The Hickman courier., 1882-10-13
From New York to san Francisco for
Two Dollars,

FROM new YORK TO SAN Francisco for
Two Dollars.
A red headed, dilapidated lookina fel.
low. with tuft of carroty hair stie(ino
through hole in his. twenty-five cenf
straw hat, came walking down California
Street yesterday aud attracted general
attention by his ragged and conicaI an
pearance.
"a. lie saw / was watching him, and.
pointing to the seatof lis trousers which
was carefully stuck together by a score
or more of pins, said with a jolly smile,
YOU are wondering whyr l appear in
such a plight. Ii is very simple when
YOU come to look at it. Ny breaches
have just been severely kiekedsat that
point
= His good llumer Surprised me. lyon
sare very Jolly over your kicking; tellme
about itI Let's 90 in this lunch room
where we can talk - L saw the. poor
feHoW was lnnngrv- TfEN6tH IA ~
Ordering him a plate OF soup and a
good solid meal. invited him to begin.
%TTee weeks ago. his story ran. Il
was in New Herksetting type in the san
Office. i have set9Ype in every large
city IN sthe United States except san
Francisco, and three weeks ago the idea
occurred to me that | was getting old
and had better hurry if | wanted to put
II frisco on my list { had Just two dol
lars. Laying in 4 supply of peanuts and
crackers and cheese. istarted down to
the Pavonia Street ferry aud crossed over
tothe Erie freight yards, in Jersey City.
That same night. by good fortune, / dis
covered fiat car withya wheat thrash
ing engine on it labeled through to the
Wests and | lost no time fixing my bed
+ in the boiler of the gine. The frst
two or hree days | felt Ike was buried
alive, but that soon passed of. and 1
actually began TO feel comfortable in my
snug little retreat The boiler was Just
long enough to let me stretch out in, and
| Kept my Provisions slowed away near
my head AtSt Louis we stopped about
ten hours, and | got cut TO lap up some
more peanuts and Get another can of
water I bought dime novel there. too,
and had 4 asplendid trip after that'' :
You don't mean tosas YOU remained
in that cramped position Che whole
journey ?''
''Of course | got OUT now and then to
stretch myself. Every night when we
stopped at st ations or to change engines
| would get out and walk about a bit
When we were near OmahaI had ter
rible scare. The engine broke down
and was delayed day and half My
provisions had given out the day before
and / had expected 20 fill up again at
Omaha. it was a pretty bad fix. You
see if | got out the train men would
have seen me aud put an end to my
game.
How did you make out thenP" l
asked.
81 ,,,.,;,,1 NIL L.. .l,+ ,-lt -
all the hands were forward working
with theengine and then slipping around
half n mile or so, came in from the
front as if was tramping the other way.
They We're willing enough to give me
grub for the work | did. and when at
last they started off they thought was
on the way TO st. Louis. / slipped
around and crawled into my boiler and
had no more trouble for two or three
days. Then / was starved out again
aud got of ut a little town. at which we
stopped, to gef another supply ofserack-
ers and fill my Jug. i spent my last
cent here and wien came back to the
depot was knocked weaker than kitten
to find the train gone and with it my
bed and boiler. For ten minutes | could
hardly move; then pitched outand did
some tall walking. / caught UP with
that tram before il had gone twenty
miles" and he helped himself to a
chunk of beef With an air of pride at the
recollection.
.. It's fact,n he continued, 1.-THE
measly old thing had stopped to do some
switching and | crawled into my boiler
as slick as a woodehuck. | got along
all right as long as the crackers lasted,
but sleeping in a boiler makes3a fellow
f,,o on
forace the neN time stop was made ]
really WASH t very rich but | was as
proud as millionaire, and so when /
walked up the front yard of house l
took off my hat and said:
ss :. Madam, i IN hungry, but 1 don s
come here to beg, ] only desire permis-
sion to Craze. She slammed the doorsin
my face and ] stood around the front
ardfeeling pretty blue when heard the
cook calling me- IrIIshed around think,
ingshe had Philadelphia pie. or sone1
thing of that sort
:. Are you the man that wanted to
grace" she said.
Yes
a. Well, I Just thought I'd call you
around here the grass is higher. and
she waltssd away quicker than man
with wooden ler.
was awfn1ly as Susted with Chat
town, but managed to lay in enough
provisions to put me through and | got
here to7slay with = bag of 7crackersleft
over. They kicked me pretty lively
down at the freight yard. but it only.
limbered me up and TAI soon be as sound
as a dollar. I'm going down to the
Chronicle Office now to see if can get a.
job. I'm a splendid type-setter and can
put up twenty thousand ems a dav as.
easy as not. San Francisco Cor.
Merrisoether Weekly.
Partial to Surgeons.