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Show VESSEL CHARTERED FOR HUERTA PARTY. Puerto Mexico July 19. According to the latest reports. ex-President Huerta and his party expect to leave here Tuesday Cenerals Huerta and Blanquet, accompanied by threp or four aides, will sail on the German cruiser Dresden The others will go on the steamer Mexico of the Mexican Navigation company) which it is said, lias been chartered for this purpose The presidential guards will leave . rl in the morning for the capital The refusal of President Carbajal 10 let the fugitive president have the use of the gunboats Bravo and Zara goza has occasioned undisguised chagrin, chag-rin, but there appears to be no remedy rem-edy As if to give color, however, to the assumption that the government reallj needs these boats, the Zara gOZS put out to sea this afternoon, laying her course in the direction of Havana The only order the com mahder received was to go to Havana 11 was reported that the Zaragoza intended in-tended to pick up at that port some prominent constitutionalist and brin' him to Mexico to enter into personal negotiations with the new provisional president, The United States cruiser Des Moines which has been lying off the harbor, immediately followed the Zar agoza. General Huerta spent the entire day in his car. smoking an endless mini her of cigarettes and chatting with friends His humor was much less cheerful than at any time since ".caving ".cav-ing the capital, and those about him treated him with the greatest consideration consid-eration Most of the women and men of the party left the cars for luncheon, going to the restaurant of the local hatel. A crowd of perhaps a hundred peons, men. women and children, gathered about the car in which General Huerta Huer-ta lodged, whiling away the hours of the afternoon tui h is uuuuilui u they were attracted as much by the presence of Huerta. who sat beside an open window, as by the music of a local orchestra which was stationed alongside the i ar Former President Huerta and his party here w ere joined today by a few more military men and several politicians who arrived from the capital capi-tal on regular and special trains. Among those who came in today were a few congressmen. CO |