Huerta Relaxes Hostility To Lind.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 13, 1913:
His Chief Cabinet Officer Receives Unofficial Visit from Wilson's Emissary.
MAY MEET ENVOY HIMSELF
Mexican President Seems Eager to Learn American Proposals — Japan Bars Diaz as Envoy.
    MEXICO CITY, Aug. 12.— The first success in the indirect diplomatic negotiations between the United States and Mexico was achieved to-day by John Lind, President Wilson's personal representative, when he contrived to be received unofficially by Federico Gamboa, Provisional President Huerta's Minister of Foreign Relations. Both Mr. Lind and Señor Gamboa insist that no great importance attaches to the visit The Mexican Government still is insistent in its formal announcements that it will not deal with Mr. Lind officially nor listen to any suggestion from him as to mediation or to any proposal emanating from his Government.
    Mr. Lind was presented to Señor Gamboa by Nelson O'Shaughnessy. Chargé d'Affaires of the American Embassy. In the character of a private citizen. The conversation between the Mexican Cabinet officer and Mr. Lind was entirely informal, both men carefully avoiding the subject of politics or the mission intrusted personally to Mr. Lind by President Wilson.
    The visit of Mr. Lind consumed only a few minutes of Señor Gamboa's time, and only a small number of persons knew that it had been made. The time selected for the call was when few visitors were in the Foreign Office, and a disposition was shown in the department to cloak it with secrecy.
    No further step was taken by Mr. Lind to-day to advance the object of his mission to Mexico. It is believed there will be little development in the situation before Thursday. Mr. Lind is in communication with Washington, and it is not improbable that his movements will be governed by instructions from there based on the progress he is able to make here.
    In view of President Huerta's note of last week, issued through the Acting Foreign Minister, stating that Mr. Lind would not be received officially unless he brought credentials and also official recognition of the Huerta Government, great significance attaches to his reception by Huerta's Cabinet chief, even unofficially.

Think Huerta Wants Message.
    By some persons the Minister's reception of ex-Gov, Lind is taken as an indication of a disposition on the part of President Huerta to learn the character of the message Mr. Lind bears. Officials high and low persist in saying that President Huerta never will receive Mr. Lind, especially as President Wilson's emissary, but there is an unconfirmed rumor in circulation that steps already have been taken to bring about a conference between them.
    It is the opinion of Mexicans generally that even if President Huerta should receive Mr. Lind, it would be merely to show him personal courtesy and would not alter the stand which the Mexican Executive has taken in regard to foreign interference in the republic. It is pointed out also that even should President Huerta be disposed to listen to suggestions, there remains the rebel element as a bar to the restoration of peace. Rebel sympathizers in the capital, and even pro-government men, say the rebels are no more inclined to permit mediation than is the Administration.

Linds to Move Into Embassy.
    Mr. and Mrs. Lind will move to-morrow from the hotel in which they have been stopping to the American Embassy, where newly purchased and rented furniture will be installed in a sufficient number of rooms to provide them with a comfortable apartment. Mrs. Lind, who was slightly ill yesterday, was improved to-day. She inspected the Embassy building, selected the rooms to be furnished, and made suggestions regarding what should be put into them.
    Mr Lind interested himself this afternoon by driving about the capital and visiting points of interest much like the ordinary tourist. His figure already has become familiar to the public, and he is the object of mild interest wherever he appears.