The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-27

| tiSihdil, slightly more ROBUST Inan the
first, takes this between a pair of large
tweezers and pushes it into a molasses
mill. 1t is then rolled down to about
the thickness of an ordinary slap jack,
and 1t has became so hardened by the
| rolling process that it has to be an
nealed, which is accomplished by plac-
ing a lot of these in a copper stove pipe
and sealing I'D the ends. This is then
placed in furnace, and just in the
! mex OF time Is removed and plunged
into horse trough of hot water. 1t is
then rolled down to the proper thick
ness of twenty dollar gold pieces:
when too thick is scraped off to make
IL right. If they would give me sim
! PLY the scrapings l could manage to
1--we. By this time it looks like a piece
OF hoop iron about five or six feet long
gentleman with small hands
anIohted more or less with axle
grease then takes it over to
a large and noisy sewing ma
chine, which jabs a lot of round holes
In 1t. The round pieces that are jabbed
out. are then carefully preserved, and
When the noble Romans who work in
the mint have the time to spare they
make these uD into twenty dollar gold
pieces, placing one at a time into
thing which looks like cider press,
and which prints the picture of a bird
ana makes notches on the edge so you
can tell one of them from a poker chip
or a peppermint drop in the dark That
IS the way they make money, and l
wish they would make more of it.
one thing you must see in San Fran
cisco, that is Chinatown You don't
have 10 go on the raging main now-a-
DAYS to see pirate; just hunt up
CHINATOWN guide" and give him nv
kind regards. A gentleman with a tin
badge like biscuit cutter offers to
snow you through for 81 each. He af-
forwards cuts off the head of this price
near the tail, and seeing that there is
a lot of other gentlemen with tin
badges lowering about he agree to take
twenty-five or thirty cents. You then
start for the noted locality where the
laundry comes from. The guide shows
you UP and down through alleys and
mouldy stairways and creakinr floors
that make you think of Edgar Allen
zoe and the barber who used to drop
ms customers through a hole in the
noor ana then chop them I'D into fine
cut couldn't always hear the guides
gentle voice but as near as I could fell
ne showed US gentleman with lep-
rosy VINO was seven hundred years old
(giFe nXe cents to the man for being
eld.) There was the man who has
smoked opium for 'steen years q cents
Tor the man who smokes opiun): the
little man who eats with chop sticks 6
cents for the little man) and a little
girl who sings a song like the phono-
graph 90 cents for the little girD and
the man who plays the fiddle like a
croquet mallet 6 cents for the fiGdle).
rive cents for the lady who lets YOU
see her oaby. Ten cents for some
broom straws to burn for incense to
2O0S ;oI-
About this time .'Trilbv'' and
Prunes" went broke and there
was run on my bank
which nearly closed nv doors
but had seen China town
and was henceforth one of the elect
after which 1 had the hired man turn
on the hose and burn some sulphur
around me- But if you want to see
something nice, go to the Golden Cate
park and see all the pretty and in
teresting things. Be sure and visit the
museum on the site of the Midwinter
falr Go to Sutro Heights and see the
lovely grounds and statuary. Be sure
ana try the sea bathing in the great
glass pavilion. Visit the museum and
spend day there. Spend half a. day
at the Hopkins institute. looking AT
the beautiful paintings, carvings.
statuary, etc. Buy guide book when
you flrst arrive and then don't be
afraid to ask about anything you want
to know Californians are universally
courteous.
Sunday night, which was the seventh
Gay, counting from Monday, found us
all aboard and ready to pull out for
the historical and interesting city of
Monterey. Arrived there next morn
ing, we spent the time in looking over
the beautiful grounds of the Hotel Del
Monte and in clambering down over
the rocks to the verge of the ocean.
hunting for the unique and beautiful
shells and sea weeds with which the
place abounds. I think we absorbed
about ton Of Shells many of which
lacked the characteristic odor of new
mown hay; and all that day we
talked SHE'LL
we were greeted by a big audience, who
pronounced ''the show" one of the best
that ever struck San Hosay" By an
oversight on the part of somebody, the
train was touched off about five sec
onds before 1 got aboard and the
mayor and city council made me
present of the city for a few hours I
created a sensation similar to that of
the man who strikes so hard at the
ball that the bat flies to dust-but he
doesn't hit the ball. overlook the
company in time for dinner, so it did
not so much matter. Everybody on the
train offered to lend me one or two
dollars, which was some consolation
and shows great love for fellow man.
Good thing; push it along)
At Sacramento, which was to be our
last working day, we had a rousing
audience that stayed long enough after
the concert was over to join US in sing
ing The Star Spangled Banner" a
fitting finale for the great event in our
lives
There is more to tell, but it is sad.
will just touch on it. At Reno l
paused in my mad career to eat one
more breakfast. That was my dooms-
day, for here the crowd shook me.
The train was about ten feet away
when 1 reached the place from which
it had just adjourned. Alas for my
lunch basket, overcoat, gripsack, shells,
plants, flowers and other things too
numerous to mention! Alas for the
genial smiles of ''Trilby," Buttons
''Prunes," Little Bo-Peep,' Summer
days. Red Jersey" Irish and
Lady Jane Grey Alas for the woes
of Mr. Thurston and Horace Greeley,
who had agreed to return me ''in ten
days in as good condition as when
taken-ordinary wear and tear only
exceptedr And so they had to tele-
graph back and get me out of pawn
on a brown ticket with an ecru colored
back, and with more holes in it than
a milk strainer. How l spent the
day following a tough-looking dog all
over town. hoping he would get some
other dog to tread on the tail of his
coat; how 1 read the signs on the
and thought of the pie and
stuff still left CT our train; how burst
into a sad, sweet melody to the follow
ing words: