The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-02
A CHEAP TRIP ABROAD
HOW TWO BOYS, WITH ONLY $40,
WENT TO EUROPE AND BACK.
to Work Their Wny-NOt Safe for
Every Boy to Undertake.

Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal
MINNEAPOLIS. Aug. 3O.-Probably not
every two boys could take a trip to London
and Paris and return from the western
part of our country on $40, but the sort of
boys who would undertake to do it are the
sort of boys who could successfully carry
out their plan.
Last June two Minneapolis boys. Hassel-
tine Donaldson and Robert Keyes, both be-
longing to well-known families, and both
members of the high school, determined to
see London and the Paris exposition. Their
capital stock consisted of something less
than $40 and an unlimited amount of pluck.
Their first step after gaining the consent
of their parents was to secure work which
would take them to Chicago. This came in
the shape of job of caring for cattle en-
route. At Chicago they found chance to
care for carloads of horses to New York.
The work was different from any that they
had ever undertaken before, but they had
fully made up their minds before leaving
home that they would allow the kind of
work they were given to cut no figure, so
that it was honorable, and would help them
on their way. They found that they could
live very comfortably on two meals of
plain, substantial food day, and, as they
spent nothing except for real necessities.
they had used very small portion of their
original capital when they reached New
York.
At New York they found the freighter
Minneapolis about to leave. The name
seemed to them good omen, and they sue
ceeded in getting work once more caring
for horses which were being shipped. The
horses were of all dispositions, and as they
stood facing each other in two long rows,
with only a narrow space between, the
boys had to be on the alert to keep from
| being bitten; in fact, young Reyes did re-
ceive one quite severe bite. But, on the
whole, the boys found the work COMPARE
| lively easy, and after ten days of it they
were in London. still with almost their en-
| tire sum Of money. This was encouraging.
A WEEK IN LONDON.
| A stay Of a week in London drained their
purse somewhat, for they visited all the
| sights which attracted their interest Then
| they started for the Paris exhibition.
| For the first time they were unsuccessful
| in paying their way in work, and the cash
| fare for crossing the channel was $3.50
| each; included return tickets.
| At Paris their difficulties increased, for
neither of them understood or spoke
| French, and they were depending wholly
| upon their own resources, for they knew
/ no one in all France. An Englishman di-
iected them to the exhibition, and they
spent four days taking in its sights. There
| was no chance In this strange country,
| where no one could understand them or
| make them understand. for securing work
and SO, after filing the four days as full as
possible with sightseeing. they returned to
| England.
Upon going to the dock twenty-six miles
| distant from London. at which they had
landed. they found the ship on which they
had come over about to start on the re-
turn voyage. In spite OF the fact tina,
| there are said to be 1900 Americans IN Lon.
/! don willing to work for their passage
| home, the boys were again successful. but
their success proved to be Of a nature
which might perhaps cause them to hest
tate about undertaking 1t again.
II their being so readily hired on these
various occasions was due In any DEGREES
10 their being Of q different class from the
tramp element, they were never told SO
and as a matter of necessity they were
accorded the same treatment as the resi-
Il the crew.
Yours Keyes was given scuilsry work q