The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 8, 1906, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. IILW_;_y Lyl g A FED FoVI AND TITF - FSTCHEN ANTLET THE BFST &0.” 7 8 ¢ i -, mi 1 build the extra bedroom so we can fold for nonth somewhere else. a the beautiful tonneau. so the portable| You can see the small boy of the|to give ald if possible to some suffer- might have been dishonest. e xtra | 0 3 n fold for month s *here house has srown from an unstable box | family being sent back the six blocks|ing unfortunate he would probably| “My home was burned,” the policy-|and put it away, as we don't want any [I tra low that I had it in for into p ’ 1 t visitors for a long time, and the young to se different locations and finally ed a strange scene. | nolder would say, and it wouldn't pa into a complete structure pleasing to[to get the dlagram “key” to the build- | have witnes: 1 - te k N | 50 e PRSI look at and comfortable to bocuDy. ing, which had been accidentally left| “Help, help,” come the cries, and|the insurance man to go in search of |lady’s mother has said she would go to cornered him out In the woods by > N = . o r =t | child often. Please let Ingle When 1 sent a deputy oy hav sta u ses sca vh the hasty the hurrying throng drop their habita- |a wandering house that might be out|see her darling ch let Ing > anri‘ set bt a ;:n~‘r‘»§:-kx«p f‘ffi'f’olm ;:: :‘rx‘m?iui“\::;dr:\'zld:‘.l:::(‘; lv‘x\\a;‘;‘ne the con- | tions for the time and run to a bunch |at the Presidio or on the slope of Twin | us kmow what another small room will [sheriff with attachment papers on his b | v in| e vear.” pus » touched a spring and the A ave | ste igned when he re-|of lumber and door frames lying inside | Peaks. It would have been a game in|cost next year. _|house he touched a spri: ! :)-mm‘v«muv; l;nr‘”r':}’;:""l’:’xn“ Olgll':nf}"‘ih‘o tfxr;:‘rlin(x:‘:‘itl:hlflr:e r;’n'{‘:r:mnon that the|a neat fence. | which the man with the policy would; Delay in pulling off the ceremony |darned thing snapped up into a rustic when the flames began to creép up | bureau had been burned. That family| There is a man inside of the pile of | have had the insurance companies wor- | because the bungalow with the red ge- | bench. He there grinning at the! from the front, and the householder|probably slept in the dew for four|wooden debris and as he hears the|rying more than they aré now worry-|raniums in front isn't ready in time deputy, for, of course, an attachment| with a Txul]dm( too big to carry on his fil:{hts whllerr"lfl,\’lns the block puzzle|flames crackling outside he yells more!ins the pedple over the quake losses.| won't lose their ""“’l‘hh"“t‘:,"’““‘,:‘;‘t";; for a house couldn't lho evied on = ses back would have got out the set of of getting all the sections of that house | frantically. “This is an emergency in which we |tunate wooers now at e p piece of al fresco furniture. | Where are you? What's the mat-|can't save everything,” a rueful house- house is here. The portable house is a thing of are the questions put by a police- | holder with a large dwelling might| “I knew my one-and-only liked an- beauty, but it comes so suddenly some- “but we'll at least have a|other fellow pretty well even after she tj that it brings the same f"nnq port rs. Longfe! their portable ho hike for the Wwheels that would naturally have gone | fitting Into their proper places. ter were right. |With such houses in a real ready-made| (u¢ on the bay you would see fami- | ter? ¥ ings that City, unscrewed the bolts that held his |y "' 8 (00 PES SPU BOC GES 0 es, | man who comes running up. {have said, e come 1o this city sinee the fire. castle together, thrown the flattened | " Disdaining to reply to questions the|shelter. We'll fold up the parlor, a|had promised to be mine” said & Youns as green lizards and frog-headed| structure on the wheels with his effects '\ father and the eldeat son paddling |, vors to which must be obvious, the bbdroom and the kitchen and let the | real estate man who has become a beri- humming-birds, or, if you know noth-| on top of it and Sset out for a safer shore, there to turn