The Washington times., 1910-03-23
My Story of My Life SS1zzz%~.
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TO explain IT, But I know that I have
had The same mysterious power ever
since / was boy. and I'll have it as
long as live When have been badly
battered IN fight Il hasn't worried me
AT ALL because I know I am in no
danger. When 10 comes 10 a showdown
always nave that spUrt drawn from
some reserve force i don't understand
II has come To me. in a wav two or
three times, although, 10 tell YOU the
YOU the absolute truth. I've never real
ly needed u In the ring, for I've never
yet been dazed By blow Or arm-weary
from fghG=g
The frs, time that this unexplained
power eve came suddenly 20 me was
before took up fighting az all and
Nheh was sun working IN iron. The
company sent a big gang OF men out
70 the Punta OF wells 20 build oil tanks
Ihats mans work and youngsters
aren't needed on the job. But 7 could
DO mans s. work and 7 liked the rough
life I'm the hills
The PuuLa oh wells are right in the
footnils, little way back from the
coast Eastern people call them noun
. ialuS, hut my. they're Just hills 10 u-,
compared 10 Old Baldv and Wilson's
Peak, and the other SnOW-tOuncd sum
mits around Los Angeles. They are
dry hills in the summer, covered with
small brush and scattered trees. The
valleys between are dry and hot and
7 sandy. Hundreds of little lizards Of ali
rocks and drop their tails on when you
1 nix them with "a switch or a pebble
There are horned tosds and an sorts OF
harmless snakes, and here and there a
rattler.
Iron Plate Falls.
Il was mighty hot al Punta on the
day IN going 70 tell you about We
were putting Up big tank. and it was
half completed. Building an oil tank
is no play. First. tho structural iron
work goes UP. and then the big iron
/ plates are raised into place and rive-ed
/ one 20 another 90 build the sides. Eacl
( sheet OF iron, like the steel plates on the
side OF 2 batI-esHip. is rolled into shape
] ia the works before It is shipped. When
YOU remember that each plate weighs
from eight 70 nine hundred pounds. and
| JEat 81 has 90 be ftteL so that every
-ivet slides into fits hole like your foot
3 into a uglr shoe, YOU can see that put
I ting up an oil tank isn't schOolbOy s
Z play.
/ At the tank ] was working on that day
We had a big derrick % lift the plates
/ into position u was made I'D ~ q ua=
sixty feet long and twelve by twelve
inches square, supporting boom Of just
Z The Same size The mast was held erect
I Dy long guy ropes OF twisted steel wire
1 fastened 20 long iron pegs driven into
| the ground
We had The tank about half built The
framework was all IN place and the
plates had been put on 10 a height Of
twenty feet or So Everybody was
working under pressure that DAY. for
the Job had % be finished in contract
I time. and tie company had more tanks
10 build as soon as we could get
through
{ Most OF the men we're wsrkin- around
/ the mast and boom. bur i was on a
staging on tire other side heading rtvetE-
[ z had just finished one and straIEh-eue5
up for a moment waiting for another
/ Ied-hot rivet 10 be placed. S-aTui-E
/ there on the staging T looked across the
little valley 10 the hills 7 remember
/ that rhe hilI0us cut a sharp. clean edge
/ against the sky. like the outline OF the
stage mountains IN a Wild West show
AZ CCury Island while down below
T eEeTytniu- was blurred and dancing in
/ the heat waves. 7 was just wondering
/ 'r there were any deer in those dry hills