Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-17

Mourned as dead because of his
silence for a period of nearly three
years, Howard Wolf paid a visit to his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wolf, out
Caldwell's run, last Sunday. His aged
mother cried for Joy, and members Of
the family listened with great interest
ito his recital of his adventures during
his absence. He sent a postal card to
his brother, Assistant City Clerk Ed
ward w. Wolfe, two weeks ago, but
asked him not to notify his parents, as
he desired to come home and take his
parents by surprise. He has been work.
ing for several weeks at the Westing-
house plant in P~ittsburg, filling a very
responsible engineering position. He
was visited there by Mr.. e. w. Wolf
two or three weeks ago, and the latter
accompanied him to the home of his
parents on Sunday.
Mr.. Wolf is 80 years old, weighing 210
pounds, and is magnificently proper
TONED. BY trade he is an expert ma
rhinist. He is naturally of a rowing
disposition, and for four years has been
carrying out his ambition to see the
world. He has incidentally met with
enough exciting experiences to fill the
pages of a novel.
His parents last heard from him
nearly three years ago in Chicago. From
that city he went farther west, and con-
tracing the Klondike fever, accompan-
led a party to Cape Nome. He did not
remain there long, but worked his way
back to Seattle. Wash, where he ship
ped as a sailor on a vessel carrying a
cargo of wheat to Liverpool, England.
In going around Cape Horn the vessel
encountered a storm and drifted sew
eral hundred miles out of its course,
encountering a number of icebergs. The
supply Of provisions was running low,
and the crew was put on half, and then
on quarter rations. The crew wanted
to open the bins and get at the cargo
OF wheat, but the ships officers would
not permit.
The half starved crew had already
planned a mutiny when the captain CT
the vessel promised that the bins could
be opened on the following day If there
were no relief in the meantime. On
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and in response to signals of distress it
came to the relief of the half famished
crew.
After reaching Liverpool, and work.
ing a short time there, Mr.. Wolf went
to South Africa, upon a tour of adven-
ture, but remained there only about a
week. Returning he visited Spain,
France, Germany and Western Russia,
working at his trade and such other
employment as he could get. He then
returned to England.
While in Liverpool he became pos
sessed Of a desire to return to America,
and Immediately boarded one of the big
steamers about to depart. He hid for
twenty-four hours and when he was dis
covered asked for work to pay his pas
sage. He was told that unless he could
prove himself a Yankee he would be
returned to Liverpool and thrown il
Jail. While the vessel was at Quaran-
tine in New York, the Federal officers
examined him. He said he was born in
Wheeling. They submitted a few geo.
graphical questions to test the accuracy
OF his statements, and he gave such a
realistic picture of the stately Ohio and
Its seductive attractiveness for swim
mers that his case was endorsed 20. X"
Mr.. Wolf went to Pittsburg and ac-
cepted a position in the Westinghouse
plant. His appetite for adventure is not
yet satisfied, however.