their raft into a | Man in the lumber yells: rest go.” edict since the fire, “and he was hang- ing about them, as a ghost story in a place with his good wife and his|J0FG TOCHE T6 TR T een &pread | “Get me out of here. I'm choking”| “If we don't have to move out too|ing around. despite the that lonely wood. You gaze on. a vacant voungsters tugging with him on the JoUSE AEAIM AECr At A e rom-| “How'd you get into it?” demands|far, pa,” suggests the willing elder boy | knew I had closed negotiations for fronk -Your wisdew #t SieaROnet rope fortably untl the mormal comditions the policeman. “The earthquake didn't|of the brood, “we can come back and | life term contract. 1 told her my bu and when you come home for din- Maybe it would have only been ne- S = ye 4 do anything like that, did it?” take away the dining-room and the pess affairs made it neces that we here is a pretentious-looking had been restored in the city they had cessary to move a block-wide stnip of | o fislian - “Earthquake, nothing!” yells back preserve closet, too.” get married right away and she said e smiling at you through its sum- houses from in front of the fire, and | 0cd from. « :‘h'"“"r‘,‘ ;"'"s ‘"""} the man in the ruins. “I touched the| “All right, son; you come back and she_wouldn't wed until she could go to! mer colors and white columns if this had been the case the neighbors | Probably have heen made by eroups of| o yg"e0o seon.” get them,” replies the head of the|a home of her own in the count The pe e i praving quite from farther-out would- have hurrieq [aMilles, as such conditlons always es-| SR. 0 o\ iiaon Ventured the policeman, | household. “If you want all the com- | yyell, that was ea Iwent to %p The § E e B b in to help drag the loads, with many |(ablish a feeling of brotherhood, and 53 it ab ¢ . forts of a palatial residence at times| aple aBe. tieh = i e to people sh_to spend : - . Y | their occupants would have had a onfound C1t, . nbE comes ) haclk thy ; # sble agent, ang. tion.xdt.a lot down ummers :nt places and expressions of sympathy and perhaps answer. “Dynamite couldn’t do any-| When the chicken coop looks as good | Bjingum and hired a man to sod <es. Such a <1y hints at the obligation of heing im- | Pleasant outing while watching _the §ItESh, CREHEE POUCT O MU0 as” Buckingham Palace, just take the | front yard and stick i some e a1 S S b g, o posed on while thinking sivly that (Pembcle of “he ToRes SOIE =9Ch | this is one of those patent spring fold- | monkeywrench and go to work. Ilike| pyshes and geraniums that were ¥ Bt (e e Rtal thE Bt their efforts were also putting their | Puilf ngs . 100 © telescope g rapid-action portables? I got ready | to _see a boy ambitious. ready in bloom. The next morninz I South Agnerica is one of the Best own property in safety. 2 2 Seb dia e i sittt to get out, and while I w moving the New conditions are going to come| narrjeq the girl and we w down to oF thiE nditalile Douse Seul- T'1l lend you our screwdriver, and o e e e e i SLINE stove I jammed that spring you are|With the foothold the portable house is | ipe lot, where the sections of the house pi (0¥ tropics light. cool houses you can build right in our back yard|PR & "“"'hf’g R I' ")"““l ere | upposed to reach through the window | gaining in San Francisco since the had been delivefed, and, with the as-|hen Gesired sni bosides: there is Httle and stay. there.until your own lot cools | hls home had been, MOpPINE RIS BIOW | ,n4 push on when you want to fold up lamity. It is conducive to SimpUfying| gistance of one man, she and I put-the st i Shetuiey ol By gy oft.” a cheery waoman can be heard 2nd denouncing the manufacturers|,,, . nouge and take it over to the next | a great many of the affairs of exist- |, ,iqing up ourselves. It puffed her to sa¥ing th.an acquaintance as he comes | While he gazed angrily on two bulging | {1 () *"I'Ve been in a folding bed | ence, and it is sure to relleve a great| guno " s P ORrSP AR, S1 RARCE M€l 0 iild ho ready along -the street ‘with his flattened |and heavy grips resting beside him. | o 0e7e byt this thing is worse. ~ If |deal of worry that people now have | o et vl s g 2 de structureg house, all the bigger children tuggzing “You'll always get done if you listen | Za7" pillows hadn't Sropped on my |about getting dwellings finished. 