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Show : PflHfllltPflP AC MA7 r yipifftJi If ML It "Viva Madero" Is Shouted by the People as the i Hero of the Revolution is Driven Through the I Streets at the Head of a Great Parade City f Makes a Holiday of the Occasion Wreath ; Presented to Madero by a Woman. I Mexico City, June 7. Amid the V wildest enthusiasm. Francisco I. Ma- dero today entered the seat of the I government which he had overturned. I The demonstration was the greatest which the'capital has Known In a generation. gen-eration. Business was pructlcalh suspended sus-pended and the streets through which the revolutionary leader made his way were gay with flags, fountlng rvnl Now-'. Now-'. era, while the throats of tens of thou-', thou-', sands cheered. ; The noisy welcoiue begrai when ithe great crowd at the railway sta- 1 Hon first caught sight of the bearded I ' face and stocky figure as Madero i emerged from his private car and I !j stepped quickly Into fl waiting, carriage. car-riage. I Shouts of "Viva Madero" swelled In-f. In-f. to a great chorus as the cry was tak-. tak-. f' en up along the streets leading from hi the ralhvav station throughout tho K cIt'- J Bowing and smiling to the right and fl left, Madero was driven from the sta I I tlon to the national palace and then to J the home of his father, at Berlin and u Liverpool streets. The crowds fell In ? ! behind as the carriage passed, until a ; noisy but friendly procession had i formed. Scores of civilian societies, political organizations, women in car-it car-it rlngcs and soldiers in parade uniform - moved to the quick-step music of the f military bands. I 1" It was a spectacle stirring and unus-I unus-I it ual. but amid the popular rejoicing , could be detected an undercurrent of resentment on the part of the un-V un-V reconciled aristocracy that looked on . silent, though not moved Rumors of plots against the life ( of the hero of the day were rife, as wero reports that secret arrests hnd ibeen made. Antonio Vlllacencla, former for-mer chief of iollce, was taken Into custody cus-tody last night Immunity as to members mem-bers of the House of Deputies is said ., to have stayed the arm of the law it aiainst others alleged to have been : implicated in a plot, the discovery of . which was followed "by the arrest of j : W L Dunn, an American at Monterey, I .; and Daniel DeVlllieres, a former po--i '. lice head These two men are accused ac-cused of 'being at the head of the plotters. plot-ters. Madero's special train was preceded to the capital by a score of other J trains, which tfen't up the line yestcr-! yestcr-! day to participate In the demonstra f tlong en route and to escort the rebel r general to this city ,' On alighting from his car here, Ma- 0 h dero was greeted by Senora Agulles w i Serdan, one of the heroines of tho rj rebellion who handed him a laurel f wreath. Senora Serdan Is the widow lof one of the first revolutionary conspirators con-spirators to lose their lives His yhome In Puebla, In preparation for the ;: revolt, was used as a store house for rifles and nmmunltlon The secret rjwas discovered bv the government and jj' Serdan was killed in defending his J home. "When the husband fell, his "g j wife and her two iMstcrs seized rifles B .i nnd continued the resistance until tit they were oerpowcred. The women J ! were thrown Into jail where they i miangiilshcd for months. With the trl- 1 Ms iml'h of the Madero party, a Serdan loclelj was formed here and Senora .' . Serdan was brought to the capital to jrcet tho man for whose caur,e she I f n-l her family had suffered so much j f The little woman tenured the I ; vreath without a word' , ', What Madero replied could not be j leard above the din that greeted tho -j ncldcnt. i A brief address of welcome was II nade by Dr Culbbcrto Hldaljxo. after .i vhlcli a parade was formed. The various bodies participating had been tt the rendezvous since daybreak and ;. ach had been asslgnetl a position In 5 i he line Into which It fell at tho i 'proper moment. 1 Banners bearing Madero's likeness : -were overy where; mingled with the na-j na-j Nona colors and, slogans of the revc- II lution. Looming1 larger than ail oth- erB were bannery bearing tho nlngic 4 tvord. "Order" Those were intendel g . to Influence the populace to restrain SJ',. -- - - -A - - - 9) IB IBMaAMIIJm'B!!mg.vi.LmMiuiiiiiiH-l the more turbulent impulses. Shopkeepers Shop-keepers as a rule were Inclined to be on the safe .side and generally the windows of their places were shuttered. shut-tered. From the railroad station the procession pro-cession moved Into Calles del Puente de Alvarado, through the Avendlda de Los Hombres Illustres and Into the park at the national palaco and thence back through the Avendlda de San Francisco, the Avendlda Juarez, the Paso de la Reorma and tho Calles de Berliu to the Madero home Here, in the two story brick house owned by Madero, the elder, and distinguished dis-tinguished from its neighbors by a tower, the conqueror of Diaz rested for the first time since his entry into the country was made at'Ciudad Por-flrio Por-flrio Diaz, "now newly named Pledra Ncgras, oo |