The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-12-30
Nine Year Old Boy Travels and
Lives in tho Best Hotels
MADE NO SETTLEMENT OF Bills
Proved Himself an Adept In presarlcstIon
Detective Finally Learns Ills Stcry and
Locks Kim In Cell.

SYRACUSE. Dec. s0--Seversl hotel pro-
prtetors IN New York. Pennsylvania and
ohio are still wondering how they came
10 be done up" by mere slip OF "A boy
lust out OF kits
IL seems almost impossible that a lad
n.nc years old could spend three weeks
away from home and live at the best no.
tells without a cent of money. Railroads
too. have TO acknowledge that this won
derful child got the best Of them ana
travelled in their best coaches without
paying his fare.
Frank Brigden Is the child who sue
ceeded In doing all this lie had no IN
tention OF travelling extensively when he
set ont from his home in Pittsburg nut
necessity compelled him 10 keep going,
and his bright wit conceived scheme
whereby Il could be accomplished ne
was not the boy TO appeal To the police
or the charities for help 10 get to his des-
tnaiion.
Young Brigden is the son OF Charles
Brigden. train dispatcher on the Pitts
burg railroad. who lives Ia Pittsburg.
When he was a small chad. Frank :
mother died and he was sent TO live Win
his grandmother at Conneaut, q. lie HAD
q happy home there and went TO school
and enjoyed life
A short time ago came the first cloud
for him His father married again and
sent for his boy. as he had made a good
home for him I'm Pittsburg. Frank was
put on board the train and went TO Pitts
burg His stepmother WAS good TO hlm
but he soon became lonesome and longeu
for his grandmother, who had brought
him, UP. His father insisted that Frank
must remain In Pfttsburg.
He brooded upon the situa ton FOR some
time and finally evolved the plan OF run
ming away and going 10 see his grano
mother He took the little none" whicr
he had saved up and bought himself O
suit OF clothes. Then he bought htut
satchc and was ready 10 travel Inc
clothes and satchel had taken oil hh
money. t
He knew that he could get aboard
train and the conductor would think tht
he was travelling with some one and n,
train in Pittsburg and went as far al
Erie. Pa lie went 10 hotel and haa !
meal, going away without paying Tor ~
lie then went d by tbsr tbsin lied TO co"hea''' -
lie went to her home No one respond
ed TO the bell. and he learned from IN
rtghbors that his grandmother haa g, ,,rs,', = ~ !,
aud the lad took what he shought wa
the best way out of ~ lf ne repor',o :
the police they would send him pacl
[.
that he had an uncle. William u. Mel
notte living in East Syracuse. tiNe MIL
from the city of Syracuse. and decided .
10 10 him and remain there until IN
grandmother returned.
One of hts grandmothers neighnor
gave Frank dinner and ne poaroen
train to 80 east, he was AS o,snt ~ a,y S'"us IN
train too long and got out at Buffalo. Go
ing to the Hotel Niagara, he registere
his name -,
was travelling man and would be aon
the next day and settle the bill AZ W
hotel he stayed over night In one OF IN
morninS nssr mona Game "' on to syrscuse Al q
Warner he told the same story about nj
father coming the next day, and
went SAYS John Greenway. manage
".The BOY was such bright t-lookini
honest faced lad that | could not dou'
his word. lie signed the register
John Lawrence. Fort Wayne Ind. al
said that he wanted n room with pat
and that his father was coming on u
following day ana would pay for IL. !
seemed 10 hc familiar with hotels. AZ
adn't the slightest doubt that he tra'
ejlod a graf d,al with his father.
the dining room hr behaved as peri 2
little gentleman and signed the chez
for his meals as easily az " he had be
grown millionaire There won't
any Complaint about the natter VIII
let A nine year old boy do me up ] e
orally keep still and take my medicine
The next morning after he arrived
the Hotel Warner he determined 90
by train 10 East Syrnclse. jistarch
only Ave miles. Had he bad 10 cents
could have ridden on the trolley &c" a
would have been all right bpt n pi
ferred the rail- Dad.
N happen. that the station a. u
Syracuse is called Dewitt by the rairo
company and when that station "
= csned out Frank did not know that
was at East Syracuse. so he kept on
train. He asked man who sat next
him where he was and found out
told the man enough 70 interest him a
as he happened 10 be a railroad detccti
~ was not long before he had the VIII
story.
The next station ~ which inc q
stopped was Canastota. and the dct
tive turned the hoy over 10 chic
Police Simpson of Canastota. H. ~
Saturday night IN n cell aud SUM
morning was sent hack 10 Fast Syrac
and taken 10 HIS Uncle. Here nc Ella
the whole story. keeping back noth'
He said ne didn'; want TO cheat
hotels. but he had no money a1c .h>i
he might as we'll have the hest th
vas "a 70 10 the police AMI 10 q
hack home
Frank Is still In East Syracuse. v
his uncle and IL enjoying himself
father has written. saying that h.
be on as soon as possible TO get him.