The Portland daily press., 1895-04-09
JOHN DAWSON STARTS FOR 'oME.
He Had blooming and Bloody
Time on This Side of the Atlantic--A
Woman Who Was Ready to Fight for the
Sake sof Peace-Small Boat Fishermen
Helping Out the Market.

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| "This reminds me of 'ome," remarked
John Dawson yesterday as he stood on
the Grand Trunk wharf and looked out
over the water.
The view from here?"
mo the weather. This is like 'ome."
| and there was almost longing look in
| his clear, honest eyes. At that moment
John Dawson Of London, England. was
thinking of his distant home
| John Dawson was well dressed,
stoutly built young fellow of about
twenty, and he came here with the idea
that he could take steamer direct to
London. He also hoped to find a steamer
| ready to sail, but being disappointed,
took it quietly, observing that it would
be all the same in one hundred years, a
remark so entirely correct that it car
| ried conviction with it. John Dawson
WON'T mind it bit one sshundred years
from now. By that time he will he sim
ply avery dim memory, that is providing
he is even that.
John -Dawson's story was very sim
pie one. Apparently he had but two
terms at his command with which to
express approval or dissent. If thing
pleased him, it was "blooming," ii the
reverse it was bloody and sometimes
the two ran in together.
He left blooming" England, and
went over in the "bloody" steerage of a
steamer to "blooming" Halifax. From
there he drifted to "bloody" Manitoba,
where he was hired by blooming"
farmer to work ON a blooming" farm.
The farm and the farmer were "bloom-
ing" but the country was very "bloody,
and he shook the dust of that part OF the
world from his feet, and wandered about
"Quite few miles, and finally brought
up in Toronto, which struck him as dull,
but blooming" From there his ill luck
took him to Chicago, where bloody"
bunco clan cleaned him out of every
blooming" bit of money he had except
"two .pun ten," which happened to be in
another pocket. He had check, of
course, but "the blooming cop told me
the bloody thing wasn't worth a rap"
That sad bit of experience led him to
send cable message ! to his " blooming
gov'nor" over the water, who promptly
sent him the necessary funds, and gave
him no end of trouble before he got the
draft cashed, as it was the hardest kind
of hard work for him to prove his iden-
tity. s.
That was last summer, and thinking
he would kill a few bears before his re-
turn, he started for the Rocky Noun
tains, but only got as far as the bloom
ing" city of Omaha, where some bloody"
gam blers nearly cleaned him out. just
at the critical point his luck turned,
and he was "about $40 ahead of the
game" when he pulled out and asked
one of the party to take dinner with
him. That individual was a blooming
SPORT" but he proved giver of good
advice. ;. He told me-" said John Daw-
son, "to get out of that bloody town
and to go back 'ome. He said, did that
blooming sport, that I didn't know
enough to stay insthat bloody country
and grow up with it. I thought the
bloody country was about as big as it
was likely to be, and hadn't grown a
blooming bit for years and told him
so"
The gambler explained his bloody"
meaning, and after thinking Elt over,
John Dawson concluded that his advice
was richly well worth the taking, and so
he left the "bloody" place. and in time
got work in the stock yards at Chicago,
as blooming rounder up" of cattle.
He didn't like the "bloody" business,
and so few weeks ago started for home.
He was in blooming" Montreal for a
few days. and then came to this bloom
ing" city only to find that the q" hloodyn
steamer wasn't going to London.
"I'll be glad when I get 'ome," he
said, I'D rather be in blooming os-
pitaI at 'ome than to own a bloody
farm in Canada"
He was directed to Union Station
car, as he proposed to take the next
train for Boston, and by way of encour-
aging him. il was suggested that he
would have fine lot of stories to tell af-
ter reaching his home. He frightened
up at once, and admitted that he should
have blooming lot of them. He adj
ded that his father had "tidyn bust
ness, and was anxious to have him come
back and help him.
The cargo of the Partisan is being very
rapidly put on board. There can be no
picking and choosing now for the freight,
good, bad Fand Indifferent must be
cleaned up. There is still a good deal of
hay to be taken over, and yesterday a
large amount of Canadian cheese was
loaded. There was no freight specials to
this city over the Grand Trunk yester-
day.
The pulp brought here by the Bessie
was mostly discharged yesterday, and
started for Berlin Falls 20 the mills of
the Glen Manufacturing company, there
to be made into ppper.
1t was very quiet day along the wat
er front. A bout the only excitement
was row that started ON Commercial
street, but was scattered along all the