to the higher title.	|B|
Appointment to the order Is said to be rare In this country and scl- ^B dom made by a diplomatic repre- ^B tentative at a formal function. ^B Lever titles and presentation b / ^B mall are said to have prevailed <n ^B the other instances. Letters and ,^B 'elegrams paying tribute to the’^B Xd Spanish Trail leader were re- .^B cived from all over the United ^B
Dan Ubarri's Speech rinn TIbarri spoke briefly and in ^B Jajiatlve tongue. His rcmarl.fi, BM translated, were as follows.	^H
Senor Harrnl Ayres.	^B
PI I come to this old and tra- ^H '’ditlonal city of San Antonio. B ' 1 responding to your gallant In- B ] ' vitation. to present to you in I < my official capacity as repre- Hj scntativc of Spain, the wormy H ' eondccoration of Comcndadoi Hi dc Isabel la Calollca, which his majesty King Alphonse Hj XIII. my august sovereign, H.1 has graciously bestowed upon H_1 vou as a reward for your Hi vork. and Us sympathy and H.1 insrlfish remembrance to- Hi ward Old Spain, thru your Hj success after years of unltr.ng 1 nctivltics in securing the con- ^^1 Uructlon of the highway I < »nich links ihc Atlantic with ^H the Pacific (from San AJgus- H •Inf to San Diegoi. thru the Hj lands of our ancient herjes H_' end conquerors. De Solo. Gal- H_' ves, Onate. Mcnendcz. Cortes. H Palboa, Coronado, the mis-	'
filonary fathers and others. Hj and which the Americans H | have to fittingly christened H 1 with the name of “Old Span- Hi
The Spanish government H.1 seldom bestows the high dls- ■ ' Unction that I am about to H.1 bestow upon you. It was ere- Hi nted in memory of the great ^H Queen of Castilla, Isabel I, H-;
Wngaia had so established his abl- J
■	liy he was given a farewell ban- I
■	quet attended by the executives I
■	representing 530,000,000 of Intel- I
■	csts While at Webster, Mass . b.s I
■	headed the Liberty loan can’.-; I Bpaigns and so easily carried tin I
■	quotas "over the top" hls organ-) I
■	izatlon methods became a model I
I in New England.	i
I He was again so near coilapir, I I he took passage on a ship sailing I ■I for Galveston. Texas, because it ■ I was the longest sea voyage he I
V	could find—and thus he landed in I
I health followed.	j I
■i A Tooth Caused It All J ■ I Doctors did not then know of I
V	pus-breeding teeth but In his I I! wanderings he had found d ic'.ors H I who had hazy suspicions of some- ■ I thing of the sort. One day in 1913 B I' he hunted an X-ray photographer B I and discovered that his big role- fl I crowned grinder was a virulent H I pus breeder. When pulled the H I doctors held an interesting con- H |J ferencc over the discovery. H’s H I health immediately started on the
I up-grade. He had carried that I tooth and battled with illnesses |j for 20 years. The best years of hls I life had been spent wandering I from place to place, always hldinr ^B || hls weakness because people ha-l I little regard for hiring an ill man ^B I and he had to work to live.	pl|
I Then the O'd Spanish Trail ^B I work offered Itself. His heal h ^B I was coming back and iho work ^B I gave opportunity to slay outdoo'-, ^B I tho it did not offer anyth!it ^B I wortli while m compensation nor ^H I a competence for hls old age. ^H
I	However, health and strength ^H amazingly restored he stayed wi-.n ^H
' the enterprise and finally achicvoii ^H the success now recognized as a ^H great accomplishment.	;i.
It is indeed a mighty highway ^H the Old Spanish Trail, stretching ^H across the continent from re'ean ^H
II	to ocean, a highway apparently ^H