^^TofTn;^ W W^n ,1)0WN TUE L0(i flume.

PERILOUS RIDE OF AN INJURED CAL-

IFORNIA LUMBERMAN.

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Hie Life Wee l« n m Chale Thirty

Mllee Vmmg kjmI too »eV High la Maco« Wralo of the Jearaey—raf» Trip.

times runt sway from the water and ailckt against the side* of the. flume. This I*'the time when It Is really dangerous, tof when a wave atrikea

and

id 01

treaties as easily as a plank la tossed about in Hell Gate. Sometimes lumber craa-ls up and over the aides aod Is shot down Into the rocks below. The scenery is wild and grand, and when you look back In rounding the curves you can see the flume far above winding and twisting along the mountain aide, while .below the creek tumbles along between huge lava rocks and make* sudden dives of 60 feet

or more.

There was no moon on the night the ! Lawler party made the trip, and a

Lawler 1. the foreman of the camp I the stars. They rode

1 ends ,or 1,1081 of the w *y ln sbsolutc dark-

. with only the roar of the creek

1 noe reeentl;

ramp l: 1 broui

ward Lawler, down the Sierra Lumber company * flume in a box atnlgbL That they ever reached their destination was duo more to good luck than

anything else.

crushed and broken, and the mill doctor decided that to save his life he must at once be removed to Chico, the nearest town. The accident happened shortly before * p. m. Chico was 28 miles away. To get to the stage rond would necessitate a two mile climb up a hill 1000

feet high

b up a

to get out of the canyon.

After that would come a hard, dusty ^ ride along the mountain ridge over* rough lava beds It Is a long, tedious ride In the day time. At night, with a badly wounded man in the wagon It was impossible. There was only one thing to do. to take Lawler down the flume, altliougb It was a dangerous

•undertaking.

Accordingly. Lawler .was brought from the camp to the mill over the logging railroad, a distance of four miles. A box. or boat, was built to fit the flume, a goodly supply of whiskey was given the men. and they started on their perilous ride at 8 p. m. Word was telephoned to the different stations along the line and a carriage was ordered to be At the Chico end. They arrived after midnight and Lawler Is now in San Francisco In a hospital, but It will be a year before he is able to go about. "How did It feel to come down at night?" repeated one of the men In reply to a question. "That's someing I cad't tell you. I simply held to the box and listened every second to hear the flume crack and drop out from beneath us. It was cold when we started, but I perspired all the way. and when I got to ‘Chico I was completely exhausted. It's a tearful strain on a man to ride down the

grade.”

Th Sierra Lumber company's flume was built more than 20 years ago for the purpose of floating lumber from the mill to town. It'was the first.In the state and for years the longesL

tally it mill to

million dollars was sunk In the scheme before It.became a working success. The upper end was more than 4000 feet higher than the lowef , The flume is 30 inches wme across the top and 20 Inches deep. Is shaped like a V and is supported on trestle*. 5 the side runs a ten-inch plank

ana the noise of their boat bumping

along for company.

After leaving the grade the canyon broadened out into a big basin, with sides 800 feet high. Perpendicular cliffs rise on the west, but on the east are green trees and pastures. It is this way for three miles. wben*«galn the canyon narrows, and lava rocks take the place of brush. More trestles are crossed, #0 feet or more in the air. and you pass Into Iron canyon, where the creek flows between^solid walls of Iron ore 100 feet high, and Anally out Into the great Sacramento valley. The last few miles are through orchards and across wheat flelda

flume, and the raft barely moves. It 1* not until you reach the end. where the lumber Is dumped off and built Into great piles by Chinamen, that you realize what an awful strain the ride has been York Sun.

1 your nerves.—New

telephone line is strung overtatlons are built every few

) cents for

Along t! walk; a

head; ^

miles to accommodate the men who

keep

the fl^^l

100,000 feet of Inmber a day. for eight months in the year, now pass down, at an average cost of only 90 ^

each 1000 feet.

