The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-30

Happy wellfed children playing games and l.
stout housewives sat the front steps gosspng ri
and all cast amused glances at s5
Have noticed the last few days" Hanover III
marked to me- that there's not been stray dog in 4
the streets" II
had noticed but had not thought about 1t before III
1t was high time to leave the unfortunate city. had ~
country place Menlo and it was our objective
But soon, began discover that the country
worse off and far dangerous than the city There
the soldiers and L. w. kept order but the country
had been turned anarchy. hundred thous-
and people had fed south from San Francisco and we
had countless evidences that their fight had like
that of an army Of locusts. They had swept II
thing clean. There had been robbery fighting
Here and there passed bodies by the roadside and
saw the blackened ruins of farmhouses The fences
were down, and the had been trampled by the
feet Of a multitude ii
Early in the day Dakons horse had cast shoe II
The delicate hoof had split, and by the animal
was hmping Dakon refused to ride it further, and
refused to desert it. So, his solicitation went
on He would lead the horse and join at place
That the last of him; nor did we ever
learn his end. ii
But as we rode along we saw that the devastation
was not confined to the main roads. The van Of the
flight had kept to the roads, sackng the small towns
as it went; while that followed had scattered
out and swept the whole countryside, like great 7
broom My place built of concrete, masonry, and
tiles, and had escaped being burned but it was
Quilted There bite for
spent the of the night vainly waiting for
Dakon and in the morning, with our revolvers fought
off half dozen marauders Then kill one Of Da-
kons horses hiding for the future what meat did
not Immediately eat. In the afternoon Collins went
out for walk, but failed return This the last
straw to Hanover. He was for fight there and then
and 1 had great difficulty in persuadng him to wait
daylight AS for myself, convinced that the
of the general strike near, and 1 was resolved
to return to San Francisco So. in the morning we
parted company, heading south, fifty pounds
strapped his saddle, while similarly
loaded; headed north Little Hanover pulled thru all
right to the end of his life he will persist, l
know, in boring everybody with the narrative Of his
| subsequent adventures. u
r GOT far Belmont the main road back, ~ se
when robbed of my horse-meat by three milk e.
| tiamen. / managed to get as far Baden, when my
| horse taken away from by dozen men. Two
of them San Francisco policemen and the remain
! der regular soldiers This ominous The
situation was certainly extreme when the regulars
beginning to desert
AS luck would have it, sprained my ankle. and
ceeded in getting further than South San Francisco
| lay there that night in an ouhouse shvering with
the cold and at the time burning with fever. Two
days lay there, too to move, and the third.
Keeling gddy supporting myself extempor-
| lied crutch tottered on toward San Francisco.
AS entered the city remembered the workman's
house at which had traded the silver pitcher and
that direction my hunger drove Twilight fall
| ing when came to the place passed around by the
| alleyway and crawled up the back steps, which !
collapsed managed to with the crutch u
| knocked at the door, Then 1 have tainted, for
came to in the Kitchen, face wet with water and ~
whiskey being poured down my throat. choked and
spluttered tried to talk began by saying
thing about not having any more silver pitchers but
| that would make it up to them afterward they
would only give something to eat But the house
wife interrupted
why, you mani" she said. Haven't you
heard? The strike called off this afternoon
She hustled around, opening tin of breakfast bacon
and preparing to fry it,
Let me have now, please" begged; and !
ate the bacon slice Of bread while her hus-
band explained that the demands of the l. L. w. had
been granted The wires had been opened up in the I
early afternoon and everywhere the employers |
Citations had given in. There hadn't been any |
ployers left in Francisco, but General Folsom had
spoken for them. The trains and steamers would start
running in morning and so would everything else