Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 8, 1909, Page 6

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We |a millionaire. The work was all done Leach, Col. W. W.|I still retained my office) and I was T | took the contract fron the Central | during the night time. and I was out | Dodge, Gov. Newton Booth and myself | ploased to meet him, as T had knowa Pacific Rairoad company. as % was & | more or less every night, but ~enerally | we crossed the bay to Angel Island | him well long ago, when he was in the l portion of the road which was to con- | home by half-past fen or eleven|and Janded at Quarry wharf. Leaving |express businoss. After talkine of old | nect the great transcontinentsl road [ o'clock. I had but little to do during |the steward to prepare the elegant | times for awhile he opened up on his with Ban Francisco. But ‘the company | the day but to ride around and ob- | lunch that Mr. McCulloush had order- | new-fangled light, and he dilated up= 2 . P . had so worded our contract as to give | serve the condition of the streets. ed rrom the Maison Riche, we called [on its beauties and brilllancy in such n XperlCflCC 0 lghty cars o L] S By Ge()rge Tlsdale Brom]ey them the privilege of classifying the| It was while managing the streot | upom the Irishman, who, with his fam- | glowing terms that I becare deeply work after it was opened and they | sweeping contract that 1 was invited [ ily, was In charge of that ~art of the | mterested. He informed me that, nol could form some idea of the kind of | to attend an entertainment given by | island, it being & government reserva- very well off, he would dispos: material we had to move, so, after the | the Associated Alumnae of the State|tion. wArriving at the house, the keep- | of the patent-right et a very reason= CHAPTR VI Iy , and so pop- [ appearance before the noisy aud . [my first sum in arithmetic; and I was | first month, they went over the work | university at Berkeley. With a high|er met us, and Mr, Bouclcault ad- |able figure, and I, thinking that this F ef v | ula al estate in Santa Cruz| My speech had the desired effect, but [ proud of it, for it was some sum, I|and made a difference of six thousand | appreciation of the homor I aecepted | dreessed him in his native language. 1s the opportunity of my life, bought Keeping Hotel in San Jose—Governor | increased in value from twenty-five | first intimation that I hadsaid | thought. I'can see it now as plainly |Mollars in our estimate on the second | the invitation, and arrived at the place | Never shall I forget the surprise and t, paying him five hundred dol- down and the balance in notes. I thing worth while was given me |as if it were but twenty-fiveor thirty,month’s work. Then, with a verbal ! of meeting just as the men were call- | delight that showed on that keeper's n I found that instead of continu- | years ago. I set it down, then I add- | understanding. we went to work on|ed off from labor and mustered in to | face as he listened to Mr, Boucicault { would be pleased to explain how the their préparations, the ladies had |ed it up. It was ought and ought is|the third month, and when ‘the engi- |refreshments. At the entrance I met | while he talked in a languap~ familiar g worked but it is so long since ¥ topped ‘dead still and listened.to me. | ought, and ought is ought to ought. |néer's estimate was sent in they cut|an old-time Folsom friend who seem- | in boyhood, but unheard for years. o scen one that I have forgotten The next day, 1 met the editor of The |I cut off the top line; and it proved |us down five thousand dollars on that, | ed to be a sort of manager, and whose [ The wife, who was whitewashi=~ an t. However, in order to intro Santa Cruz Sentinel at the hotel, and | correctly, I took it to the teacher and I [ after which we saw that it was no use of stammering was something | adjoining room, came running in fust | duce it properly, I had a larse space the busy sea-| three and four 1 and the dull times away th all the d it until the winter of gave it up and returned Stanford’s Proposition—The Santa | © Cruz Hotsl—A Narrow Escape from | " Becoming Del Monte's Manager—A | int Speech That, Unsought, Brought | pro Fame—Santa Barbara. Meeting an _old- | said he thought he would ,get-me a situation | to try and bring them to any kind of a derful. After exchanging greet- | as she was barefooted, with her dress |In the Mechanics' pavillon and during After nine railroading 1 leased the Napa Oh, Fve got you down all right” in the corner grocery, I was so quick | written agreement by which we could and congratulations, sald he: to her knees, exposing limbs of perfect | the Mechanics’ falr that space shone graduated and @ hotel at asked Mwhat I Had: iy o SOC TN CORR AL SEhE at figures. He looked at the sum and | hold them. so we threw up the con-| “I'm g-g-going to o-c-c-all on |formation. 