The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 19

THE SA.N FRANCISCO, JSCTND.VY SlOll-NTOG, JsiETEMBER L'2. 1895. 19 xiisjn: OF THE WEjrDK Ko. 2. MET ON THEJOWERING ALPS.

Henry Stupp Jr. Joins Two California Pedestrians in a Snow-Bound Pass. UN MAUVAISQUART Dill, Which Means Mighty Hard Sliding," and That's What Bill Nye Had. All and The Storeroom Key Mislaid German Guests of Quality Arr.ve Three Are Circling the Globe Under a Wager to Do It in Les Than Two Years. THEY WERE SHUT OUT OF RUSSIA.

WILLIAM TAKEN FOR A BURGLAR. way from North Colebrook to Colebrook. When it started for Winsted the superannuated men and invalids ho are guarding the village while the able-bodied citizens are beating up the woods, gathered about to aee it off. "Ganery" shook up the reins and barked out a "Gittup," and the two horses trotted away, followed by the apprehensive gaze of those left behind, whose only amusement is the daily betting on whether the stage gets through the suspected territory or not. Gridley Allen always bets that it will not, doubling the amount of his wager each time.

If ever the coach Is destroyed by the wild man he will win the quarter he originally stakeu. Just now he stands to lose (64. The stage bumped quickly along the road between level fields for a mile or so and then plunged boldly into the Pamunkcy Pond wood. The tense look upon the passengers faces heightened and they all gripped their firearms as though afraid that they might take to themselves wings and fly away. Nothing appeared.

Over the slope of Burr mountain and across the log bridge hich spans Pickerel brook they went In safety. But the security was only apparent. At a point about six miles from Colebrook there is a rough clearing, with a cabin in the middle, which has long been abandoned. As the stage approached the hut Mark Lederquest exclaimed: "See there! In the yard!" And as the last words left his lips the sharp crack of a Winchester was heard. At the same moment a grotesquely hideous form sprang over the fence and crouched in the road.

Everyone recognized it as the wild man. The horses tried to wheel around and run away. Great and hairy the maniac looked. His And in Consequence Will Hive to Pass Through the Dreaded Persian Territory Under Military Escort, All of This Anecdote Is in Relation to the Absorbing Topic of Servants, What to Do With 'Em. five years ago.

They were people of title and great wealth, and in their own country thought nothing of going to mill with a tallyho. They also left a little wine in their glasses at dinner, which I had been taught to regard in Laramie as a great sin when there are so mauy poor people iu the world who can only have wine every thirty days. These wealthy friends had gathered from what I said while at Heidelberg that I had money to burn, as the Germans have it, and as many people on the continent think that the American keps a corncrib full of gold and a hayloft full ot currency for a rainy day. I made a good impression, though, as heaven is my judge, I little wotted that they would ever accept my invitation to visit me and then come when the storeroom key was concealed and the cook gone to attend a reunion of her children at Asheville. I got the Baron to look at the cyclopedia while I went out and got heart disease chasing the swift-footed rooster.

The ladies I told to enjoy the view awhile and to make themselves perfectly free with our delightful climate. I also brought out some drawn work, hich I was doing at odd times, and permitted them to revel in It while I excused myself and left one of the little boys to amuse them with his innocent ways, though he secretly, and, in fact, openly, wanted "to go and help paw overtake that old clay bank rooster." I hate a rooster that shows no speed whatever till everybody has left the place and empty guests arrive from Heidelberg. Oh, how hot the weather seemed, even here where a mean temperature is very unusual! Just as the golden sun bad good-by to the grim front of Pisgah I chased old Maud Last Wednesday a crumpled and tattered letter, bearing a foreign postmark and addressed to the "Examiner" was delivered by the postman. But though it was very much betbumbed and travel-stained it contained ity for such a little thing. It was made for me three years ago on my twenty-second birthday, the 29th of February.

