OHV - Mexican Baseball Team

Mexican Baseball Team

Digitally restored photo printed on metal, 25" wide x 12" high, ready to hang.   

The Mexican Village was operated under the supervision of the Mason & Hanger Company. Every effort was made to take the best possible care of these people, far from their homes, among surroundings utterly strange to them. There was appointed a superintendent for the village--a man who had previously lived and worked among Mexicans. A Mexican who spoke both Spanish and English was detailed to assist him. A commissary was built and operated especially for the Mexicans and the women of that nationality were encouraged to conduct boarding tables where the Mexican laborers could enjoy cooking of the kind which they knew and appreciated. Residents of the village were encouraged to gather at the club house in the evenings for native games, dancing and other social diversions.

Though there were among the Mexicans a few carpenters, plumbers, electricians and the like, most of them served as laborers, the capacity in which there was the greatest need. As a rule, they gave excellent service. The help which Mexico thus gave to the United States in the period of its critical need has perhaps never been generally recognized. While American boys were forced to go overseas the places of many of them in the necessary war work at home were taken by Mexicans. Because of this and the further fact that they were away from their native land the Mexicans received more consideration than would have been their lot under different circumstances. ~Sons of Martha by Dixon Merritt

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