The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 29, 1900, Page 9

2 R R e e e e e e e e e g Long Holrs of Dark Horror in a2 Qellar. R REaeee e S S S e e e d PYIRRRRR SR ) [ e e R ] | old mad for t tenant latorium hitis . r poster continugg and sald the police- aim the ouse or fter young ladies ret and 1 used to aror c ionally. It beat every- 1 tell ‘Con- s it is of life, uced to work. > their motto: of art ' It was writ- her's paper and ro tion. refreshi dles cal I gues: “Well can tell you about how t quarantine better than 1 Meanwhile the girls wor of the fact th had be plague to germir the minds of certain lccal physi and politicians and that the Board of Health was weaving a net to catch bad girls who lie and they went every morning to the studio. “We were there as usual,” sald Miss Fraser, “the day the quarantine began, but we didn’t know anything about it tiil the policeman burst into the studio and startled us by saying. ‘You girls are in quarantine and I don’t know whether I can get you out or not.’ rol began to pack up her preclous sisted that she must go ccause her mother wouldn't know where she was. She wanted to march boldly out the front door, but he told her if she did she would run into the arms of two policemen who had not eaten our bread and salt as ha bad and that thav would not let her pass without a certifi- cate that she had been inoculated. But he agreed that we must act at once, be- fore the vigilance of the officers had be- come educated by experience. “The bac< door opened into a dark cor- ridor, and from there a stairway led Into the cellar; but we never thought of that till our policeman asked about it. The weally interesting vportion of the Chinese quarters 1s the part which is under ground. We girls had done a little ex- ploring In the cellar, and knew that a passageway led off in the direction of that part of Kearny street which was beyond the lines. Our only hope of escape was by this passage. We set out at once, leaving all our sketches behind; and, by- the-by, the studlo has been fumigated and they are all spoiled. I fancy we felt 2 ¢ A e ——— as Lot's wife diad backward into de along into the corr! cellar, ness of the p: the door. door ting on the floor me He might have h knew; other. all we we didn’t shun him, o he 1 brushed his face as w into the rear of a Chinese house was constructed on the plan c e men were in the street a few puzzle ing a riot, and on wome children were left in the house, didn’t interfere with us. We could hear the shouts of the mob in front of the Consul's house. They were excited over the report that the white men had pois- oned the water in Chinatown. «Our gulde kept his bearings, In spite of our repeated declarations that we knew we were hopelessly lost, and we finally descended into another cellar. The cave of despair we call it now, because we had VLY 29 19008 | [ R R Einally Saved Through Efforts of 2 Poligeman. 44444440 | cleared way to th i ck deposits of black wh nished a ready weapon to any on wished to express disapprobation. Tt is dificult ure London without either c uses.—Bishop of Lon- don, in Cornhill Magazine mud, r us to p r omn