The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1901-06-04
He Is Thirteen Years
Old, Owns and Edits
a Newspaper, Has
$4,000 at His Sole
Command, Is Cir
cling the Globe, and
Gets Into a Row with
keene on Politics A.
ter Getting a Check
from Sage.

That is the honest truth. would not
bring MIN TO New York.
have never drank. nor smoked, nor
sworn ] cannot say that l never told
800 copies per issue a; home and 4 cir
culat!on OF l.0,,Oo all through the
country. This Is no editors nsh story.
either.
Globe Trip ~. own Plan.
go, ny tirst idea o. going around
the world when read abou, others
whp We're going. and got everything
ready. Their ! told father and mother.
Ny father didn't object. My. mother
and cried. and couldn,, get her 10 con
consented and | started.
IL sent my trunks on to Liverpool.
among other things. seven suits OF
clothes and ten ovcrcoats. VIII need
heavy ovcrcoats when | gct 10 Russia.
! started on May II. came IN pri-
vatc car.
i know the officials OF the Pullman
Company and had no trouble In getting
Huraio stopped on a; III. pan.A,ner
Is very line.
m. to the Waldorf. He asked. DO you
work ihcre?'
l looked 1t him hard and said: You
worked ,h.r.y
The man a, the railroad station who
directed me 10 the cab told me that
cab % Wall stree, and the cabbv charged
mo ~. \ little later cabman carried
me the same distance for 80 cents. and
then ! knew ! had been stuck.
Called On Russell sage.
then went 10 Russell sase's Office.
sage. was asked. What name. WI
! answered Richard E Murphy. ad-
dress Waldorf-Astpr,a."
Then ! was admitted.
"a" an old man sitting a, a desk.
did not know II was MI. Sage. because
o: the clothes he wore. | said:
Mr. Sage; have heard great non!
In Wall street. and ! wanted to see ard
MY boy h, said. II wish tina, we're
srns en; n. panic has cut me
I sa!a: II thouyh! you had little TO
lie answered - was In Il g,,ca,,
had
who caused the panic?" | asked.
MORGAN" Mr.. Sage answered. "and
I am afraid the trouble Is not over yet.
There. may be more "hcn ne comes
back
i asked him now long he had been In
business.
''Sixty.six years. was mig answer
lie took down books ana showed me
the railroad and other concerns he was
connected with.
How ic Got the Check.
then told him about ms paper and
naked him to subscribe. He said he NJ.
Ways declined sisch Invitations. but that
AZ ! way the youngest editor In the
tc!tcd States he would subscrit.. Tor
himself and every one IN the Office for
ten years. n. then gave me a check for
either So or 3l5?. don't know which. |
deposited the check with Samuc! f.
kecch. a broker on Aston Court. and
also a check for s. D0. against which he
will issue letters o! cecdit for me-
thanked Mr; Sage and said Good.
BY, He asked how much rebate
would allow him on the subscriptions.
soOI business man.
Interviewed James r. iteene last night
In the pal garden at tho Waldorf l..
was introduced 10 him hy Father Dlcey
We got talking about politics. There IL
always trouble when | meet a strolg
Republican Ike him. He thought trusts
ard Imperialism were good things. ]
hate them and told him what
thought OF them.
He got mad. and he said things mat
made me- very anRry. FINALLY. said:
mir. Kecnc, wouldn't you rather be
a plain honest farmer. wearing homo
spun clothes In Missouri, than a rich,
ksokcr. wearing .Syoning droAs, In cha