Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-10-31 | Page 10 | San Joaquin Valley Pioneers Owned Man-Sized Thirsts in Good Old Days

a M i S 'S Sari San n Joaquin Vall Valley y Pion Pioneers eJ Owned M Sized Man 1 Sized Thirsts in Go Good d Old Days FRE FRESNO NO Cal UP UP UP-A. A thirst was a thirst In the good old days of the and nd not to bo be thwarted b by by such obstacles as railroad railroads s rakes according n to o Ws rt W Parker i er now a a. retired Pasadena capitalist earl earl- capi but Fresnos Fresno's mayor of thirty thirty- six cara ago agOr 0 whilo reminiscing here told of ot the exploit of himself and some county officials In relieving the thirst t of ot tho the several rat thousand Fres- Fres nans naps of ot that era When the beer had been exhausted exhausted ex ex- hausted down to the last laIt barrel Lyon org organized a crow crew and stole a a. railroad railroad rail rall- r road M engine and a couple of or cars Let him toll toU the story A railroad strike had stopped all aU transportation so eo o that not a A. train had b been en in or out of ot Fresno Frono for two w ks It as was a n. hot July day and the tho last Jast keg of or beer In town Was as rapidly disappearing dJ d down wn the t throats J of or the crowd at nt Ed Swartz Palm Garden saloon The Tho only practical suggestion advanced after much discussion was to take taka a tram train out of or Fresno In search of ot beer beet I 1 was waa delegated to the tho Job I I 1 went to the courthouse and borro borrowed ved the tho engineer wh who said Mid he could run engine Then I persuaded persuaded per per- Parker Timmins of ot the sheriffs office to gO go aton along and fire th the engine With Bill BUl Shaw Shaw a a. constable as brakeman wo we boarded one ono of or the tho wood burning burning- locomotives of ot those days daysI I pulled off ott A few boards from Kut Kutner's ers er's warehouse and we soon had a 3 fire under the boiler boUer Kutner's Kutner's Kut Kut- n ners ner's r watchman did not hinder us when he learned what we WG were after We knew know we had a Do clear track as even the tho mall mail trains were out of commission With a a. caboose and freight car hooked on we wo started up the line It was a a. hectic ride When we ran out of ot wood wo we tore toro or off fence b boards arils s and ana even burned the matt mattresses mattresses mat mat- t tresses esses and desk of or the the- caboose At Stockton wo we loaded our beer white while thou thousands of or Stockton people cheered while white wo we worked The Tho run home homo was WM wonderful what with unlimited beer and th the thermometer r registering about l degrees degree I