The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
GREAT JAUNT FOR A LAD.
4 jersey City BOY Makes the Trip
Arnr.,d TIC AnrIh

JERSEY CITY. y. J., March 13.-AIex-
aHder Salmon. fourteen years old, OF this
city has just returned from & voyage
around the world He Was nearly a year
making the trip, but IS back again with
a thrilling story OF adventure. Here IS
his narrative:
ia been just wild to go to sea for
long time. but mamma said no / WAS
a messenger hoy for the Postal Telegraph.
ana I VAS pretty tired OF it I kept ask
ing mamma and she kept saying no;
so AT last ] went aboard the steamship
Meuautic and told them / wanted 10 ship
as cabin boy.
They took me to the steward and ne
said all right if 1 wanted to go. / had
to tell en- I had no parents or they
wouldn't take me
The ship started off, but her engine
broke down and we came back for re-
pairs. I sent word to mamma then, and
She and her brother came TO see me. but
asked her to say she was only my aunt
or maybe they wouldn't let me go. She
dilnt give me away.
We got away all right the second time
! wasn't SICK a minute No sir: I don't
know what seasickness feels like. They
laughed At me because L was able to eat
so much 1 weigh 10 pounds
we stopped at the Cape Verde Islands
six hojrs for coal 1 didn't 90 ashore
There's only one tree there It's tall and
skinny and il has about ten leaves. on the
top.
The next port was Hongkong. where
we stayed one day and uRIoaded fifty
tons Of mixed cargo, Oh. I forgot to tel
You we had case Of oil N the forehoId and
general cargo aft I guess it was Sep
TENDER when We were at Hongkon2. but
you dom pay much attention TO the cal
endar when you Re at sea
Ny day work was done about
@ CLOCK at night Then / used to go down
IN the stokehOlG and have fun It's hot
Gown there, and queer. There are rats
Gown there, and they hop out of the coal
puHEeIS sometimes The StOkers Kill
them One Belgian stoker used to knock
me rats out. then put en- on a siiciag
he'd eat EN-.
Fresh meat Yer fine" he used 70
say You see, the Stokers have only salt
meat and they get tired OF it 50 they
20 10 work on empty StOmachs and that
amt good for EN-: so this fellow Tsed
20 eat rats l never tried EN- The Bel
Slan SAID they were like chicken
from HongzOng we were two months
SQiHS 10 BriStOl. England. where we stay
ed four days; then to Rouen, in France
!OI one daE- Rouen IS funny, od-faSh-
loDed place. Next we went ro four r,orTs
in New ZealanI ending at Auckland and
from there W. went light to New Gale
donna, an ISL nd off the west coast Of
australia wh're the French have a pris-
While We were there two Arab cor
vets escaped The natives caught Them
and ate them, and brought in Their "a IS
tongues and fingers to prove thai IN:
had caught them.
Those New CaIedonian natives are
hHe-iooking men Their muscles stand
out. and all they wear is a bit of chrzse-
cloth tied around the waist
We lett New Caledonia. loaded yyith
nickel ore, late in December. and went
n Tffsa mar n
coal Then We came down and went
through the Straits Of Magellan The
straits are narrow. but the waves run
very high, and over near the Atlantic
end there are big whirpools-
saw the Welsh settlement at Sandy
POINT, halfway through the straits They
nave big hocks Of sheep, and q couple
OF EhShSh Inen-o'-war 10 take care Of
the people They're Just trying 70 raise
sheep and populate the country
I saw three or four ParagOnians They
are big fellows and they don't weaS
clothes-just big fur skins over their
shoulders There's wrecked steamship
her from the water she seems to be sail
Ing along. but from the other side YOU
can see her backs broken and she's be-
ginning to break up.
From the straits we went TO St Il1cia
British West Indies. and got coal; then
came back TO New York q few days ago
They made me messrOOm steward at
HOngkong, where the regular man ran
away. He was Dutchman. and one day
he and the steward had a fight and he
hit the steward on the nose with a pan
They didn't give me any more pay for
beng messroom steward. but I CT an
honorable discharge, signed by rhe mas
ter. Henry J. Woods You see he rites:
Character for conduct. V G.; character
for ability, v G. Y. G. means very
good.
oh. the sea is fine I want to go in
the United States Navy. I'm goinz 70 try
TO get on the Essex training shin Nv
brother, Fernand. is there now. Our navy
is the best in the world