August 1910: Guadalajara, like Mexico City, is a hive of jolly expectation and schizophrenia.
This city of approximately 120,000 (mostly indios and peones) denies the vague sense that something may be simmering. Fulsome evidence of good times and gaudy preparations for month-long national Independence celebration justify a belief that nothing is simmering.
Municipal “progress” is too promising to dwell on undefined fretting. New electric trollies have just taken the place of horse drawn trams to Aqua Azul and as far as Tlaquepaque. More passenger and freight trams have been ordered from St, Louis, Missouri, to replace the horse cars to Zapopan and to La Experiencia, the textile mill employing scores of workers.
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