The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-04

ting upffSHI, ana all apparently en-
gagged in profound theological discourse,
would enter the town precincts with
the occurrences of Quakers on an ex-
cursion. On one or two occasions, when
they acted this way In far southern
California towns, the religious element
invited them 10 the churches, ana, as
there was not man or woman in the
crowd who was not well educated, and
had not received at least a proper sort
OF start on the right path early in life,
they carried the thing through. behaved
perfectly and added lot 10 the moral
tone of the towns they visited under the
truly good mask They were aided in
this kind OF harmless deception by the
lack of telegraphs throughout Cali
fornia at that period, and they didn't
return to San Francisco by the same
road they took on the outward-Dound
tour.
Brill and his people slept for about
week, q guess they needed it,, when
they got back to San Francisco. and all
hands awoke refreshed for the new
game the young fellow had on hand
he chartered one of the Pacific Mail
boats, temporarily out of use, had her
gofgeously fitted out for yachting pur-
poses, and started out with his crowd
on a cruise in southern waters. They
carried the finest stringed orchestra in
San Francisco along with them, and
there was practically turnkey for each
passenger. one Of the men who went
on this cruise, who afterward settled
down to conventional citizenship, told
me of the roaring time that all hands
mad on that trip. They went as far as
Caliao. and took in all of the Mexi-
can, Central and South American
ports on the way. In some of the ports
they dlsmayed the American residents
and the United States governmental
representatives by their riotousness.
Brill and the men had scraps innumer-
able ashore in some OF the ports. and
they never came out second best when
the chances We're any way even. When
they reached Acapulco, Mexico, they
heard that an American sailor had lust
Deen sentenced TO life Imprisonment in
the fortress there, for alleged murder.
ems sailor is still confined in that Aca-
pulco fortress, by the Way), and Brill
wanted them all to join in a scheme to
rescue the man. The cooler counsels
or some of the older men prevailed.
however, and they were thus Kept out
OF the serious trouble that would have
resulted had they made any such at
tempt.
The gang decided 10 adopt the good
tack when they reached Valparaiso.
ana they all marched in solemn process
sional to the cathedral. Brill lent his
orchestra TO tiie choir for the rendering
OF the music of the mass, and all of
the swell people of the town, who were
present, were impressed by the piety
OF the distinguished Americans. Before
they LEFT Valparaiso, Brill gave the
archbishop $4,000, to be expended for
the poor of the diocese. They went TO
Callao from Valparaiso, and in Callao
they were on the tumuItuous tack. so
that there must have been some puz-
zled West Coast South Americans when
notes were compared
From Callao the ship struck across
the Pacific to Honolulu, which was
then pretty warm town, and they
made things hum all over the islands
for two months. Then the death in a
runaway accident of two of the men in
the party threw a gloom over them,
and the ship returned to San Francisco.
after having been out for over six
months. Brill suddenly disappeared
on the day he reached San Francisco.
and the next l heard of him. half a
year later, was that he had got him
self mixed I'D in a Nihilist plot in st.
petersburg and was under arrest in a
fortress. The state department had to
get him out of that scrape. lost
track of him altogether then for over
II months. l was sitting in my San
francisco office one day when a dapper
young fellow with a full black beard
came up behind me and put his hand
on my shoulder.
Hello, there, boy said I. wheeling
round; when did you get back?
Worked my way around the Cape
IN collier from Liverpool said Brill.
cheerfully.
&" 'Broke?'
Nope; got 50 left and he jingled
the silver in his trousers pocket, grin
ming How about that job of mine?'
i gave him the job of managing my
San Francisco house, but hadn't been
at work more than three months
happy as clam at high tide, by the
way, and never letting out the first
squeak of hard luck story-before his
mother and sisters Whisked in one day
when the Panama boat got in, and L
never saw so much hugging in my life
as those three nice women put up over
that boy. They carried him back east
on the next boat, and that was the last
l ever saw of him, though he wrote
to me for ten years or So"
There was a boy down my way who
wasn't whimperer, either, after he
went through his million" said a Gal
weston man. THAT was Tom Conrad.
whose father, joel Conrad, owned one
of the biggest stock ranches in the
Texas Panhandle. When he died he
left the boy, who was his only progeny,
the whole thing. The lad was only 20
years old at the time-this was in 10
and he wasn't very strong. Some peo-
pie put it into his head that his lungs
were affected. He went TO New
Orleans specialist to find out about it.
The specialist examined Tom and
pronounced him a goner
The he'll you sayr said Tom.
Well, how long have 1 got to live, any
how?
You may last as long as three
years if you take care of yourself said
the doctor, but you'll certainly be dead
by that time any way you fix it.
The boy went back to Texas and in
structed his executors to turn every
thing he owned into cash. which ne
divided into three parts.
I'm going to have three pretty hot
years, anyhow, now you hear me talk
ingI' he said. in telling about the YER
diet of the doctor: and he went at it,
He spent the first one-third of his mil
lion in cash exactly within the first
year, most of it in Paris. AT the end of