The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1907, Page 15

The San Francisco Sunday Call. N who'd and * Hee fellow the Limited, fast is intense e of the {ront took r man expr a clever c several = ty Metropolis, sit two men engaged discussion. " Shape upon the page. tw a gentlema t gked: “Will you pardon a &y couldn’t Lelp but the DE U t bridge you drew a few like . It r some with a whis was off o king old gentler English _origin c rd door, nodded tov d th & “Hello, Stoadard mself two or three ses e it. Ik d T hep th i thein This is. tions of things s 1 said N r 1 The young man had mean: el Bridee, h to reach betwee 1 keep the sand or ¢ . who mpan h P o gl e A Sl BN 3 o be simpl king back into the tunnei. r p the u X . cted of You ard, he drawing, as “That’s all except the pulley and string and hended it to ambulance doctor, . 2! r = ¥s haven't m spending mon- . ;. t bridge board arrangement for puiling the cars through. who turned it over to tae iniured iad - v = s I write them about must be whijep js shown Wt B. “One way is to fasten a p ¢ on one The little fellow clung to the pennies what e o 2 h thiat don't cost muci. In the ce of the board, or afoor of the ties at the end of the i e or to until the hospital w " nconse from each end, ut three-quarters of\a icks a Dost driven into the gre 7 inch wide the string down the center of With @ stitk connecting them across the 2round the pulley at both en panel the ol 8Ch" top, making u square ‘frame over the 2100 the side as shown at th »aek to thelr se he bridge, considerably Iighe: . ¥ oment looking on. :‘;l’:‘?l:“g'c:;;‘ ‘:f“ “f:fi’ml“;,’;“ :1:"{“};; ik on the wheels at either end 0l1d-Time Ghosts Are Gone, to run over the brifige, or under this €3N e fixed to turn the pulley frame. If you put a track across for your VUil the cars through the tu car line—(I have been telling (he biy e AL SheNy shother how to make a railroad and o street car ¢ PUlley in the end of tho tunnel with a nk at the side, the string ru in th line)""—he explained to his listeners - " ning back under the board F. wang to remember that the -track Will way the car can be pulled through the addfsome height to your cars, too. P tunnel by the string and then be fre About f—e inches from each end of 10 go on along any len the bridge or a little less as may suit pas want (o adq. your fancy, fasten WG oiher frame By tho first method works similarly made as'at D, the pieces crank would be in the w B, connecting across the top as in the ‘“That's all there Is to it center frame. The end frames D, hoWw- Again there came the screeching ever, are slanted off toward the ends brakes and the train slowsd up while of the foot-board a little, the slant in the brakeman called out “Grand Cen- each case being the same, of course. tral,” foliowed by the scramble for “We now cut strips of ‘tin about half and luggage. - an Inch wide—and if you haven't any Before Jack passed out of the car (he handy you can pick them up alnost for old gentleman came hBrrying back nothing under the trimmer in any tin banded him & eard, saying: “You shop—and measure off their th. The me a favor if you will call at m pieces (b) on elther ond and side reach- some timeo this week as 1 have ing from the ends of the foot-board to I'd like to talk the top of the first frame D miust, of he hurried, leaving our friend gazing fasten a couple they could not;see the sk { jt progressed, yet the bold and easy way r youngster handled his p ot the to haunt oup ¢ld-style dwellin's dra ains ove said ¢ was nced, drawing was left the seat in full view of the now i men, a meat and c¢ h of a bridge like the one just 'wo mere sheets were filled a on the other side of e artis e % v ke range of the watchers, and then t - which marked him 48 omiuonced. With o half humorous and of & 2008 1ance at the man in front, tie artis be- - gan to sketch again, with shorter and “Well, gwhal's your decision?’ queried gyjcker strokes, smiling and holding the h pad now this way, now that, to better view of what he was doing, and anon scrutinizing the man before him with halt & he fni -auckie escaped himand, nd the fcurnalist scrutiniz- holding the paper at full arm’s length In 4 more closely the face befors um, Not- front of him, he turned his head quickly “an’ I've co gone out any more ier they'd be ore it! Two of n' the he cha man’'s fac ‘em con- nt with a note suggestin’ that they'd the puppose just as well, an” to ‘em. 1 settied on the pr they were humorous g ghin' over the & the dreamy look about the cyes @nd with an amused smile, taking it for course, be of equal length. the name of one of the most prom! g Bpgni o xS oK e of the face. He granted seemingly that they would be “The pieces (c) ‘running from the cen- newspaper men in the country. ‘er:‘f i o MPisng s when (he fraln Jopking on, and throwing all embarrass- ter frame to the ends of the frames D (To be continued.) Gtk : ige, plunged ment amd formality to the winds with so above are somewhat longer but also of DI merged, screech- good humored a smile, at Stoddard equal length on either side. His Mother’s Christmas. £ from the othe entering the out- spoke as a matter of cou s he “Where theso pieces join the waoden ts of a little Ten-year-old Adelph Scherder, whose For ed for the finishe drawing. Fig. IL—The Driving Pulley. frames and the foot-board they are popnor gied twe months ago, came g ut of w minutes the 1 sea was In eight cleverly executed car re of the Eng- fastened by shingle nalls (n) driven " » Bre 2 e in the middle ght- lishman, side whiske nd all, and the his home, at 943 Third avenue, Bro ground a through holes in the tin into the frame in the positions shown. t 3 pti » which he had 63 cents. He emptied “YWhile - the thin Board itself which' (b "Tionby out 6f fue Dank fo show & these men of busine forms the floor of the bridge would alone 1oy companion, explaining he had a thing bordering almost on inquis hold very little weight yet with these gaved it to buy a Christmas present for b e e o N S e ‘trusses’ added as 1 have described the his mother. onality,” sald Stoddard aft- Strength is enormously increased and He was still counting the e yesterday afternoon carrying a toy bank e nger looked up fro sketching and smiled iteelf seemed to not yet extinguisl not yet above the horizor g out its message two men roared with la was flash- “Say,” said the elder, d Inte work,” and the journalist, nstant the ellow ter of business, knew a te changed his yes dreamy when he saw it, nodded s took on a look of exceeding in- As the old gentieman, a smile wt reciative ttracted by ths erest, and his whole r iftor- v around, Stoddard arose, Sheer pe ent b o s .t . 'dtg:n sket lli:'n;dt.ud. and unnoticed |,_\-m['-f.:. erward when thinking over tie eplsode, You will be surprised how great a load crossing Third avenue, to show back, so quickl as his decision un- artist, walked up and szt down with him, “sheer personality,” and he smiled inge- the bridge will hold. 5 : to another boy, when he wi whilé his erstwhile companién, arranging Membrance of the young man whom he 1t you have no road under the bridge, down by a team of horses attac asked the other, “Havo you his coat on the back of Lis seat and COuld not forget and who put everybody or if the piers A at the ends are high truck owned by & bottling concer * apologizing for his familiar t down to ris! v a smile, enough you may t' 1 the bridge upside The wheels of tae truck passed over the ¥ S and down and have the truss work under- poy's abdomen. The boy's mother wit- o express good-naturedly. starting at the beginning tupt neath the floor, leaving more room on pessed the accident from the window of tell it 1s For a while they talked of his sketching 274 &l eccentrie mann of the bridge itself. her home and ran into the street. the young man's ¢lub of boys and his “If the bridge Has a pretty wide span seized himg in her arms and carrled hi letters which he vowed those boys must you can easily put up a supn: n the ¢o the sidewalk. An ambulance was sum- took fog w center and makes g turn bric © those poned from the Norwegian hospital. As 8 d the stranger, “‘when I start- you see on the rivers where the boats Iy, Baumgard was lifting the Injured boy zed in'there were only my three nepnews. have to pass throug into the conveyance he begged tie sur- now there are a dozew of, the\boys Here Jack laid aside the drawings he geon to get his pennies, which had been ib who pass around the 1otters and had been showing and picked up an acatiared fi ‘the Tosdwhy, read them over together, £o it seems they set of sketches at his side, llke tho: “They'rs for mamma's Clristiias pres- shberented.” the bottom of this page ent,” he said. g0 on with your descriptlon,” *This shows how to make a tunnel” “l want to tell my he continued, “that I'm going to tell the ge, t00.” boys .about, too, in connection with the ) iere isn't much railroad. There's not much to that Fosri . i b2 as the drawings show most elther, and lield out the first. “You take a plece of inch board as h was somewhat like the long as your tunnel Is to be, or a little 5 at the top of this longer, and as wide. The arch part is you see, - of a floof made by melting up a lot of old tomato cross the Part cans in a fire and then bending the tin rou have to span—and here I've shown it into the right arch shape and tacking 1t { ¢ ( acroes a little canal—and on ea: side Of to the board, which is shown at F in the floor board is a ‘truss’ of ks and Fig. 1, by brads or tacks at f: the tins ch joint. - “Of course, if you zre to use the tunnel -~ at the en- for a railway you will need to lay the track on the beard before You put the t that for a (i roof of the tunnel on, fastening the 4 iracks directly to the board without The engineer smiled. “Not for you. - gje. sters, he answered, and turning to the <At each end of the tunnel is a board young fellow, added: “But go ol with Iy, in Fig. I, cut In the shape shown, vyour description just as if we were these with the door part at O, cut so the tin same youngsters you're telling about,” tunnel will fit just inside its curve, where and ent on. it can be fastened by means of tacks or “Suppose the distance : om the sup- brads through holes (D). 3 ports our bridge, or the span, is two “You dig the hole where you want the fer Then select a good straight plece tunnel to be, set it in its place and then of half-inch board, or even thinner, long cover it up again while the boards H er. next the young artist, who moved along broke n the enginee in and you can seé from the Arawing overlapping a little at just how ; Here e arra ddard winked acros o RRR A LR Bentley, can you be