The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-10
a TALE OF ADVENTURE.
An EiEhteen-Year-OId Lad Has Been
Around the WorIh


/ ARLINGTON, y J.. June IO-Tbere
F.. dropped from freight train here yester-
: DAY boy of eighteen years who. since
/ ne left his home IN Arlington fourteen
months ago. says he has Travelled on an
/ original capital Of 50 cents around the
world. as tramp, stowaway. and worker.
he IS Harry Kemp, who left home .
hlsh-sch"oi graduate. having distin-
suIshed himself in English and Latin. and
mas returned bronzed, manly looking
! adventure content to settle down. The
lad : the son Of W E. Kemp.
he says he embarked March %. 1900 on
the ship PestaIozzi- bound for a South
/ American port, as cabin boy. The shin
went from South America to Sydney. Aus
traiIa' where. tired by the voyage. Harry
deserted. BY deserving he forfeited his
wages but on the maxim that a fair ex-
cLAhGe IS no robbery, he appropriated
the captains pistol and a carving knife
AFTER short stay in Sydney. during
winch ne Travelled much through the sur
rounding country, Kemp learned Of the
Boxer outbreak in China. He became a
StoWaWay IN the steam@- Maori King
bound for Taku with a cargo Of cattle
Inc lad was found and given work. hav-
ing several narrow escapes from the
horns and hoofs Of the Australian steers
At Taku the Maori King was halted bv
the blockade OF the Powers and cornDeIIed
10 unload its cargo into lighters. Deter
mined to reach China at any cost. the bow,
with considerable difficulty. boarded one
of the lighters and again hid. this time
without discovery. He reached Tfentsfn
and Pekin in time to witness the Iootinc
Of these cities
he missionaries were as bad as the
rest Of them Kemp said. MANY of
them had their trunks packed with silks
and other valuable property
All the food and stores were under mill
tary guard, and after existing without
food at Pekin three days the youthful
globe trotter says he went to an Amer5-
can officer and made known his condi-
ton He was furnished food and given
employment on steam launch at so 2
month Soon firing Of this. Harry drew
two weeks salary due him and returned
10 Tientsin.
He was undecided where to go. when he
saw a company Of marines marching to
the United States battleship Indiana.
which had been ordered to Manila. KennD
followed them and hid away in the hold
Being found by one Of the officers. he was
set at work at odd jobs.
Kemp stayed at Manila q month or
more, seeing much Of the life of the Fill
pinos. On one occasion he was fired l1pou
from ambush by robbers. or Iadrones- rs
they are known in the island. and barely
escaped with his life Awaiting himself of
a good chance. Kemp hid himself on a
tnited States transport and was soon
landed at NagasaLd Japan. He there OBJ
tanned a position as a waiter in a hotel.
and after an accidtNt he was discharged.
He next spent several days in a pleasure
Trip around Japan and then became =
SlowaWay ON United States trausDort
"hlch later landed him in San Francisco
Kemp walked "a Los Angeles and after
W5'id Jumped freight trains to come East
lie rode through Arizona and New AIcyf-
CO. AMI SAYS he was In Beaumont. Texas.
" hen the OH boom was at its hefghr.