The San Francisco call., 1897-08-28
A Spirited Race Between
Deputy Sheriffs and
Landlord.
Saved From Eviction by Small
Loans From His Many
Friends.
Contributions From Tamale Men and
Green-Grocers Save a Mans
Home.

There was lively scene at 3O1 Mont
gomery avenue yesterday afternoon, when
twelve Deputy Sheriffs undertook to re-
move all the furniture from the Pacific
Coast House, because j. &. Brace. the
landlord, was delinquent in rent to the
amount of $142. The Sheriffs were there
pursuant TO an execution obtained by e.
Menesenl, the unrelenting landlord.
When the Sherffs began TO remove the
bedding from some of tie thirty rooms of
the house the inmates, chiefly women,
who were still asleep, began to awake in
as much terror as if the signal had been
given that the house was in flames. There
was hurried rush among blear-eyed
women, general alarm that all the effects
of the dodgers would be thrown into the
street, followed by the ordering of express
wagons to remove the effects Of the
roomers.
By this time the landlord of the house
began to hunt among his friends for the
money necessary to settle the case. From
the grocer he borrowed $40, from the
butcner $5, and so on, until he had can
vassed the street. Meantime the depu-
ties, who had already waited for many
hours for the delinquent, were working
rapidly, piling household effects on the
sidewalk. This proceeding soon attracted
large crowd. Then the landlord, seeing
some of his oldest roomers going away,
became furious. The only way that his
anger expressed itself was i'll increased
energy in his vocation as borrower from
the neig b bors.
He went a. his friends with vim ana
persuasive eloquence that few could resist,
and finally it was whispered along the
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lighted rooms that the landlord had raised
the wind 10 point within $12 80 of the
required amount The race between the
Sheriff and the delinquent landlord was
now neck and neck, with odds in favor of
the landlord There were still a number
OF outside precincts to hear from. The
tamale men in the alieyways and the
pounced upon by the perplexed landlord.
The Sheriff sat III the kitchen lingling the
gold that had first been paid his assist
ants worked slower and siower-iust
! enough 10 soad the Frenchman to renewed
activity. He now began to make frequent
trips to the kitchen, which had been
selected as the receiving teller's desk. He
was a fat little landlord. and as he got
closer to the point that was TO restore his
vanishing power he ran up the steps as if
his life depended on the result of the race
to the kitchen.
lhaiIy lie CdIue VIII lne iaSG cent. Inc
collections from good friends had dwin-
died down to u!mes ana nickels, and
when the full amount was paid the land
lord had just 10 cents as a surplus to be-
gin the DAY with, but his dignity had
grown and he carried out the English
mans idea that every mans house is his
castle by standing on his tiptoes and say
ing: Now l am free 1t is not so funny
now, and all OF you people who have not
rooms in this house will please move on"
The exodus of women and men ceased
and that of Deputy Sherifts and those
who had gone TO the pace from curiosity
began. Then chaos was changed to order
and tne Pacific Coast House resumed busi-
ness at the old stand.