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Show I I ' } FLOYD GIBBONSr GIBBONS Adventurers tAdventurers ' Clubhf Club Club"When r t hf x xy xk ? y k a asi si siThera "When When " Thera the Earthquake Struck " By FLOYD GIBBONS GIBBONSFamous GIBBONSFamous GIBBONSFamou Famous Headline Hunter . TV4 OVE back your chairs , , boys and girls , andmake and make r room om for forEmanuel forEmanuel for1V1 MOVE M in this th1s One- One OneThousandandOne OneThousandandOne One-Thousand-and-One One Thousand and - Emanucl Emanuel Mitchell , who tells a strange storyIn story Thousand-and-One Thousand and One - - - - Nights N1ghts of Adventure club ofours of ours . . We pick up Emanucl Emanuel in a little I lunch Iqnch nch room . The date is is April April18 18 , 1935and 1935 , , and the hour is late tate . As Emanuelsads Emanuelsails Emanuel sails sads into his ham andeggssunny and andeg andeggs takes the counter seat ncKt next nextto ne ncKtEminuel's ct ctto side priest eg eggs-sunny eggs sunny s-s s - sunny nny up upa up-a up a up-'a 'a - - ' a young to him . Eminuel's Eminuels m'lDuel's mlDuels Emanuel's Emanuels ' ' ' eyes wander to thia this young priest many times Urnes as he eatam eats eatsfn eatsIn fn In his bls memory he is back bach In San Francisco , 29 years before , on the night nightthe nightthe nightthe the earthquake-pardon earthquake pardon earthquake - - pardon me , , the fire-destroyed fire destroyed fire - - destroyed the coast city . . And . , come cometo cometo cometo to think of It , It happened on this same date-AprlJ date AprlJ date-April April date - - April 18 , 190 1900Emanuel 1900 1900Emanuel Emanuel ic Is In a retrospective mood . The priest's priests ' Roman col- col collar col col.lar collar . - lar recalls another priest to him . He wants to tell of this other otherman otherman otherman man of God who saved his life that night so 80 long ago In San Fran FrancIsco Francisco FranCisco cIsco . . The young priest smiles and Emanuel tells his story story.Eroanucl storyEroanucl . . EmanueJ Emanuel was a traveling trnvellng salesman In those days and on that memor memor- memorable memorable . - able April Apnl night was sleeping In a little Jlttle hotel botel ID In San Francisco . . He Be was wastired wastired wastired tired from his day's days ' work , I Kmanuel man\1el man 1el Emanuel \ says , and the flrst first shock of the tbe quake quakedid quakedid quakedid did not awaken aahen a\\ a \ ahen him , but he remembers feeling a strange disturbance about abouthim abouthim abouthim him as though In a dream He slept on and only awakened awahened when he be felt felta felta felta a violent tugging on his armAwakened armAwakened arm armAwakened Awakened From One Dream Into Another Another.He AnotherHe . Be He opened his eyes The room was pitch dirk d'1rh d1rh ' , but he was final1y finally final1yable finallyable finallyable able to see a young mm m'1D m1D man ' in a Dl nightshirt htshlrt standing by his bed . . . ' , Wal Wake e up , , " " the man said , , "there's theres " ' been an earthquake earrhquahe " Emanuel looked around blankly and discovered the room In Ingreat ingreat Ingreat great disorder . Another shock hit the city at that moment and andthe andthe andthe the awful feeling of terror that comes to a person who first feelsan feels feelsan feelsan an earthquake hit him with paralyzing force He was unable tomove to tomove tomove move , but lay there in bed rigid with horror . The man In the nlght nightgown own , seeing his helplessness , , never hesitated hesitatedHe hesitatedHe hesitatedHe He pulled pnJ1ed Emanuel out of bed and , throwing tbrowlng him over his bls shoulder , carried car- car carrIed car carried - ried the silesman s'1lesman s1lesman salesman ' bodily bOdl1y don doss down n the se\ se ses seven seen \ en lights flights ( of stairs to the lobby . . Hotelful of Guests Are Petrified With Fright Fright-In Fright In . - . In the lobby a pitiful group of frightened guests In nightclothes were werecryIng werecrying werecrying cryIng and gesticulating , , beside themselves themsehes with fright frIgbt The mamger man'1ger man1ger manager mamgerHe ' 