Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-09-21
BOY ENDS WORLD TOUR
Youugster BUNS" His Way
Across the Pacific Twice
and Also to South
Africa.

On capital of 80 cents ana an ir.
rcprcsslblc wandcrlust. james Frs
kline. eighteen years old has lust
completed II tour Onc and one half
times around the globe lie arrived
in New York yesterday as full Of tales
of strange adventures rs IA Marco 20.
10. and with more money and hotter
clothes than he possessed at the in.
ccption of his romantic journey.
"My people were drowned In the
Galveston flood he said. land that's
what made me leave home But I'm
going to get off the road now. TRAY
cling is not funny like II used To bc.
II is easy when You are Young. but
not now. I'm getting too OLD"
That is the way the adventurous
youth sums It up.
When he left Galveston five years
ago he was barcfootcd boy Of lhlr.
teon. He crossed the great state or
Texas on freight train. but changed
TO the top OF passenger coach nt
I'll Paso. and journcycd through To
Los Angeles on the Southern Pncific's
fastest express. by working n, odd
jobs and boarding the lAind baggage.
the bumpers, or the trucks. he made
San Francisco lust as The United
States transport Thomas was about
to sail for the Philippines.
Late one night he united row.
boat hidden under one OF the docks.
and rowcd himself out to whore the
big vessel was moorcd. lie climbed
up the hawscr Grain into the shin
and concealed himself within can.
vas covered lifeboat. Here he found
bareback. provided in advance for tho
shipwrocked. anu he subsistcd on I,
until discovered II thousand miles
from shore.
He was permitted to 80 ashore on
tho Island of Guam. but failed IN got
bnck on the boat. AMI was left ono
among a lew hundred white people
III midocchn. a government supply
lpat picked him IN. and no worked
Tor The mess until he got to Manila.
He attached himself to the commIsnry
OF n military company. and toured tho
islands.
Tho transport which took him from
san Francisco brought him hack. In,
nc MD himself as n stowaway on tho
Shcrmnn, and crossed the Pacific
again tn Nagasnki DESPITE the vigi.
lance OF tho crew. he Rlippad off the
snip' ana hrihed Chinaman 10 row
nm ashore. He saw Kobe and Yok-
onhma ana crossed the Janan Soa 10
Shanghai, and thence up the Yellow
Snn
Tho youth tells OF meeting with n
Chinnmnn who owned sailing nonl.
Try craft. on which he raised ducI.e
and sold thom I'm convenient por,s
rho Mongolian Pavc him lob and
landed him in Hongkong. where ho
caught pnck"' from Calcutta. Work.
Ing ut everything from ''cloaninr no
tafocs to monding rigging" ho Jour
moved from India to Lisbon. Gibrolicr
and AlAyandria A party OF tourists
picked him liz thcrr. and he was chr
ried on camel bnck to Cairo "to 500
tho nvrnmids ana graves"
Crossing to Consiantlnnnlo hc
boarded n smiling vessel for canciown
and spent several weeks IN Sonth Az.
RIGA, washing dishes in n Kimberley
restaurant for SO wook. A fishing
schooner transported him 10 sydney
ana Mellnnrnc. AS part OF cargo
nj wool. he made tho long Journey
back tn San Francisco. His Itinerary
from tho const here included the city
ri Salt Lake. st. Paul Kansas CITY
Galveston Chicago. Cincinnati. Nor.
folk and Washington.
I'm going IN get n ioh and sniiIe
down now" he says,-Ncw York
American.