1 really thought she would | with a brilliapey that put every other Ban Jone in T30 Py hotel business. I told Well,” said he, “I took your speech | Pdssed back the slate, and eaid he: | tract ang bent our endeavors towards | y-y-you.” embrace the author of all rejoicing, [exhibit in the shade. Ah, 1t we T i e arslly. s 8 elig a_three-rail | qown in shorthand and I am going to | YOU bave figured up just about all | getting a settlement which would en-| - “Thank you” said I, “do you know [ but she controlled her impulse and in- | grand! It was dazziing! And T re= scored such a success as no away from the sheriff. | poyi" g A T you will ever amount to” I dian’t|able us to recover what we had in-|where I live?” stead, brought out thsee large pans |ceived many orders to eussly familie hotel man in that town could mis- Don't vou do it T answered, “for | KIOW, at that time, what he meant, | vested in the work, if nothing more.| “Oh, I d-d-d-don't m-m-m-mean |of milk with the cream on tep half an |and offices with the light, so that when within gunsMot of. After I had but I met him again at| 1 have friends outside of Santa Crug, | S0 I thanked him and asked him if I|The trouble was that although the[th-th-that” he answered, “I m-m-m- |inch thick. Then John MeCullough. |the fir ¢ note came dilo it was prompte < |1y paid. But the other two_are st 353 t156 el busigeas in. Saxi 3 season {and shouls 5 couldn’t stand up and see who whisp- [ company had bullt & great many miles | mean to ¢-c-c-call on y-y-y-you {-f- | with his proverblal forethousht, sent e to the yacht for a couple of botiles of | among Mr, Buford’s assets, for when > that speech the for a sp-p-peech ered. He sald no, but I might go home | of raliroad themselves and: had cross enough to Nave: established a | said 1, “how did yol make | \ili think I have gone into my second able reputation as a host, I | o0 childhood.” = s and tell my mother to put a nail in|ed the Sierra Nevadas, yet' they had| “Don’t you do it” said L “for I have | whiskey, and the best milk punch I[the novelty wore off there wers no day hon 2 visit fooi ‘Governor Well” said he, “I didn’t quite clear |~ hon he sald he would obey my | ™Y forehead to hang my hat on, as it [never known what the cost should [come here to listen and not to talic” |ever tasted was brewed then and there, | further demands for the light, and I pie M it Ay B oame dn the | fetice | wishes In the matter, but he elaimed | V2% @ pity to wear out good hats on |have been, as it was the only railroad- | ~“W-w-what th-th-th-theme w-w- and we brewed and we quaffed, and we | very quietly retired from the “Patent morning and all day, and it such ups and downs | (hat when he came to make up his|SUch @ head. We all loved that teach- |ing they had ever donme, and in that| would you 1-I-I-like to s-p-p-peak | sang and we laughed, until word came | Sunlight Gas” business. scemed to be plea e éstab. otel 1if yaper le found he necded about that | ©f_(When he moved away). He was | they all had been for going ahead re- | up-upon?” ¢ from the stoward that lunch bad been | T had placed two of the lights on the lishment and ifs appointments. Aft W v s a store- | much to fill it, so the speech eared | VETY pious, and always opened school | gardless of expense. So it appeared, ow, look here.” said I, “T am en- | ready for an hour, 5o we bade good- table of Mr, Frederick MeCrellish's TR (ke goRemor sugEcatad Kbat wo in isco_custom | SN0 T G £O TRe Sheech abbeared | with prayer, or a long stick, and we | they wanted to experiment with us | eirely out of themes, so don’t you call | by to our lowly entertain and