The evening times., 1896-09-21
No knowledge of How He Got From
Ithaca to New York, ut Which
Place He shipped on Cattle
Steamer-Is Home Again and In
Perfect Health.

Will Tue Wllitii tilt ObbP man
self is unable to explain satisfactorily
According to the statement made by
Esbon H. Rev, the young mans father, at
the time when the first definite news OF his
son reached him, he went to New YORK
after leaving Cornell. engaged passage IN
a cattle ship and worked his way To Bor-
ieaux, France. AT this place he secured
cmplo YIN cnt with an electric tirm that was
about to erect an electric plant in Central
America. He sailed from Honduras i'll the
early part of lS95, visiting Jamaica, Mar
Unique and Cuba, and then returned To
France, where he contracted to look after
the electric machinery OF tramp tradinG
ship. bound for the East Indies
MI. Rew's statement also was to the
effect that on the day when his son
disappeared, october 2, 1894, the young
nian felt an Irresistible desire to leave
and go to some place where he could
perfect himself in French and German,
the languages he felt himself deficient in
in college.
HIS MIND a BLANK
These statements, which We're made 10y
Mr.. Rev from information contained in
the letter written to him by his son, after
being told by the detectives that his parents
considered him dead. are corrobOrated by
the young man himself
When asked to explain his movements be-
teen the timeof lea wing Ithaca andreaching
New York, however, he is unable to give
any account of his wanderings. Fur
space of several days. he declares, his
mind was blank. From the moment Of
setting out from the lower end of Cayuga
Lake untn he found bimself aboard the
vessel bound for France he says be can
remember nothing.
lie came to his senses to find himself
on the ocean. His story is told in sncb
a straightforward manner that 1t is be-
lieved by his parents, and it is not known
whether he walked or Tode from ithaca
to New York or how many days he took
for the journey.
Possiu!s some OF the tales that Were rife
Of young man answering his description
having been seen in various sections OF the
State Were really founded on the fact that
he had been there. He is unable to tell
whether or not they are true, however,
and this part of his waIderings may al
ways remain a sealed book.
Aside from these first few days, young
Rev tells the story Of his adventures in
detail with great miuuteneSS. His educa-
ton enabled him to find friends amoug
class OF people who knew " him. and threw in
his way opportunity for profitable employ
,nrnt. and from and through whom ne sue
ceeded admirably in learning the Ian
qua ges, French and German his lack Of pro-
ficiency n which had so worried him to go
away.
urArTu pENEETTED Py TIRE TPIp
lie has worked ha rd in his absence and
has made money He has seen the world,
and has returned more Of a man at twenty
two than most men are az thirty. From be
ing a rather sickly boy, whose fOndness
for outdoor exercise was caused in a great
degree hy his anxiety for health, lie has
developed into sturdy, healthy speci-
men OF physical manhood.
His features, however, have lost little
If their tOyiSh expression, alth ough he has
gained probably fifty pounds in weight, and
is bronzed and tanned several shades dark
er than his naturally dark complexion
During all of his wanderings he never
changed his name nor endeavored to con
cell his identity in the least, and it is
to this fac alone that his discovery is due,
for the only cIew that the detectives who
.Iad followed him about the world We're
able TO gain of his whereabouts was the
TACT that a young man giving his name had
shipped on board a French vessel at Bor-
deaux, bound for Ceylon.
Their agents at CeyIon met the vessel and
Identified the Young American as the man
they were loo king for. Young Rew's
contract with the owners of the vessel
bound him 10 remain with the steamer un-
ill she returned to Southampton, but he
wrote from Ceylon to his parents that as
sucu ;rs he reached Southampton he would
leave the steamer and take the first trans
Atlantic liner for New York.
Hcw well he kept his promise may be
judged from the fact that tetween the
arrival Of the French vessel at Southampton
and his leaving that port on the American
liner New York only two hours interviewed.
Hctiid not even waitto cable to his parents.
but came at the earliest possible moment.
AtNew York 10 time WAS lost, for after
reaching there on Tuesday he spent less
than an hour in the city, taking the first
tram for Buffalo. He wrote Il postal card
i'll New York advising his parents that he
wascunIing, but the card di dnot reach then.
until after he had been at home for several
hours.
TO RETURN TO COLLEGE.
Young Rev viii return to Cornell on
Wednesday, The decision as to whether
he should go back or not was left almost
entirely to the young man himself. 1t was
not difficult question for him to decide
He had seen in his own experience some
thing of tie advantage which the man of
education has over the uneducatcd, for it
was his moderate amount OF learning that
had enabled him to maintain himself and
carry out the object for which he went
away.
That he should want to acquire higher
education than he had already received
was not to be wondered at. He Will enter
the freshman class, as he did two years ago,
but lie believes that his experience and his
proficiency in many of the sub jects of study
will enable him to drop year from the
ordinary college course, so that lie will
practically be but Il year behind the boys