The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-05
COSMOPOLITAN NEW YORK.
A Meeting Place for Old Friends From
All Over the World.

FROM the New York Sun.
Half dozen men were discussing the
different places they had been in and
their experiences in them. One of their
number, an Englishman. remarked that
New York was the most cosmopolitan city
on earth and the place above all others
where a man was likely to Aleet friends
and acquaintance he had known in other
parts of the world, Being asked why he
thought so. he said:
while I was in the Australian mounted
police some years ago l had IA chum
named Alexander. We left the police to
go to the Blaney gold fields We worked
hard but had poor luck. My friend
chucked it at last and started for Sgd
ney. I subsequently learned that he
shipped from there as an A. B. on board
a wind-jammer bound for San Francisco.
He knocked about there for while and
again shipped on a sailing vessel to Hong
Kong. China There he got place in the
Chinese customs under Sir Robert Hart
where he remained for about three years.
Having saved some money he went back
to England. but becoming restless again.
ne came to America, Joined a filibustering
expedition and fought with the Cuban
army for two years. 1t was reported that
he was killed in Cuba and I happened to
see notice of his death in a paper.
''In the meantime ! had stuck it out at
lhe ulsSIISS anu HdQ Il DIT better luck
after he left so that when the heat and
drought at last drove me out | had a little
more than G200 in my pocket. ] started on
foot through the bush for Sydney, a dis
lance of nearly 700 miles. At Sydney
took passage for South Africa, where l
went into partnership with a man named
Edwards, who had been an officer in the
19tl hussars and had served through the
Egyptian campaign for the relief of Cor
Iny1 1tn T,I,
and while the boom was on did well.
When things began to become fiat we sold
out Edwards returning to London.
bought an interest in a cargo bound fer
Calcutta and shipped as supercargo. l
was lucky in this and took a trip to
Japan. From there ] went back to Eng
land via the United States.
when | came out to New York, about
IS months ago. I didn't know soul here.
A few days after my arrival l went into
saloon. and while waiting for my drink
heard some one call me by name and
ask me what | would take. You may i'm
agine my surprise, on turning around. to
see my old friend and chum Alexander.
After we had shaken hands he told me his
story and said that he had been wounded
in Cuba so badly that he was not expect
ed to live and hence the newspaper re-
port of his death there. He invited me to
me there was another Englfshman living
there who was a very decent chap. and
whom | should be pleased to meet. I was
more than pleased to meet him, for it was
no other than my Johannesburg partner,
Edwards.
1.-THE three of US took the elevated one
night not long afterward to go up town
and stood on the platform Edwards was
telling us a story about his Egyptian ex-
perlence. and when he had finished the
who had heard the story, turn
ed about and remarked:
:" L gave the old woman 10 years. In |
military parlance that means that he had
had 10 years in her majestys service.
(which hranch?' asked Edwards.
Army, Captain Edwards, 18th hus-
sars.'
Edwards at once recognized him as |
man who had been in his own regiment i'll !
Egypt, and the conductor had recognized |
his former captain before he spoke
Il could give you dozen just such in
stances that have taken place since I |
have been in New York. Such is not the
case in London, less in Paris and still less
IN Berlin, in all of which cities ! have
lived, A panhandler ] met in the Bow
cry l recognized as the son of wealthy
man of my town. a waiter in a cafe here
knew in pretty good society in Paris: a
son of a man of title is driving hanson
.ab; a clerk in a grocery store reminded |
ne one day that he had served me for
three months when I was in Berlin. !
nave found them here in all sorts of po-
sitions. run across them by chance, and
low many there are whom ! knew for
nerly and have not run across ] can't
ell, but there must be many. All the
waits and strays the c.ever and ambi-
ious. the good and the bad-somehow
hey all seem to come here at some period
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