The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-21
HIDING IN THE WOODS.
A Western New York Boys Mysterious
Disappearance From Home.

"A w estern New 1Ork Boys Mysterious
Disappearance From Home.
The little town of Sodus, Wayne County,
n. Y, has sensation. On May 30th, Ar
Dor day, the fourteen-year- Told son of Frank
NJ. Blanchard, wealthy farmer residing
near the shore of Lake Ontario, asked per-
mission to leave the farm and go to the
school-house in the district to attend the
exercises of the day. The request was
granted and after the boy had put on his
best clothes, he started up the road in the
direction Of the school-house. His parents
have not seen him since.
When night came and the boy did not re-
turn home his father and mother became
alarmed. and late in the evening Mr..
Blanchard set out to find the youth, but
he could not be found.
Early the following morning Mr.. Banch-
ard went to the village, where he learned
that his son had purchased a ticket for Os-
weg0 and had left on the afternoon train.
Mr.. Blanchard took the noon train for
Oswego, and there learned that boy an
swering the description given had left for
Syracuse. The father then went to Syra-
cuse and by the assistance of the police
found that the boy had taken train for
Buffalo.
Then the father went home, where he
found that the boy had emptied his savings
bank OF S53 and had evidently planned to
run away. Two davs afterward Mr.. Blanch-
ard arrived in Buffalo and made three
days search for the missing boy, but was
unable 10 find him. The boy had been
there ana gone. When next the father
heard OF him he was in New York, and
later he learned that he was somewhere IN
Pennsylvania.
Now comes the queer part of the story,
About two weeks ago the BOYS uncle.
Thomas Pulver of Sodus, went to New
England, small settlement in Wayne
County, and there on farm doing chores
q fOupd the h0y in the pmnlOv nf .t0eanb
Hanley.
The boy saw his uncle, and with
frightened shrek he ran for the woods
and disappeared. Searching parties have
been unable to find him. though he is
known to be in hiding somewhere in the
woods.
A boy named Bradley. while hunting in
woods on the Hanley farm, recently, saw
him and spoke to him, but he acted like
wild beast. the hoy says, and ran away.
the wild boy. He says that young Blanch-
ard disappeared in a pile of brush, and
he thinks there Is u cave under IT,
The father and mother vistei the woods
in hopes of seeing the boy, but he did not
appear. What he has lived upon for the
past two weeks is mystery. A number Of
the neighbors have watched all night for
the boy to make his appearance but they
have never seen him. hundred men will
make thorough search of the woods in
Qdy Ut tWu-I uilduclpHih lines.
She Was "Run by n Big Teakettle.''
The second steam vessel ever built was
the Vermont at Burlington, VT, eighty-two
years ago. 1t was but 100 feet long and 20
feet broad. The cost was $4,000. The en-
gines were rated as of 20 horse power and
the boat had speed of but four miles an
hour.
The owners, John and James 1. Winans,
petitioued the Vermont Council in October,
1903. for the privilege OF running a steam
boat upon Lake Champlain, and this petition
was referred to the committee October II,
1905 This committee did not appear to have
ever reported upon the Petition. and it is
possible they refused to believe in steam
navigation.
Robert Fulton's boat was built one year
before and had probably been seen by the
Winans.
The Vermont was OF but les tons burden,
but it was sufficient for the times in which it
was af1oat, and did large carrying business
until 1t was sunk, in 1915.
Many man, now dead, journeyed far to
Burlington to see the curious craft that was
run by a big teakettle. boston Globe.