The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-13
LUCK IN GLOBE CHASE.
Notice of 100000 Legacy Follows
Denver Man Around the World.

George F. MacCreary, assistant man
ager of the St. James Hotel, has just
received letter that was mailed at
Angola, Ind, Jan. IA, 1903 1t follow
ed him TO different cities and towns
in both hemispheres, and during its
travels actually went around the
world, little matter of $4,000 miles,
and covered, on the side, separate
and apart from the trip around the
world, something like 27,50O miles, a
total of SO, 100 miles.
The letter was from Charles May
er, an attorney in Angola, and con-
tanned the news that ten days before
mailing Mr.. MacCreary's uncle,
George Franklin MacCreary, after
whom he was named, had died, leav-
ing him sole heir to $50 acres of
land in the most fertile part of lndi-
ana-adjoining the village of Angola
three independent farmers tele-
phone lines, stock in the Dugdale
Can company of Indianapolis, with
a valuation of $4,000, and 81 900 in
actual cash One hundred and forty
dollars an acre is most conservative
estimate of land values in Steuben
county, SO that, giving the indepen-
dent telephone systems valuation
of 1000 each, young Mr. MacCreary
is considerably over 100000 richer
today than he was before his uncle's
death.
A few days ago young MacCreary
received a note from Attorney May
err, who is now practicing in St. Jo-
seph, Mo-, telling him that by prov
ing his identity he may come into his
fortune at any time. Mr.. Mayer also
asked Mr.. MacCreary to meet him in
ST. Joseph, and both will go from
there to Indiana.
The saying that truth is stranger
than fiction was never more conclu-
sively proved than in the relation
of Mr. MacCreary's experiences since
July IS, 1888, when, lad of 10, he
ran away from Angola, going to In
dianapolis with the intention to see
and join Barnum's circus. But
freights are slow and seldom onstime,
so the boy concluded to come West
and reduce the Indian supply. A mis-
understanding of information given
him by a switchman in the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad yards in the Hoosier
capital put him on stock train for
Philadelphia instead of train for ST.
Louis and the West. To facilitate
his riding the conductor put his name
on one of the stock bills as imam in
charge" The destination of this par
ticular consignment happened to be
Liverpool, which explains how young
MacCreary made his first Trip across
the Atlantic.
Rolling stones not only do not
gather moss, but as well they do not
write letters and not until his arrival
in San Francisco thgee years ago,
after four years of deep sea travel
as an american blue jacket, did the
runaway communicate with his par
ents, who are now in Albert Lea,
Mimi. He celebrated the event by
going to sea. spending the next two
years before the mast, and, remem-
bering now TO mail his parents note
or souvenir postal card from nearly
every port he touched. This explains
how the gIobe-trotting letter follow
ed him to Frisco, Liverpool, New
York, Wellington, New Zealand: Ho-
bart. in Tasmania; Biseria, Algeria;
Boo Azar, Morocco; Acera and Lib
reville, on the slave coast of Africa;
Mahanora, Madagascar; Sofa. Portu
guese East Africa; Port Jackson
Australia; Succadana. Bornoe; Ben
coolen. Sumatra; Takanabe, Japan,
and scores of other ports