Maderos Are Here, But Silent On Plans.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 8, 1913:
Father and Uncle of Late President May Join Other Members of the Family in New York.
TELL OF HUERTA'S DECEIT
Promised to Spare the President — Ex-Gov. Garza Tells How He Disguised Himself and Escaped.
    Relatives of Francisco I. Madero. Jr., late President of Mexico, arrived yesterday from Vera Cruz on the Ward steamship Mexico. The party consisted of Francisco I. Madero, Sr., father of the President; Ernesto, his uncle, with his wife and family, and Rafael Hernandez, brother-in-law and cousin of the late President, who was his Secretary of the Interior. The wife of Francisco I. Madero, Sr., and the widow of the President remained in Havana for another week, it was said, and will come on then to New York. Frederieo Gonzalez Garza, who was Governor of the Federal district, accompanied the Maderos.
    All the members of the party, with others on board, including Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Griffiths, Mr. and Mrs. Mantell, Mrs. Richard M. Meredith, and John Kenneth Turner, author of "Barbarous Mexico," all fled from Mexico City after Madero and Jose Pino Suarez were shot to Vera Cruz, where they embarked for Havana.
    Francisco Madero, who is 64, and his brother, Ernesto, 40, did not appear to have any desire to mix up in Mexican political affairs again or to discuss the conditions in their native land with the reporters who met the ship at Quarantine.
    "It has been a dreadful tragedy," said the father, with a wave of his hand. "It was terrible and is not to be talked of." They met friends at the pier and once or twice Francisco and Ernesto laughed at some remarks that were made to them.
    When the Mexico arrived in Quarantine at 12:40 o'clock she was detained until 1:50 o'clock on account of a case of chicken pox on board, and the passengers had to wait while the child was re i moved and a part of the vessel disinfected by the officials from the Quarantine Station.

Met by Evaristo Madero.
    Evaristo Madero, another brother of the late ex-President, who is a student at Cornell, went down the bay on the revenue cutter and was very indignant at the delay in getting on board the Mexico to see his father. We was so excited that when Francisco Madero came to the rail of the steamship and looked down at the cutter Evaristo said that it was his uncle Ernesto and not his father. Afterward he said the mistake was through his father's wearing a straw hat instead of his gray felt sombrero.
    All the members of the family expressed delight on hearing that Raoul and Emilio
    Madero had reached San Antonio, Texas, safely after a 600-mile ride on horseback, but they declined to state that there were any plans to hold a family conclave in New York or anywhere else.
    Francisco Madero, who speaks English fluently, read a cabled report that Ambassador Wilson had used his influence against President Madero during the uprising. He said:
    "I cannot say anything on that question whatever. It reads as if it had come from a trustworthy source, where one would seek such news in the City of Mexico. I had no idea that the rebels were going to shoot my son, as the leaders had promised me that day that he would be spared and not harmed in any way. Even when he had been killed we could not believe the news to be correct, but it proved, alas, only too true. I knew that if we did not leave Mexico at once we should also be killed, and after burying my son Francisco in the French cemetery, our party left by train for Vera Cruz."
    Ernesto Madero said that he had come to settle in New York with his family and practice law. He had with him his wife and their four children — Ernesto, Jr., 16; Luis, 14; Enrique, 11, and Leonora, 9. He indorsed the remarks made by his brother and said that his relatives would remain for some time in New York, and believed that the survivors of the Maderos. would all be here within the next two weeks.

Uncle Credits Report.
    Ernesto Madero declined to discuss the attitude of Ambassador Wilson toward his late brother Francisco, and also added that the reports, on the subject read as if they had some foundation and came from reliable sources, but more he would not say to the reporters.
    Rafael Hernandez, who was Minister of the Interior, said that his young brother Marcos gave up his life for him when the soldiers of Diaz attempted to shoot him in the palace after President Madero had been arrested.
    "President Madero was in a room with some of his Cabinet Ministers, including myself, discussing the political outlook when the soldiers came in. They arrested the President, and four soldiers pointed their guns at my breast. Just as they pulled the triggers Marcos jumped in front of me and received three of the four bullets in his chest and dropped dead at my feet. Then I was locked up by order of Gen. Diaz and afterward released."

Ex-Gov. Garza's Escape.
    Ex-Gov. Gonzales Garza from his own modest account had an exciting time following the outbreak of the Diaz rebellion on Feb. 9, when he was imprisoned with President Madero and Vice President Suarez.
    One of the conditions that the President stipulated before he agreed to resign," said the ex-Governor, "was that those under arrest with him should be liberated, and Gen. Huerta let me go free, simply to deceive Madero. I was told privately that the order for my arrest had been signed and would be executed that night, which meant my end, I knew. So I got an old suit of clothes from a locomotive fireman, cut off my mustache, and wore blue glasses to hide my features so that I managed to get on board a cargo steamer at Vera Cruz for Colon, and afterward to reach Cuba."
    As Francisco Madero and his relatives, with the nephews and niece in the rear, marched down the steep gangway at the pier in Brooklyn at 3 o'clock they were met with a battery of cameras which kept up an incessant clicking like machine gun triggers as the party moved along the pier. The deck and rails of the steamship were sheathed with ice, and the pier was so cold that the fugitives shivered visibly in the blast, and some of the men put newspapers under their vests.
    None of the Maderos would say what hotel they intended to stay at in New York. Ernesto said that he thought it might be the Holland House, while his brother Francisco said that they were going to stay with friends in New York, and Mrs. Ernesto Madero said that it was the Waldorf-Astoria they were going to. The head of the family, Francisco, went over on the Atlantic-Avenue ferry with Dr. William Scott, an old friend, and his wife.
    The others of the family remained on the pier to clear the baggage through the customs, which was made as easy for them as possible, as they had very little to declare. Then the whole party drove to the Hotel Ansonia, at Seventy-third Street and Broadway, where rooms had been reserved for them.