I ate it to give me strength. Then I got a jimmy that I used to use before I became a better man. It was wrapped in flannel, so as to make no noise, for in the old times I did a great deal of night work and hated to disturb sick persons aud young children while engaged in my tasks; also well people and middle-aged policemen who were asleep. I got ihis under the sash of the storeroom and pried It up. I was just inserting myself softly, and in the meantime grateful for the kindly shelter of the night, when I felt a sting across my person from without and heard the baron exclaim: "Ha! You try to rop mine frent, you skellyvagger! Besser you pin owskagan-nin!" And he hit me once more for the cigars with the long four-in-hand whip.

It seemed that he had wearied of the large octavo volume of press notices, as I had feared he would, and had strolled about the bouse to smoke a pipe. So in the dusk he bad discovered me with my muffled James forcibly opening the window aud had swatted me with a great swat and then called for help. 'When I told him the whole truth, which was one of the cleverest things I ever did, tears ran down his gigantic cheeks and hung on his riotous red mustache like dew on the whiskers of Numldian lion. He sent out to the coach and got a hamper full of nice caviare sandwiches and frosted cake and sardines and caramels and pickled herring and assorted cake and kippered herring and German pancakes, with gravy, and pickled pig's feet and Jelly cake and cold tripe and lady fingers, and bologne sausages from Bologne, and crugel food and bottled beer and sponge cake and sauerkraut and bride cake and Jerked walrus and cookies and choice family mackerel and layer cake and liverwurst and maple syrup, and everything that heart could wish. While we were eating these my wife returned, and pulling up a corner of the table cloth here I sat took out the key to the storeroom.

Then we had some hot victualls and coffee and sat up real late. Since that I never go to bed at night without knowing where the key to the storeroom is, and often in my slumbers the at- interesting news. It had been written by two young German globe-trotters from their snow-bound camp in the lofty Alps and later posted at Pressburg, Hungary. These two young men left this city more than a year ago to tramp around the world with their schedule time limited to two years. At the time they proposed to accouv mouth was wide open and lined with brist plish this arduous feat there were many wagers that they could not do it, and $16,000 now bangs on the result.

If they do not set foot in San Francisco again before the 10th A kind friend writes from Cleveland to ask about the servant problem in the South and to inquire how it compares with conditions North and in the Old World. There are things to be said both pro and con. The good servants South are very faithful and deferential, and two of them will do as much as one in the North and do it as well. Custom and tradition demand that the housekeeper shall retain the key to the storeroom. My first wife is now keeping house for me, and so the tongue of scandal is on a temporary vacation.

She rarely goes away without me, for she loves to share the Joys of a trip with me, and if I conduct myself the rest of the summer as I have so far she is going to take me to Europe next year with her egg money. (She Is quite an agriculturist, and I had all I could do to keep her from planting the whole farm last year to hominy. I wanted to plant it to fish balls and hops, so that when we didn't care to attend a ball we could have a hop.) But once she went away for a day, and the train was so late that she wired me she could not come home, but would remain in the hands of her friends. She telegraphed me where the key to the storeroom was concealed, but the telegraph operator did not get It clearly, and so I took the children down into the watermelon patch for tea. We had Just wiped off our chins and of next June' they and their friends will be required to draw upon their bank account to that extent.

Judging, however, from the the first white settler on Hooper's sentiments expressed in their communica tion they do not intend to be the losers. Of course the usual stipulation that they should start without a cent and neither steal, borrow nor beg on the way was made and according to the letter signed FredThoerner and Gub- ling teeth. His eyes were blood-shot. A matted growth of hair was on his head and the beard was fully three feet long and blown around by the wind. A rag of cloth was about the waist, and the great clawlike hands were full of what seemed to be rhubarb leaves which the wild roan had probably found and was eating in the deserted garden.

Lederquest fired again, and the driver sent a shot from his revolver. If cither hit there was no sign. The Philadelphia drummer sat like a carved image, petrified with fear, but plucky little Mrs. Hitchcock grabbed the duck gun, braced the butt against the back of the seat and pulled both triggers. The first charge tore up the highway in a cloud of dust, the second reduced the ears of the nigh horse to ribbons.