pro- | dining_room, and 10 was at that g0 out and sit under the awn later, that 1| ertheless and to my astonishment it | 4Sed to think he didn’t care which, for [and find out the cost and then bulld | upon me.” | ceeded to part of a lunch which | time editor of The Alta California, i as he had a matter of some im- |re ssage from the South S g oL “"j"“",“' 1‘ he told us once that he was bound to | the road themselves. He left me then, and T thought the | Was simply gorgeous. | modestly asked him to say & good wor portance to discuss with n I could | Pa r company, askir | Goorge'n Sok ol Mo o ¢ | have the school opened on time if he| In 1868 the first epidemic of small- [ matter had had end but_after the ( After lunch we started for home via | for the light. He said not imagine what it could be, bus w > ¢ol r office at the corner | butn© Stuart . Phoas whin S viaes | had to open it with an oyster knife, | pox visited San Francisco, and it was | recess, when one or two speeches had | Raccoon Straits, which is the passage | “Why, certainly.” And the next day not long awaiting enlightenment of ¥ Townsend streets, 28| President D. C. Gilaan of the ;‘]‘F He was so pious that he used to read | surprising to see how unconcerned the | been made, and Rev. Dr. Eclls had|between Angel Lsland and the main- | T received the folowing after we were seated, Governor Sta the inted 1o see me on business. | Fopkins university at Baltimare. oy | SCripture to us, but he was very for- | people were about it. At the first out- his staid, sober-sided ad-[land. As we were passing through My Dear Mr. Bromley: ford asked me how I was making out | Now, that was what you might call a | shown a cop "‘j‘{‘ g ;"_“ e, WaS | getful, and once he tried to tell us break the victims were removed im- . Stone, the president of the | the stralt It was suggested that we | our light is & grand suecess. The . in hot i s 4 ut T went, and there I found | Ay, Whitelow. Reid. it ne ecnt 10 what is said of “Suffer little children,” | mediately to the pest house, but when n, arose in his place and call- | call in at Sausalito, as the new hotel | two that you put in place on my table “Very well, indeed; much better than | the f men’ who built the first rail- | ;0 6@ 8V R A e Bave It 0| byt he forgot the rest, and so the lit- | it became known mow miserably they|ed upon me. I was dumbfounded, | there was about finished and we might | have served to magnify the eatables T expected Fohd acroes’ the- continent . After y brother, who avas then on the ed-[tio children had to suffer. were treated many who were afflicted | but I managed to recover in time to|assist in its dedication. Captain Archie | to such an extent that I find the bills v the gov I bhave |V 5l by mfold torial staff of The New York Tri-| Now, I want to show you the im- | with the disease had such an uncon-|respond, and this is part of what I|Harlow, the sailing master, was re- | for supplies have been reduced all of 3 bune, who, rn, sent it to me. The |portance of improving your time. I |querable horror of the place that their [ said: (But I will remark right here | quested to consult Mr. McCullough |one-half, and long may you wave u. - Mr, | t 1 ndent of | ed tion to make to is now the ‘super I had been summ 3 & propos it in “McCrellish.® s told| For fear that the public would sus should 1 he wi as to whether or not we , Sausalito, and wh | copy 1 have reads thus adies, Gentiemen and C once knew a little boy in San Jose whe | friends preferred to take the risk of|that I can always remember bette dren:—I | loved to go to school and loved his|concealing the state of the case and| what I have said after saying it than ¥ nd_which proved to 1ding of a hotel at Monterey our railroad, and he is also managing | b the building of the road, which occ W would surpass anything on this | &PPear before you to apologize for the | books, and he grew uptobe great and [nursing the patients at home. An ord- (I can what I am going to say before | the wishes of gentlemen, he said: |pect that o flattering @ testimoaial ples all his time. He: knows of 36 of thiiho it. They had can- | VOn-appearance of the two gentle- | wise and good, and when he had |inance was passed by the board of [ I say it. “Here’s where we open,” as Well, wh