1111111 1111111w 1111111a a\ a ad af at ax a4Y w \ 91t 91t1ft t d f 1ft ' 7 Q l x 4Y bf { > t t91t / } o ot t 3 - N NN N : ' Y 4 < k at , k ' ' C h < i kk\ kk kky ' \ y 4 _ - bftYQ A MAY . . - . a aHe He Pulled Emanuel Out of Bed and Carried Him . . Ialone alone was calm He told his guests that fire had already brol broken en out In Inthe inthe Inthe the doomed city Clty but that It If they hurried hurrled they would have time to go to totheIr totheir totheir theIr rooms and dl diess ess . . . Up the stairs went the guests as fast as they could go-all go all goallexcept goallexcept go - - allexcept except Emanuel . . He was still stili too nervous to function and the theelevator theelevator theelevator elevator in the hotel was in the same condition . But that didn't didnt didn'tstop didn'tstop didn'tstop didntstop ' stop the young stranger in the nightgown . He just tossed Emanuel Emanuelover Emanuelover EmanueloVer over his shoulder like a sack of meal , , carried him back up the way wayhe he wayhe had come and then went puffing off to his h ! own room to dress dressWhen dressWhen dressWhen When he came back bacl . after Emanuel manueJ , Emanuel savs says sa s he couldn't couldnt ' believe believehis believehis believehis his eyes The young man of the nightgown Dlbhtgown was "as as sas " a priest . . His collar was wasJust wasjust wasjust Just like hhe that of the tbe man \ who ho now sat beside Emanuel In the lunch room . . Emanuel Rides Once More on Friendly Shoulders.Once ShouldersOnce Shoulders . Once more , Emanuel-stm Emanuel stm Emanuel-still still Emanuel - still In a n nervous condition-was condition was condition - was carried down those downthose long flights This time out into the night Emanuel manuet does not re- re remember remember re remember - - member the many scenes of horror they must have passed as the young youngpriest priest youngpriest picked plcl.ed plcled . his way "ay ay say " through the debris strewn streets . He does remem remem- - . ber remember the glare of fire that lit up the city In back of at them and he remembers remembersstopping remembersstopping remembersstopping stopping everythingIn at nt a deserted lunch room The proprietor had left everything In his hurry to be gone Coffee ' \ wis sas 'IS IS ' still sun hot In the coffee urn Uln win and a cup priestleft rlestleft ot of cupof cupot It served sened by the priest soon had Emanuel manuel back on his feet . . The p priest rlest left a coin on the counter . , The rest of their journey through that night of horror Eman- Eman Emanuel Eman.uel Emanuel . - uel does not like Ilke to recall . Morning found them safe from the flames theflames hotelhad that had already swept the quarter where their little hotel had once stood . . The years passed-as passed as passed - as ) vears ears do-but do but do - - but Emanuel manuel says he never failed to caU call tocall tocaU Thotwo Thetwo on the priest whene\ whene whenever wheneer svheneser \ er business took him to the Pacific coast . . . Tho The two became close cJose friends and mayn years later when the bra\ bra brave brae brace \ e priest dIed diedLmanuel Lmanuel traveled traveJed 500 miles to attend nttend his funeralProving funeral funeralProving Proving Again That the World Is Not So Small Small.And SmallAnd . priestIn And tint th'1t th1t that ' , bovs boys bo s and girls , , ! Is s the story Emanuel told the young priest In silenttoast sl1enttoast the lunch room In 1\ew 1 ew Aew \ ew York Yorh As he finished , the two drank dran1 . a sl1ent silent toast In coffee to the tbe other priest . other'sThe othersThe To Father Harrison , " Emanuel manueJ said , holding hoJdlng his cup to the otber's otbers other's others ' ' . The young priest's priests ' cup shook sbook In his hand He stared at Eminuel Emanuel m\nuel m nuel ' \ Inspiration Father "rathlr rathlr "Father mnuel"rathlr Emanuel"Father " " Hauison Halllson Haliison , , " he said softly , "was was " my uncle . . He was "as as sas " my Inspira Inspira- tnspira - tion tlon for entering enterJng the prIesthoodWNU priesthood priesthoodWNU " " -WNU WNU iSWNU -WNU WNU iS ( ) - - Servic Service * . . |