"Crack!" "Bang!" "Crack!" went rifle and pistol, while the horses jumped so that they nearly upset the stage. Then the wild man, with a growling roar, made a bound which took bim to the side of the road. Another carried him over the fence, and In a succession of strange, uncouth leaps he crossed the clearing and was presently lost to sight in the woods. tav Kogcl, the agreement has been kept into a joint of stovepipe and wrung his neck with a wild, wild joy. I wrang it long after his guilty soul had crossed the county line and gone to Salisbury, where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.

His blood was on my white flannel pant-lets, though I had them rolled up. In my ungovernable rage I overstepped myself and cut off his bill, which gave him a him-sical look, like that of a member of the Legislature whose clajra for mileage has been overlooked as well as his pass. I bad told my guests that I would have to thus far, and will be maintained to the end notwithstanding that they expect to return with a considerable sum to their credit mad a from exhibitions and odd jobs picked up ou the road. At the point where the letter was written tbey were making their way across the Alps from Switzerland into Italy by way of, St. Gotnard Pass, and had reached au altl' tude of ",000 feet when night overtook them.

They pitched their camp under the lee of a floUStBOAT, projecting crag where the snow was forty five feet deep and while partaking of a scant meal were surprised by the-udden appear LOCKING TIE GATE ance of a young man of their own age arid nationality, who also announced himself as a globetrotter. He gave his name as Henry Stupp and stated that he is under wager with the Antwerp Athletic Club of Antwerp to complete the circle of the globe in one month quicker time than the California representatives. As he is taking the east ern route the three young men decided to continue the journey together. Continued From Page Seventeen. Stupp is a pedestrian of no mean ability and more than once has proved his staying Beware the awful fate of the water drunk ard.

powers in long-distance walking matches. la the Case of the Government Against Stanford. Dr. Wlnslow Anderson has seen a good deal of the comma bacillus in its native wild. It is so called because it is something Though not a professional as yet, he holds a record of 140 miles in thirty-six hours, made in a long-distance tramp against nine competitors, from his home in Cologne, on the Rhine, to Antwerp, Belgium.

This record was made only a short time previous to the AT THE ENO OP THEIR TRIP, like the irresponsible and disturbing punctu atiqn mark which the printer sows with iin partial hand to make the English lungungo arrival in Antwerp of Kogel and Thoerner, and and out of the discussion of the task of thoso two men "grew his wager with the Antwerp Club to do better than they at their own The Last Fare Rung Up the Old Cars Stopped for Good. He started out a few days ago behind them and overtook them in the Alps, To win his wager he will have to cross Europe, Asia, America and England and return to Antwerp in less than two years. San Francisco was the starting point of Kogel and Thoerner, and the three men will not Some of the Queer Uses to Which These Out-of-Date Vehicle Have Been Put, Milton Lee is a shoemaker, but rents are dear and cars are cheap, so he has set up business in an old yellow and hite Montgomery-street car. He has located himself on the extreme edge of a vacant lot on th corner ot Sacramento street and Central avenue. One of the seats serves as a cobbler's bench and as seats for Th seat ou the opposite side has been knocke I A long row of shoes and boots of assorted sizes occupies this bench.

The windows decorated with modest reminders that "Ee-pairing Is neatly Mr. Lee's shop i atill on wheels, so soas morn'nz when he goes to his work be may find that his store has disappeared in the night. Out on Elizabeth street and Hoffman aTe-nue Jacob Heyman, the real estate man, has opened a real estate office in an old North Beach and Mission car. The seats have been knocked out some tables put In for counters and a couple of cane-bottom chairs provided for prospective buyers. When the neighborhood becomes more thickly settled.

Mr. H.v. man intends to put up i. Mt'lding, but just at present he thinks a l.o--.ar is as good a real estate office as any one could want. Two old Valencia-street cars have been lying in the sand at the end of the car line at the Beach for some time.

Some one bought them for a speculation. Mayor Sutro re- BOTH ON LAND AND ON SEA. part company until this city is reached. Their letter to "The Examiner" contained the first news that has been received here from them since they began their tramp across Europe, and shows that their path is not a very easy one. They had hoped to cross Russia and pass through Siberia by the Vladowostock route, but the latter is snowbound and would have been impassable evon if they bad succeeded in getting into Russia.

