The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-05-07
DAN MILLFR'S CRIT
WAS NOT FOR SALE
EDGAR MINER TELLS HOW MIL
LER SAVED THE WESTERN AID
DITION AND NERLY MADE s..


DITION AND NERLY MADE s..
Have you heard how Danny Miller |
kept the fire from jumping into the |
Western Addition and almost made five !
dollars" said Edgar Miner yester-
day, at the Athenian Club in Oakland, !
as he slipped into a stout chair and
pulled up to a table round which were
gathered half a dozen millionaire refu-
gees from the Pacific Union Club.
Nobody had heard the story, but
everybody knew Danny Miller the
quicktrigger man, the fellow whose fin
ger lift was good for a thousand dollar
bet with any boOkmaker at Emeryville
before Miller turned sedentary and
went into the sand blast business. The
idea of Danny Miller falling so low as
even almost" to make a beggarly five
was suggestive of humor.
The crowd agreed that it would listen
to anything but hard-luck story; it
wanted Greater san Francisco or relax
| alton.
TN give you relaxation and hero"
said Miner and he was permitted to
/ proceed.
| L was doing patrol duty on Van Ness
about eleven O'Clock the night follow
/ ing the day we dynamited the East
side of the avenue to save the great re-
! sidence district known as the Western
/ Addition. | had been up Il few days
and few nights. and l was Il bit tired.
AS | reached the corner of Van Ness
7 If 10
Gordon Blanding house-on the north
side of Clay. three doors from Van Ness
and more fire on the roof of the cot
tage that adioins the Blanding's on one
side and the home of j. b. Stetson on
the other. The flames were tiny
| barely visable in the night; but | knew
that if they ever got a start it meant
that the whole waterless Western sAd-
dition was gone. Oh, for a ladder and
an extinguisher and about hundred
pounds less of tired flesh! l was all
alone.
"But IA second later up looms Danny
Miller with a brisk Whats doing?"
Il told him.
TEL me what to do and I'll do it,,
says he.
@ If that fire isn't put out the whole
Western Addition will go l said If
we can get hold of some blankets or
"Before l had a chance to finish,
Danny was breaking into the kitchen
door of the Blandngs and in jiffy
he was out on the roof armed with a
couple of big sofa cushions. With these
he smothered and scraped away the
fire
Meanwhile the cottage was showing
more red along the roof line, and l
smashed into the rear of the Claus
Spr1eckles residence and grabbed a
couple of large flower pots full of water
Danny was now in the street again
Just the thing, he said, and soused
tse sofa cushions in the water-soaked
'em as you soak spOnges. Then he got
into the cottage and climbed out on
that roof, and in ten minutes the fire
was out and the Western Addition
saved.
Meanwhile j. B. Stetson and a couple
of soldiers had Joined me in the street
= When Danny came down, Stetson coulc
hardly speak of gratitude, "'YouVf
: saved my house, he said as he wrune
; Danny's hand. 4 can never forge
, L
5 Danny said that his address haC
1 been burned, but that his name still
e stood,
e Mr.. Stetson said: Mr.. Miller, wan
= you to come to my house, here at tel
e o'clock tomorrow morning. You've dom
Y so much for me- and l want to do some
. thing for you. Money ytll be scare
v for a few days. l want to give you fiv
n dollars
n and Danny said 4 wouldn't rol
y even a rich man in times like this
e wouldn't take thousand of your dol
f lars If you've got a toOk-pick or al
+ old nail about your person, I'll accep
d it as a souvenir, but I'm not putting
out fires tonight for money, thank yo
f Just the same
n That's all" said Wilson's brother
T. Except that-well, here's to Danny Mil
Ter the quick trigger man"