The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 23, 1899, Page 22

FEr ISCO CALL INFRoNT Off HERALD BUILDING First Woman 1o Walk ThroUuGh The Sewers oF San Frangisco.- Continued Fri pounding thr very chill. Then and sight out sens ance with me; but you have period my a t foot i oot 18 cra: onazy, teach you to ng poles. Mr as unconcernedly as the green sward side like a winc about In b I did not know w O ery ulder. ording to direc- at a wild angle sh 1 Mr. Kenney . y eyes. The green and purple "1”(\“' many blocks gone. The fire demons had i exclaimed my guld in dis- goes wa f the “Blocks, did ou say? Bure, it's wi tt s With block’ you've gone, and never a which n Mr. Kenney vou flop down every and we turned block ed to walk, I see- t stopped and 5 . quarter of a “You U are; you're brave, you ack grime 1d even more are; that's all I have got to say to you.” 3 hoots 1 further up, some of them so 11f block more and we came to a « ove th that my feet caught in the crevices, turn in the sewer. The one we had been looked again, and it was with difficulty that I extrica’ walking in was flve feet by three, This was nothing ho ted them. one, which led into it, was three feet by % A R R R R O N N N N R N N S N S S Ny S S N I R O R O SR RO O RNON OO N O P AR O Captain Spillane, when questioned as to the possibility of using the sewer as a means of escape from the Broadway Jail, said: “Mr. Kenney has often spoken to me on this subject. He is a man who should know a great deal about the sewer system of San Francisco, for he has spent a great many years in them. o) ol “It is a well-known fact that a man can get through an opening as large as his head. If he can put his head through he can with more or less difficulty draw the rest of his body through. 8o if there is a sufficiently large opening connecting with the main sewer a prisoner might escape through it. Mr. Kenney says the hole is sixteen inches square. If this is so a man could undoubtedly crawl through it. He would have to have an accomplice to let him out through a manhole. Otherwise he might not get out of the sewer. I do not think there is much danger of a prisoner attempting this. “The same scheme was tried in San Quentin, however, and came dangerously near succeeding. A prisoner was missed at lock-up. They searched for him everywhere, but could not find him. Finally some one noticed that the grating of the sewer in the prison yard was slightly open. The official im- mediately blocked up the sea end of the sewer. “Sure enough, the convict was dragged out of the sewer. He had been in an hour and was making his way to the sea, which meant liberty. If he had been able to entirely close the grating it would probably never have been discovered that he was escaping through the sewer.” BSEIRONH0, s AR [ P ayeaad THE SEWER AS A MEANS OF ESCAPE FROM THE BROADWAY JAIL zl ! % e Call=THerald Blutomo Fourney t IN FRONT OF &7 y/ two. and twenty feet long. At the end was We sat at the o “See that board the Mr. Ken- nes W t rd is a j of the bui northwest corner of Pa cif t ts.” It was easy to highbinders had escaped ) remove a board, es- 1¢ wund wa 1 food through t impossibie 1 seven days vou say to the highbinders? same k the a S it it Now \e place where the fellow res- & Here was a_ similar opening building. Through this the crept, and with the prostrate form of ths lave his back he made oping blindly, until he re a g which had an un to the sewer, then out ntil the mission was months rward there was a edding in the mission. Pretty ), in pigeon-Er \, promise and obey the Celestial gal- lant w 1 carried her through the sew- ers of Chinatown to a Christian home. “I guess vou've seen all you want to, haven't you? ked Mr. Kenney. “We'll g0 back to the manhole.” was more than willing to return, bu I had not yet seen all that T wished had been told on good authority that Pat- rick Kenney found not a few things well worth keeping in_the sewers of San Fran- cisco. Yet [ had not noticed a single thing, nor had he once stooped to pick up anything. Fonee or twice on our way down I had started the subject, but he invariabl pretended not to understand what meant Mr. Kenney interrupted a plan I was concociing to make him glve me the de- sired information by stating that .e would ““put me onto” the way of finding valuables in the sewers as a sort of re- of merit for what he called my war pluck. B “We won't have much time,” he sald, “to look, t I guess we'll find some- thing. Whatever we find is yours.” Mr. Kenney turned upon me flercely when 1 suggested that 1 did not care to him of anything he might find, d it's to be yours, and Patrick never goes back on his word, . I've_been in here so much I know just the holes where things collect.” Every moment or two Mr. Kenney wouid stop, put his hand down into a_hole and brin up a handful of pebbles, but never a sign of ring or pin. “We'll find something yet; don't you worry. Never been down In the sewers in Chinatown vet that I didn’t get some- thing if I hunted. It's the best place in town—anything you find here is sure to be good. Chinamen don’t have imitation jewelry. You can bet their rings and ear- rings are all solid gold. When you find a diamond in another part of town you never know but what 1t's paste. “T can’t complain, though, for in the twenty years I've been down {n the sewers I've found thousands of dollars’ worth of jewelry. Just last month I found a ring that I sold for $200. When there is no repairing to be done I come down here just to look for things. You've just got to put your hands down in the holes %.,- tween the rocks and sift for things.” 1 was afrald it was getting late, and I be{ged Mr. Kenney not to stop any more, but to get to the manhole as quickly as noss(bla, Typnty feet from the e he This 1S thré»?Lates’: épé&’c#afmav“ the Far UWlest. ON BROADWAY SIDE OF HERALD BUILDING sensation n the Fire Dance. man noble- wvented the \ have made other wor- ichore fa- 1t another ed to have been sleeping for over 100 vears and begins to enjoy herself in a purely mortal fashion. Liking company wrouses the butterflies sleepir ywers and flirts an tke lovers until alm_will supervise the production The carrying out of the theme ted to La Fafalla, @ pretty 1 led by Herr von Palm’'s retty one. The scene awakening of the spirit ower by the kiss of her ather, the Moon God. When the spirit is fairly aroused, she rolls out of the flowery bed in which she is sup- The light effects and fire illusions are sald to be the most perfect ever Dro- duced. La Fafalla at the Orpheum. looked again, and, eurcka! there was a had spread that a girl had 1: “You're pluck s old hairpin. I put it in my pocket. “One the s I he: aver yom aart e ollar and eighty cents gold in that, v th A T ton said Mr, Kenney. *I know, for I've found of the earth y eings. EVou Set info tateyon hundreds of them. had spent two hours of my life under- 11 got. you. cirs road- Up the ladder I climbed. Oh, dear, ground, and the bliss of ~getting out __ I shall never call u. M. heaven, how sweet it was to be once more flooded 'all other sensations. T minded not Kenney to live up to the first prorel : in the 'open! I felt dizzy with joy or tho curious crowd but stepped into the Pray he will never have to fuIfill th faintness—I cared or knew not which. A cab. second. the crowd had gathered around, for the nevy Mr. Kenney put his head through the MARTAN WEST. d