2(-::’}0;":; I O o oio| have been sent to the canal zone for at the rope and the baby and the ve<, 0 the glib eration of an agent” you pe.q 1'd pe dead. V| Strikes can't hurt. It is sure to 2dd a | wie toee slate e Cliken-cooP the United States Government. Pre- scratching each other gleefully on top | hear him say. “That fellow told me | ““Got some axes’ shouts the police- | great deal to Cupid's busine el 1180 blun. wABRLAEAG ha thin) 1| tentious dwell Gaopdon fonsaseron' s .5 of the 16ad. the house he sold me would easily €0 man “and well chop him out. L Mo it aa Eney: T Yerer 1850 s 3 2 cheaper to ship the ready-) “The next day after our marriage my house than to send lumber and rival came around and gave me a con- tract for the sale of a block of town ir kitchen was twisted in taking in one grip if I ever had to get aw “Don’'t you do it,” cried the caged long period of saving, no long watch- it down? Well, now, you just unscrew |in @ hurry, and here I've filled two and | man excitedly. “This house cost me |Ing of carpenters and plumbers as the that west bedroom that's on our house |then had to leave the folding bathtub.|g400. Get at it and pull it into place|turtle doves awalit the period of nest- and eampers etimes pur- and put it on the back of yours. We If I hadn’'t got those telescoping door|again.™ Ing if they had the portable habit. They | lots. He said I was the greatest house Tx8, bufit expresely for never use it. and cooking in it for a|frames in my coat pockets I'd have had| The crowd falls on the house, but | just make up their minds to get mar- hustler he knew in the business. It them. It weighs but $00 pounds, can time won't hurt it. to leave them, and then what chance | they don't understand the combination. | ried and then send on specificatiohs to| Wwas the portable house that cleared be erected by two men in thicty min- the ‘situation, though, not my genius.” mtes and will accommodate four per- “These portable houses are going to People who buy lots in summer if they don't drive us|resorts are becoming good customers We ate going to take our house Would I have had to get out of the The danger becomes more imminent.|the house man for something within down some day next week and air it.|zephyrs tonight? It'd be just my luck|A drayman comes along, and the po-|their means that has hooks to hang 1 believe these fogs make a house damp | that that airpump wouldn't work and|liceman orders man, house and. all|additional rooms on as the babies come. drive us cr ) ; inside. 1 don’t see how people in those |1 can't blow up those rubber columns|thrown on the vehicle. | “We want a house for a blonde haired | out of business” said a bill collector. | for the portable houses old fashioned houdes that you can|to keep the ofled silk roof on. Ifthere| “How'll I get my pay?’ demands the|girl with dark eyves and a tall man| “The ‘chronics’ are taking to them and| One ambitious firm never lay out in the sun keep well. | don’t happen to be any rocks to anchor | teamster. | who can stoop so a door five feet nine | when we make the second call, after supply a pretty portabie lon that has only a lease on contracted td urch to a They'd think it was dreadful if they to out where I'm going I'll be up| “Hold him in the thing till his friends|inches high will do. If the cost is not threatening court proceedings and didn’t sun their bedclothing often. You | against it anyway.” come and bail him out,” vells the po- more than $20 an inch make the house | blacklisting and every other dire thing price to be $3000 know we have two basements, and we | Help, hel are the cries one scur-|liceman, who has learned & few things|with six-foot doors. We prefer your we know, we find only a vacant lot Count von Waldersee, the German use one six months and then move the rying from the flames snapping at his|in the Police Court. No. 20 in the catalogue, with hammock When they learn that we know t commander, carried a