Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . cure valuable premiums, added to the regu-lar subsidy by Government, and there was much defectivework in its construction. It is laid to the narrow gauge,and projected ultimately to reach Acapulco, but this lat-ter need hardly be looked for in any predicable time. Atpresent it reaches about seventy-five miles—to Cuautla-Morelos, capital of the state of Morelos. All official and distinguished Mexico was aboard thatday—the President, the justices of the Supreme Court,generals, senators, lit
Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . cure valuable premiums, added to the regu-lar subsidy by Government, and there was much defectivework in its construction. It is laid to the narrow gauge,and projected ultimately to reach Acapulco, but this lat-ter need hardly be looked for in any predicable time. Atpresent it reaches about seventy-five miles—to Cuautla-Morelos, capital of the state of Morelos. All official and distinguished Mexico was aboard thatday—the President, the justices of the Supreme Court,generals, senators, litterateurs, and, greatest of all, Porfi-rio Diaz. Porfirio wore a felt hat with a tall top, andhis manner with his friends was easy and the accident of a week later happened that day in-stead, the Pepublic of Mexico would have needed to bereconstructed from the bottom upward. A locomotive eipploradora, a look-out engine, went onahead of us to see that all was safe. Every little placehad its music and firino- of crackers, and the local detach- 186 OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST
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