While standing in one of these labor bureaus a few days later, I learned that a certain hotel in San Pedro wanted a hotel clerk. I gave up my job trucking freight and took the street car for San Pedro.
After having a short talk and showing my references to Jennings and White, proprietors of the Angelus Hotel, I was offered the place as clerk at $15.00 per month, board and room.
I accepted the position.
The little town of San Pedro bears the distinction of being one of the nine corners of the world.
The Pacific Ocean is in full view from the front entrance of the Angelus Hotel.
From this point it is only a two-hours run on the steamboat Cabrillo to the famous fishing grounds of Santa Catalina Island.
If you are a good fisherman with hook and line, two hours in these waters will supply you with from seventy-five to one hundred and fifty pounds of fish.
I had been clerking for Jennings & White about six weeks, when one day a man registered in the hotel from Searchlight, Nevada.
The man praised up Searchlight in glowing terms.