sauerwelu,
R. Galindo.
A short address will bf» made before the
final auction by Winchester Kelso, presi-
dent of the San Antonio Red Cross. Mr,
Kelso announced yesterday that he haq
received a letter from National headquar-
ters making inquiry as to ways and means
used by San Antonians whereby such a
remarkable record for Red Cross member*
shin had been made. This Information U
desired for the Information of other com-
niunities in the conduct of membership
campaigns. Requests from the Red Crosa
Journal for stories of the San Antonio
propaganda with pictures have also beea
receivpd by Mr. Kelso. Eagle Pass. Cuero»
and other' surrounding towng have made
Inquiry of the San Antonio chapters a$
to methods of organization.
W. C. Rlgsby. president of Wolff
Marx, announced yesterday that he had
arranged for motion pictures of the bazaar
to be made for local showing and for the
use of National News Film Weeklies.
All About the Rebus Contest in
The Sunday Express;
Look for It
Tomorrow the San Antonio Express will have one
of the most interesting pages ever published in San An-
tonio—a Grand Rebus Gift Page.
In conjunction with The Express many well-known
business firms, to be represented on the page, offer cash
and gifts valued at about $800 In the aggregate for correct
artistic solutions to the various rebuses. These awards,
without exception, are well worth your time and atten-
tion, and our advice is—Watch for the Sunday Express.
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