Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-10
WILLIAMG0LDSMITH'sTEAvELs
Has Seen Much Adventure During the
 Past Five Years.

Has Seen Much Adventure During the
 Past Five Years.
 After an absence of some years. Will. liam, son of Andrew w. Goldsmith. carrier and general jobber, 80 East Clay street. is home. They were years of experience and adventure, sight seeing and peril There were times when he would not give five cents for his chances of living five minutes long CT and again there were times when the world was quite rosy place to him. About four or five years ago Goldsmith left here without much knowledge of the world. The Spanish war was on and he thought it time he should see some of the world. So he shipped on transport. saw some ser vice in Cuba. and when after half q dozen journeys to and from Cuba he saw an opportunity of going to the other end of the world, the Philip pines, took it. It was the longest trip of the kind he had ever taken and it was by no means the most pleasant, and among the first things that pre- sented themselves to him upon arriving at his destination was how to get
 
 fore the vessel in which he arrived would depart, and as the walking was decidedly unsafe, even at that time on shore, Goldsmith made up his mind to see what he could in the interim The more he saw did not incline him to q change of mind and he was not sorry when he found himself homeward bound after few months in Uncle Sams new possessions.
 Goldsmith's next appearance was on a coast liner from New York to the south and in this period he visited some of the scenes of his former occu- patton while on board the United States transports plying between Tam pa and Cuba.
 He had seen so much of the sea by this time that he had determined he was progressing very slowly, if pro- gressing at all. His occupation kept him down below" whereas he desired to be up above" He learned a good deal, however, on the coast liner about the machinery that drives a ship through the water Tn fact, he had made up his mindlto become an engi- neer
 After several months experience on q below" on one of the big ocean liners. While in. this occupation he had many chances Of enjoying the sights in mer rie England. Every change he had made so far served to broaden his field of travel. He was accomplishing what he had set out to do. see the world, and he was seeing 1t to his hearts con- tent. But what pleased him more T, rfrr<F+ from his superior officer, and thus by degrees he began to see his ambitions realized. for before he quit the ocean liner he was employed in the engineer ing department and had obtained good deal of information about that professional
 Goldsmith then determined to see the gold fields of Nome. and hS went west to carry out that idea One day in San Francisco. waiting for ship
 bound for the gold fields to tlIrnnp. he saw an opportunitv to go to A,i.iralia 1 td0wn below On this ship, but in the engineers room,l and his wages were larger- than ever before. There
 were gold fields in AH;s,A:Ia asweIf as ;n Nome and by all accounts thpy + easier to reach Golden dreams were his as he sailed across the Pacific He saw the glories of Hawaii and Hsn0- lulu. He saw the great Pacific iuafI l it's moods and finally he reached his
 far-away destination.
 l He did not go to the gold fields. how
 ever, and it was a long time before ae came back. As long as he lives le | xxriI! ,.aY,aor,,I,nr bic ,.of11r,, vouaro HI l ship was in the Golden Gate of Sal l Francisco when French liner ran f
 down The ship was lost and many were drowned. c lismith was r the l greater part of day at sea on a log, 1 with one of his legs broken. He was picked up more dead than alive and spent sixty-eight days in hospital in San Francisco before his leg was ! strong enough for use.
 l Goldsmith was every inch a sailor l now and when he got the opportunity 1 he was looking for when he set sail for l Australia he did not let it go. This l time he shipped as engineer on l steamer plying between White Horse and Dawson City in the Klondike,
 which position he held when he start 1 ed for home. The run from Dawson 1 City to White Horse takes about two and half days, but from White Horse ] to Dawson City takes only about 1 twenty four hours, so strong is the cur. 1 rent in that direction. The trip either way is exceedingly 1 dangerous Every mile is a mile ofs awful peril, but particularly so on the run from White Horse to Dawson City. From November to about April the river is irfpassable with ice and some l times the way is not open even in May. Goldsmith's vessel is tied up l for the winter and he is home taking l his ease and telling of his adventures l since he was last in Waterbury.