Ever since Kanen, the famous pedestrian. Playhouses, Shoe Stores, Private Homes, Houseboats, and Even Bathhouses on the Beach. made his memorable trip through the coun sick. It has another Latin name that describes It as a little spiral of Asiatic birth. "What do you do with a cholera patient, doctor?" 'was asked.

"Bury him, mostly," said Dr. Anderson. "I have seen men taken sick." continued the doctor, "on the streets of Madras and they were dead in an hour. "No bacillus? Oh, yes, I know Petten-kofer says that there is no cholera bacillus. He banks on the fact that he once swallowed some of the cultures by way of experiment.

That proves nothing. The acids of the stomach of a healthy man will destroy the germ. I might perhaps swallow the germs with perfect safety. That would not prove anything. But if the germs onco get past the stomach it is a bad business "Why, if cholera germs might not swallowed in some cases with Impunity the whole of India would be depopulated in a short time.

"The streams, the rivers, the pools, the ponds in that country are all impregnated with cholera germs. It is risking death to taste any of It without boiling. Yet I have seen the natives bathe In a pool and then, when they were through they would brush away the green scum, fill a bucket with the water in bich they had washed themselves and take It home to drink. "How long does it take to develop after infection? Well, that depends. I have known ot eases where men were taken down in an hour after their arrival In a cholera district men who could not have been infected before their arrival and there are cases where the infection does not develop for eighteen days.

The germ goes through a period of incubation and it may lie dormant for eighteen days. That is the point that we wish to impress on the quarantine officials. It is not safe to release the passengers for eighteen days after they have left an infected port." If the quarantine officials should act on this principle the result will be a rathei' longer confinement of tho travelers on the shipe from Honolulu than was expected. Instead of being released in two or three days, "Horse-cars to sell, cheap," is not an advertisement that would appeal very strongly to the person ot ordinary wants and requirements. Even the woman who bought them for a bigger speculation.

No-v they are to be opened as coffee saloon, wirn haunts the Monday-morning bargalu sales would hesitate a long time before she pur sandwiches and other refreshments, if n-sired. This coffee saloon will especial! look to the Sunday patronage and early bi chased even the most lin-tle-siecle of horse-cars at (he most extraordinary bargain. It cycle riders. The cars are to be placed end to end, with the two meeting platforms dis Isn't exactly the sort 'of thing she could hang up In her closet, or tuck away in her pensed with. A few tables will be placed inside, but the principle" business will try and afterwards exposed all the secrets to the iworld.

the Russians have been wary about granting passports to globe trotters, and absolutely refused to alio the young Germans to cross the border, under any pretext. That necessitated changing their route to pass around the forbidden territory.which will take them through Roumania. Greece and into the dreaded Tersla, where Lena, the heroin American cycler was brutally murdered a few months ago. They have, however, been guaranteed military protection and hope to make the passas in safety. They are well armed, though so if the worse comes they will not be entirely handicapped.

From Persia their course leads on through Afghanistan. East and West India, China, Jepan and through Honolulu to Can Francisco. Owing to the recent missionary outrages in China they do not expect to pas through that country without molestation, but they are prepared, and being all three young and stalwart men, they have no fear. No word will be received from them again until Hongkong Is reached, and for several months at least the public will be kept in doubt as to their fate. done by opening the window on one side and bureau drawer.

It is adapted to the principle of alteration and "making over." but she would hardly appreciate that fact at passing the refreshments out to tne waiting multitude. Carl Stahl was a conductor, and so there seemed nothing out of the way to him in taking up his dwelling In a car. He had a ln, (n tlx. isunilhilla hAvnnri th first glance. To the unthinking mind a horse-car has but one use.

When it has served its pur Olympic Club athletic grounds. He was tired of paying room rent, and he couldn't afford to build a home. So he bought three cars and did some carpentering, and now pose and worn out its usefulness in that particular field there seems to be nothing left for It to do but disappear. Vining is not of that opinion, how he has a home. He has a bedroom ana a kitchen and a sitting-room, and is independent of landladies and house agents.

