Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-13
ENGLISH YOUNGER SONS.
A Great Number of Them "Roushing Il
in the West.

Great Number of Them "Roughing It''
in the West.
Correspondence Of Harpers Weekly
The proportion Of young English gentlemen
who are roughing it in the west far exceeds
that OF the young Americans. This is due to
the fact that the former have never been
taught a tradAor profession and have nothing
in consequence when they have been cheated Of
the money they brought with them to invest
but their hands to help them and so take to
driving horses or branding cattle or digging in
the streets, as one graduate Of Oxford, sooner
than write home for money, did in Denver. He
is now teaching Greek and Latin in one Of our
colleges. The manner in which visiting English
men are robbed in the west, and the quickness
with which some Of them take the lesson
to heart and practice it upon the next
Englishman who comes ont. or borrow
from the prosperous Englishman already
there, would furnish material for q
bookful Of pitiful stories, and yet one cannot
help smiling at the wickedness Of some of these
schemes. Three Englishmen, for example,
bought, as they supposed, $4,000 Texas steers,
but the Texans who pretended to sell them the
cattle drove the same 5000 head ten times
around the mountain, as q dozen supers circle
around the back drop Of stage to make an
army, and the EnGlishmen counted and paid for
each steer ten times over. There was ano her
Texan who made great deal Of money BY ad.
vertising to teach young men how to become
cowboys, and who charged them $40 a month
tuition fee, and who set his pupils to work dig
ging holes for fence posts all over the ranch
un II they grew vie in their genera ion and
LEI, him for some other ranch, where ther were
paid $50 per mon h for doing he same hing
Bu in manv finances it is be tables of san
An onio which axe he srea.er Iart Of b.
vi ing Engh Imam money. One gen le-
man who 20 7ome lime re resented me
lie of Wight in the lover house spen
IN zee modes fortune i'll he SAN Anto 40
gambling houses and hen mar lied his cook.
which proved most admirable specula ion,
As The had frugal mimi and 'ook ell Ire con-
troll of his Ii lie income. And when the liar
quis OF A lie ford died in Co.orad, the only
friend in hi, country who could be found o
take the bod, back TO England wa. hi, FIR I
In, Who, at he time, was driving a hack
around san An o. lio. Oae hears stories o. hi.
sort on every side, and one meets faro dealers
cooks and cowboys who have served through
campaign. in India or Egypt or who hold an
Oxford degree. private in q troop, third
cavalry. who was my escort on several scouting
expeditions in the CARA outfit, was kind
enough and quite able to tell ma which club In
London had the oldest wine cellar, where one
could get best visiting cards engraved and WHY
the professor Of ancient languages at Oxford
was the superior of the instructor in like
studies at Cambridge. He did this quite un-
anectedly and in no way Attempted to excuse
his present position, nor was he questioned con-
corning his position in tho last- OF course the
value OF the greater part Of these stories de-
ponds on the family and personality of the hero,
and a. cannot give names have to omit the
best Of them.