The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-10
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The whitehall H0ys ana the suffer-
ing they have Endured-Their APP
pearlncc in TrOy--FOOt-sOre ard
weary Travellers Returning 10 the
place OF their Birth.
On Thursday morning of last week alloy
came off he steamer Sunnyside at her dock
in Troy, and started for lis former home in
Whitehall He told pitiful story of the
trial, and privations that he had endured
during The hrec yeas that he had lived in
the West. lie anl his brother, with their
parents. lel their home in Whitehall, Wash
ington county, and went to rcsidcin Denver
city. They were not there long when they
both became orpiurs and have since been
required 10 fight LIES battle alone. One
of the boys rem lined in New York while
his brother came 10 Troy and the New
York San tells the story:
The journey e Frederick Livingston,
aged sixteen, and his brother Henry, aged
fourteen, from Denver, Colorado, to New
York city, was more remarkable for its in
eXpensiveness than its rapidly. Their pa
rents sold their little homestead in White
hall, n. Y, and went to ,cei their fortune
when the boys were very young. They
settled near Ellsworth Kansas, but were
unsuccessful. Their little store of money
ran out, and the father was glad to get
work on the Kansas Pacific railroad One
day while coupling cars he was killed, and
his wife died few weeks later. The boys,
now eleven and thirteen years respectively,
left without dollar or friend, unable to
get work in Ellsworth, made their way to
Denver aud went to work for a stock raiser
for $25 year and board and clothing
They had hard taskmastcr, who worked
them like beasts of burden and half starved
them. After three years of wretched bond
age they resolved to run away. They had
once attempted to do SO, but had been
caught and severely punished This time
they were determined not 10 be caught.
One dark night, without cent of money
and with no clothing but the rags on their
backs. they
SET OUT FOR NEW YORK.
The boys reached the Denver railroad
station as the eastward bound train was
about to start, and, concealng themselves
in freight car, were carried to Ellsworth,
Kansas, where they jumped out to pick up
such breakfast as they could find. Then
they walked to Brookvile, over twenty
miles distant and arrived there by nghtfall.
Worn out by hunger and fatigue, they
threw themselves down upon heap of hay
and dry manure and slept until morning
when they were awakened by passing
wagon. They begged ride IN it, and were
taken as far as Salina, where they earned
their breakfast by saving wood They gol
on train for Kansas City, and were car
ried nearly as far as Wamego, Their
Henry was discovered by the brakeman
who scared him so that he fell from the
platform and sprained his ankle severely
His brother carried him to a neighboring
haystack, and that was his hospital for two
days, Fred going out and foraging for food
On the third day it raincd, and the patien,
was taken into tumble-down barn that in
pioneer days had done service as hotel
On the next day his foot was nearly wei
again, and the boys jumped on Northern
Missouri railroad train and reached Kansas
City. There cattle driver gave them
good breakfast and induced the conducto
of a trainsfor Mobile to let them ride TO TIN
terminus. In Mobile they got aboard
stock train, which took them to St. Louis
and from there they rode to Vircennes
Ind, and thence to
CINCINNATI.
In Cincinnati a member of the city coun
ell gave them temporary job. He sen
them with note to Mayor johnson, VIII
got pass for them to Columbus, wher
they were told that they would probab
get work. But, not finding any, they re
sumed their journey eastward by rail. UI
luckily for them, the engineer at Dresde
Junction got off the train to chat with til
conductor and discovered them. So the
were left behind. II was Sunday mornin
just week after their departure from Der
yer. They stayed in Dresden until Thurs
day night, doing chance jobs for broke
lictuas or few pennies, and then, seein
an outgoing freight train loading, hid i
the cabOosc behind pile of barrels az
bales. They wslc taken to Dennisor
Fred got job here for two or three day
carrying mortar.
Then the boys stole n ride to Pittsburl
where they stayed for three days and SUI
tered great hardships, hut adhered to I'll
resolution that they had kept To from ii
first, that they would not sleep in any pr
lice station if they could help it, FroI
Pittsburgh they rode to Altoona, and thent
10 Harrisburg, where they stayed te
days. They watched freight train lod
ing for Columbia, and hid in one of the ca
behind pile of kerosene kegs. The SINE
was very offensive, but the door was Ope
and they could bear it. Presently the ira
stopped at way station, and long be
containing coffin was thrust into the ca
and it was followed by two mail bags. III
door was then shut with bang and doub
locked
IN COLUMBIA.
When the train reached Columbia, Il
boys, nearly suffocated, waited impatient
for the car TO be opened. They could fe
that it was being uncoupled from the ira
and switched off on a side track but thu
listened in vain for the sound of key
the lock. Nobody came near. They kick
at the door and shouted themselves hoars
but no one seemed to hear them. Hem
tainted, and bis brother, fearing that
might die, with all his remaining strengt
kicked at the door and cried for help. Flo
tunately, about this time, Waterman
the depot, hearing the boys voice, sur
moned the station agent, and he opened Il
door and took the boys out.
Henry recovered on being bought in
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