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ITEGIC POINT ON VERA CRUZ RAILWAY MAP OF MEXICO CITY ^ 'Ai *<1 m WUUI3 Wkh&Q JPOBli T.-m SHOT WHILE RAISING FLAG WHAT OUR 6UNS DID TO VERA CRUZ This is one of the two bridges on the llne«of the railway from Vera Crux to Mexico City, the control of which means much to the success of the American troops. The bridges are only a few miles from Vera Crus, and their destruction would seriously hamper the movement toward the capital. ^ FIFTH BRIGADE EMBARKS AT GALVESTON GENERAL FRED FUNSTON wSSS i ; v.s *:• v* * s$sS5S When Qeorge D. Poinsett, able man from the United States battle­ ship Florida, went down beneath fed eral rifles at Vera Cruz, the first American killed fighting for his coun­ try in the present trouble with Mexi­ co, his name went into historic rec­ ords which will live when most of us are forgotten. He was shot and killed while he was ralBing the flag, for which he gave his young life, over the customs house at Vera Crus. Because scattered bands and individuals would not cease firing at the Americans in Vera Cruz, Admiral Fletcher was compelled to order the city be shelled by the warships. This photograph show* how the buildings Were battered by the naval guns. Brig. Gen. Fred Funston is in com­ mand of the Fifth brigade, United States army, which went from Galves­ ton to Vera Cruz to carry on the work begun by the men of the fleet ALONG THE ROUTE OF INVADERS FIRE CONTROL MAST srStfcHrssSrhs J '-~i c COLONEL O'CONNOR The .Fifth brigade, U. S. A., under command of Brig. Gen. Fred Funston, on its way to the transports at the Galveston docks, where It embarked for Vera Cruz. In the brigade are about 4,700 officers and men, comprising ths Fourth, Seventh, Nineteenth and Twenty-eighth infantry, the Sixth cavalry, o n e b a t t e r y o f t h e F o u r t h f i e l d a r t i l l e r y , a < * T r i p a p y o f o n & ' ' " T v p i n i j of the signal corps and an ambulance corps. ••BORDER COMMANDERS AND TROOPS I Sfeu-i-_•*./«&£ M Charles M. O'Connor of the 8eo* ond division, U. S. A., who has been stationed at Texas (jity. exlco -city a fair sample of the kind of mountainous country through which a& Invading army must make Its way from the coast to the capital. MEXICAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEXICAN "SNIPERS" IN VERA CRUZ STREETS The lattice won mast of an Ameri­ can battleship, from the top of whiafe the fire of the guns Is controlled. ^ ilpfl MESSAGE FROM THE BRIDGE iSsSi 'mm&mmmpm mmm %VVXT*>.-.VV.V.V.V. WW.V>. GEORGE F.GAER DEAD NOTED LEADER IN PENNSYLV&f€! NIA CQAL INDUSTRY WWKA%':F HY L-. PHILADELPHIA. 3 L. \ HAD A REMARKABLE CAREER Was PHnter, Editor, Soldier and Chipt Engineer Before Becoming Prsai* dent of the Reading RsHwayb^f^i tor In Coal Strike. Philadelphia, April it! Oeog# nj Baer, president of the Philadelphia, ft Reading railway, died at his horn* here Sunday evening. He was stride en suddenly Saturday morning whfl* walking to his offloe. George F, Baer was for years trtvoi of the most striking figures in Amert- can life. To the majority of his countrymen It was misfortune to appear only as the typical "soulless capitalist" and the eoemy of the worker. It was as "Divine Right Baer" that he was al­ ways thought of by the every day cit­ izen. This title he obtained during the great anthracite coal strike of 1802, when he was the leader of the coal mine operators and was oppos­ ing arbitration of the differences be- | tween the miners and the operators. As the leader of the employers he wrote a letter to W. J. Clark of Wilkes* barre, Pa^ in which occurred tfc# phrase which gave him his title. t; His career was a remarkable on*' In turn he was printer's devil, re poth­ er, editor, soldier, civil engineer and railroad president. Mr. Baer Mas born September 3£ - 1842, in Somerset township, Somersaftf' county, Penn., of German ancestry. " He worked on his father's farm an# attended the common schools and lat­ er the high school in Somerset. He was apprenticed to the printing trade' in the office of the Somerset Demo­ crat, and while connected with the pa­ per set type, ran errands, solicited advertisements, collected bills and re* ported news for the paper. He savc»d enough money to alio#' him to study at Franklin and Marshal? college for a year and then with his brother's aid he obtained control of the newspaper for which he hn& worked, i V He was Btrongly Democratic In tbpr editorial policy of his paper at the beginning of the Civil war and he had - to defend its plant from a mob that threatened to destroy it That lis was attached to the Union, however; he demonstrated soon after, when He * raised a company, of which he was captain and which became Company E of the One Hundred and Tbirtj^ , third Pennsylvania Volunteer Inten­ tly. His first battle was the second BuS v Run and he served later with dieting tlon at Fredericksburg, Antletam, Chancellorsville ana other fights. Af­ ter ChaucellorsvUle hg was rnadeafcr. jutant general offheSerond ^B0jpid3f Humphrey's division Ql the_ gfecfrnd becoming 4 major in his twentieth,' ye£?T~ After the war he read law in tiui- Ktfflk i:;V« - mM office of one of his brothers, and admitted to the bar. He removed to- Reading in 1868. It was as * lawyer that he became connected with th#> " ' i railroad interests he afterward served £ An important legal victory over thgt road of which he was later president*-.: }$ gave him his start. In 1870 he wsfs made counsel tor the road and ala^v,*j(- a director. His opportunity to become a fina»U cler came with the panic of 1873. Tht#&> v prCwtraktCu kuSuj Oi tli6 iuuiui»v4'. tries of his home county, and Mr. Baefi^V ilVi played an important part in thair rt£.