The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-29
C1TY REAL ESTATE.
Geo, R. Read & Co.
REAL T A
Tesd once "a Liberty H.. near. B'Wav
Praaeh' Fast aSth -.

gauge cracks. said Luke in depreciation Of
his agility. But a. ! vas saying. when
Andy Lawrence got blown out the end Of the
boat he grabbed hold OF a trolling line some
city Teller had out thinking that there would
be a trout within ten miles OF this %ranting,
waddlinR old Noah's ark, and they pulled
him in on the end Of that No. 0 cotton line.
And then the time she busted out on that
left side there where you can see the patch
that amt rusted yet, Jed Peters, who was en-.
rineer that trip, having been on a jag and
very remorseful at the time he took the job,
just happened TO be drinking out Of horse
bucket and the piece Of boiler skin just tore
away the bottom Of that horse bucket and
gave Jed a scare, that's all.
when n Of the carpenter boys. who Is
also a plumber, down a. klamath Falls
started to fix that blowout he happened 70
hit that precious old boiler in a new spo; and
the hammer went right through, He hadn't
counted N that and OF course he had 10 patch
the new placs fires Of charge. He said thsn.
Gays he, Nobody who runs this turbins
hadn't ought to chsw tobaoco bs,llp h,
might accidentally spit on the boiler on 8
place that amt patched
Now the only real trouble I've had vita
this plumb crazy inmate OF an old engines
home since I've been running her for going
on o u weeks was one triD ten DAYS aJo.
We were bowling along about four miles
an hour, | should judge, for there was quite
some ripple at the bow,
Il had just fired TN with a couple Of
slabs when | heard a kind Of a grosn, and |
looked up and saw the side OF the boiler
bullying up near the steam gauge. cams
right u7 to his box where you see me now
took a chew Of tobacco and waited.
Nothing happened only a kind Of q
heavy sigh from back there, and the engine
ran down. The captain-we call Doc Smith
captain, mostly because he amt engineer
like me at the ~present-he didn't know
the boat had stopped for quite some min.
utes. Then he started 10 come down tho
ladder from the chicken house topside.
Come down kind OF easy. Cap says
! think she's going 10 blow up.
Cap came down and sat down by me
and he took a chew Of tobacco. Whsa
the steam was all through Kissing out We
went back and took a kind Of a birdseye
view Of that engine. pulled the fire,
which wasn't much, then ! went monkeying
around that old hell not as II il was a baby,
showing not the least sign Of fear,
Nothing was the matter except she Wu
sprung In n Of her uu-and-down scans
no ncsr the steam game, which never reg.
istered anythinT hut sixty pounds, by mo
way. because siKty's all the boiler ever car
r1ed, and that's the time the Chinaman died.
! saw there was nothing to II but drift over
lod ye IN the Williams River marsh until
we dice Of starvation and mosquitoes, un'
less we could patch that sprung place.
Now. II list happened that young Silvet
was a passenger on the Lily that TIN. and
he had a team hitched TO a spring buggy,
got a bright inspiration and | went over
TO the back hind wheel 81 that spring buggy
and measured the tire with string Then
| measured the boiler.
They were just the same siza around.
Then | told Silyerp that either his tire had
to come Of or We would all die a miserable
death,
h saw the he't NJ my argument after
some time, and We pried that tire OF with
a cold ohisei and a mallet which happened
TO be in tho tool chest. Then Can took
on his pair Of o~veralls and we calked M
the crack In the sprung place with strips
OF oyera!ls. and after taking Oh the smoke
STACK which stuck through the roof - the
buggy tire down over the tor Of the boiler
It's an upright boiler OF course. as yol
can see-and hammered her down until
the sprung place began to cave into place
again.
Luxe Brown paused to look back Al thu
snorting engine with something akin n
pride in his eyes.
We'll, sir, We made steam very dain'fy,
and when the fire got hot enough 10 roas'
a potato the o~yerslls in the seams began
TO smoko some; bat thcy didn't quite burn
put We got up enough steam 10 make
tne illy move and let her 60 at that. 10
tWenty-three miles and tied up To the Old
cottonwood at Eagle River pretty vel