The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1902-06-24
TRAVELS $4,000 MILES
BECAUSE OF QUARRELlNG
WITH HIS BROTHERS.
Boyu Ga0lina Sails ON Cmbria aS
n Stoway, Hidden In onc
of the ships Boilers.

Nllw YORK, JUNE "a Rivallng the
tales of mythical fortune hunters Is
the experience Of little Austrian
stowaway In one of the boilers ot the
Cmhria, which has aust come ip;o
part. After the had, who is l6 years
old, had travelled $4,000 miles in quest
Of America. he was at last put in
the hands Of friend who promised
To care for him. His name Is BoEo
Gaoltno and he comes from paimatia,
a province of Austria His wander
ings began more than year ago when
his father. small farmer, gave him
100 tlorins and told him to seek Amer
lea. With great glee the little Aus
trian left the village of Sehenico, Tor
he and his elders brothers had quar-
relied continually, and he had a friend
in America whom he tonged to join
After spending so Of his tiorins he
reached Trieste, the seaport, where he
fell in with an obliglng fellow who
for the remaining 20 llorlns agreed to
embark Bozn for America. Bozo gave
Rl h.A ssts ~ ttS.
appeared leaving a little discouraged
lad to return TO Dalmatia, Gaolnos
father then apprenticed him to n
druggist but the boy soon wearied Of
uong hours and small pay and ran
away TO Trieste where he hid in a
steamship bound for Egypt,
In Alexandria he slowed away in
the Fabyan and reached Liverpool a
week later Then he crawled into the
hold of the Cunarier Saxonia. Upon
reaching this port last spring he was
speedily deported after he had had a
lleeting glance at the busy harbor,
When taken back to Liverpool he
evaded the English immigration off,
cials and for 20 days live on crusts
found in the cutters, but always keep
ing a weather eye open for an Ameri-
can bound vessel Fortune smiled
upon his efforts on THE night of June
Is, just before the Umbria sailed, He
crept upon the deck hooking for hid
| ing place. A lantern was flashed in
| his fact, and the sentry believing that
he was one of the cabin boys ordered
him below. Without realizing his dan
ger the boy crawled into a boiler
which furnishes steam to the donkey
engine This boiler was not used
throughout the voyage. otherwise the
boy would have been burnt to death
Some friendly stokers discovered his
presence, but instead OF disclosing his
secret they fed him during the voy-
age.
On Thursday. however, McKeechan
the refrigerator engineer, climbed NJ
on top Of the boiler and proceeded to
hang up some of his washing to dry
Just as the engineer was preparing 10
climb down he was startled to see a
head bob up out of the opening in
| the boiler and then disappear. Nc
Keechan peered into the darkness in
side OF the boiler He could dimly
discern the outlines Of a person and
I he shouted 10 him to come out. Re
ceiying no response the engineer at
/ tempted TO reach inside and grob the
| boys clothing, but was severely bit
/ ten for his pains, The engineer sat-
isfied that something was wrong, went
Ito Chief Engineer Hardy, displayed
/ his bleeding fingers and reported the
occurrence. Hardy thinking thai he
/ had a mad man to deal with called
/ for volunteers to descend into the
boiler and two of the stokers respond
/ ed Dr. Charles Buriand, the ships
surgeon, was called and stood by to
render his services if needed. When
/ Iile SJOktTS got ihSlue VI Vlt DollSl tHty
found that the boy had crawled under
meath the tubes on top Of the furnace
After a struggle they managed to get
their prisoner up the manhole en-
trance, where he was quickly pulled
out.
All laughed when they saw the sup
posed lunatic. He was locked up in
the steamships hospital and when
the vessel reached port vigorous
search for the lads friend was made
He was soon located in Harlem and