The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-30
TRACE LOST BOY
FOR 5000 MILES
Railroad Officials Make Glad Poor
Mothers Heart.
CHILD LOST ON LONG JOURNEY
PARENT, IGNORANT OF ENGLISH
TONGUE, SUFFERS LONG.

IL humble little home in Eureka
there was sunshine yesterday
where for weeks there had been
only gloom. The tears were gone; the
sorrow. the heartache, all were
forgotten in the rejoicing OF a mother
over q son who was lost and was
found again He was only a lit
tie, sandy-complexioned. freckle-faced
Finn boy, with ill-ftting clothes and
a snub nose but he had made some
of the biggest men on some of the
biggest railroad lines IL the United
States and Canada sit up and worry
about him
Jan. s the Oregon Short Line rail-
road company learned for the first time
that this Finn boy was in existence
The information came in a letter from
Agent Stack at Eureka to General
Passenger Agent Burley. Mr. stack
announced the arrival there OF Fin
nish woman and her son. aged 8 years
The woman was insane from grief.
Constantly she cried something in her
mother tongue, the same thing over
and over and over. At last a Finn
was called as Interpreter
He listened a moment and then his
stolid face quivered- She says: My
boy, my boy. my leetle SON. - he said
And that was all the most persistent
efforts could wiring from her The boy
who accompanied her gave a faint clue.
He said he had started with his mother
and brother from Finland for Amer
lea They reached this country all
right but at the third train, as he eX-
pressed it. the brother was taken away.
he thought perhaps it was because
of smallpox His own name he did not
remember or could not speak intelli-
oil
Officials Take It Up.
The letter from Agent stack was
turned over to Assistant General Pas
senger Agent D. 5. Spencer. who wrote
at once to General Passenger Agent
/ Bell of the Grand Trunk railroad, with
headquarters in Toronto, Canada
The third train expression of the
( lad who arrived with his mother was
interpreted to mean the third change
of trains after reaching this country.
4 That would have started the inquiry at
/ Port Huron. Mich or Sarnia, Ont The
! letter to Mr.. Bell had hardly been
written when a telegram came from
I Agent Stack pleading for haste and
announcing that the lost boys cloth
/ ing was marked ID. NJ This infor-
nation was promptly wired To Mr.
/ Bell.
On that clue the Grand Trunk man
/ began his search He wired the inn
/ Scotia, and learned that a party OF
/ Firms answering the description had
been landed from an Allen line steam
er and started west over the. Canadian
Pacific. The Canadian Pacific traced
the party 10 Toronto. where it was
delivered to the Grand Trunk. Then
! the Grand Trunk asked the innmigra-
ton officers at Port Huron if they
knew anything about the lost boy.
4 Back came the answer that both boys
and their mother had been admitted
and sent on to Chicago.
Mother Weeps and Waits.
In the meanwhile, a mother was
weeping her heart out in Eureka
4 Hour after hour, day after day, she
mourned and refused to be COmforted
My boy, my boy, my little SON" Bel
wired to Spencer: NO trace of lost
Finn boy" but they didn't tell the
mother. Indeed, it is not probable
that she would have understood if they
had tried to tell her.
My boy my boy. my little boy
The mothers heart was breaking. One
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