As the Umber was cut the mill I gradually moved'down the canyon until It has now reached Us final resting place, and the upper 20 miles of flume has rotted away. The remaining 30 ^Ues of the flume furnishes one of thg most exclUngj be taken. Sometimes men take the I ride for pleasure, but not often. Once u woman roue down. The flume-men ride on rafis, light, dry. 16-foot planks piled wedge snaded. 20 Inches-wlde at tne top and 6 (it the bottom and 101 Inches thick. Strangers usnally ride|

on a box. or |

built to lit the I

| wad end. but solid aft Against this the water poshes and. forces the box along.1

It w

party rode, L— flume men was that the weight of three heavy men. combined with the bumping and eermphig of the box along the sides of the flume, to say nothing of the tons and tons of water piled up behind did not cause the lightly constructed trestles to give way. Such a thing has happened before. A fall, es^clally on the grade. Is sure dealt It takes three and a half hours to make the trip on a raft, and save on the five miles of so-called grade, the flume men ride standing. It Is a more difficult trick than driving logs down the Connecticut river, this balancing one's self on a narrow raft and fully is dsngerout. Starting from the mill, the flume as Mg New York and Is the sawdust piled that the trees have all been killed and turned black •s If a forest lire had once raged there. Then for five miles H. runs along the side .Of the caayoa doss to the craek. throagh dense woods which form a continuous green arch above. /At the sod of this Brat section 4s a^stntkm. and here It is that the rsol rids be- •* - aod tar r other five miles you rid* with yt heart la your mouth. It to as if j Ooaey Island, only II sssms as you were sever tu math the sad. Two huudiud tact hstew the crash plaaffim

A COURTSHIP IN HAVANA.

LanCBac* ofih* Fan anti lha TaSaatrlan

to»i- or an Infa'iiatrd Man.

When the sun goes down life bfeglns for the Havanese. writes a correspondent of the New York Sun from Cuba. Then they come forth to enjoy the cooler air of the roofs and balconies. For the stranger It Is a pleasure to watch the constant stream of carriage*. passing and repassing on San Lazaro street, and to peer at bis neighbors on the balconies or roofs

or standing at their windows.

Here, for instance, is a pretty senorita leaning forward from one of the windows further down the street, fan In band. There Is a novio who passes and repasses her window, not once In the evening, but scores of time*. When the mother is safe in the background you may see the senorita as she leans forward, carelessly counting the sticks of her fan. He understands that signal and knows that she desires speak with him. He approaches

pauses before the window, able this time to have qul

1 to and

illy, wl es her

appn

before the window. Sec. they

il.cn

venation.

Ah. bow her mother must be comig. Ho walks outward to the corner id crosses the street Certainly, this young man has enough exercise | In walking. He carries himself grmce-

1th a peculiar pose one often

here, and you always recognize him by his walk as be approaches

each evening In the distance.

as the senorita walks toward the window from the room fanning herself he knows she intends to say to him: "This evening I am going out" , Of course he wonders when. She shuts her fan very slowly and he knows that she does not leave the house until quite late; so there may be opportunity for farther conversa-

tion.

She returns to the window and , holds her fan closed against her right cheek. She feels sad that she must go out this evening away from him. Will her mother never leave the room and give him another chance to app\ach? No, tonight the mother especially favors the front room. After a while the novio lose* hope of speaking with his sweetheart and enters a carriage which has already passed and repassed him three or four times, with two friends of his. This coach will be driven past this particular window not five hut 20 time)? during the evening that he may have at least the pleasure of looking at his sweetheart. He Is nntlrlng—this thing bra bran going a Usnally In such a case' when a young roan is strongly attracted be obtains an Introdnctloq at a dance or through a friend of her family, anil Is invited to call at the house, provided the mother approves of her daughter's making his acquaintance. Evidently In this case the mother does not approve, but the young lady doe*. What will be the end of this little romance? The neighbors all wonder; and. as all mankind loves a lover, they do not feel that therV* taking a liberty In watching this game of hearts. Sen. the opens her tan as It la turned downward In her hand. She is asking him to write tether. “ night you will see A letter from one to the other. Ton are doing nothing unusual in watching your neighbors thus closely. As you walk down tbs street in the evening yon can sra Into the interior ~‘.'zrJLr„7u?' r z

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