The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 8, 1901, Page 10

10 THE SUNDAY CALL. i “ TR Vel i > \ = I I 5 — THE oLD TREMONT —_ . = — f il — 3 ¢ I \ [ i (o ZEas tltuugg THE oLp PETIT pHOVSE u m until the baby was removed ) sharper rom N shouted an old min d We we ier hear that baby's cry & O'Brien’s old that Was than listen to the hest show on’ earth, around t Hor tickS wouldn't we, partne % W8 Of vy iy hey shake the . Three long cheers were given for. the o 4 baby, which drowned its cries for a sec- i ond ' e as taken up for jeq it anc the kley minstrels had packed up and departed the rough miners & O'Brien had an ingenious stood ind the babe and its mother, Under the s 5 wh some trying to crowd $20 pieces into the pretkied DY (el BRI 0N ga : fists and some laughing ‘at its payments he placed a ¢ mat WHICh, £,y expressions and energetic protesta- ca t ant particles of the precious Aleat " tions ore. He declares by-sh I’"‘ ‘”‘)‘ "“] At Pioneer Hall they have the piano do ht floor, especially If trémbling hands ¢ oas ygeq at the Buckley minstrels. O'BRIEN'S, h the dust, it 1 out was an easy mat- )0 to $300 a month. Buckley It was brought around the Horn and was frequently loaned by the well known Steve Masset, who gave concerts in 49 and ’50. o pan out from bod & ar O'Brien’s the s e o9 Sare- trels held forth. One might when the "1, 4} great fire of .'50 it was thrown s have all -been rich Interlocutor and the end men dwere ‘ex- ° " S Gl and sut- g changing their customary jokes a baby's gor.q (ne loss of a leg, which leg cost And the is invariably the beginning cry, Joud and clamorous, rose from the g’y oo, oo tragedy back of the house, rdre e f these who now peddies The management stated in stentorlan . . ol s, van through a fortune of $600,000. tones he performance would not. go the onward strides of clvilization, tucked > i) " R PP R T A o ** away in forgotten parts of the city. - The first postoffice has long since Pariz” New Qrazg of LeG RIONGEETON suwrea inio cvivion. Tne next one was built in the early part of '49 and stood ssession of Titlan me 80 common as bulb, th, eous matter at the sections of at the corner of Washington and Stock- the joints is e: ton streets. From here it was moved to 4 14 e e el or (LS e Tengtn. Second and Bryant, and now it does duty ve their tresses to the required ened. also applies the bulb to fOF @ sort of second story in aj old iron as arisen. and the spine. shop near Townsend street, forgotten by be is able to prove desire of t successfu! g S I ady obtained on the crowds that used eagerly to seek its pe s to add a few i s patients whom he lengthened” that windows for news from home or to read a " For years she has been D€ can add a centimeter (two-fifths of an notice like the following tacked up in writing: “The overland malls for tHe States will be kept open till the last moment of de- parture, so that the public may have the advantage of the delay occasioned by the recent heayvy fall of snow on the moun- taing. “It is ascertained almost to a certainty that an attempt to cross at the present time would prove a fallure and render the neh) per month duri months (1. e., two the helght of an. t a period of six half inches) to mitting to his atment. After continual treatment the “e is stopped for a time and resumed later if necessary. Of course, the patient must be young and supple, e grave consequences might follow ‘he stretching of the joints. It is hardly necessary to add that the con- gulting rooms of the clever inventor are daily besieged fair but dumpy ladies, and that the dix orer of this new ald tg beauty is in the way of amassing a rapid fortune.—London Daily Malil, " v €hoes give her the benefit centimeter. Now, thanks to covery of a fashionable tor, there is some hope of the diminutive fair one realizing her am- By means of an ingenious process by which the joints of the ankles and knees &re dally operated upon with an electric an unii the remal the journey “The mail will : the earliest practicable time and no extraoydinary stopp. will be made until its Qelive at Independence, Missouri, which will without doubt be the first ar- rnia to the » season from Califc On d the malils arrived anxious miners would line up at the windows In rows blocks lor Crowding was prohibited, who stepped into the line was dealt with and any one in the summary manner of the early days. A newoemer m e his place at the end. One businesslike youth uséd to rise early and get the first place. the window was ready could sell his place for By the time to be opened he The mail distributed, the men stood about the squarc and perused their letters from home. The quality of, the news— B00d or bad—csuld be seen from the ex- pression on their faces. The sllence was often broken by ex- clamations of surprise. *0, D— 1t! D— {t!" exclaimed a young miner named Yank, who had driven into town to get his mall. “What's the matter, Yank?” asked the rest, looking