| Show CROESUS t WILL JAKE TAKE TRIP For or the First Time Will Pay Ray a Visit to the Outside W World orl d. d WITH MILLIONS IN GOLD I Pedro Alvarado I Will ill Offer to tu la Pay ORthe OfT Off I he the Mexican National Debt Parral Slate Stale of Chihuahua Mexico Nov 1 Pedro I.-Pedro Pedro Alvarado who has brie been transformed front flom a poor floor peon limb Into a Croe Croesus us in tho the lust hist si siX years through the thc fabulous richness s of or the mute mine Is preparing to make hi his first fIlst visit to the outside world He has hag decided to make a trip to the thc City of ot Mexico 1 If he were going going- on a n trip around the world worl and anel Intended to call on all the thc crowned heads the elaborate preparations for the journey could hardly surpass those which aro arc now being heing made under his direction for his proposed trip trill of a few fe hundred miles to the thc capital of the republic Senor Alvarados Alvarado's entrance Into the City of Mexico promises cs to be full of or splendor splendorA A special train of or Pullman cars rs Is being fitted up for his accommodation It is said that It will be bc the handsomest handsomest hand hanel- some t train ever brou brought ht into Mexico No convenience will be he lacking It will be d with the choicest food that money can bu buy He has a number of hi his frien friends s In P Par Par- rI r- r I lal Ial including the tho parish priest l and several of the tho men who were his companions companions com com- In his days of poverty to accompany accompany accompany ac ac- company him on of his trip He Hc will al also o take along with him his physician n l and his lawyer The wealth of Senor Alvarado ado Is estimated all the wa way from to He Hc has little falih In banks 9 an and a aast vast ast store of his wealth Is kept ept In strong steel vaults in his new marble palace It Is IsId said Id that he will CalT early carry with him on an his trip lo v to the Cit City of Mexico many millions of dollars in Jol gold and this fact has given Iv n rise to the tho that the tile object o of his visit Is to call In person on President Diaz and an renew his offer to pa pay the government debt Minister of Finance Jose Ives tour Is said to have refused this offer recently although it was Insisted upon by Senor Alvarado In letters which he wrote to Mr Senor Alvarado is a vel very honest an and 1 conscientious man He Ho says Ms that he obtained d his vast wealth from the I ground and that as the thc ground Is apart a apart part of Mexico l he hc feels that the government gov- gov I is right rightfully fUll entitled to a agoo goo good share of It Some of Senor ara Al Alvarados Alvarado's os o's ossa friends sa say that tha he lie Is going to the City of Mexico on a a. mission of charity an and I that hat he will distribute the millions of dollars ollars which he will take along I with him among the poor and needy ly in ht the republics republic's t capital Ho He Is be- be beloved be be- loved by the tho poor POOl people of Parral ParmI I IHo Ho hn has taken a a i warm personal interest Inter- Inter est st lm their condition rand and wants want over avol since his ll rise c to fortune began lIe He distributes large lane sums of money moncy I among amonS those tho c who are deserving at frequent Intervals He lie built hullt at his his own expense a cathe cathedral here hero He lie isa Is Isa I Ia a devout Catholic Catholic- Senor Alvarado has never ne shown an any I desire to travel The only onh time h he was I ever out of Parral and this immediate immediate imme imme- diate region reElon was when ho chartered a special train a few fe years rears ago aJo and took his wife to the City of Chihuahua for the purpose of having her teeth attended to by a n dentist He Is only thirty Ills His palace is one olle of oC the sights o of Mexico The Thc rooms arc are furnished with witha a lu luxury UI unequalled In Mexico There Is a piano In every room and amid canal canary birds make the building resound re rev soun sound with their theil notes I This multitude of son songsters is Is' Is Senor Alvarados Alvarado's special dell delight hl The I gilded cages occupy row after row rowin rowin in the halls halll and rooms It Is stated slated that he will take several hundred of I them with him on his trip to the lily ll llor of or Mexico Annexed to the tho palace Is a n big storeroom store store- room whore the supplies for the establishment es es- are keut knut It 11 Is IN here bore that 1 Senor Alvarado delights to meet his his his' cronies Ho lIe says sas that the rooms of th the palace are arc I somewhat oppressive to a man who has been used to an I active life In the mines The ornaments ornaments orna orna- I ments in the different rooms arc are of olid gold old No 0 one omit J knows how much wealth the mine mime has produced It Its en entrance entrance en- en trance is constantly guarded and no noone noone one but the of Alvarado AI and ancI the owner himself is permitted tl to enter its depths It is on one of tho time few w rich mines mines' In tn the world which ha have ha e never lIe been examined and re reported reported re- re ported on en h by p p. mining minIng- expert A f few w years cars ago tho the American n Smelting and Refining company ny which is IF known n as the Smelter Smeller Trust decided that it would bu buy tho mine If a price could bo be agreed upon The Thc company compan sent one of Its chief mine mimic experts from front New Nc York to Parral with Instructions to examine the mine and make mako a report as to Its value This man man called on and stated staled the object of his visit I I do 10 not want to sell my mine Senor Alvarado said But I would like to examine tho the property and perhaps an nn offer might then be made that would induce you to sell ell insisted the tho expert I will not let lot you examine the mine was tho the tcp reply Will Ill you ou fix a price on It for Cor us to consider asked cd tho the manI man I will not soil sell the but hut Ill I'll tell you ou what I will do said Senor Sonol Alvarado his eyes lighting up You tell the American Smelting and Refining Re Re- fining company that if they will fix Ox fixa a reasonable price on all of or their smelters and mines in Mexico I may buy them This proposition staggered the time ex expert expert ex- ex pert and ho left |
