The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-01
STARTING IN LIFE.
Two Orphan Boys Leave San Francisco and
Work Their Way to New York.

Work Their Way to New York.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Thirty days across
the continent; thirty days of privation and
travelling; thirty days of adventure and
hardship. And there you have the story
of Eddie and Willie Brown, aged fourteen
and thirteen respectively, who appeared
Monday morning in the Tolnbs police court
as voluntary prisoners. They had walked
into police station Sunday night, and
asked for nights lodging and the ser
geant had Accommodated them with the re-
CURED resting place besides giving them a
dinner that made them open their eyes.
1t seems that on December l, the two
youngsters had made up their minds to
come to New York from San Francisco,
where they lived. The odd jobs they used
did not return enough to pay for the little
room they had hired with Mrs.
Martin, near Market streets terminus,
determined to better their condition.
Their father had been dead four years and
their mother three, and it seemed
pretty hard for the two boys to be all alone
in the world, but they thought that per-
haps they could find their uncle John, who
hoard of money out on the floor and counted
it. One had $3.50 and the other S. The
steamship that runs from San Francisco
to Portland, Ore, carried the two boys ON
its December trip. They bought third
class half-fare tickets, which took 81 of
their capital. Warm hearts beat in the steer
age as well as in the first cabin, and when
the two youngsters told their story to their
fellow passengers, a little purse was col
lected among those who probably could i'll
afford to spare it.
On their arrival in Portland the two
youngsters, with the money contributed by
the passengers, purchased boot -blacking
outfit and fingered in that city day or two.
Then they took another steamer to the
Dalles where they stopped to survey
things They were carried by the kind
hearted engineer and conductor of freight
train to Cheyenne. After waiting there
day they climbed into passenger train, but
the conductor put them off at Grand Island
This temporary setback did not brighten
them bit, and they waited for another
freight car. One of them found an empty
bottle, which he filed with water, and both
of them got into box car. At Chicago the
freight handlers were very much aston
ished when they opened the car and found
two shivering little boys. Their little
store OF money was not yet all gone
and they increased it in Chicago,
although the stormy weather was not IA
vorable to the bootblack ''profession.
From there they went in a freight car to
Jackson, Detroit and Buffalo. In the latter
town an engineer, after hearing their
story, allowed them to ride in his cab to
New York, where they arrived Sunday
afternoon. Then they walked from the
Forty second street depot down town to
the police station. They were committed
to the care of the Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Children. In the mean
time Uncle John Brown, of Brooklyn, has
an opportunity to come forward and make
himself known. The boys, who do not re-
member much about their parents, say
their fathers name was Edward Brown,
and their mothers Mary, otherwise called
Polly. Both were born in Boston, Lincoln
shire, England.