Daily camera., 1901-12-02
JUST JUNK

| w asked: "What IL tunk?" he con.
centrated his attention on IL for q
time. and said: Junk 10 anything
and everything that 10 supposed to
be worn out and useless, but really
isn't. 1t is stuR that. having lived
one life. comes here and begins an.
other. For instance, here are these
ships sails. They've lived their life
aboard ships. they've been all over
the oceans, and now they are to set.
tie down on land.
What will they do7"
"Be useful as coverings for build
ers' materials. or for wagons and
their goods. or they may go to sea
again on small schooners."
What good is this old ropsf"
"Some of that is bought BY YES
se!s, Such as Is too far gone for
such use goes into paper stock"
"Well. now here's an old Spanish
bell. big and hne toned. Where did
you get that and what will you do
with it?"
"That is from q Porto Rican church.
II was brought in A. old metal. for
the tongue was out. Still. il was
easy TO put tongue In. and so the
duty was saved"
And which Of our ot,cers s.os .
church bell7'
''It wasn't stolen. 1t was lying in
a storehouse there where our troops
go . 10 Porto Rico, 1t had hung In
the belfry of church that had been
torn down, / think"
What use Is this rusty old ehain?"
There are some boats that buy
nothing except secondhand material.
so those chains sell 20 them. When
they are too rus.y they 60 for old
tron."
"what sor, Of people buy these
lamps and lnnternsr
Wealthy people buy them for curios,"
"Wha, is the difference between
junk and antiques
"Ah. You'll have to ask the Fifth
avenue art dealers about that,
anny and many . battered bi, they
get from US for a song and sell for
fancy figure. Bu, you're in the
wrong shop to learn abou; junk Go
round and see the man in Front
street. He's go, she creates, collec,
ton in New York 1his place is half
ship chandler's."
"Junk. air; no. sir. this isn't junk
shop. Far from it, SIR" said the man
in Front street. "a junk dealer Is .
ran who goes about in a small boat
and buys eas,-of .hings from vessels.
Junk dealers have to obtain licenses.
and the police can search their places
st any time"
well. what would you call this es
tabhshment7"
The Front street man thought for
awhile before he replied: Il would
call it curio emporium"
80! And may ! AAk what in the
werld you do with guns that are -
pld and as rusty as these in . curio
emporium7"
Those are not so bad as they look
They can be cleaned up and will kin
just as well as they did during tho
civil war"
"Who buys themf"
rAll sorts OF behind-ths-age pep-
pie. Take one Of those guns into
the mountains of Virginia. an II win
be modern. They're SIN using flint
locks there. All through south
America and Africa there's a sale for
such guns, and in many parts Of Asia.
too. sold 200 of them last week to
a man in the China trade. His firm
has eight ships, and they're srming
the crews against the pirates that
now infsst Chinese watsrs."
"But some Of these are rustsd to
pieces"
"Well, they either serve a. eurioa
or as old iron. When they're too bad
for anything else, they are melted
down and begin hfe over again"
what guns are those with the long
Arab. Notice the broad butta,
They seem senseless, but thsres 4
good reason for them. They're made
like that so that the weapons won't
sink in the sand when being loaded.
This weapon with the enormously
thick barrel is an elephant gun. 1t
weighs 25 pounds. and is made so
thick in order to lessen the force OF
the recoil from the heavy charge of
powder. You see that it's In perfect
A man rushed in with it
the day before yesterday. ! didn't
think anything of it, wouldn't even
give him two dollars. He said he
would leave it with me anyhow. Well,
that gun turned out to be the very
weapon a Montclair (N. J.) man was