The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

ed of some considerable influence with
the city government, and in fact one
of the greatest of the city officials
lived in the immediate vicinity of
Wing Shoes new abode.
The next day a man in a blue coat
tapped on Wing Shee's door. "Yeh,"
said Wing Shee, what nlow. Clollah
or cluff. Lent flee. Yeh."
you come with me-" exclaimed the
official Wink Shee went.
At headquarters he was informed
with much ceremony that he had vio-
lated the building laws because he was
not connected with the sewer;s and the
fire laws because his building was a
frame one within prohibited limits. In
other words it was up to Wing Shee.
He was cast into a cell. Huckleback
arrived and went his bail. Wing Shee
was free for the time being. The next
day Mr. Huckleback, with a smile up
on his face, paid Wing Shees fines and
started the erection of a brick laundry
with sewer connections. The laundry
was to be a twostory affair, and yet
1T was small enough to be built in a
few weeks. During the course of it's
erection, Huckleback marched up d
negro family of goodly proportions, to
see how they liked the second floor.
Bellport had never had a case of
SDldlpOA. buI one udy Two OF three
ambulances drove up to the home of
Wing Shee and of Washington John
son, the negro, and the health officials
discovered that which they had sus-
pected that the whole crowd had de-
veloped smallpox. 1t was true that
Wing Shee and the negroes never
showed it. But the negroes were
black and the Chinaman was yellow,
and the symptoms under such cir
cumstances are not so readily appar-
ent. The city officials though usually
timid about contagious diseases, han
died the afflicted crowd apparently
without fear and bundled them off to
the hospital. There they were kept
for an indefinite time; for officially
they had the smallpox.
Mr.. Huckeback, hearing of the seiz-
ure, Immediately drove up to his new
brick building, and entered it. Hav-
ing entered it, they had him-for the
time being. The officials fumigated
known to science, and they fumigated
him quite as much as they did the
place. Then they locked him up and
kept a guard outside.
But FIuckleback won out, after all.
So they had to buy him out again.
He would not agree not to set up in
the same vicinity, but as all the prop
city OWltIS IldQ W1lHQIdWH liltlI
vacant lots for sale, it was a sure
thing that he was done for this time,
though at an enormous expense. Now
Mr.. Huckleback had a large amount
of cash, and a brick building on his
hands, but he sighed for other worlds
to conquer.
The pocketbooks of the denizens of
Chestnut Square had been severely
taxed. The great official who had
Nn1pnCtad schemes rnncidprn6 that IL
was up to him to get even. Mr..
Huckleback was no lawyer. He knew
nothing of title searches and inveSti-
cations and records and all that.
In a dingy tenement in Bellport
there was a man named Updegraff.
Updegraff was not his real name.
and he did not belong in BeT1port. He
was New York man. There were q
few men in Bellport who knew that
Updegraff was there, and also that he
had no business there. The great off,
cial was one of these few men. He
called upon Mr.. Updegraff with an
armed force of police. Mr.. Updegraff
shocked and surprised, made over
lures. The great official countered
with a proposition of his own. Mr..
Updegraff joyfully assented to the
great officials proposition.
What 1 want" said the great OFF,
cial, what | want, Mr.. HaIlordn--'
Theeother man held up his hand.
"Updegraff," he insisted, in some
alarm.
"Updegraff,'' corrected the official,
what 1 want is to get my money back
The rest can go hang. Understand"
Mr. Updegraff smiled once more
He understood.
But it must not be assumed that P.
Huckleback, Esquire, had permitted
his busy brain to remain idle His
original great idea had become a pas
sion with him. There was a big, va
cant corner tract of land on Chestnut
Square that he longed had envied. He
knew that If he could get that and
make it the abode for most of the
Italians and Cinnamon and niggers in
town, his fortune would be made. But
he gave it up because nobody on
Chesnut Square was selling lots.
What was his surprise, therefore,
one day to run across this advertise
ment in the daily paper:
For Sale.-Ten vacant lots on Ches-
nut Square, corner of Walnut Terrace.
Terms cash. KY, this Office.
He answered It at once and was in
vited TO call upon the owner in one
of the prominent Office buildings Of
the town. He did so. The owner oc-
cupied a luxurious room. He was a
pleasant sort Of gentleman. He did
not seem 10 know Mr.. Huckieback