t you do it?" must have been pald for, it was noves position I am abofit to st i arch g ! men whose names appear on the pro-|learned all there was in San Jose he | supervisors requiring that a yellow | the knife said to the oyster.) " * said the ear T am | published gramme, and I dm requested to make | went to Milpitas, and there he was|flag should be displayed from all| “Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle- we'll be too late for the thea-| My first adventurs in the patente you, and it meets wit it is this: That you rights business was the purchasing off milk punch having got In its|of an “India Rubber Paint” establish< nager and propr cholce on m St prised a ittle speech as a substitute for the | made postmaster, and when the other |houses where small- existed, and [ men: To say that I am s they were to sing. Now, I was|two men moved away he set up & ho- it was a penal offefise to refuse to| being called upon to addre song s you but business, return to peal of thur from a clea take Mr. Crocker's place as superin- | TL wouldn’t be in it, compared to my lculating to address the children on|tel and had no opposition. So, you |neglect to comply with the require- | feebly expresses my emotion, for I|work, he repl and for about & year I ran % ndent of the Central Pacific rail- | surprise at the announcement, but on | LIS Occasion, but, unfortunately, the|see, you must love your books if you |ment. Consequently, the little yellow | came not here to talk, but to sit at the Damn the odds! Give the theater an | for all that wes in it. The Metso< . overing 1. expressed my. Appracta | FoURE who was to accompany | want to be postmaster at Milipitas, | flags were to be seen in all parts of | feet of these Gamallels and learn wis- | off night. Go into, Sausalito. g ftan thester and a large number of ropositi 1 me, and. 1| tion « Ry e iddress on the piano was so over- [and then, again, if you ever get to|the city, and it was mothing umusual | dom, to drink from the Pierian spring| And fe went il Arriving at th buildings and private res. b n_earn- | have to con: hey Agreed | (0Me by its rehearsal that she has not | know enough to' make a speech, at a [to see one displayed at the same en-|—I ‘think that Is the name of the|wharf we found two milk peddiers o made beautiful by a were iroad men | to this, and when I the propg- | Leen of the house since. There- |schoo] festival, you will know how |trance with a sign, “To Ren 1| spring, but there are so many springs | with empty cans lashed to the backs | c of coats of rubber paint. whik than there were in later some little | ©27¢ T will have to deliver the address | easy it is to begin and how hard it Is | could not help thinking how- different- | nowadays that it is hard to keep the | of two mules. These were chartérod, | the roofs of houses and the climbin wve always thought it | time nd then ohe | Without accompaniment and Jeave | to leave off, for I have been trying |ly such thinge were regarded in my|run of them. But I am glad to be|and, mounted by two of the party, led | of long ladders becamo as familiar t& at T owed the disti 1 out the most affecting part for fear [about five minutes to stop this one of |native town, where a single case of | here for several reasons, and the first | the procession up to the hotel, where | me as household words, and I was fas ton. I told Governor Star 1 e A% of consequences, mine and can only o so now by ab- | small-pox would be enough to cause|is the pleasure of greeting your hon- | we were received with all the honor: veloping Into & first-class artist whes appreciated the honor heyond t1 i Geprge you should that| ~Now, if there is any one thing that | ruptly bidding you good night.” the blockading of & whole street ored president. We e known each | but as the barroom was the or it *d upon me that &k a coRtrAchs er of words to express, and with an | hotel’ you wo 3 hree years. | T love ‘to tter than another, it is | My excuse for reproducing this speech | This small-pox was a curious affair, | other long and well e same lovely | of the hotel finished, we dedicated that | or T was not & success, as the “othed my heart I thanked him for his fiatter- s P g o T T ceches to children, because | here is the cordial manner in