dozen small port- ble houses with him when he marched h the relief column to Peking. house over on the other. That keeps patent leathers might have heard, and| What a time the Insurance companies | behind the vines on the porch, but we addresses they simply fold up th into| them both im a better sanitary state.” | recovering from his panic long enough' would have had with any clients who ! will grow our own vines. Be sure to|walls and lease another piece of ground a mistake it were not to have made|wrong about Hankins, on’y his bad|in four of a Kind no matter what the|fumbled it. They up a game, or else put up a more re- [judgment 't I'm tellin’ about. denomination was, and showed every do h a thing b liable player 'n Waters ag'in him, but| *“You can’'t make him see it, though, sign of astonishment when somebody |distinctly that th had never seen him fore, but they all saw bottom card was the nor a big barnful o' bran mash’ If|wouldn’t 'a’ had no trouble about that some 'd devote as much effort to culti- but he was one o’ them 't I was talkin vatin’ intelleck a# they does to tobacco [about, 't don't 'pear to reco'nize 't a some men is mis- they'd prosper bettér.” flush is a almighty proposition one there wa'n't no boat leavin’ that night,|an’ that's some like providential, f'r held higher fours, even when Blaisdell seven of spades, and tais. coupled with ouse, they will As 1 was pavin’, afore there was flip | time,” an’ another time ‘tain’t no good |an’' Joe Bassett figgered it out 't more | he blows in here tol'able regular about dealt. Twice or thrice he came to se- the fact that he had been playing w, w the dealer, as is interruptions made,” he went on, “this|on earth. I'n likely there’d be a game on the next oncet a year with his accumulated capi- rious grief in this wa. sevens left no doubt in their minds that kr 6 be skillful, has took onme card, here Sile Hankins ain‘t nothin’ unusual| “I reckon it must be a dozen year |night. |tal fn a tight wad, an' oncet a year 1| Then the home players noticed that would have four sevens after the TS e M Ghe to look at. Mebbe you mought size him since he blowed in here to Arkansas| “‘There ain’t no yahoo like him go-| have to loan him his boat fare. I sevens were his favorites for the even- w. More than that it gave them the aise 1 up fr awk'ard, which he sure be, 's| City first off. He were some awk'arder |in’ to leave town 'th more'n $300 o' reckon, if anybody was to figger it|ing. His theory of play, as far as they Jortunity of convicting him of crook- ght there wa'n’t noth the fur's walkin' goes, ‘but he ain’'t none|an’ more ongainly-like them days nor|good Arkansas City money in his jeans,’ |out careful, Sile Hankins just about had been able to gafige it. was that it ed dealing in case it should seem to be! eck t O course, a full @awk'ard when it comes to handlin’ | he is now, which Is sayin’ consid’able.|he says, ‘not while I'm SherHf an’'|supports three families o' native born made not so much difference what the worth while to do so. | e is good th to the things. I seén him handle a roustabout “Howbe, that's what Sile Hankins |there's due process o' law to be took.|Arkansas City population, year in an"curds were, as how many of them he It was Blaisdel first call, and he 5 . lonct on the gangplank o' th’ Robert E. just was. There hadn’t nobody heer'd| “We all knowed well enough 't Bas- | year out.” | could hold. and there was not a mantook two cards. If anybody had been ¥ tain’t n ©" Lee, some like Bassett mought ha’ did | o' him then more'n to know 't he were | sett c'd be relied on, an’ word was sent| There were times when old man at the table who doubted bis ability | watching all that occurred under the w othe n fours it a settin’ hisself up to know some about |to Blaisdell to be on hand the next| Greenhut's talk seemed almost prophe- | to hold five of a kind if there had been table just then he would have seen There's a yap I'm th’ Ozarks 't blows “This here nigger bumped into Sile draw poker. 'Peared like most any |night. Hankins was easy, an’ when he [tic. No no else in the room had re- so many that Winterbottom was proffering a Hanking carelesslike an’' didn’t make one o' the boys c'd trim him easy|showed up there was a game goln' on.