Biography of Nathan Barnert, his character and achievements; including histories of local institutions . the hope, if not the belief, that untoldfortunes awaited them in the newly discovered gold as they hoped, they danced and sang, starved and de-prived themselves of as much of the necessities of life theycould. There were groups of two and three and of even more,all casting their lot in one common melting pot. This wasthe sort of men, our young adventurers had thrown theirfortunes with for the time being and they made the best of con-ditions among these rough gold maddened men and
Biography of Nathan Barnert, his character and achievements; including histories of local institutions . the hope, if not the belief, that untoldfortunes awaited them in the newly discovered gold as they hoped, they danced and sang, starved and de-prived themselves of as much of the necessities of life theycould. There were groups of two and three and of even more,all casting their lot in one common melting pot. This wasthe sort of men, our young adventurers had thrown theirfortunes with for the time being and they made the best of con-ditions among these rough gold maddened men and before long,they too, after the first hours of home lonesomeness had some-what worn off, joined in the following song: I Come from New York City, With my washboiler on my knee, I am going to California, The gold dust for to see. These verses were common property of every ship sailingfrom the Atlantic ports for San Francisco. The money paid for passage did not include meals, andthis phase of the adventure had never entered the minds of theyoung voyagers. For the first couple of days this did not 14. HOX. NATHAX BARXERTFrom Latest Photograph, bother the boys but nature asserted herself finally and theywere constrained to seek something with which to satisfy thecravings of hunger. One morning they entered the messroom of the stokers. There they were surprised to find thatthe coal passers were at least given some consideration as faras meals were concerned. 15 CHAPTER II. THE QUEST FOR GOLD. Nathan concluded that a coal passers job with decentfood thrown in as compensation was better than hard tack andindigestion and accompanied by his friend, went down to thecoal hole. The men were busy working under the direction ofa big, kind-hearted man in uniform. Cap, said Nathan, withan unmistakable foreign accent, at the same time pointing atone of the coal shovelers, I am strong, I can do what that bigfellow is doing, give me a chance will you? The officerthus addressed was impressed with
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