Arizona republican., 1905-03-23

virsities with building plans and en- | dowments It occurred to me that I'd better make two packages of my mon 1 ev. One of nine hundred was to get me out to San Francisco and show me the town in manner behttlng my birth and station. The other was to transport me like a dream through one of the aforesaid universities on thousand a year, showing the co-eds what football was like. With my di- ploma and press notices tucked under my arm, I would then report at the residence of James Wiswell Coffin 2d. at South Pennington, and receive fathers blessing. By the time l had 1 landed at this Midway Plaisance and bought a few rags. the small package looked something like $40O. It was at | this stage of the game that l met the woman starring as the villainess in this wierd tale. We went out to the Emeryville track together. All of my l four hundred that I didn't pay for in cidentals 1 lost the first day out. But that makes no never mind, says I to myself; it's easy to go through a California university on seven-fifty per, and besides a college course ought to be three years instead of four. l So I dipped into the big pile. Let us drop the quick curtain. When it rises I am center stage in the Palace Hotel, l S9O overcoats and pin-c checked cuta- ways right and left, katzenjammer R. JJ. E.. a weeks board bill lowering in the flies above me-and strapped. l gets up. puts my dress suit into its case, tucks in a sweater and a bunch | of ties, tells the clerk that l am go- ing away for a day or so, and will leave my baggage until l can come ! Ev,T fF,A cold, wet world.
 The dress suit brought $S. That fed me and slept me in a little room on Third street for week. After drag ging the ties through every pawnshop from Tar Flat to the Iron works, got a dollar for them. They cost $20. Next was the suit case-S2.5O. The third day after that I had dropped the last cent and was leaving my lodgings two jumps ahead of my lanlord, great coarse Swede.
 I hadn't a thing but the clothes on my back In a vacant basement of a house on Folsom street. I found a front step invisible to the naked eye of the cop on the beat. There I took my lodgings. I got two meals by trading my trousers for a cheaper pair and 20 cents to boot from the Yiddish man ] gone I roamed about this grand old city for four days and three nights, and never did such a vulgar thing as eat.
 The fourth day was a study in star vation Dead serious, joshing aside, that was about as happy a time as ever put in. I forgot that l was hungry and up against the real thing. saw myself like some Othey guy that had a line on, chasing about Frisco in that fix. I myself was warm and comfortable. and having a dreamy sort of a time wandering about.
 was strolling down Kearney street. listening to the birds singing through the haze when something that wore scrambled whisllers and an ash barrel hat advised me to go down to Broad course and I smoked the pipe along Broadway. There was the wharf all right and there was whole cargo of bananas being lifted on a derrick and let down. Once in a while one would drop. The crowd underneath would make a jump and fight for it. I stood there wondering if I really wanted any bananas or if it was worth while to eat seeing that I'd have to do 1t again. and was now pretty well broken of the habit, when a big, scaly bunch got loose from the stem and began to shake and shiver, I got under it and made a fair catch and went through the cen ter with it the way I used to go through the Yale freshmen line. There were seventeen bananas, and I ate them all.
 Next thing I began to fell thirsty. So I marched up to the CoggsweH joke on Ben Franklin. somewhere in the dance hall district and foundered my self with water. After that I crawled into a packing box back of a wood yard and for two days I was as sick as Ham, Shem and Japhet the sec ond day out on the ark.
 | When I got better I was hungry again. It was bananas or nothing. found them carting bananas off the cargo. and managed to pick up quite q load in one way or another. After dark I took up two piles and salted them down back of my packing box. Next day. pretty weak yet. stayed at home and ate bananas. When the new moon shone like a ripe banana peel in the heavens of the next night, never wanted to see a banana as long as I lived. Nathless, me lieges, they were all that I had. After breakfast , next morning I shook my clothes out. hid my sweater and put on my collar to go down town. On the way couldn look at the bananas on the fruit stands At the end of the line I bumped into big yellow building with arches on it's front and a sign out.
 Football players please see secre- tary.' I looked and saw that it was the Y. M. c. A. Aha" says I, maybe I dine"
 : sang a good spell to the secretary. They were getting up a light weight team and wanted talent. Thanking the gods that I was an end instead
 of a center, I spun him some dream l about the Harlem Y. M. c. A. He said , report that afternoon. I went back choked down ten bananas for strength 7 and got out on the field in a borrowed suit. They lined up for only five min ? utes but that was time enough for me t to show them what I could do. l I waited after the game to hear