Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-21
FACED THE WORLD
Experience of Two Orandsons of
Judge Brennan, of Mus
catine.
HOME Is IN NEW YORK CITY
Mother Says They Have Been Read
ing Too Much and Playing
Too Little.

eve ran away to feel the beatitude
of facing the world alone" was the
explanation given by two grandsOns
of Judge and Mrs. w. f. Brennan, of
Muscatine, when found in the Grand
Central station of New York City
recently, after taking what the boys
called an expedition like that of
| Ulysses"
The two lads who are aged Il and
16, are the sons Of Mrs. Elizabeth
BisseI. daughter of Judge Brennan,
and in recent issue Of New York
paper, their experiences as runaways
are related.
The New York paper says:
1.-TWO typical American lads, with
little more courage and vocabulary
than is usual in boys of their age. end
ed a two weeks runaway trip yester-
day in their frightened mothers
arms in the Yorkville police court.
Masters Clifford and Malcomb Bis
sell, aged IA and 10, live, when in
town, with their mother. at No. 327
West Eighty-ninth street. They are
students at Trinity school where
they are preparing for Columbia col
| lege.
| Left Summer Home.
1t was from their summer home in
Norwalk, Conn, that the boys started
out, two weeks ago, on their bicycles,
mot to have adventures in the vulgar
sense as one of them explained yes
terday, but to feel the beatitude OF
facing the world alone"
Beg pardon?" stammered the hear
er who faced this grave lad of IA.
'Beatitude, sir" was the severe re-
lsponse-"happiness.
Il should hate to think" continued
the young traveller, that our two
weeks"
Expedition" suggested the older.
Exactly, expedition, should be
treated as though we were out hunt
ing for Indians. Rather, if it must be
printed, would we like to have it told
as though we were wandering about
like Ulysses; and l must insist that if
you interview us you will report us
cum dignitate.'
I'VE left Norwalk,' continued the
narrator, with practically very little
money
1--WE sold our bicycles for 81. and
as it was very pleasant night and we
freely, we had supper and went up
to Central park and slept behind a
clump of bushes. There was a great
feeling of eXhaler''-
''EXhilaration," suggested the audi
tor.
Thank you, that is it. We felt it
very much in being out i'm the free
air. We recited our poetry-we are
both poets, you know-to each other
in low tones, because we knew if the
police should hear us we would be
driven out.
Secured a Room.
1--WE got a furnished room that day
and the next day we both obtained
jobs. My job paid me 81 week. I
had to carry laundry. l rather liked it
at first, although it wasn't dignified.
but later it become disgusting when
had to go to fiat houses and shout
up the dumbwaiter to people to send
the money down. They wouldn't al
ways send down the right amount.
and when l demonstrated, they would
throw things down at me. gentle
man could not stand that kind of
treatment, so / left
The two young travellers were in a
bad way when on Saturday night a
friend of the family recognized them
while they rere standing near a radi-
ator in the Grand Central station. a
policeman took them to the station
house and sent word to their mother.
They both said they were very glad
to get home, although they did not
regret their expedition"
The mother said: "The trouble with
the boys is that they have read too
much and not played enough"