The morning news., 1894-09-17
MEANT TO ROW TO EUROPE
4 Boy Found Miles OF Shore in
an Open Boat.


He Had Read, the YounEster
Started to Row Out to sea-His
Story.
From the New York Sun.
Mrs. Lucy C. Carnegie's yacht, the
Dungeness. left Newport on Teusday
morning bound for New York. On board
were Mrs. Carnegie, Miss Florence Car
negie, Miss Sherlock, Andrew J. and
George Carnegie, G. T. Blaudy and
Irving Mallory. BY 6o'clock in the eve
ming the Dungeness was steaming up. the
sound of Roton Point. All of the party
were on the upper deck chatting and en-
joying the fine scenery. The Dungeness
was mile from shore, directly Off ROTOR
Point, when Mrs. Carnegie happened
to notice small black speck upon
the water about two miles and a half
from the yacht. She called the attention
of some OF the others around her to the
speck and they began to form conjectures
as to what it was. Mrs. Carnegie said it
was boat, while her daughter, Miss
Florence, stoutly maintained it was moth
ing but log. To settle the point, Capt.
Fish was asked to come on deck with his
glass. He at once pronounced the object
boat, and further said that there was
some one in it who was pulling toward
shore, but appeared to make little head
way against the wind and tide.
Now Mrs Carnegie is an excellent
sailor, aud under the conditions the cap
tain described she saw at once that the
person in the boat stood poor chance of
! reaching shore that night, so she ordered
| the Dungeness put about TO go to the as
/ sistance of the craft. In five or six min
utes the speck began to assume definite
! shape, and in few minutes more what
| appeared to be small man was seen
| laboring at the oars, yet steadily drifting
| OFF shore. One of the crew yelled to the
rover to keep on pulling for few minutes
more and that they would give him lift.
At the sound of the sailors
voice the figure looked around
and evidently saw the yacht, for the
first time Instead of following the sailors
advice to keep on at his oars he dropped
| them, and Immediately there rose on the
air a succession of boo, boos. BY this
time the yacht was near enough to make
out that the supposed man was not man
at all, but a little boy of about 10 years
with black curly hair. When the Dun
! geness got along the skiff and one of the
men stood on the railing and threw a
rope into the boys lap, telling him at the
| same time to make it fast, the
little fellow paid no attention, but
only cried the louder. The yacht
drifted past, and had to be turned around
in order to get alongside the skiff again.
| This time she ran so near that one of the
crew with rope in his hand leaped into
the skiff. The next moment the little
| blaCk-haired fellow, still crying, was
handed over the rail to Mrs. Carnegie.
The party on board had watched the
maneuvers of the yacht to pick up the
skiff with breathless interest and when
the little fellow came upon the upper
deck with two dirty little fists stuck in
his eyes they gave cheer and immedi-
ately began to question him.
de said his name was Georgia, and
that was all that could be gotten from
him, as he continued to cry Justify. AT
this point the steward rang the gong an
nouncing dinner Miss Carnegie stopped
over the little fellow and told him that
he must come down with her to dinner.
This seemed to strike George fayorably,
and his dirty little face lit up with an
eager look. The party proceeded to the
handsome dining room, accompanied by
the young cdstaway. On the way down
George caught glimpse of himself in
the mirror He Immediately walked
up to Mrs. Carnegie and said in formal
tone:
Madam, if you will kindly excuse me,
I will retire for a moment and make my
toilet for dinner
Mrs Carnegie, in an equally formal
voice replied: Certainly, sir" and
beckoning to the steward, she told him to
conduct the boy to the bathroom. In a
few minutes the little fellow reappeared
with a shining face and smoothly cOmbed
hair Mrs. Carnegie had reserved the
seat of honor at her right-hand side for
her little guest and George, nothing
abashed, gravely took the place. During
the first part of the dinner he maintained
a severe silence, broken only by please
be so kind as TO pass this or Thank
you" but his reserve began to disappear
toward the close of the repast, and by
| the time dessert was reached he was
gallantly waiting upon and chatting to
his hostess Every one at the table re-
marked the boys politeness. His cloth
ing, too, was very neat. He wore a
broad brimmed white straw hat, a white
shirt waist, navy blue knickerbockers,
neatly creased, tan shoes, and black
stockings. After dinner the party re-
turned TO the upper deck again, and
George became talkative.
Whether it was the beautiful scenery
he saw as the DungeneSs swiftly swept
| down the sound or whether it was due to
the romantic position he found himself
in is not clear, but George now began TO
| bC4l LOLL4dl hdAC ydAAo IL ANplJ W buG
| questions put to him.
Mrs Carnegie first asked him where he
lived, where he got the boat, and how he
happened 10 be out in il so far from shore
Georgie thought for a time and then calm
| ly replied as follows:
II lived in London with my parents.
] right down near where all the big ships
come in. A few months ago my father
and mother died, and l ran away from
my uncle and went on board big, black
ship that had a mean, gruff captain on
her. After we were out a few days the
captain beat me with big stick and had
me locked up in dark room for nearly a
week When he let me out we were some
place on the gold coast of Africa Big
black fellows, with funny beads of gold
around their necks and elephant tusks
through their ears, ran around with
out any clothing on, yelling. The
captain put me ashore and said: Go,
now, you young devil, and he eaten alive
Then he put me in a small boat. with only
a gun, and knife with a curved, sharp
blade"
At this point in his narrative George
jumped up from Mrs. Carnegie's lap,
where he had been sitting, and continued
in a dramatic voice.