The ever. One nay he discovered tnat Ills power houses were becoming filled with strange wind blows very strong out in that neigh as has been the practice so far, the passen looking vehicles, innorent of dummies, with borhood, and the people in the vicinity ex i PT -14 17 47 Iff It mX pect some niht that Mr. Stahl will be Dlown dashboards and, visor-like projections at both ends. There was nothing the matter entirely away, each car taking a different direction. Kven now the cars groan and with them only they were old-fashioned.

gers would be confined for nearly two weeks. Postmaster McCoppin was asked what precautions were taken to disinfect mail matter from infected ports. He said that the pouches wore opened at the quarantine station and the contents thoroughly fumigated. He bad three men at Angel Island all day on Tuesday last, and they opened th" i pouches and banded over the letters and They had been discarded for others of new er fl flOOptp. CHILDREN make and more sprightly apnea ranee.

Mr. Vining put an advertisement in the OUT -T Vt If paper. 1 nen ne SRt down ami waitea. papers to the quarantine officials. After SEEMED BULLET-PROOF.

Mrny Shots Fired at a Wild Man Fail to Touch Him and He Escapes Unscathed. A special dispatch to the Boston "Journal" from Winsted, under date of August 29th, says that on the afternoon of the day before yesterday Hall's stage left Cole-brook for Winsted, and the passengers and driver encountered the wild man at close range. Most of them were badly frightened at the apparition, and the broadside of rifle, horse pistol and revolver bullets discharged at him went wide of the hairy target, which only defiantly roared and snapped his long white teeth at them. The stage met ith no adventures on the disinfection the mail matter was repouched Mr. C.

A. Hooper rend that advertiuement the next day. Mr. Hooper Is not one of the unthinking persons. Besides that he had and brought over to this city.

Where Some of the Old Cars Have Gone to. From ft review of the precautions taken it would seem that San Francisco is reason two little girls. One of the little girls was ably safe from infection unless by chance going to have a birthday in a very few days. Mr. Hooper didn't say anything when he somebody arriving from Honolulu may carry undeveloped germs and be taken sick after read that advertisement, hut the thought started for the house when a carriage drove up to the door ith outriders, a coachman seven feet high and footman.

Several people alighted and were shown in. Thry were people whom I met in Heidelberg when I was there accomplishing myself twenty- be excused for a moment for vespers, and I don't know hat they thought if 'they heard some of my statements as I stood there red-handed in the presence of death. Just then old Maud S. revived at the sight of blood and bounded eight feet into the air with a kind of hoarse croak and shot the tcntlve passcr-by may hear me asking in my troubled dreams where it is. But it is a custom to which I am not accustomed, and to prescribe so much flour end sugar each morning for the family aud then hide the key is not agreeable to me, for I was reared in a most lavish manner as a child.

The latchMtriug hung out all the landing. Should the disease develop here there is practically no provision for effective isolation, although something of the sort might be improvised. creak in the ind, the sand drifts in the windows and the ventilators at the top. and th rain leaks in the roor, but Stahl doesn't cave, for he has a home of his own. Mr.

James McNeill of Tiburon has the queerest ark in all Uelvcdere. It is made of four old Market-street cars, all joined together and floating on one huge reft. Early tu the spring Mr. McNeill carted his bargain, they. were a bargain, four for $SS over on the Tiburon ferry.

People who were crossing at the tinie wondered if Belvedere was going to run horse cars for the summer guests. But no one suspected the truth until Mr.McXeill began toknork dow partitions aud drive nails in a furious fashion. Down on the beach is a varied assortment of dash boards, doors, windows, some superfluous rooting and an assortment of wheels that were not found necessary for the comfort of ark life. Outside the ears look the same as hen they were traveling up Market street on a track, the same colors and signs decorate their sides as of yore. But inside a transformation has been a--cemplished, and the furnishing and gsnerat appearance is the same as any ark.

Two families live in this ark Mr. McNeill and his Ife. a brother and several children. Mr. A.

