The herald., 1896-04-13

trouble ahead, chase down to Redondo
an go fshin', or else one of Fred Woods
new palace cars II run onto your sys-
tem."
Talkin' about Fred Wood, Uncle Billy
Workman is still awonderin' what has
struck de board of public works in de
awardin' of dat new Boyle Heights lee
trio franchise. When Wood comes in
affecting fer leetle favor like
dat, all de people in de hall falls down on
dere faces an salaams, as dey says in
de ate ward, an Fred is a-fed frogs
legs an fried chicken. When Billy
Workman or some odder dark horse is
a-tryin' to have a street car out by de
new Old Folks at home near Hollenbeck
park, we good people right quick has q
date to dig up protest from de proper
ty owners livin' on Sixth street an West
Lake park. Fred hain't yet got blan-
ket mortgage on de town, but he owns
everything round here 'ceptin' may be
de- elevator boy as lifts de women folks
up to de library. an when he puts In a
petition to run line to de rooms of de
board of education, desc statesmen
round here III fall over each odder's
pass books to see who'll be de first to
ask him what he wants. All dis is right
an proper enough, cause Fred Woods
a good feller an he always stands by
his frien's in a pinch wild sumthin' like
500 votes. But raw oysters gets stale
when dey is gulped down fer every meal,
an yuse kin get fried just so cheap fer
de Sunday dinner"
tom Savage had a big crowd from
de stale meat district up to hear him
make roar bout de peddlin' of stuff
widOut a license down near his plumb
in shop last Monday, but Savage made
no play, neider fer nor agin his frien's.
Tommy hain't tryin' to razoo nobody
in dat spiel wild wrong saw. He says
as he has always had icy eye out for
Theodore Bauer but de band plays on
just de same, an George Arnold an Doc
Campbell is a-smilin' just so big as dey
done afOre Mckinley was in de ring to
win me or lose me. Dat egg is long
time a-hatchin but when it comes outen
de shell it'll raise a odor worser nor de
water in de Bellevue avenue reservoir"
MY fren' de chief played 'em fine
when he dragged dat Frisco policeman
before de police board last week to whis-
per to youse newspaper feller:s
dat dere was only two real
big men in be land. de couple
bein' John M. Glass an Mckinley. No.
body took dat speech down in full, bein'
as twas a million dollar write up fer de
chief an dem tings he calls his very
ownest. If Freeman G. Teed had a
been on hand, stead of Guy Barham and
Billy Cook, de applause would a been
heard out by Whittier. AS it was, de
fiyS as was Sunnin demSelVeS just be-
hind Bob Wirsching's settee went to
sleep tinkin' what funny world dis
aire. Den de man from Frisco warm
ed up in his collar an hints round bout
how much good de big chief could learn
eff he went to Atlanta or Georgia or
some udder place just mort of Niger
Slough, an de mayor an Skimpy Long
says to go wild dere blessin' of Bauer
an de trust in sin kin git along just de
same. De Frisco chap won out so easy
it made him order strawberry shortcake
for dinner an so did de big chief an de
mayor. an Skinny Long. an Bob
Wirsching. an Guy Barham, an Bill
Cook. An everybody was happy ever
later.
Goodbye; I've got to see de colonel
to find out eff his intentions bout Jim
McLachlan for congress once again, an
de slave harbor an San Pedo aire strict
ly honorable. I'll see youse again."