The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-10-28
Kaufman & Co., 4th and Broad.

the other thing. we tore Key West apart
some but | don't remember getting
aboard the Comal again. | found inystt
aboard the next morning, though ana
on that morning | started IN 10 play poh-
er with couple o Maiden Lane ia
mond drummers. They took IL off me so
fast that / felt myself catching coiu.
Same the next day. Same. also, the day
after that. on the night we got OF lne
Galveston bar. 10 walt there until morn
ing for a high tide 10 let us into the
harbOr, ! counted over my bundle. haa
That amt much to begin life anew
three and a half thousand miles IRON
New York ! thought, but it's got TO
go. I've got the front-meanins my lay-
out Of tOgs-Ieft anyhow.
Il went ashore with the gang the next
morning. and tho blank begins here lor
another tweuty-four hours. guess l
must ha gone around some with those
commercial travellers. The next morn
ing when I woke up the low monotone
Of the sea was In my ears; als0' tneIe
was wet sand in my hair and the sun WIS
shining hard In nv face. ! sat up. me
Gulf OF Mexico was right IN front OF
me. / looked behind There was Dig
hotel there. To looked something like the
Oriental Hotel down at Manhattan Beach
There was a sign on Il, Beach Hotel
dug into my pockets, looking Ior ne
necessary dime. II wasn't there. Notn-
ing was there / was lying on the SANDS
II the Gulf Of Mexico. I'm front OF the
Bnch E0tel broke, without even the
price Of ride into Galveston on one or
the dinkv mu'e-hau'od Street--1rs. lht'
why. as | said at the outset, l looked at
the Beach Hotel so disapprovinsly on
''''S 49, FROM NECESSITY.
"T busted the sand off my clothes ana
walked over to fountain splgot IN lron1
OF the hotel and took a drink ~ WAFER
Yes wateri IL was hard. but II had 10 go.
Then hunted around for the street
EAR track Galveston was TWO mics
away. but I had % make Galveston.
There wasn't any car In slSht' so tooh
the track / didn't have the price OF
fare. ANYHOW. The track was under wa
ter from floods. most OF me way III;
walked through breakish Gulf water iull
OF tadpoles and soft-shell craps ail the
way in I didn't have anything particular
I'm view when ! struck baiNrSlon' out :
wanted to get there. anyhow, ior tne
Reach Hotel | figured. was nun happf
seashorc vacationizing people ana as =
wasn't happy myself nhln WIN ID so
them. On the way into Galveston l
manned IL out that ! wasn't going 10 90
am. telegraphing back here for funds,
evcn II / had ITO drive truck. Ialklhs
about trucks as was nearing GtIHss-
ton / passed a whole lot o circus t,itS.
prowled in among ne ta ead az" II was wa i Fore
naugh's show. ! asked him where the
show was going from Galveston ana ne
said II was going 10 close up - -t,od
Straight back 10 Philadelphia. ashSe
him how II would be for JOB ,,d ofror-
me 10 one Of the h~ld guys, ana ! oiSi
cd IN feed the zebras and do otner useiu. H.,
,bores fn return for a ride WIN tlc
show 10 Philadelphia He turned me
down and / kept on into toWm'
FAMILIAR SIGHT
..rtrt.l, not into town sign INdN 4
cav, over a saloon looked vaguely l3lhil7.
lar In me. 'The Two Brothers oaioo e,,
in read / kind o. recalled nay ny -
i'm that place with some OF ,me III nsr
,,ers an me day before. when We go. Oh
~ cnnai So I went In, not because
IA tbe nrice Of anything. but Jusl wen
in anvh6w. II was about 10 cloch ,n
Inc morning. but no customers sv,en
the place. which was a .bs hack part
I1i. Io'. IN, one OF the Two Brotheia
vi - bebind the bar-that H., tounu o 10
.,fterwqrl that he was one OF VIC
. "'Hero. there, PAL" says ne 10 me p, t az
walked in how're you cum"
MOI t ' toi1 him there was nothing d2 ,n2S
- .., dawn af table. Tor We -,
With the trudge in from the Beach holei
me man behind the bar sHeu "'' '''
and he walked oyer 20 ~,g' said he 10
,, ~ .Re 1tnh have a couple 70 sort o
Jerk Yourself together. Tn, o-teIling
.T.bev tasted pretty good, ~ ~ niano
lHIs 49,. hack 20 whore the plhnvy
you ona sat down on the stool
. SsooN nc me practice four h9uiS
Az, an the piano when / was n'u seit
udy oh 'a,rattv GOOD player. wen. 49,.
w. .,ooz>, and down In the NOUN. %'
- naturally. / started IN 10 PaSy With
.bert's Serenade. ahI III, ,ravine away
nv 80 i,ind Of music. thinkihs ~ -
-, ~ 90 the law / was. when the nts a,iiS
tt,f the har touched me on thss ~ nro-
p" sPard said he. I'm one r.,n Going 10
prietors Of this 5 snJfS a." You sayjyoure
man inst II even If you are w VarL
~. ~ ~ hcre wise boys from NV Von
Ia guess YOU are up as9llnnS +hot nv
80 N know how 20 tWi9u,9 ~, What
mo "a the queens taste 80 an that
III 90. ~ you'U hammer tunes out u u
machln' ,,rro q o'clock at night uHa -
IT, sI a. The morning, I'll give nav
80 T'V everv nights work you u'' what DO
,onr way down here pesiue'
you .n, lhinN di "a ! think OF It! I wasn
What ulp vin,out chance Ike that.
MS a 20 | told nm; Avn
T" TGE BOYS ON HAND. >, ,be
"Ue took me across lhs Nm hotels
o ~ Gnives,oG and put me up 1 tns dock and
be went down TO the - Ma ~ the hotel I
,oogaI out and turned ny ~ rere
Rrothers' ahead OF time. - down
.t 900 ~ the Galveston men u,1hot
fh here The word had gone eoI srS yark had
a 'Howling Thing IRON ,Sa n Hvw nightly at
the Two Brothers ana tne oro,,na and
on @' me- ,he la1ah but didn't mind r inst
: itt.i@ biz. earned my I'VE q" r'S"'
that first night. c,.,..os,o, News
was sprinkled all over with smah aus
leone down to the Two Erotners
saloon tonight and hear the ho' buy