Miller bought six cars and announced that he was going to use them fr popped Into his head, "What a fine playhouse one -of those old cars would make." Then he went down; and interviewed Mr. Vining and for two or three days afterwards he went around with a very big secret on his conscience. But It all came out on the morning of the birthday, when all of Ida Hooper's little fnends came to see her new playhouse, the queerest and most delightful one in all San Francisco. There it stood, out in tbe back time. We did not even take it In at night, and I have seen eighty uncut mince pies on the shelves at a time with nothing to protect them but a copy of the New York "Tribune" weekly edition.

contents of his carotid artery over my pretty new blazer. I had to go up stairs the back way and change every stitch of my raiment, and had Just returned to the parlor in a nice hot cardigan Jacket and low-cut lecturing vest when the cook returned and asked me for the key of the storeroom. I excused myself, and giving my guests a large scrap book containing complimentary press notices which I knew would interest them, I went on a weary search for the key. Night, with sombre wing, was now gathering over the beautiful valley, and far away up the river I could hear the hound pup's honest bark. The key was not here any one could ever find It.

That was the intention perhaps. Hunger began to stalk abroad. Burning bath-houses. The people at nwn have been looking for him anxiously, but he hasn't appeared as yet. Formerly, when old cars were offered for 1 Cider flowed like water in those days, and during every month that had an In it you could get salt pork anywhere, while the wealthy had it all the year round.

(We had it the year round.) I suppose that it would be hard to find an older faniily than hat ours was. Our coat of arms was so old that all of the lining and one sleeve had gone. But we had no trouble with the servants. During all the time I was at home we made no change in servants. We never had a cross word ith one.

These advantages are known only to those who have no servants. garden, an old Mission-street car. painted red and still announcing its destination as "Woodward'a Gardens." Just as it had done for so many years. It looked as though it had lost its way, but was perfectly contented, as it was still engaged in its old occupation of making children happy. The wheels had been taken on and it had been propped up with wooden supports, close to an Ivy-covered fence and out of sight of the street.

Inside a transformation had been wrought. A new floor had been laid and covered with fresh clean matting. The sears bad been removed and a board wains-coating put in their place. Each window was curtained with white muslin curtains. In the further end of the playhouse stood a tiny stove.

Now these two sisters have gone to AU-meda for the summer and they want another car for another purpose. They think if a discarded car could make such an Ideal pU--home, that it would be better still as a bathhouse down by the beach. Mr. Vininx has a great many more cars, and so perhaps they will get their bathhouse, because Mr. Hooper hasn't said no.

But there were other people who read Mr. Vlning's advertisement and saw in it th? means of filling their wants and necessities. feathers stole across the senses with their old Arabian fragrance. We could not even get the salt for cooking without entre and carte blanche to the storeroom. Out in the courtyard I could see the tall figure of the sale, they were immediately Dougnt up ny companies In interior towns and were put to ue on their line.

Now the Interior towns have trolly lines and are importing brand new cars of their ow and have no use for Ssn Francisco's discarded ones. Some of this present lot have gone In that a. Three were shipped to the Electric Tower Company of Sacramento, one went to Fresno, and quite a number to San Joae. The largest shipment made was that of twelve cars sent to the city of Cuaieniala on the last steamer. They will be used as mule cars.

The cars chosen were from different lines but all of them closed, not an open car among them. The California -Street Company is selling some of their ell cars with dummy attachment. They in principally going to interior towns. They are easier to sell than those of the Market-Street Company, because thejr rt trH old-fasbioutd. i tallyho.

It seemed a mockery. I thought of my guests pouring over the sour-smelling encomiums of the press. I was desperate for I had eaten nothing for nine hours but a slice of water melon. I (Copyright, 1S5, by W. Xye.l A Chicago man paid his first visit to St.

Louis in July, and he liked It so well that he has gone there to live. knew where there was an Ingot of birthday cake my own birthday cake. It was not a The Three Men Who Arc Walking Around the World. (From Photograph ttkta tor "Tat Exaaiaor." An Indiana calf, now two months eld, has hoofs like a horse. large piece, but had wonderful specific grav- i.