which | People were scared énough but they | New England town that can boast of [ to the Queen's taste. and then return- | follow” would get the benefit of mw ing opinion of my capabilities as a | M4V 0 o von e N rew Seas | L love them, and, in fact, T have it|it was received at the time, and also |found precautions were no safeguard. [ being his birthplace T also honored by | ed to the city, I dined with Colonel | fears of being foo exactine I, theres railroad ma It wa roud to know | ¥ and for you to take charge | from very good authority that I was|on a later occasion, when I embodied | It seemed to be sporadic, and in the| having been born there; we have flown [ Dodge at the Union clyb, after which | fore, turned the whole business in t 7 e cars' service in the | [ SUCh @ hotel as they propose build- | once a liitle boy myself, and although [t in an address given at the Temple | end they just trusted to luck to escape | our kites by the same east-ne t| we attended the theater; and met John | the original owners end was “out Sucramento Valley -had won the i rononterey, your days would be | not s0 good as some other little boys, | Emanu-El in this city. ft. Old country folks said it was not | wind, swam In the same river, skated [ McCullough at the entrgnce. He ask- (about five hundred dollars. Howeve: proval of such men as composed the | DUmbere the only reason for that was that| Another hotel experience of mine |like the disease they kmew. It left|on the same pond, and although he|ed where we were golng and we an- |1 quit with & name untarnished b Central Pacific Riailroau company, but I thought so myself, and consequent- | there were =0 many other little boys [ was in 1878. I went down to Santa | worse scars, and vaccination was no| was a Congregationalist and I a Bap- | swered, to the theater. 'He sald: “Go [ contact with “India Rubber Paint.” 1 had become enamored of my hotel | Iy 1 wrote to the railroad officials | that were better than T was. So you [ Barbara and for a few weeks man- | protection. There wasn't any use In| tist, it did not prevent us from attend- | right up.to my box,” and up we went The White Pine excitement was then-. lite, and w nany thank hanking the honor they had | se¢ how near I came to being one of aged the Arlington. But the-proprie- | getting scared or anything else. We | ing the same circus—a yielding of doc- | After the first act I fell asleep, and | the all-absorbing topic in the comm honor. ‘The governor se th nion of my | the hest little hoys in the district. Iftor of the hotel was a Spiritualist, and | have had epidemics since, but nothing | trinal points exceedingly rare in those | wag - awakeried by my friend Dodge|nity, and after caimly deliberating . claiming on the stage. I very care- |upon my chances of making my fore ntion this for your encouragement. | he was told by some one ih the other [to compare with that one, either in|days. " remember well when he left vhat disappointed and my own con- | " interview, I afterware ry sensible_conclu- Now. we want you all to be good | world that I was not the right man to | extent or virulence. Old and young, | the ol@ rooftree to plunge into the mys- | fully .moved aside the curtain, and |tune in the newly discovered rich dig«+ that he had come to San Jose r due deliberation. So T did | Children and to love your books' and |run his hotel. The spirit pointed out |rich and poor, clean @ filthy got it | terfes and miseries of a Yale college saw that the g was over and the | gings I decided to seek my fortuns at the express intentlon of inducing me | charge of the Hotel del Monte, | your teachers. T love vour teachers|the right man and he took my job, |alike and it -was a sort of “eat, drink | career, and I went whaling; he to con- | entire audience had left. Some one | Treasure Hills in White Pine untsy to accept ‘the position. ' Many times, | but the fact of its management Bav- | because they are the most lovable of | while T returned to San Prancieo. and be mérry, for tomorrow we may|sume the midnight oil, and I to fur- [ was sleepiug on the opposite side of | I went, I saw, and T came awey agai afterward, during my career as a ho- | N8 been offered to me is evidence that | ANy teachers 1 have ever own, and have the