| membered that it was about time for| His losses for the first hour failed king and Pearsall an ace to the man no start for to 'pologize. Hankins just enough, an’ there didn’t 'pear to be no| Winterbottom an’ Russell an’ Waters | Hankins' annual appearance, but being | to disturb the big man. In that time he who presum: y wanted a fourth of) specimen o' this looked at him one little minute an’|call for to git up a full game. So|an’ Blaisdell was playin’ an’ when Bas- |reminded of It the gentlemen assem-|play in more than a thousand dollars, some high denomination. When Win- cet a year, as is a p't r sort o' chump. ‘Pears like he's then, when the njgger was walkin'|Bill Waters he sald he reckoned he|sett an’ Hankins come in, this made it|bled in the little saloon on the levee | but just as they were thinking it likely terbottom showed down h hand to gh about due to show up again along, he just reéched out one hand— mought 'commodate the stranger with|six handed. were only mildly surprised when as the | that he would quit the game he reached prove thit he had openers, there was 'peared like he refiched nigh about ten a freeze-out, if he was reely blue “What they did to Hankins that night |old man ceased speaking the door|into an Inside pocket and puilled out no king among the five cards. ' p'cooliar | roor_an' . caught. the nigger by the |mouldin' £r & play. was plenty. He didn’t play nines this |opened and Hankins and Joe Bassett another roll, larger than they had seen Bassett stood pat and Henk = this yap | back o' the neck. Then he drawed him| “Well, Hankins, he spoke easy an’|time. 'Peared like he were partial to|walked in. |him have. Laying it on the table he two cards, but, looking as clos a big, spraw- back’ards, not slow, but deliberate- pleatant, an’ he says a freeze-out'll do|queens, an’ he sure held ‘em. The| *“Well,” said the Ozark man, after he|sald, “That goes.” As the game was they did, no one at the table could seel like, till he got him nigh enough to bite to kiil time, so him an’ Waters set in.[boys glve him credit, later on, when it | had observed the customary formality table stakes and there was a prospect that he took one from the bottom. & Ak < 2 if he’d '’ been bitin’ niggers. Then Waters were.a good average player|was talked over, f'r bein’ nigh about |and Greenhut was putting away the|of high play they all pulled out their It was Blaisdell's bet and he threw grows up in th' Ozarks, 'long o' the he grabbed him by the slack o' the them days. He wa'n’'t no such expert|as slick a dealer as had ever showed!bottles and glasses— Well, I've come | rolls and laid them on the table. in a white chip. Bassett raised it a trees 'n’ rocks bein’ so big 't a small breeches with the other hand an’|as he come to'be later on, but there|up from outen town. Stood to reason |back to have another try at you fellers. For the next three deals there was hundred, and Hankins, with a confident stand no show gettin’ | heaved up in the alr like he'd been | wa'n't nobody here 't thought f'r a he knowed where them queens was, |You sure has done me good an’ proper nothing doing, so the jackpot was well smile, ralsed it $500. { a baby an’ throwed him somepin’ like minute but what he ¢'d get away with|holdin' 'em 's often 's he did, an’ as|afore now, but there’s al'ays things to|sweetened when Hankins took the deck. | That 'put it up to Blalsdell, and as fifteen feet, sprawlin’ in the river. ‘any such proposition 's Hankins looked | many on 'em, but there wa's nobody | be learned, In draw poker; an’ I'm al'ays ‘Winterbottom opened the pot under he had four kings he lald his wad in' rifies up there yet, bein'| “He c’'n handle cards, too, more'n re-|to be. c'd catch him doin' anvthin’ crooked. |a-learnin’ of 'em the best I can. Mebbe | the guns for $40. that being the amount the pot. Bassett covered it after count- #s they reckon a short one won't carry. Spectable. There's them has seen him “They played f'r mebbe half a hour, “'Peared llke his theory o' the game |I might