The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 19, 1899, Page 21

“THIS DOESNT SHOW ByT ITS READY FOR EMERGENCIES W HE I'ght of tha Around 1t h dark was t “Weather doesn't station, rated in corporal stamped sald that lowntown an Chinatown's deviot There were only a few ofs them, but they were the strav or ind the ninety and * who lay pence in camp or oiled San B s in porket, to the officers r1 werae torn thetr Boston and when . v n Francisco knew 1f m great world han can be seen rim of & silver ! monogramr g. That wus the first week of S Not until the: 1 San Francisoo 414 their big-eyed inr » change. “San Franclsco was too much for them,” says Captatn Lukens “They wera too much for us,” says Saa Francisco. “You have been such good boys that you may have more privileges than Is usual’’ their colonel told them as the porter lifted them, up-a-daisy, from the great big high step of the train Then he turned them loose upon us. Yeu know the rest Whether s have learnsd or taught will never be settled. At any rate, they have made merry so flercely within our getes that a provost guard has been need- ed to patrol ® streets both » any members : never and wherever found without a pass Frivate houses alone are not for the guard to search. Captain Lukens and Lieutenant Ross remained In the office of the California street police station. It is headquarters for the provosts. “Come, Ross; we had better go and patrol. There are only twelve men out to-night, you know.” The captain spoke. “I want my dinner. I've been patrolling without a meal ce breakfast, and it's 8§ now. I-don't want to go,”" answered the lieutenant. He was very young and very hungry. The captain had eaten, but it would have > — D - been the same If had not. He was . . e * e B! : plainly the kind of roung man whose CAME IN SIGHT S i 3 2 ebituary cannot exaggerate. EACH SIDE AnD one N ERoMNT it . “Julfiian’ you Leay. Ross. B0 we atarted. “No guns?"’ \ “Guns no more. A burglar might as well wear a headlight. We tried guns at first, but we missed more of the Forty-sixth escapes that way than we c fore our transport sails on Monday. They oould tell us a block = d hide as sasy as rolling off a log.’ “But what are you NE to do in case some of them are 't poiite about being caught?” Qur party had come for the purpose of secing a merry . and'T preferred that the war should not be all on one side Captain Lukens looked securs. “Bee here,” he said, stopping under a Kearny street lamp, “‘this 't show, but 1t's ready for emergencies.’ ‘n was a ba irowed for the ocea sion. s the scabbard 1t lay 3 4 . o slittering and crafty. “We can use 1t ag p : g Saking the. & knife If necessary. 1d, “‘or the oth- not true of m er end makes a good club. RS There was He slipped it back, drew his ponche up i i n M:'m a against the drizzling rain, and strode on B2 ! nogh “It's pretty tame on Kearny street,” . Then apologized the lfeutenant. ““Walt untyl came we get into Chinatown.” 8hops and restaurants diminished along the street, and the underground allure. ments looked dreary and dingy enough to be harmless. Drunken soldlers now and then broke the stolid monotony, but never one of the Jolly Forty-sixth. Hence UNMDER THE LOw \on sald Lisutenemt Chinatown swarmed thicker and thicker half way up the alley from which the a8 the blocks went by. It was single flle ggpe flend had appeared. It vanished as it was not for our patrol to look for and a jostle at that Yellow I8 quickly in a doorway where one dim them. crowded on corners and glided bet light hun capt o o £ low. The captain darted after Tou just walt,” repeated the leuten- wus, and smaller vellow people rose ev: Evidently the owner of the uniform had ant, hopefully. where from the ground on purpose to be yanisheqd without plan or knowledge of Then we turned a sharp corner at stepped upon. Now and then a big-foot *gar P - / s 2 % . 1ger, for he appeared in the same doo ETTy IN HERE Broadway, twirled at random-drawn way a moment later. “Come on, Bo and dropped from above like hall. Yousg woman patted softly by, tired of body angles, and found ourselves at the upper and vacant of mind. A dope fiend sneaked :h“h .m,ll hrlhe Dllce‘\ldl};ou‘ht % snd arcuyed; front abovs,Jike Rell-. Youdy 4 < say. sl b o> A clatter of wooden volces, a fishy whift ragged coat about him. But no soldlers. yic cora Pim say. And from somewhere .iits One thing of entirety it was—pur. “Aw, we're not gol “Come on, fe ’ A crowd sprang from beneath like grass “WE MUST Look. end of Dupont street. up an alley and slid past us, hugging a b r-l] - in the blackness Scott came on. seles: and a .ll{rxmor ng swaying red lanterns “You walt,” sald the lleutenant once “Sco whispered the captain joyfully. W““hh’p"m the captives. They realized bespoke Chinatown. An instant before more. The lleutenant stayed behind with us. that they were the cause of a sensation ! there had been Latin faces, Latin sounds. ““Who's that?’ muttered Captain Lukens “Scott’s the very one he told me to- &nd the center of interest for four radiate ~ The change was &s sharp as the slam of on the instant day he was after,” he explained. “Bcott — —_ & door, A whisking glimpse of uniform appeared belongs to his company and he's worth Continued on Page Twenty-twe,