small-pox.” nish the supply. And now, here, in|the box, and I investigated and found | just as soon as I could raise the mones tel keeper, it occurred to me that had | My failure at the Santa Cruz hotel [ they have worked very hard to ge up CHAPTER VII, T have seweral of the leiters I wrote| this far-away land we find our oceu- | jt w John McCulloveh I left and |to pay my stage fare, and thus was pations runming parallel. President | wended my way to the’ outlet, where | the pathway of my life during thad nt, to raise money home about this time, but few of the 0F in the schoolhouse, | Rallroad Building—The Smalipox Epi- | events recorded are of general Interest. | Gilman is here in Berkeley, » get nice new scats for the little demic—Train Robbery—An Up-to- |ID contrast to my father's ropewalk|the you to go forth and fight the > P-t0- | wag one I visited in 1368 at the Po- | battle of life, while I am in San Fran- | door, and there stood 1 told the first man T met, after my | Was not attributed to any fault of |this entertain conversation with the governor, that | mine B A he could have the establishment for| It was during the quiet winte teaching | T came to @ door that fastened with a [ period, strown with disappointmentes bar. I swung the bar and opened the | Yet I didn’t take them much to 3 ‘Charley” Chand- | for I knew, “It ¥s @ long lane th u bat he chose to offer, an ne | months Sarity Ot WInter | boys' trousers—no, nice new trousers St sl o B ity Mg s oo e sy | for the little boys® seats—no, 1 domt| Date’ Ropewalk—Strest Sweeping— | irero. Of all the ropewaiks I have|cisco, earing for the understanding |ler, the manager of the bar, wiping |hath no turming” bean the wisest thing I could have|to get up an entertainment to raise | MM that, either. What I do‘moan is A University: Alumnae Banquet—I | ever seen this one was way ahead. ¥ |of the penphhhy r‘\;n"inx a street- nlg-elzu. It-mnrenl. lnnd-v:usmlls m‘: (‘Smguuéuromvdr‘nnrn home 1 ’r;:d done. I would not now ha i d * repairing th oolhouse, | 12 56t .new seats to keep the boys i i was about two thousand feet long and | sweeping machine. ut to return to|whole pgrty came in and we drank | Gov. Stanford an: suggested to him one. u t now have to think | funds for repalring the schoolhouse, | from wearing. out thelr trousers Mest, Presicantt Gilman—Angs! Taland |3 O e ot erins mes il tons | thal ringt dou't. ,recall ~the| ihe Dedils of the generous host, and | thet s I W Bobt-locss 1 would Be of walki order 2onon as the school s were rely e ‘ . i walking in order to economi s the school funds were entirely Now, they have worked hard to do| Thirt Years Ago—McCullough and - thus_ended the most delightfal event | picased to accept a situation with the by machinery. They worked manilla | name— fare. ot, T would have | hansted. SPrepraticis were mode. Hon ¢ N e S Jolly ;;ff,:‘,,‘m'lfl Erepraidis g immade, Pro- | all this and have sometimes sat up late | the Milk Punch—India Rubber Plant | exclusively, and the = Ghinese. who| FHers a gentleman in the audience|of that theatrical scason. *Mis for- | Sonthern Pacific Rullrosd companys that, taking it all in all, perhay Nity was on the tip-tos of expeotation. | ¢ PigAt. and I have been so sorry | Episode—Mining in White Pine—My | formed the bulk of the employes, were | prompted me—*Pierian.” tunate that I should be living to write | should jthere be any vacancy. He batter as 1t fs. T could not be hape | On the eventng of the entertainmeac; | that T could not sit up with them and [ g p. Engagement — | Christen 4 |88 Fegutar and prect 6s the ma-| ~Thats it,” sald I “Now, that gen- | it, as every other member of that de- | seemd %o think favorably of the pros pler, nor. enjoy better health, if T own- | was behind the: Scenes assisting the | L them- But I couldn't, because I e A &inory itaclt. The engine room was | tleman knows more about my speech | lightful party is dead. position and in a few days I received ad @ whole railroad myself, and were | Jadies in preparing their tableaux. But i to up at the hotel and let in| Frenght Boat — A Sure Thing iIn| e a parior. than I do, -nd 1 would be pieased te| After dfsposing of my interest in |notice of my appointment as receiving the president and® the board of direct- | when the