}"k- ^ organisation, and became knftwn tafr&sNfe his business astuteness. ' j He ^4 remalp^d as a director of^ 'V5* the Philadelphia A Reading railroad^,. Una naa oe^gnje {ha confidential lega |_ < & ^ adviser of J. P. Morgan m PennsVy, * A of tl»e P&i|je|pU^L&*K™a an^ of the PhfladelpSIa Readln-i '.v," - foal ft IroScSSP" - -- r lauer ca|Jacity that he played an im­ portant part in the anthracite coal, strike of 1902. In that strike he took an uncom- • promising attitude until public senti-<. ̂ v ment finally forced the operators to consent to the arbitration proposed by ;i;|j President Rcosevelt. Later he took as uacompromlstng ^ ̂ > an attitude when the retailers of the ^ country tried to raise the price of coal. -He announced at the time that ^ the Philadelphia & Reading would ' cut off ef its list of customers all re- ^ tallers who made the advance. The ultimatum had its effect and was not advanced. Cough, Keeps Monarch* Vienna^ Austria, April 27.--Emperor Francis Joseph passed another night disturbed by fits of coughing, Colonel Loughborough (left) and Colonel Perkins (right), of the Twen­ tieth United States infantry, new on the Mexican border, and some of their ' troops in action. , These sailors are sending a mes­ sage from the bridge of a battleship by what is known as the Ardois sys- of signaling. Senor Lopez Portillo y Rojas, the minister of foreign affairs in the cabi­ net of General Huerta. "Snipers" picking off American bluejackets and m*iines after the land­ ing At Vera Crus. It was the activity of these marksmen, behind walls and on housetops, that made necessary the shilling of the city. Amerloan soldiers marching to Mex­ ico City from Vera Cruz along the 'Mexican Railway would pass through a country of ever varying topography. ' Mountains, ravines, level acres on > which haciendas stretch their fertile breadth--all-are found. , The hot, fever-filled, sultry tropics I give way to cooler, fresh-aired tabW Elands cc the great, Mexican nlatf>an. K Old and quainf 'cities, the homes of Seville and ancient Spain, come at frequent Intervals along the railroad in the higher alti­ tudes, where the heat of tile sun is tempered by rarified air. The haciendas or ranches are owned chiefly by wealthy Mexicans in this part of Mexico. Some of them cover hundreds of productive acres, which 1 n t ho fo r** auuuucs ucai auuu* resembling . dant crops of wheat, corn, tobgcco S#»d J?-. beans, just as do the states of similar climate in the United States. Rubber plantations stretch along the lower tropical regions. < Vast unexploited forests of pine and oak clothe the mountain sides in un­ changing green. Beneath the ribbed hills run ri<ih veins of valuable min­ erals. Along heart of in a jgrel uillee grinds isy slopes through the le tropics the railroad runs arc to Cordoba, seventy St of Vera. Crui. Then It Esperanza, on the e&sterri brow of the great central table land. There, 108 miles from Vera Crus, It reaches an altitude of 7,970 feet. It has passed over great ravines and deep gullies which are spanned by steel bridges, which often give way at once to dark tunnels through the mountain ranges. rounding It are wide coffee and sugar plantations, cocoanut groves, banana, lemon and orange orchards and pine­ apple fields. The city is <iualnt, and every public square, every centnry-old house, every narrow calle breathes romance. Roofs extend over sidewalks. Phrks and parades beneath the window of the girl whom be would wed while she passes judgment from behind a lat­ ticed casement Tbe advance to Mexieft City could be made most difficult and hazardous by the natives, and with a meager force. Bridges blown up, showers of gardens fill the city. Not far away is | reeks from hillsides, as One of the largest cities through | gleaming, reri-colored Mount Orizaba. | of Hannibal and Caesar, which tho soldiers would pass is Cor­ doba, in the state of Vera Cruz. It a VoTiegatcu flower in the Women and girls are not conspicp ous. TJie Spanish procedure o? court snip impedes the easy way of Cupid. • guarded in the days and tunnels planted with mines v/ould work havoc unless the whole territory were the mountain To Hold Consistory on May 2ft.*' • •!; Rome, April 28.--The date of the coming consistory has been fixed as , May 25, when 12 new cardinals will be appointed, including the archbishop of ^ Quebec and Abbot Gasqpiet. president of the English Benedictines. *i| *K'. •*$ jiy- 4® fcf- thnmgh • Herrick Sends Peary Mewl. Paris, April 2S.--Ambassador Her­ rick sent to Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary Saturday the gold medal award­ ed to him by the French Geographical society for the discovery of the North x \ - "c, } Me*toime Threaten U. S. tergsewi > Washington, April 27.--Acting As­ sistant Surgeon Trbeor of the publlfe health service at Puerto Mexico re­ ported that he had been driven from his post by the threatening attitude of the Mexican people. 0 '• '7*• Adams Express Wost QwH. New York. April 27 --W. M. Bais rett. president of the Aifam? EXp?eSB company, denied emphatically that the company intends to go out of basl- ness, as was rumored in the financial} ittstlict. ^ :'>"v r iis ?l '-'V