New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-13
BOY RIDERS FR0uCSOME
Ahernathy Lads in High Spirits
After 2,300-Mile Jaunt.
BOTH LIKE LARGE CITIES
Enjoyed Two Months IN Saddle
and Attention Paid Them ALI
Along the Route.

little jaunt Of twenty-three hundred
miles means nothing 10 two such sprightly
boys as the Abernathys. The little sons Of
the wolf catcher. who reached here on Sat
urday from Oklahoma Oh couple of Texas
broncos, were as full OF fun and life last
night as If they had just come from
trolley ride Both had taken off most of
their clothes and were scampering about
their rooms in the Hotel Breslin- Temple,
the six-year-old, was entertaining visitors
with a ponderous volume of The Terrible
Tale of Teddy" a book which when opened
exploded a cap with a loud report Louie
Gained himself sufficiently to write letter
to Kitty Jo, back in Oklahoma City, but
left it in the middle to dash to the window
to see an ambulance go changing past
Yes, sir; we shore enjoyed IT, said
Louie when asked about his trip. He IS
only a little over ten years old, but has so
much self-reliance that he creates the i'm
preston of being older. 1T was fine. We
didn't get sick a bit, and the only time we
even saw a doctor was when one put
plaster on Temp the other day
Yes" broke in the proud father. and 1
had the house doctor look az the boy to
night. and he tore the plaster off. He says
his lungs are in perfect shape.
rs this where my lungs ISL asked Tenn
pie pointing a short forefnger al the waist
band of his trousers.
No answered Eat en- alive Jack;
but sometimes I think it's where your
heart is
"I amt tired q bit. are YOU Louie?"
burst forth the irrepressibIe Temple, and
turned handspring on one of the Bres-
Inns green sofas TO prove 1t.
faur II
Gained down the small and wild spirits
sufficiently to get them to tell something Of
their trip.
We started on April wasn't II, dad?
asked Louie: and then we went down
through Oklahoma and to the Kansas line.
It was wet and cold most of the time and
the roads were bad, but we did not mind
that part of it at all. People were good
to US all along the way, and a long time
before We got to the Kansas line we liked
1t fine We had already spent three days
with dad in Oklahoma, City after We left
the ranch, and we ride heap anyway, so
we were not tired any
When We got to Missouri we went to
Springfield and then to St Louis That was
the first real big city We saw The newspa-
per men found out that we were there, and
we have met lots and lots Of them since
We went out to Delmar Park and to the
theatre. and the Mayor met us and took
US out in a big automobile. The next
great big city we went TO was Cincinnati.
That was after we had been through Hill
nois and Indiana. We liked that. but It
was nothing like Washington and New
York We had great time in Washing
ton Mr. Taft is a bigger man than I
thought he was-a great deal bigger than
the colonel. And I think
A reporter sten1ned the flowing tide of
eloquence by asking, How many miles did
you ride in a day."
well. sir. sometimes We rode forty and !
sometimes we rode sixty. Sometimes we
went as high as seventy-hve miles, and one |
day IN Indiana we rode over eighty miles |
when the roads were so fine. I reckon, sir |
We rode about fifty miles a day
Say. dad, cen we go to Coney Island to- |
Temple was unable to hold the |
question back any longer, even though he
had asked it fifty times during the day
Yesterday the boys went to the Fifth |
Avenue Baptist Church and sat in John D |
Rockefeller's pew. Louis asked about that
last night. thus How many millions has |
he got? Where did he get It? How much |
money does he make a minute? Can he
carry it all around in bags? Does he give |
any OF II away? What does he do with |
1t? Has he got more money that Mr.. Bur |
firm. dad?'' and then paused for breath.
In the afternoon they took the long |
looked for taxicab ride but saw only a |
small part of New York. and that through |
2 drizzling rain At night they had dinner |
at the home of one of Mr.. AbernethyE |
friends and were on the way to bed at 10 |
o'clock expecting early start to-day. |
Clad in blue serge and new straw hats. they |
are very different looking boys from the |
two small urchins that rode into Jersey City |
Saturday afternoon.