time came for bezinning the | | oerecTie Whot were out late. Now,| Lighting Apparatu In 1870 one of the mafl trefns bound bu\e mm of and finish it,” and | the patent street sweeper and the eity | clerk In the freight department of the ars combir exercises, the two gentiembn who were | L, a0t you all to.be good "children, east was stopped and robbed by sev- ?ereldow«d At the clgse | contract for a good, round sum, I was | rallroad. The position was ready fop T 100 wooden hotel at Santa | io formich & sone He The SomnAO Were | and never keep the man at the hotei | In 1563 I was interested In @ contract | eral men, who, perhaps, had been ate- raises I was made the vic- | walting for a “sure thing” as a profit- | immediate ocoupation and 1 immedie Cruz w 1p I smoke, but the own- | ber had “fallen down. 8o to. speai | LP Jate to let you in when he wants | for grading and la the tracks on sppo‘lntl&d in' not @rawing anosher sugprise, by being | able investment. Mr. Richard Buford |ately occupied |t and for elghteen ers saved the lot and decided to build | and the halt-grown men and bave| 00 Eittmg up with your teachers | that portion of the “Western Pacific |in the Mercantile uhruyugs' congratulated by President|of Buford’s express, in the early | months I recetved and signed for every s o o . = 20v8| and helping them to get up a festi- | Railroad” lying between Alameda and |affair created quite a semedtion u@n gu:un and Rev, Dr, Stone. fifties, came to Sen Kraneisco frem | pound of freig hd—rml._.r: the rd and Towns another hotel on the same who composed a large pari ew York, where he had been lving | depot at the foot of Th of the au- 1l to raise money to buy a new floor [ Stockton. The length of that sectien |but I do not recollect the partjeulars, & was at this time, or -eshans a{ D would consent to manage 3 dience became so noisy in manifesting | and all that sort of {hing for 5 > w k e " n oy < & 1 'shete hphit o SRy and 3 t sort of g for the|was -about forty miles, and the work | The street swee Taaohines that | few yeare earlier, when the Californta | since loaving California. e had M- {send streets. When I left, it require@ e tre opanad) 0d cversthing | thelr impatience that the ladies began | schoolhouse. Now, if what 1 am say- | nvolved ap estimated outlay of about | were formerly u..fi'fi Ban Frevoteeo | (hewtar wag runnimg with the best | vested In & “Patent Sunlight Ges | Just three men o accomplish the worl Fonand settic Aows o gut at San | to grow anxious ang asked me if I|ing is too decp for you children toa million dollars. If We had beep per- | ware introduced by me, and as I se Tos oy OF any theater M the | Burner,” with a view to introducing |which 1 had performed alone fog Jons piid pcttled down In Santa Crus, | would not go out on the stage and say | understand, you can get vour parents | mitted fo g0 on and finish the otk | oured the contract for gweeping the | counery, and when, Johm Mc-Cullough | it in the Pactfic states, and he had |eighteen months. o el much, casier than set-|a few words to kecp them quiet. T|to explain’ it in the morning, after |as we had commenced and at the rate | city's strests me caleu- | had few equals and no superiors as a | any quandity of testimonials from the | Tt was during my clerkship that ng up ai wo yoars of hard work. [ was rot on the programme, but 4t was | they got through dancing. 3t Which we were Dald for the Arst |lations T should have become. & very manager, that Mr. McCullough char- | hisher walks of New York soclety | frefght bogt was bemg bullt near v Yipamed the hostelry the Pacific Ocean | not in my nature to refuse ang rea-| When I was a little boy, how I did [ month we would have cleated at least |sich man, but when my con ex- | taned the steam vacht Einine ang with | recommended it as the biggeat thing | depot for the transportation of load 1 for two " sonable request coming from a"lady,| love to go hool (Sgt y after- |a hundn th dollars on the | pired I was by no wi party cons¥sti f illy | out. Dick” called on me at iy office | freight cars across the bay, save i’-‘-’.‘f-&“’ "5‘.’..""%..&1‘5 ®0 I got myself together aud made my ! noon), -nd‘hsw well d‘f%m 2:‘ %h.m m‘y m::' m..uv; me oh~ | (altboush X bed mold qut wi ,“'Atconunuld on Page 3