Show I P L Don Pedro Alvarado the Mexican Carnegie In Don Pedro Alvarado i Mexicans say sa they have a Carnegie of or their own Don Pedro has vowed that In spite of ot own ownIng owning Ing a amine mine which can produce net pro profits profits profits fits of ot a year he Is going to die ale poor In order to attain his purpose i he lie offered not long ago to pay payoff off the national debt of ot Mexico But In this attempt to empty his treasury he was thwarted The Mexican government was so M proud that It declined the favor fa faTor vor Tor Don Pedro however Is not a man to be easily discouraged He Is going I to give his money away awa In spite of ot ob obstacles I And so after atter long delibera tion he announced last week that he I I would give to the poor of ot I Mexico o the money to be distributed by the government Little if It any Is to toDe be De given outright to any applicant but each of ot those who are arc found worthy In the eyes of ot the government will re ret refIe t celCe Me fIe a small farm be provided with a homo home or be helped to establish himself In fn business Provision has been made to found free schools with the fund and a small amount will be given glyen to struggling str churches It Is estimated that as many as persons will be II benefited by Don Pedros generosity To the American mind Don Pedro is 15 isn i ien en an n enigma T It Is not his philanthropy that causes the tho th Yankee Yanke to wonder for forth forth th Yankee can ClI be one of oC the most gen generous erous erot s givers rEl when so inclined but it Is his Ills to the making of or money Although his mine It is said could be I I worked by an American company to toI I duce a month Don Pedro contents consents con himself with much less than that amount He Hl has been reported as only working the th mine now and then when he needed the tn cash but his he denies I operate my mining plant he says the same as you oU gentlemen from the United I Stales would if you ou had It ft but with this difference nce T J dont try to dig out all aU the sliver silver r In it at once If 1 I did 1 I might spend it all and b be a poor man again At Al the rate my miners are working Ill get ct a month as long I 1 live Loves Poor Relations Another strange thing about Don Pedro is that he loves his poor Door noor rela tives Ue He keeps leeps his house at Parral filled with them Anybody who can cantral trace the slightest connection with the wealthy mine owner either by b birth or marriage is welcome within his gates And wh Vh n he cannot spend his Income c i l his people fast faRt enough at home he her r i n 1 special train packs them all aU aboard and starts off on a Journey journe Just where he hp never knows In advance Ac Accordingly Accordingly Accordingly cordingly he always makes an ar arrangement with the railroad company to stop his special train wherever he h takes i th the notion He made a trip to Mexico Mr tic o City not long ago a distance by b rail from his home as far as Chi Chicago Chicago cago ago is from rom New Kew York and it took him seven days Three times each day da the train was halted that Don Pedro and his guests might pour Dour out on the plain and anal have a picnic When a poor American gets rich he heIs Is almost sure tt tc t move moe to the most fashionable part of his city Not so Alth aith Ith Don Pedro Alvarado When the themire mil mire e which h he had Inherited from his f suddenly opened up an enor enormously enormously enormously rich vein ehl about twelve years ears ag and he hI soon found himself rich enough to build what the Mexicans call calla a pale pak pa re fC he erected a new home at c Ja R l K V ft f A Y 7 Y 11 1 G i t 1 S j Jf 4 2 i t of M R x y r spa t r y r y x has k r fy f r x I I f h 4 r v h hY I x Y ti r sr y I sR x L fib V Y Yr t r F T kag JQ M J J ALVARADO AND HIS CHILDREN After his wife died Don Pedro Alvarado although he had a vast income attended for J long time to the toilet of his little ones himself That he did not bother much about the details of their dress is evident lavish cost right on the site of the old I 1 Ione one in a squalid part of Parral Its rear rf ar windows look out on Parral Panal river I which is hardly har b more than th n a great open sewer l I Unlike the average American who ho grows grow rows s wealthy Don Pedro does not care I for personal attendants He shaves himself cuts his own hair hall blacks his i own shoes and does a part of his own 1 cooking After his wife died he for a along along along long time dressed his three children I himself Nor is he as circumspect in his hi spending g of money mone as many American I capitalists ts If he takes a fancy fanc to o something he will buy bu of ita it a dozen I I times as 35 much as he needs need A year ear ago i he met an American sewing machine Ii i agent who so interested him in his par particular I par machine that Don pon Pedro bought j I fifty tUb of them and put one in each I in his house Another great source of i enjoyment enjo ment for this peculiar man Is to I give work ork to the poor If It a beggAr b gg r asks him for alms he will shake his head I No lIo but Ill let you ou work for tor forme me nm and pay you ou for your OUr labor he will say Not long ago when the grape crop In inthe j the region around Parral proved a fail faU failure failure ure most of th farmers went to work for tOI Al arld ar do 0 Has Elegant Home I IThe The house of ot Don Pedro stands just above the banks of o th Parral river and far from being the gaudy saud 01 over er done cIone one palace which it Is generally sup supposed supposed posed to be Is on the outside a well balanced house of considerable proportions proportions of course but carved c richly and amI artistically with little of th the ginger gingerbread gingerbread br bread ad which one would expect from the reports of it It is elegant to a considerable degree and the carvings s of the tho th white native natle stone on which GOO of Don DOl Pedros friends worked for tor torman many man months are very handsome It H was vas as while whilo standing watching wat the house and nn the crowd of workmen beggars eggars waiting about it for their pay tay and alms that an old gentleman dressed in store clothes and walking with an impossible