The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-20

do whole lot of work that don't need
doing at all; but, as a rule, they do
So We offered to work our way across
the ferry. 'Oh. that's all right" said the
mate: so long as you amt buns"
Over we went on the ferTy-boat with
the great Overland Limited The passen-
gers strolied about and eyed us curiously.
An Impenetrabie Disguise.
1t takes just about one day of the road
to make a man dirtiiy unrecognizabie no
matter how hard he may try TO keep HIM
self clean A great mining man with
whom had had friendly speech on Bush
street in San Francisco, two days before,
was on the train. He looked at US rath-
er intently and put his hand in his pocket.
ey. didn't care for him to get too good
look at me, so 1 didn't wait.
That night We slept with six other buns
on the station platform at Benicia. In
the next morning Sam was gone.
Tell the kid he had left word. IT
blew north"
learned that no friendship of the
road is proof against sudden within or i'm
pulse. In the daytime it's "Good-by and
good luck. but it's not an important
enough affair to wake up a pal at night
Suisun, ! think, is the name OF the but
termilk place. A creamery by the side of
the tracks, &c avoid the constant inter-
ruption to business from boes battering
the door for handouts, has established a
free lunch by the freight depot consist
ing of cans of butter1ilk always filled
and always surrounded by hungry and
Doing nearby. that afternoon, waiting
for something to come along, heard two
| Of them greet each other
"Whatcher doin' here, SLIM"
BLEW up from Los to get some of this
milk hand-out to wash away the taste
| of them free oranges"
Which way you goin' now?''
I 10 h1O % 7 g.
night"
| 1t took almost two days for me to get
| through Davis Junction and Sacramento.
There had been recent and severe in
| structions issued to train crews as to free
| passengers.
Finding His Lay"
1t was California GOLD, which is a par
ucularly penetrating variety, by night,
but so gloriously sunny in the day that
We almost forgot about It. We would
make only a few miles at time before
the crew would discover and ditch" us.
BY the time / reached Sacramento
was utterly broke and hungry with the
hunger that only those who have been on
| the road can understand. In the lam
guage OF my new profession, ! was up
against II, and il was up to me- to hit
the main stem and do little PAN
! handling
| l decided to ''mooch" the restaurants
Assuming professional air. 1 went
I
hating question on my tongue.
Gould you give a man that's broke
and beating his way east something to
| eat?"
could We give you something to eatg'
shouted back a large, fat individual al
! the desk BEAT IL! Blow Went away!'
| Well. concluded (outside the door,
guess | have to give them what Sam
| taurant young woman was at the desk
Madam said humbly, hat in hand
I'm a waiter out of job; have you
one?'
She smiled sympatheticaiIy. 81 am
afraid not, but you can have your break
fast IL you'll help the boys with tbs
dishes afterward."
Every bum has some kind Of lay
From the yeggmen who travel Will
| soup" and Jimmy, looking for a broker
lock a well-filied safe, down through
the other several varieties of crooks, Il
the faker with the bad arm or leg and
the doctored or expired union card-ever!
one on the road professionally has lay
I concluded that mine was that OF ;
stranded restaurant worker. AS such,
have adorned, for q short time. various
restaurants and hasheries On the trans
continental route, much to the benefit o
my interior. 1 have become a vile short
order cook. a villainously bad waiter but
am proud to say, an excellent dish
washer.
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1t was outside Sacramento that / "tun
gied up for the first time. The jungle
were in an abandoned parkway by tn
westbound s. P. tracks A dozen Doe
OF assorted varieties had, by individual
assessment on the population of the cap
ital city of California, collected a half
dozen loaves of bread (punk), some DO
tatoes (spuds), some bits of meat, a few
onions and a sack of coffee (the Java.
All these edibies, except the coffee ant
hTaQd "a Gfn ad fno hnr In five
gallon kerosene can, and the compount
was bubbling merrily over a brushwoo
fire. The combination is called mul
ligan- When a new arrival came on tn
scene with anything cookable he simpl
dumped It into the pot.
The mess was free to all. We ate tn
mulligan spread on broken halves of
bread-loaf and drank our share of tn
Java 1t was my first of many jungl
feasts.
There seems to be but one unwritte
law of the mulligan- 1t is that while a
may eat for whom there is provendel
| those who have contributed shall b
served first. AS j think now of thos
jungle feasts, there comes back to m
! the biting hunger, the hot. greasy navo
of the mess, the aroma and stimulus c
| the steaming coffee, the faces in the fire
light, some cruel, some hopeless, som
Just weak and the miserable kingly hos
I pitality of it all
DrIftwood from the Navy.
After we had eaten, a German tram
who had been a sailor-Sailor Dutch wa
his name, and many railroad men kno'
; him-read from book of German Sc
cialist verse. Nobody understood hin
but all listened politely.
1t was the first day cut of Sacrament,
and toward Colfax, that began associa
: ing with the navy. or, rather, the ez
, navy. We had q mutual confession part
brought on by chance remark in a DO
. car up in the snowsheds on the Sierra sid
in Bret Hartes country.
| When IL was over, it appeared that
1 the f1UanfY-fyrn f1dividnaIs In the hoy ga