Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-21
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"Auch obliged. boys" said he. "but
I've still got my health. | don't need
charity. Guess I've been doing the
baby act. But | was clean mad at
that rotten old rail. Anyway" he
laughed, there need nobody say in
the future that there's no gold in the
lower Sacramento. There is. put it
there myself"
We drew up to San Francisco early
In the afternoon. and we were, to put
1t mildly. thoroughly astonished at the
change in the place. To begin with,
we now landed at q long wharf pro-
jecting from the foot of Sacramento
street instead of by lighter. This
wharf was crowded by a miscellaneous
mob. collected apparently with no 9TH
er purpose than to view our arrival.
Among them we, saw many specialized
types that had been lacking to the old
city of few months ago-sharp. keen.
businesslike clerks whom one could
not imagine at the rough work of the
mines: loafers whom one could not i'm
agine at any work at ALL dissolute,
hard faced characters without the bold
freedom of the road agents; young
green looking chaps who evidently had
much to learn and who were exceed
ingly likely to pay their little fortunes,
if not their lives, in the learning. On
hogshead at one side street preach
er was declaiming.
Johnny had by now quite recovered
his spirits. think he was helped
greatly by the discovery that he still
possessed his celebrated diamond.
mot broke yetr' said he triumphant
ly. You see / was a wise boy after
ALI Wish had two of themw
We disembarked, fought our way to
one side and discussed our plans.
''Hock the diamond first" said John
ny, who resoIutely refused to borrow
from me; then hair cut, shave, bath,
buy some more clothes, grub, drink
and hunt up Talbot and see what he's
done with the dust we sent down from
| Hangman's."
That program seemed good. We
strolled toward shore, with full inten
tion of putting it into immediate ex-
ecution. Immediate" proved to be a
relative term. There was too much to
see.
At the land end of the wharf we ran
Into the most extraordinary collection
Of vehicles apparently in an inextrica-
BILE tangle, that was further compli-
! Gated by the fact that most of the
horses were only half broken. They
kicked and reared; their drivers lashed
and swore; the wagons clashed togeth-
er. There seemed no possible way out
of the mess, and yet somehow the
wagons seemed to get loaded and to
draw out into the clear. Occasionally
the drivers were inclined to abandon
their craft and do battle with the load
ed ends of their whips, but always q
peacemaker descended upon them in
the person of large voluble individ-
tal, In whom recognized M former
friend and employer, John McGlynn.
Evidently John had no longer a mo-
nopoly of the teaming business, but as
evidently what he said went with this
wild bunch.
Most Of the wagons were loading
goods brought from the interiors of
storehouses alongside the approach to
the wharf. In these storehouses we
recognized the hulls of ships, but so
shored up, dismantled and cut into by
doors and stories that of their original
appearance only their general shapes
remained. There was a great number
Of these storehouses along the shore,
some of them being quite built about
by piles and platforms, while two were
actually inland several hundred feet.
l read the name Mantle on the stern
of one of them and found it to have
acquired In the landward side square
false front. 1t was at that time used
at hotel.
Looks as IL they'd taken hold of
Talbot's idea hard" observed Yank.