swat you once some o' these | in the center. Blaisdell stayed, Pears- ing and finding that Blaisdell had such as they They tell me they use ar they breed six foot men an' S€t In With some o' the slickest players|an’ then they come out o' the back|was 'f four queens was better'n three |times.” {all dropped, Bassett raised it $:0, and | raised it $200, so Hankins had still an- : + 3 on the river an’ they say he don't lose room together, an' it were Hankins 't kings and three aces, even when there| It was a straightforward, manly|Hankins made it $40 more. other chance. | e over, £ fear smaller ones 'd come pope to speak of, an’ gets his full share | called f'r the drinks. Waters stood by |was a pair with ‘em, an’ there wa'n't |speech, of the gort to be appreciated | Winterbottom looked carefully at his| “How much have you £0t?" he de- s L 4 t o' the pots, special when it comes his an’' said nothin’, an’ when Hankins had|nobody at the table was likely to put|by the men who heard it, and it was openers before deciding. They were manded, and Bassett, counting his re-| deal set ‘em up a couple o’ times an' went|up much of a argyment ag'in that f'r|therefore with a friendly understand-|three tens and he concluded to stay, maining money, announced that he “’'Pears like a man like that had out he kep' on sayin' nothin’ an’ look-|a good gen'ral rule, but Blaisdell was |ing and the utmost good will that four | though he did not raise back. Blais- still had $700. same bein’ common sense,” said . Winterbottom, solemnly. “If a ought for to be rich an’ respected.|in’ sort o' 'shamed. oalled, them days, the smoothest player | citizens sat down with the stranger to|dell saw enough, he thought, to justify | “T'll tap you,” sald Hankins, and he man was to be less'n six foot he'd Stands to reason he wa'n't borned 'ith “When 1 seen he wa'n't goln' to|in Southern Arkansas, an’ when he seen |separate him from his money if pos-|him in staying also, and he put up. put up the money. As Bassett.had four| nully ooms NG no such gifts as them. They was cul-|speak I as't him what the matter was, | Hankins was playin’ queens f'r favor- |sible. He sat between Bassett and| Then Bassett made it $100 more to| tens he felt that he could do no less| tivated. An’ the fact o’ him cultivatin’ an’ he cussed a little, sort o' discour-|ites, 'peared like he took a sudden| Winterbottom, with Blaisdell on Win-|play and Hankins went back to him than call, but Hankins showed down an Greenhut glowered at the ¢ sem <howed he had moral character. aged like, an’ he says, ‘That yap ain't|fancy, like, £'r kings. terbottom’s left and Pearsall in the|with $200 more. the .trey to the seven in diamonds. who had ventured to Interrupt If ever a man was marked out by a ' no such greenhorn as he looks. He “Anyway, he left town tol'able nigh | seat beyond. It was too strong for Winterbottom “After the game had broken u m. After an impressive pause he said overrulin’ providence for to be success- win over three hundred, an’ I reckon bankrupt. I loaned him his boat fare,! For the first part of the game it and he folded, but Blaisdell, after a man Greenhut said: “This here y severely: “There is them as comes short | ful Sile Hankins was that man. he'd 'a’ win more If I'd had it with me. |sooner'n to have him stay here broke, seemed likely that the house coutin-|ghance at Bassett, made good, where- th' Ozarks don’'t 'Dear to be th' enly o “On’y there was oné thing 'peared to|He c'n hold more nine spots an’ more havin’, o' course, no thought o' gettin'|gent would have no greater difficulty | upon Bassett closed the pot by seeing inspired idjit round here ‘t falls to; in more 'n statue. A# the Good Book gtand in the way. If Sile Hankins had | frequent 'n any player I ever see.’ it. back, but inside of a month he sent|than usual. Hankins appeared to cher- the last raise. understand how worthless good things says, ‘Better a small spoonful o’ breins/been any ways discriminatious he| *“We all see plain enough then what|me the money. There ain’t nothin'[ish his somewhat childish confidence| When Hankins lifted the deck he|is when there's better.”