up from their letters. “My old pard on the Comstock lead has gone back and told my gal 1 was dead, and married her himself.” *“‘Write home often, boys,” was forever after Yank's advice, “I hadn't written to Sal for a long time, and naturally she believed my pard when he told her I was dead.” ' % The boys, as they called themselves, never ceased to tease Yank about how easily his sweetheart was consoléd. s e . To thix old Postoffice our city fathers used to line up gnd call through ' the window the names that are now part and parcel of our city, heard to-day called by the conductors amid the clanging of bells PORTSMOUTH _SQUARE AND OBRIEN SALoon. NOW AT THE half. One the g v e Latin quarter, ! f Market, and gings fgr the work- corner this rezal four-story -brick b lone wr which s 8 eltered Geneged was moved here from the Ke: into L fone Hma{ side of the squure after o me the T x N S The great fire of v 4 bold neck .o r s of maval peo. the Biskory...of . b Y. A sim -0 from before S v of excite- re corresponds to the fload in o 1 history. S the gold dust Jenny Lind Theater, the old schoc L S ates, and all ) § e paid. Many 1d the primitive courts that we = o around Portsmouth square, were all Ak, e o pay 15 or swallowed by thesire of amphitl § steamer N N . s f the o from one yw, just ther 19er, pointin . to the Hall of Jus C tood the old « in San Jenny Lind Theater, before the fire. On this side was the old schoolhous: He wes pointing haunts ¢ John pe Chinaman - vonder is the old P the enly building that survived only bullding that can look re the fire to the days when the the 1K 1 w et is to Dba orle Portsmouth . square, a shifting 5 U 21 o Choor sand lot, was the business center of the ».- % AT S di the Tnnd- city. Siae o i In the old Postoffice a Chinese dentist pyecengers are " : now Holds forth. Under the sign of the (jass accommodations, via Ne tooth he assures painless extraction. where they board a vessel bound for the ngshoremen and steve- The old Petit House on California Cp.gres Riv or who has a dime street, near Kearny, usad to be the swell ..o, eved up the » boarding house in early davs. A sign g miles in canoes, v > street lamp. over the front door now reads: ferred to the back AR cartti 1 paper of "49, whr* “Hotel de France, full French dinner ywenty miles to Panama, where N ctully & 15 cents.’ The Petit House was bullt in the East. to San passage Fran and genteel vessel they ean find going. ma House. The It came around the Horn in 49, its sec- (ccasionally a ploneer, old and batter- rmined upon ms tions and corners numbered to be put oq as the Tremont itself, will wander of the house. together as per plan inclosed. An old ploneer; who has seen his for- tunes rise and fall, still eats at the old Petit House. “What gets me is the difference ‘in the past the old house with his hands in his empty pockets and a bland smileson lMps. He looks back on the days of 49 with the leniency of a man who remem- bers his chilthood pranks. rnished, it will be open g room will shortly prices,” he sald. “I used to pay 50 cents The old Tehama House, which used to ISABEL FRASER. for a cup of coffee and 31 for one egg.” Twenty-five cents was fhe lowest coin = 3 —& in those days of plenty. It was not until t w'.h i - E c *54 that the dime put in an appearance. PO 1 Q anes a nee s 100.:(:: :’:?:hwvl\l: :Jlf"i-'fe:m'ffil JLLIAM H. DODSWORTH, the tlon?’ 1 Mr. Dodsworth’s compan- Locmat wie 3 general agent of the American 10 LRI : Iptrudinii; pentivy Express Company at Milwaukee, But one man i the The cheapest articles were sold at the is an ambidextrous individual Tat the ven- “and he lived in rate of two ‘or @ conts, a bit aplece. liei about seven years The dime was called the short-bit. Any one who dickered for a dime's worth of goods was looked upon as being out of his element in California, the land where Kking Midas' gold-converting touch was a commonplace; a land where such falry tales came true as would make Aladdin's potent lamp fiicker and go out. The old Tremont House, on Battery street, near Broadway, was the first house to greet the incoming argonauts as they swung round from the Golden Gate. Deserted, battered, unkempt, it still holds @ remnant of the dignity of a good old When he seats himself for his work if his pen Is on his right he picks it up in hi right hand and writes from left to like (he ordinary mortal. If, how is on his left side he picks it up left hanc and writes from ri it he is in a hurry he will take a pen ii each hand and write In tions. The Sentinel say of phonography which he same manner as he does his long hand Whiie in Chicago recently he w ing in Madison street with a fr dlscovered a man selling patent me who was writing with both hands same time, but In the same directiun, on blackboard. “Why don't you write in opposite direc- ken: [ have a man do it.” direc- peculiarities writing is that be reflected in & ordinary writing. gative, an 2 mirror to be