The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-05
WANTED TO SEE THE EDITOR.
THE Most Successful Boy stowaway"
Consents to Be Interviewed
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1.-THE Most Successful Boy stowaway"
Consents to Be Interviewed.
From the Neto York Sun. ',a
A small, blus-eyed boy. with confident
air and an English accent, came into the
Sun office yesterday and asked to see the
editor. He was grimy lad, apparently
less than 10 years old. He confessed TO
three years more, as he placidly related,
after the manner OF an ancient story teller
fresh from the pages Of the arabian
Nights" his adventures by land and sea for
the last seven years.
He said he was James L. Sullivan and
that he was born about fifteen years ago in
Broome street, near the Bowery. He had
acquired his accent, he said, by almost
constant association with stokers In the
holds of English steamships. He said;
~ am the most successful boy stcwaway
in the world and have travelled further
than any otner boy of my age In this or
any other country without spending a
nickel. ( lett this city, after my mother
and father died, in 1884, and went to Bos-
ton. 4 stayed there a while shining boots
and then slowed away on the steamship
Bostonian Of the Leland line and went
TO HLiverpool, where / shined boots for
three weeks. l got tired OF the city and
went down TO the Guion line dock and
Arizona. They found me out and made me
bell boy on the ship. After making around
trip from Liverpool to New York and back
/ slowed away on the clipper ship Clan
MCPHERSON and went to Malta. | was
cabin boy on the Mcpherson. They trans
ferred me TO the troop steamship Virginia
at Malta and sent me back to Liverpool.
There l spent three weeks shining boots,
singing songs, and begging for living. l
boarded the City OF New York Of the Inman
line, Capt. Lewis. in the fall Of 1887, aud
came to New York. The stokers took care
of me and nobody else knew was on the
ship.
81 shined boots and carried baggage at
the Grand Central station here until the
end of 1888, when slowed away on the
Arizona In the stokehold. The captain tried
TO put me of on the pilotboat after we had
passed Sandy Hook, but rushed away and
hid myself among Storage passengers. l
was put TO work among the coal trlmmers
/ was arrested at Queenstown and spent two
weeks In the poor house for vagrancy. l
found It rather tough there. They let me go,
and beat my way to Liverpool and made
living singing songs on the streets and shin
ing boots. l slowed away on the Teutonic
at Liverpool, intending to come to New
York, but they found me out at Queens
town and put me ashore. 1 stayed there
three months. Then sneaked aboard the
Etruria with the immigrants and lived with
stokers until the ship reached New York.
IT got job as messenger boy for the
Western Union and stuck to it for five
weeks. Then / went to Brooklyn and sold
papers for five weeks. But longed to see
something Of the United States. left New
York for Boston, stealing rides on freight
trains all the way. Then beat my way to
the mining region of Pennsylvania and
drove mules In two Of the mines. l sung
my way in trains to Chicago. There went
into the Office of Col. Wood, president of the
Chicago and Alton, and got him to give me
a pGss to st. Louis. l Travelled from st.
Louis to Poplar Bluff, Mo-, to Texsrkana
Ark. to Dallas and Fort Worth, Tex to
Austin, the capital Of Texas, and finally to
San Francisco. l sailed from San Fran
Disco to Melbo urine, slowing myself away
as usual.
AT Sydney / went ashore, and the peo-
pie, who were made of the right stuff
bought me a suit of clothes and collected
S23 for me. l returned to San Francisco as
a stowaway with $50 in my pockets.
sung my way on trains from San Francisco
to New York. had a longing to try the
seq again. This time l thought / would
travel in style, 80 struck Jay Gould for a
pass to Glasgow. The old man saw me but
said be wouldn't get me al pass unless could
bring some man of business with me.
thought that wouldnt go, so l walked out
OF the old mans office. l started TO take
up collection In the Bowery. and a cop
arrested me for begging. When they let
me go. started for Glasgow on the
Furnessia l got tired of the Scotch
aud slowed away on a ship for Londonderry.
There shipped on the Arrow line steamer
Nova Scotia, and went to Newfoundland.
There one OF the st. Johns editors inter-
viewed me- went from st. Johns to Hal
flax, where let the editor of the Echo in
terview me. / stayed there six weeks,
making living rowing sailors out to the
British warships, charging them a dime
each. left Halifax for Boston on the
steamship Olivette. The Boston Globe ed
itor saw me and gave me 50 for an inter-
view. got here Wednesday night beating
| my way on the cars"
The narrator here took a long breath,
| and added, impressively: "Now, you may
| say, the next place this boy will visit Ia the
worlds fair at Chicago. Then he means to
settle in New York city and 90 to shining
boots"
MISS ADA c. SWEET of Chicago has been ap.
pointed member of the board OF education in