Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-02


beria gets sidetracked properly. The
officers made me quit. I guess they
think / was mixed up in q gambling
game. Least they laid 1t to me be-
cause they'd never seen the men shoot
craps before / got in with the bunch.
THAT railroad was the hardest thing
ever struck. After | loses my regi-
ment l had a hard time for a couple
of months, and one place it took me
nineteen days to make less than a
thousand miles, most of it on brake
beams. and I didn't chew very often,
either.
Every time I tackled a passenger
train IL would be an officers outfit and
I got kicked off so much l was bruised
up as If q Bowery cop had Tanned me
some with his night stick.
"I makes Mukden, and there Ger
man attache helped me along a lot. lie
was going to Kaiou Chow. a big Ger
man station in China. From there /
made HOngkOng and passed coal on
tramp for Frisco.
"Then I went to New York and to
England and all over the continent and
down to cairo and Alexandria.
SAY, that country may be good
enough for niger but nix for mine,
and | ducked out and went to the Suez,
working my way on boats.
Heads for de 5owery
"I again made port and there saw
British steamer that looked good. /
made Genoa, and from there just went
aboard the Citti di Roma and sailed for
little old New York.
Say. de Bowery looked good to me,
but I'm really western man and I
soon hit the road for Portland.
II saw the Lewis and Clark fair, but
the sea was a-calling me again, and
from Portland | drops to Frisco and
ships on the transport Sherman. but the
skipper didn't recognize me and put me
off at Guam and told me to walk back.
That skipper was a good sailor but
poor guesser. I caught the transport
Grant and wheeled some coal but got
right back to the coast.
Frisco hadn't missed me, and no
brass bands were at the yard when |
returned. 1t blew in cold one day and
ordered a first class ticket on the roof
of the Owl and blew down to Los An
geles, where a ginny from the Herwick
Paint company thinks he'll do the
Willie off the yacht stunt, and he buys
me big feed at a hash foundry and
tells the head biscuit bouncer at the
Joint to give me all the grub L can
sling my teeth over.
"Then he put me to hard labor at a
bone per week and he thought he had
a good thing and he worked me near to
death. He never gave me any more
salary until / changed cafes and went
to chew at a Jap restaurant. The grub
there reminded me of old times, but L
couldn't enjoy the things l ate nor |
couldn't enjoy my sleep.
Meets an Alaskan Friend
al gest KEEP thinkin' about how I
was working about fourteen hours a
slr,. e.,
dough what ] bunked with in Dawson
City, Alaska, blew in town, and when
told him my troubles he says all right,
we'll go down and burn the joint up.
So 1 went down with him and we
started to burn the place down, but 1
just couldn't do it when 1 saw all the
paint brushes laying round loose, and
then I took a couple of bikes down
there and we took the saddles off and
threw the handle bars around an broke
all the paint brushes and spilled some
paint and left, and then they arrested
me and brought me to court.
That's been my trouble all along. So
long as I stay out in the wilderness and
jungles I'm all right. but just as soon
as / hit a berg I'm pinched. I've been
pinched in every town I've ever been in.
oh, don't think I'll stay at Whittier
any too long. A good fat grin goes q
long way with some people and I've
grinned my way round the world and
guess I can smooth things over and
some day me for the tall timbers.
But anyhow my pal got most of the
junk from Herwick's, an If I'd took his
advice and blew I'd been all right, but
l wanted to see the bunch cuss when
they saw all the paint spilled and the
brushes busted They was always SO
damn particular about their brushes"
Judge Wilbur questioned the boy
closely about his travels but the youth
had minute description of every place
he had been. He will be taken to Whit
tier today.