Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-02
YOUNG WANDERER
SENT To WHITTIER
TELLS REMARKABLE STORY
OF TRAVELS
Youth Smiles His Way Around the
World-Has Remarkable Expe-
rienee in Siberia, Man.
ohuria and Japan

with his great brown eyes smiling al
Judge Wilbur and the fine flush OF
youth playing over his cheeks, James
Robinson, IA years of age, stood ur
before the bar in the Juvenile depart
ment of the superior court and re-
ceived sentence of seven years at the
state reform school at Whittier.
The lad is the most remarkable SUBJ
ject the juvenile court has had to deal
with for many years and as he eX-
planned his conduct to Judge Wilbur
he spoke with the easy tone of the
man who is sure of himself,
James or "Jim." as he is known on
four continents, has travelled to every
corner of the earth during the past
five years and his long siege of out
door training and his hard buffets with
men of all nationalities and disposi-
tions have made a man of him.
The story of his brief life sounds like
n prize adventure story and when
"Jim" speaks of his adventures it is
with the proud tone of the blase globe
trotter and the easy language of the
philosopher. Yet while the boy speaks
fairly correct English he has the slang
of four continents at his tongues end
and 1t constantly creeps into his con-
versation.
is Blase Globe Trotter
He gave the first interview of his
life to representative of The Herald
yesterday while he sat back in the
prisoners dock of the court and beat
one ragged shoe against the other
His fair round face was the picture
of health and his twinkling eyes
showed his good humor.
WELL" he began as he showed semi
dirty hand through his towsled brown
hair and looked over at the judge to
see If the official was listening. "I
guess I don't know where to begin on
the dope. You see it's not so good a
thing to be chucked in limbo, but
there's no use in a cove squealing..
Il was born in Galveston, Tex, and it
was durn good old place to live. Me
and my dad and mann were all happy
there until 1900. Funny about that, I
had been begging them to let me go
10 my cousins at Houston and they
let me go and the next thing L heard,
was the flood and 1 went to Galveston
as quick as ] could. / was years old
then, but 1 knew couple of things
and when I saw the body of my dad at
the morgue and a bunch of weeping
women told me that my mother was
out in the ocean somewhere, know it
any other kid and / took it all in
quietly.
The women must have meant we'll
but they didn't understand me and
they sent me to the poor farm. That
was bad place for boy who wants
to see the world, and so a bunch of
us got together and made break
Doesn't Like China
II and another feller got away and
that started it. We went for the bot
tom lands, where the good people live.
and for about two months we camped
out in the woods, living like Indians
and swiping chickens and honey. We
got corn bread from the niggers and
we lived like kings Lots Of times
since then when was hungry and cold
in some corner of the world I thought
of that grub and | mos cried
well, we ducked and started alone.
l went to China on q ship and about
the third day out the cap. found me
tucked away among the coalbins. He
cussed some, but he said all right,
Kid, l guess you go to the Chinks all
right, and l said, Yes, cap, thank
you and he laughed
But ] had hard time i'm that China
1t sounds all right to talk about flow
cry kingdom and whenever I hear fell
lows talking about the wonders of the
orient turn my back and say, hell
q couple of times TO forget the treat
ment the yellow boys gave me- The
Chinks are the grouchiest mitts this
side of the other side, and all the
time l was in China | never received
even dried mackerel without paying
for it.
II worked my way out of that how-
cry digging on a boat and went to
Japan. I liked Nagasaki best, al
though some of the other cities might
look well If they were stuck out around
Bimini baths or some place as sort
of decorative scenery. The Japs treat
ed me square and gave me some grub
once in a while, but | don't like the
way they have of cutting their noun
tains up into tea gardens.
81 shipped on a merchant to Saigon,
French Indo-China. From there |
worked down to Port Said on a teak
boat. I catches a p. o. liner and
made merry England 1t was a long
voyage, but had a snap and bully
feed.
Just made a grand loaf of it through
the Mediterranean. From Liverpool I
catches a Russian transport with a
cargo mostly Of American flour. That
takes me to Sehastopol, and l works
my way to st, Petersburg.
Teaches Cossacks New Game
"That was during the war and it
was the worst yet. If it hadn't been
for the soldiers ] guess l would have
starved. ] gets in with a regiment
bound for some place at the front
The men didn't know where they were
going, and when 1 got down into ST.