cane cane came up u to our party and invited them with all an anthe the possible to come and see seethe seethe seethe the house He hobbled along in front garrulously h pointing out the bits of ot the th exterior which were of ot interest and led the way into the main patio of the house Here Hele he said was as far as he could take us U but he stood for Cor a quarter quarter quarter ter of or an hour pointing out the beauties I of the patio the really handsomely I carved pillars and Corinthian capitals the figures on the keystone of every fairy arch and the paintings which lined the walls The patio corridors were full t ll of material for the furnish furnishing furnishIng furnishIng ing of ot the thc new hotel which Dom Pc Pe Pedro dro Is ig building on In one of or the plazas of the town ton which when It Is fa finished will IU be one of the handsomest in the republic republicAn An onyx stairway led to the upper floors of the house and the pointed guide rippled on garrulously with his wonderful tales of the beauties above Then he suddenly turned and andIn andin in the midst of o us stood a title smil sail sailing smiling smilIng ing man iran not much over oer five feet five Inches tall tan little black eyes ces sparkling out of a white face on which grew a little beard b and mustache He H I us with a certain gentle dignity and In Invited incited cited ted us to come Com and see the I house at the th solicitation Indeed lad c of our ouri W I Up the Stairway So o up the onyx stairway we imbed climbed I past haf h f a dozen peons who w and scrubbed to make ma e it shine an as the I day da and rose respectfully as we pasi pas sed sod The ur U upper oer ger corridor was w s a repetition ton tion of the lower with the tiie windows of the rooms opening on it finished in I more mor of ot the tre beautifully beau ti full carved d stone and 1 very ery evidently eld nth planned by a inns mas master m U UI ter tl hand and an executed ex by h much labor I well wen Next we ve were ere led to the famous I chapel chape of ot the house which h rumor hap hal hapIt halIt hasl haslit It Is s hung Imn in h I t cloth of pol and where incense hurls us J night i ht ay Tt n was I Inot I I not at al ai as n It c t was but the effort to make it superbly e a was wais wasl l I apparent Tt T was not hula bult in inch chapel pel pelI I II I form as might have hate ha ye ben been expected j I but was merely ller lr one of or the th rooms of the i I house lious fitted up for the th purpose Don Doni i Pedro is a devout Catholic Ca and he has hasI I lavished here ht re J nil sil l t he could well W U do doIn dOin doI In crowding crowling his chapel hipel full tuU of ot all that shut could ee e Hm lm m The Thc altar oc the middle of the outside wall wail of the room and a win window dow dew ow on oh each ch side pave gave it light This altar was gaudy and wonderful won erful In gold goll and ond silver and nd sV 5 and velvets eivet and nt ot unlike mUke the altars to be b found in the favored shrines of almost any an of th tine churches of this country In the center of or the room was a great yr amid of black velvet and silver r in memory of Don Pedros wife dead now some years This was hung with cloth Of Or silver which draped its base b se on all aU sides and the silver ornaments are costly and numerous On one side of the room was a throne where the th bishop sits when he comes omes to say sa mass for this lilts devout son of the church and andon andon on the other walls were paintings of religious scenes and the tiny stations of the cross In one corner was an au automatic automatic parlor organ covered with a al gaudy velvet clet curtain The Magnificent Drawing Room We W e pasted passed to the drawing room which occupied nearly the whole of the front of the house on the second floor This was a room that but for tor Its over over furnishing might have belonged to toa a really rean beautiful house But along with the heavy heay curtains of ot dark red r d vel velvet velvet t vet Ct and the really handsome furniture also from rom San Luis Lub Potosi and fully carved cared and finished In dull duB gray cray era silver and gold were many man mirrors great silver vases of rich workmanship workman workmanship ship but filled with artificial flowers bronze clocks that were not running and ten thousand of ot every sort from ore from the mine to cigar and silver The room holders h of copper like the rest was crowded full fun of su au superb superb furnishings and hung with heavy draperies until It was oppressive oppress When hen we left this room we were still sun not quite sure our host hOISt was Don Pedro himself and asked our guide Jesus Jose Primero as to his exact Identity Ho He referred us to our host who evidently made as happy as a achild achild child chUd by br b our admiration of the richness of his home cried out that In very truth he was Don Pedro Alvarado and embraced us each In turn on the tho spot Then T en we went out past Jast some of the theten theten theten ten thousand or more birds which fill fin the house and line nil the corridors with a word to the two deer and the turtle which occupy the back patio and through a low opening Into the bodega bodeen half halt under the ground with fth rafters touching our heads Here Don Pedro turned on an electric light call callIns calling Ing Ins our attention to It and sat down comfortably on a box Here he was happy happ and here and not in the th cn tn Ing room roon or parlors above aboe he served i ius us with the customary refresco It was i all right that upstairs to show oft off but here he h wa was comfortable and here we wc sat and talked exchanged cards and asked questions i Pedro P dro Alvarado may ma have a piano In every even room and that th t legend Is very fry frym e nearly m arl true and he may ma always be bel but he lie Is making bids for popularity I withal a gentle kindly man a boy In i thought and aad deed and a rather charm charming charmi 1 ing boy 00 at that He is In the prine princ of his life Ufe barely bare 06 6 years ears old and Is Isi still as thoroughly youthful and happy i I as a n man can be under any nn circum circumstances stances Don Pedro Is a n new character In the annals annn 5 of or the newly newl rich v I |