The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-27
was a Hustler From the West.


Jimmy Egan, Seattle newsboy, who, in
company with Red Gleason, left for the
world fair at Chicago six months ago re-
turned home last evening, SAYS the Seattle
Postlntel1g having made the round
trip without paying out cent and without
July y, neither of them having any money,
and they got as far as La Grande, Ore, when
Jimmy was arrested and Red continued the
! journey alone. Red returned home last month
ana told thrilling story Of his trip to and from
the talr, but Jimmy is inclined TO doubt his
friends yeracity, for he said last evening:
hed only got as far as Denver; the cons
were TOO tough for him, and he never saw
/ chicago at all. When arrived in Chicago
| got letter from Red dated Denver. and he
said ne was going home. Now, m dead
! next to him. he did not get to Chicago. / was
| there over three months and maze lots OF
stun but had tough time getting through,
IN La Grande Red and got in a box car and
were jumping the town when the marshal
plnched me and kept me three weeks. lie
sent me home, but when I got back to Port
land took the first chance 10 ship east again.
At La Grande sneaked around. afraid the
marshal would see me and pull me again. and
when the passenger pulled through 1 made a
run and got the hind coach. A big crowd
was at the depot. Iknew EN- all. The mar
| shall was there, and ran to within fvefeet OF
him without me. seeing him or him seeing me.
he yelled at me:
Come here you d-p little rascalY
lie grabbed at me: but i was too quick for
pulled out and turned around and put my
fingers to my nose and grinned at HIM You
ought 10 have heard the crowd yell rode
IL tie 6rakeoeam al the way, and at some Of
the loves got on and shined boots, | made
IS atsPoeatello, Idaho, in one night. When l
got 10 n ansas City made one jump to
Chicago on the Rock Island Route--woEked
II slick, you bet. got into Chicago on
sept. I, and l wasn't broke. either. sold
papers souvenirs, and hustled and made
enough money to buy new suit of clothes
ana had way-up time.
The night that Carter Harrison was
killed by Prendergast, l made KILN, You
know he was murdered about $3.50 at night,
ana Chicago paper got out an extra edition.
mad u and with it bought papers. 1t made
dickens of a big stock, and hired an ex-
pressman for 81 90 to drive me TO the fair
grounds. l kept a stiff lip, and the fellow
thought had a pocketfuI of stun: he didn't
know he was dom the haulin' on jawbone He
drove me down WABASH avenue, and i stood
up IN the wagon and began to yell like the
mischief:
,,Extral Extra All about the horrible
assassination Of Carter Harrison"
You ought to have seen the people buy
EN-. got as high as 25 cents a pa per. We
arrived at the stony Island avenue and Sixty,
third street entrance to the grounds at IL 80
clock. Just as the people we're coming out,
and hollered like everything about the ex-
tras. Well, say, if had had loo more pa
pers could have sold them. l was done up,
though. had yelled so much that l was
awful hoarse and could not talk. l gave the
expressman 81, and then blew in some. That
night when went to bed and counted up
had S37. gave some Of it to the kids who
! had helped me out and bought myself and
I another kid some new under
clothes and other stuff and then
PAID month board ahead. Then 1 took
the rest of the dough went to the fair grounds
and sported. went into. the fair sixty times
and never paid my way but once. l saw
everything-Tlffany' exhibit, the big Cana
dian cheese. the Krupp gun exhibit the May
| flower, Santa Maria and Nina; that old Morse
battleship, the great 1i2-nlile locomotive $50;
had two rides in the Ferris wheel and took in
the Midway Plaisance. won't tell you what
! did there, but / did everything and saw
everything. left Chicago last Saturday and
came right through on the same train, get
ting home about an hour ago. You see, some
fellers hid me in the seats when the cons.
came around, and got through all right. Oh,
| did EN- all up Red wasn't in 1t at all But
he can tell whopper when he's a mind to-