New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-21
YEARNED FOR BROADWAY;
WILL TRAVEL $4,000 MILES
Negro StoWaWay, lured by Call
of white Way Going Back to
Barbados Via BuenoS AyreS.
NOT PERMITTED TO LAND
His Ambition Was to See Bert
Williams Perform and Shake
Hands with the Great
Jack Johnson.
NOT PERMITTED TO LAND

James Norris. a husky negro OF Bar
bados, sailed for Buenos Ayres yester-
day. a prisoner on board the Lamport &
Holt liner Vasari He had no desire to
go to Argentina. His longing was for a
glimpse OF the Great White Way, that
part of Broadway OF which he had read
and heard so much. lie wanted 20 see
Bert Williams do his pantomime and
monologue and to shake the hand Of the
great Jack Johnson. but all this costs
money when one is at Barbados eighteen
hundred miles from New York.
Norris tried 10 save some money. but
it didn't come exactly quick enough for
him 10 buy a steerage ticket 20 New
York. He tried for years TO get that
ticket. but on May 10. when prospects
didn't look any better than decade ago,
he gave way to his yearning for the
Great White Way and stole aboard the
freighter Rossetti. There he settled in
well with the coal.
1t was dirty berth in the bunkers'
but. buoyed by the call of the Way ana
the thoughts of seeing Bert and jack
Norris held out for five days. 1t was
hard iob for Norris 10 keep himself
beyond the reach of the trimmers' but
hunger forced him out of his hidins
place. and he asked for food. with nun
ger came detection, and Mr. James Nor
rle was locked up when the Kossetu
co-,e n her dock In Brooklyn on Friday
morning.
When told that he would have 70 go 10
Ellis Island Norris was delighted. lie
thought the journey thither would DC
through the Great White Way. and ne
would have at least the pleasure OF
olinon.e Of i 10 pay him for fiTe weary
days in the stokehole.
The route from the ship 70 the island
however. did not lie through Broadway.
Norris saw the great thorouGhfare where
its south end comes 10 halt at Bowling
Green. but neither Mr.. Jack Johnson nor
Nr Bert Williams happened to be visit
ing the Custom House at that particular
hour.
Norris saw the Statue of Liberty, Ellis
Island. Staten Island and Bayonne, all at
the expense Of the Lamport & Holt Line.
BEFORE he is returned to Barbados he
will have travelled at the company's ex-
pcnse some thirteen thousand miles.
The immigration law requires that any
alien stowaway arriving at this port
shall be returned TO the port of origin by
a steamship OF the company that brought
him here.
As the Rossetti brought Norris here
from barbados. he was ordered dcportcd
to Barbados on the Nasari, OF the same
line. which took him away yesterday
The Vasar will not call at Barbados on
the trip south. 80 Norris viii be carried
to Buenos Ayes distance of GDo
miles. Captain Cadugan Will have to
+ keen the negro on board until the Nasari
starts again for New York and put him
/ from Buenos Ayres.
/ The Ndsari also took 20 Rio de- Janeiro
Yesterday fourteen rebcllious stokers
4 from the Brazilian steamship Topajoz.
who were detained as prisoners at Ellis
Island Tor two weeks. The men resent
cd their detention and Captain Cadogan
WAS requested by the immigration Off
.ioIs 10 Keep them under lock and key
until the Vasari got beyond the three
mile mark from SANDY Hook
AS the Vasari wil not touch at any
hu, Brazilian ports before arriving at
pio de Janoiro. the men viii have no
oharce 10 escape into foreign territory.
The Brazilian consul requested Captain
Cadogan To- lock mem up before the
shin gets into santos ana Informed him
,hat the police Of RI" de Jsneiro would
arrsst them in the hny oi kio de Janeiro.