The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-07-02
BOY IN BOILER
Makes Trip DER Sea and Escapes
Cremation.

| cremation.
Rivaling the tales of mythical for
tune hunters is the experience of Il
little Austrian stowaway in one of
the boilers of the Umbria, which has
just come into port. After the lad
who is l6 years of age, had travelled
$4,000 miles in quest of America, he
at last was put i'm the hands of Il friend
who promised to care for him.
His name is Bozo Gacino and he
comes from Dalmatia, province of
Austria. His wondering began more
| than year ago, when his father. Il
small farmer, gave him 100 llorins and
| told him To seek America.
With great glee the little Austrian
left the village OF ScbenicO, for he and
| his elder brothers quarreled cOntinu
ally and he had friend in America
whom he longed to join. After spend
ing thirty of his iiorinS he reached
| Trieste, the sen port. where he fell in
with an obliging fellow who for the
remaining 10 llorins agreed to embark
Bozo for America. BoIO gave up his
forins and the stranger disappeared,
leaving discouraged little lad To re-
turn to Dalmatia.
Gacino'S father then apprenticed
him 10 IL druggist. but the boy soon
wearicd OF long | ours and small wages
and ran away to Trieste, where he hid
in steam ship bound for Egypt.
| In Alexandria he slowed away in
/ n. I
week later Then he crawled into the
| hold of the Cunarder, SaXOnia. Upon
reaching this port last spring he was
speedily deportcd after he had fleet
| ing glance at the busy harbor.
When he was taken back to Liver
pool he evaded the English emigration
officials and for twenty days lived oil
crliStS found in the cutters, but al
| ways keeping weather eye open for
an American bound vessel.
Fortune smiled upon his efforts ON
the night of June l3, Just before tile
Umbria sailed. He crept upon the
deck looking for hiding place. y
lantern was flashed in his face and the
sentry. believing that he was one of
the cabin boys, ordered him below.
Without realizing his danger. the boy
crawled into boiler which furnishes
steam to the donkey engine. The
boiler was not used throughout the
voyage, or otherwise the boy would
have been burned TO death. Some
friendly Stokers discovered his pre-
sence, but instead Of disclosing his
secret they fed him durGA vOy-
age. -
On Thursday, however, sNechan,
the refrigerator engineer, climbed on
top Of the boiler and proceeded to
hang UP some of his washing TO dry.
Just as the engineer was preparing to
climb down he was startled to see a
head bob up out of the opening in the
top OF the boiler and then disappear
again. McEechan crawled over to
the manhoic and peered into the dark
ness inside the boiler He could dim
Nv discern the outlines of person,
and he shouted To him TO come out.
Receiving no response, the engineer
attempted to reach inside and grab
the boys clothing, but was severely
bitten for his pains.
The engineer, satisfied that some
thing was wrong, went TO Chief En-
gineer Hardy, displayed his bleeding
fingers and reported the occurrence.
Hardy, thinking he had mad man to
deal with, called for volunteers to
descend into the boiler and two of the
StokerS responded. DIR. Charles Bur
land, the ships surgeon, was also call
ed and stood by to render his ser
vices if needed. When the StokerS
got inside the boiler they found that
the boy had crawled underneath the
tubes on the top of the furnace. After
IA struggle and some tight squeezing
past the tubes they managed TO get
their prisoner up to the manholc en-
trance, where he was quickly pulled
out.
All Iaughed when they saw the sup
posed lunatic. He was locked up in
the steamships hospital and when the
vessel reached port Il. vigorous search
for the bold lads friend was made.
/ He was soon located in Harlem anG
signed papers which permitted the
| young Dalmatian to remain in the
/ ITDitp6 StItpS