The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-20

legs out OF the coach windows, bawi carnival
songs,, pave the streets, with emptied bottle.
next town, perhaps only q dozen miles away.
would get an entirely different sort Of deal
Sunday School Teaehers' Association would
be strung at the sides Of al the coaches
sitting upright. and ali ii apparently engaged IN
profound theological discourse. would enter the
town precincts with the occurrences Of Quakers
when they acted this way in far southern Call;
fornia towns, the RELIGIOUS element invited
man or woman in the crowd who was not well
educated, and had not received at least a proper
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fectly. and added a lot TO the moral tone OF the
towns they visited under tho ,trulyJgood
less deception by the lack OF teleRraphs through
out California at that period. and they didn't
took on the, outward.bound tour.
-Brill and his people slept for about q week
saass i fssh seiiy nG SaS dii2 S Sanas 's n%okl SSt ro Sfes %
He chartered one OF the Pacific Mail boats,
out for yachting purposes. and Started out with
his crowd on n cruise in Southern waters. They
cisco along with them. and there was practically
q hunkey for each passenger. Ono OF the men
down %To w 10 soo ON tni. GrIis i;; wno St,ef IoIs ms se ot ,sa
roaring time that all hands had on that trip.
They vent y, as ,S far 'o Sa., as csll Gss,s and ' Sos
- pa vi nv DlCAlIhhs SOhtto oha
s sSns1 of A the porfs R ESss d!s Sn !ar the S' &Sme RI
srnmental representative by their riotousness.
Brill and the men had scraps innumerable ashore
y, ,nr some Of the ports e. and d, they never anne out
even. When they reached Acapulco. Mexico.
they heard that an American sailor had Just
fortress there for alleged murder this sailor is
still confined in that Acapulco fortress, by the
wayL and Brill wanted them all to Join In a
HCneTne 10 rescue Tho man. The cooler c0nnSRlA
OF 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 attempt.
1.-THE gang decided to adopt the good tack
marched In solemn professional to the cathedral.
Bill lent his orchestra to the choir for the
the swell people OF the town, who were present,
were impressed BY the piety Of the dist!psuishedd
z MmeT 1Ss Xrcb GS,Grs s q 3 o6 ls5t 10 Tss % p1nenSsd sF fol
from Valparaiso. and in Callno they were on the
some puzzled West Coast South Americans
when notes were compared.
Prom Callao the ship struck across the Pa
cifc to Honolulu. which was then a pretty warm
town, and they made things hum all over the
islands for two months. Then the death in a
ship returned to San Francisco, after having
disappeared on the day he reached San Fran
cisco, and the next l heard OF him. half n year
lhleT, WIS Lnat ne nHI RUt himself mlNeu up IN a
arrest in a fortress. The State Department had
70 get him out OF that scrape. lost track Of
him altogether then for over twelve months. 1
was sitting in my San Francisco Office one day
when q dappcr young fellow with a full black
beard came up behind me and put his hand on
In.HellS, there, hoy, said I. wheeling round;
worked my way around the Cape in a collier
from Liverpool said Brill, cheerfully.
Nope. Got 80 left and he iinsled the silver
IN IN his st Trousers e, si pocket. srinnins. How about
Francisco warehouse. but he hadn't been at work
more that three m~onths1,happy as a clam at
first squeak of a hard luck story-before his
mother and sisters whisked in one day when the
bp ansina i, boat =, G e In, and ! never saw SO much
up over that boy. They carried him back East
on the next boat. and that was the last l ever
saw Of him. though no wrote to me for ten years
There was q boy down my way. who wasn't a
million, said a Galveston man. THAT was Tom
Conrad. whose father, Joel Conrad. owned one
San 1as bisSNe55, ss STOCK DC 4 F ar I" FL in ,t the TT Texas as Pan.
only 70 Years old at the time@iihis was Il -"
into his head that his lungs wero affected. He
went TO a New Orleans specialist to find out
about 1t; The specialist examined Tom and pro-
The he'll you say said Tom. We'll. how
long nave l got TO i've, anyhow
:" You may last as long as three years II 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 instructed
his executors to turn everything he owned into
cash. which he divided into three parts.
lin going to have three pretty hot years,
anyhow, now you hear me talking!' he said. in
telling about the verdict OF the doctor: and no
went at 1t. He spent the first one-third OF his
million in cash exactly within the first year,
most OF it in Paris. At the end OF the year he
felt pretty well. too; he broadcned out and
gained flesh and sinew. The second year he
spent his second $3.50, 333.33, and the end OF
that year found him in rugged health; but this
fact didn't hold him in.
Tin feeling all right just now said he. 'bnt
that doesn't cut any figure. That lung doctor
probably knew his business, and i guess this
yearll certainly wind me up
Then he started on q trip around the world
with half u dozen companions, whose expenses
he paid. At the end OF the year he found him
self in Houston, stronger than an OK ana health.
Ter than a sheep-fed wolf. with 800 In cash and
a remarkably fine wardrobe.
Never saw such n sell in my life,' said
young Conrad in describing the thing 10 the
manager of the Gulf and Colorado Railroad, to
whom he applied for n job as a station agent on
the line. He got the job. worked at it for nearly
five years, and then all OF n sudden he collapsed
and died Of quick consumption for a fact"
SEA L. IN UTAH.
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