Show 1 y fooooo0000000oOoOoo0 EOPLE TALKED ABOUT I QooooooOOO0o0oo0oofyo00 oooo oJ NEW MEXICAN AMBASSADOR I Enriauo Clay Creel who has been named as ambassador to tho United States by President I Diaz of Mexico is an exgovernor of Chihuahua Ho Is known In Mexico as ono of its most progros Blvd and American business men Ho Is Interested 1 Inter-ested in banking mining and street railways In northern Mexico and is considered one of tho wealthiest men of tho country As a ntatter of fact Creel Is of American extraction hi traction He Is American In manner and appearance r appear-ance rather than Spanish Ho is of medium height wears a small mustache and Is frank and genial i = Ho is the president of tho Banco Mlnoro the leadIng lead-Ing financial institution In Chihuahua and for years ho has been the leading spirit in the Banco Central of the City of Mexico In 1901 Senor Creel was the guest of honor 0 of the most Important financial dinners ever given The host was f II It Flint and tho 25 guests who sat nbout the board represented aggre rtunes of no less than 30000000 The dinner cost 40 a plate was as a member of the monetary commission appointed by the Mex h ninjstor of finance a few years ago that Senor Creels fame as a finan t became international The commission solved the problem of putting dd anew of the republic on a gold basis doing away wlth the peso of m changing and steadily depreciating value enbr Creel has now given up all business interests and purposes to hl s the rest of his life to publlc affairs and the upbuilding of his country C pngton is his first diplomatic post bo SnibaBsy will be presided over by Ambassadors accomplished who is the daughter of Gen Luis Torrazas the greatest land and cattle in > in Mexico and possibly the republics richest citizen Les |