Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1893-07-25
he WAS A VIENNESE BOY.
AND HE WENT TO THE WORLDS
FAIR IN A BIG BOX.

LefSovltc is Blonde. Young Man "a
Years Old and He Conceded the
Brilliant Idea of Going to Chicago
as Express Matter-He Ran the Risk
of Being smothered to Death, and
Had He Been Discovered, Shot by
the Expresman.
WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS. CHICAGO.
H., July 25.-There was great excite.
ment in Old Vienna, in the Midway
Plaisance at the Worlds Fair Grounds,
yesterday afternoon at 2 80 o'clock,
when a huge box delivered by the
American Express Company was opened.
Ont of it jumped blonde young man,
dressed in a summer costume of knit
undershirt, knickerbockers and stock
ings, who franticslly waived an Ameri-
can flag in his right hand and an Austrian
Tag in his left.
lam Viennese boy. and I greet you
all!' he exclaimed, and then asked for
cigarette.
The blonde young man was Ignatz
Lefkovite. He left No. 337 Fifth street,
New York, at o'clock last Saturday
evening in a huge box, coming to
Chicago as express matter
he was much exhausted, having eaten
nothing since Saturday, and being forced
to endure during the forenoon of to day
a heat Of 156 degrees in the box. He
said that shortly after coming out of the
box that had he been compelled to en-
dr,po 4hfo
| longer he would surely have died.
Lefkovite was at once taken in charge
by Marcus Braun, of Old Vienna, aud
led to a room, where he was given ice to
chew and allowed to sleep. Lefk Jvitc is
q years old He was born in Vienna
and arrived in New York in October last
from Venezuela. BY trade he is a
maker of transparent pictures, and has
of late been working with a man named
| Oppenheimer at No. AZ Second avenue.
| New York. He has a brother at No. 315
East Twelfth street, New York. and has
been living at No 337 Fifth street with
Jan Derbohlaw He says his brother
knew nothing of his contemplated trip
TO Chicago as express matter.
Apart from the fact that Lefkovitc ran
the risk of being smothered to death en-
route to Chicago, still greater dank er
menaced him There was money to the
amount of $500, 900 in the express car in
1 which he travelled, and had the express
messenger known there was man in a
box in the car he would have killed him.
This the express messenger said himself
as he saw Lefkovitc,ju out of the box
in the gateway of Old Vienna.
Lefkovitc travelled from New York to
Chicago in an ordinary box or packing
case, 81 feet in width, feet in height
and 9 feet in length. He purchased 1t
for 81 on Thursday last at a mercantile
house in Fourth street, New York, the
name Of which he cannot recall.
After Lefkovitc came out Of the box
and had been given a cigarette and a
glass of wine, he was quite recovered
though still pale and nervous after bis
experience in the box He had slept
very little since leaving New York, and
having eaten nothing on the way was
somewhat weak
The police heard of Lefkovitc's arrival
late in the afternoon. They arrested
him on the charge of disorderly conduct
and he was taken to the Service Build
ing, the headquarters of the Columbian
Guard AS the prisoner appeared to bI
i'll he was sent at once to the Emergency
Hospital, where he was examined by the
physician in charge, who told the police
he should not be disturbed, but pu
where he could get good nights sleep
He was thereupon taken back to the
Woodlawn station and given a good bed
Special dispatch New York Herald.