The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-22

that when / vent East I'd ride in. the var
nlshed cars with bunks In EN-, decided to
see Il I couldn't get q job, in stock
late the price wS Ola tlcR"et. S TRSe RfIrst man 1 / iii up
for a iob-I was ,decked out in fresh linen from
and a shine when l went out TO hunt for work
was q big fruit operator. He Eufred with me for
why didn't /. and pumped me generally for ten
minutes or so. Then no told me that three or
four days late, he was. going to send q carload
continent 6y fast freight to New York, to try
that market again for the hundred and twelfth
asked s,dis IN me III il / ff tRRoSargRRhft i TS BE- a abiS 70 do dou on ny
rsin-making by word Of mouth IS to the merits
G4t e |9e airy trgtt y when .i0I It !, got got, to New York supposing
well. didn't tell him no, you can figure on
mat. aonr lays later, With 500 expense money
Into the swellest caboose. hitched TO the toniest
and fastest fruit freight train that ever left tho
Pacific coast. l was It in that caboose. II was
my private caboose, and ! Just spent eight days
pers in i. "i Then l1f / got OF mI N New York York "SsSSiFeI6" I
hadn't seen In nearly four years. with $50
velvet stu remaining. sold every last nickel's
the way that ! have since won out-humphl-
forms a part ofthe records OF this organization
the street at the corner Of State and Monroe
streets II Chicago, was in q hurry to see u
BH iihin o WE Toy whom and hpd te en kaP eBSneas' st to se sbS 8
Monroe street Ia about the most cluttered cor
ner on this continent, not barring any, corner
IN New York. had got across one OF the cable
car tracks. and was just about to make one
jump Of 1t to clear the other-not seeing the
other d!rection-when I got caught by, the
ner4I OF ny oyerc9at collar and !erked back
When I turned, around to have a look at the
man that had saved me from being run
down. looked into the, good natured mug of
Jack Fohey, in the uniform of a Chicago cop.
When Jack had been lost from our shufle out
in San Francisco that time he had turned Up in
Yard. and he concluded that a three-year
cruise IN the, navy was about as good as any
as a biIuejackfeSt.' and there he was. an no old ex.
battery mate. looking at me and grinning, on
the most lammed street corner In America;
time together. with the rum cut out,
six months later ! was standing in front OF
the Laclede Hotel in 81. Louis when q smooth
faced duck with a Newmarket, giElamps. and IA
pair OF, held-glasses slung over his shoulder.
va kedI up Th behind I nd me and gave me a clap on
around had to shake hands with Cork Null
vihill. who had shaved of his red mustache
ming a string Of his wi with all kinds Of luck,
During the halliday ,cug~germugRering that /
had with Cork, he told me that when he be-
separated from our push he landed out
near The old San Francisco racecourse. where a
running meeting was then going on, and that.
had had a run of LUCK in PLAYING them with the
few dollars he made, and within a couple OF
years he had turned his shoestring into a tan
"6n the night of the last big. fight. when, I
was sitting with a couple of friends right in
front of the platform and longing to have Mo
Coy punch sharkey into kingdom come, who
f shSq a1,y s SSt le s1TL}sot az @e t Ii q b %I, HR1y ten n
Washington. Monk was logged out like a four
tins ty0 81 winner I'M ne which Eat Mn he Is whit PTt his name an bd in
made the whole trip from the houseboat on the
San popquin to Washington by freight. and
took him in hand. SO that Monk that was is
now the proprietor of about, a dozen of the