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Identifier: pacificgaselectr61915paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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men were started out4f;iiig Ilic licav\ <m1)Ic thi-ouyh the snow,while Hnc oIIicis were rc(;niriil In retain thewheel in a balanced position on Ihe stump. flic slonn was kind in llu location it chose for the damage that it did. For, nota thousand yards away is the ranch ownedby the Levy boys, Dan and Bill. Noon timearrived while the cable was being uncoiled,so all hands repaired to the Levy house forlunch. This old farmstead, which has stoodhere since the boom days of the gold-seek-ers, is worthy of a closer inspection, as arealso its inmates. There are not very manyrooms. There is a two-story portion con-taining kitchen, dining-room and two bed-rooms which is supplemented by an L atthe back giving two or three more sleep-ing apartments. Andyet the place is alesson in expansionand hospitality. BillLevy, with his clearblue eyes and cheer-ful, kindly manner,and his brother Dan,larger of frame andmore reserved ofmien, together withtheir aged mother,make up the regularhousehold. When I
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338 Pacific Service Magazine tiIl you that ten of the Pacific Serviceiiuii, licsiilcs Mrs. Hepner and her(laugliter, were comfortably housed therethat night you will see what I mean bythe exi)ansihilily of the house. Fred Hepner has long tended the com-panys Yuba ditch above Bear valley. Hemust be a veryastute man, as dem-onstrated by hischoice of BillLevys sister for hishelpmeet. A womanlarge of stature, asalso of heart andgood nature, shewillingly ste p p e dinto the breach tohelp out her broth-ers by t a Iv i n gcharge of the culin-ary depart ment.Under the stress ofthe unexpected ar-rival of such ahorde of guests aless capable womanmight have beendismayed, a lessgenial one mighthave balked. For-tunately for themen s h e didneither. But witha kindly word forall and an ever-cheerful smile sheplied the art ofwhich she is a mistress and set the tablesfor twenty-two extra guests at that firstdinner. It was but a very short timeuntil that company of storm-harried menwere warmed and chee

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