The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-11-18
THIS LAD A TRAVELLER.
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Tho world, slid n BOSTON mnn 20 a parry wi
fr"pi' tie other evening
you're foolish. man. r~rli"i q chan from
Tho West M y'u want !. y NV" 'nt'''
G. and y good bt ~ naryo and you ''h ''
around the world without any diNchlp N'N"'
mind m. n.uov. Whv, lvo got q COUSIN
that has born al over ia" Cnlt"i states NM
Il nov IN Europe at Tia Paris Exposition anu
hc never had much ~ anything bat a bright
mind and n lot II rerv".
when hs was about ~ he decided that ~"
rad ae-n nl 'hero was 20 10 seen about ms
home. 1t thi, time he was Gu'te n sood-'l|"n
chap with y bright face and a shock OF req
hair which made his appearance" more or 'e~
striking. Although no had PLAYED q sT"at
deal Of hookev. no was naturally So brlsht
tina, he was pretty well educated lie was
a great lover " Shakespeare and he could
reritc the whole of Hamlet from cover 70 cover
Well, ono day he read in the paper, that therc
was o. be a hanging In Troy. Mo. and ne
never having seen a hanging. wanted 20 60
Troy was about siNtv miles from his home
He asked his father about IL and was sat on
for his pains. Then no decided n go ANYWAY.
lie only hal 10 cents In his pocket, but that
didn't make anv difference. There were plenty
or f-eiyh, trains running through his town
and they were good enough for him. lie
caught one and anIn swav TO tho hanging
without telling his PARENTS ANYTHING about
II. When the crowd gathered around the
sc1rold On 'he dav NJ the hanging th"re were
a number ~ reorle from the home Of the adj
ventl-oYs vounr man. They had como down
on rerIlqr r1ssnngA- trains, but thew did not
enjoy the hanging Ut, more than the vounoster
who had come nv freight. NV rcd-headed
relative got back home In safety and after
being SGT On good md hard by his father, he
became tho hero NJ all tho other boys In town
This gave him n tlstn FOR travel and after that
tLn-a was no koaninc h'n NJ home.
Pretty soon tho Worlds Fair came along
The Young ma1 must take II IN His father
scorcd and - make sure that nothing happened
he cut the BOYS allowance to nothing Chi
cago was u lonc way on and ten cents was
not quito enough to takc him there. the young
man thou lht. 40 he decided to save M With
Infinite pains and by doing q little work for some
q hls fathers friends no succeeded in getting
together SIC Then he took a fest freight out
Of % one nlsht and his native heath knew
him no more for six weeks When he turned
up mt home ngqir he was fat and prosperous
in appearauca and there wasn't any one In the
United States who knew more about the EN-
position than he DID No ono knows exactly
how he worked Il. for no mover vent into de-
tails He admitted. however. that he lived
mostly on bananas and other fruits which
he presumably purchased from pushcarts
He had 10 buy one admission ticket to the
Fair ground, but no more. Once inside he
stayed there until lie had seen everything there
was 10 be Soon. He hid In out-of- the-way
places at night and succeeded In eludlnS the
guards His beds were a little hard. but he
didn't mind that. for he was young and en-
thusia.tic
This Chicago experience Just set the young
man up so that there was no holding him He
had found ont how easy II was 10 travel without
money and he was looking for more worlds 70
conquer. was living at that, time In - Louis,
which is about one hundred and ffty imlle.
n letter from him.. asking Il ! would furnish
him with tickets TO the grand onern, u be would
we Would and Thought no more about. il, The
opera company came TO 81. Louis the following
week. opcpIins or Monday L3,. on Iuesdan
red-headed cousin was standing before me.
AND TiH he he sr led one ny" q fS' thcs. smile, tina.
would have silenced all reproof. nc, matter how
well deserved The boy vas clad N q 9ght
His linen was noticeably soiled md as he had
was going to make himself prescntable for the
How I'D. you come down asked him.
Got any clean dudst'1 asked,
.'Oh' yes he said. and from under his waist
coat front he began puli Ns oyt a Tat nSCs9re
" wr r,aisrn 1wSTlr,e y sh{}rt vas di.cIoecd 10 Wow Then
be reached for the bottom Of hls right trousers
long, narrow poke, down ,hi' left trousers leg
lie pulled forth a ro1oI Another pocket CON com
clean collars and q Tair of 'cuns. lie was Just
Ink" one Of those sieieht-of, hand men who Keep
riac"S' When he had finished, he wasn't quits
So fat a. before. but he was In a heap better
ssa9e ,h 70 TpG TsrSre ms lad 3ESs sd 4 t Glance y. Me = BATH.
tuh and a whlsk broom he was a pretty pre-
sentable-looking chm, and there were q Whole
rome $50 miles on a freight that didn't look as
The y9uH n o man n,G sHvi Iscs seen a. all the Gr'F r.
was in the city that he would see a few more
Of the sights, but be had no money lie had
10 lend hin a dollar lie said be diidn't want
9g It, % S,S Geq Eaya sg gse a do ! had TO saw T'P him no S1 mnss
cot ~ NJ to find a pillow on tie fur rug IL from.
young relative had sleI { there and on to .mantel
I found So cents. the change from the dol ar.
or na1,sr i NJ INV iT9 nIao a,n SI 20 arrival rrlRs IP Fei T%nm nsi laHn
coincident with the arrival, OF the east;bound
fast freicht on the Wabash, He would como
in nj all hours NJ the night. and In the morning
! would find him curlcd M on the. rug In front
Of nv crate. slceping as peacefully as though
n, the softest bed in the world The minute
he was awake he would BERN to ask all sorts
of uuestionS. In his dozen or more visits
70 81 Louis ina, year he only borrowed Of m.
all told 81 %. Two wears later he scnt re a
check for the amount, How he managed to
live was always n mystery to me or course
he had some friends who would invite him 70
dine With chem and when ha didn't get q bid
somewhere he generally tackled tho fruit man.
II waa his testimony that bananas were the
: most filing things on earth.
Even more remarkable than the wav he
ken, his stomach fun vas the facility with
which he travelled lie ALWAYS took frcights,
, aud while he never talked much about his
eynerienCps, he certainly hid mighty little
! diNcultv in GETTING around the country One
of the secrets or his success was doubtless the
fact that he did not look LIE nm ordinary hobo
Then he had tho Gift 81 hlarnev These were
: hs principal assets In handling cantsnkerons
/ hrakemcn In all his long trims te much pre-
| fe-rai to travel on stock trains especially In
winter. His pct coach. his Pullman. so 10 speak,
was n car filled with sheen II he could gain
entrance to- n closely crowded sheep car. he
would simply limb o. the hnCts Of the patiant
animals and 90 to slecD Their wool n1dr IL
/ both warm and soft for him and tho matter ~
! odors did not Interfere with his thorough en-
1 iovment ~ the situation
The most famous trim taken bv this little
l .o,,,l ap,t~a1v On lfg atr raannrpnS una IN