The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-09-02
|STEALS PASSAGE Y
\ on SHIP TO SEE
| HER SICK FATHER
| Pretty Little Miss Rachel
III Sayre Stowaway on
In the San Juan.
/ BOUND FOR PORTORICO
Had No Money, So Just Hid
on Board Until the
Ii Vessel Sailed.
30 UNDFOR PORTORICO

When the steamship San Juan Of
the New York and Porto Rico line
sailed from New York Saturday she
carried . pretty. dark-haired girl with
. square. purposeful little jaw. who
seemed as eager to avoid observation
~ an clipping heiress. Somewhere in
the bowels of the vessel she found a
hiding place. and. since her name did
not appear on the pursers list, none
knew that Miss Rachel sayre. fresh
from q Canadian convent, was a pas
ssnger..
The San Juan was slipping past
Bandy Hook Just about the time that
Mrs Henry L. Sayre. in her apart
ment at No. 5N West One Hun
drsd and Thirty-sixth street. decided
her daughter. usually punctual. had
stayed for luncheon at the home of
some friend and had neglected the GUS
tomary telephone call. At midnight
the steamer was we'll on her way down
the coast and Mrs. Sayre. distracted
By anxiety. was keeping a lonely vigil
ct the window.
IN the morning Mrs. Sayre kept the
telephone busy with calls to friends OF
hers and OF the girl. None had seen
Miss Rachel but one had a suggestion.
Rachel" said this friend, was tell
ing me abe was greatly worried because
of her fathers III health. She said she
Thought II was her duty to go to Porto
Rico and nurse him. Perhaps she start
"a. on the impulse of the moment"
4Ap NO MONEY, BUT GOT THERE
JUST THE SAME.
but she had no money" objected
Mrs.. Sayre. so it's quite impossible.
L,'Vhe often asked me IL she could go,
Y Vt It was impossible. I told her-simp-
~ Impossible. You know a civil en-
g1heer doesn't make a salary that will
much more than support himself and a
family. and a sick civil engineer makes
nothing at all. We Just had to make
the best Of It here. away from him,
end pray"
sure was Mrs. Sayre that no I'M
exbeoted windfail could have started
the Sirl on . sudden Journey southwark
that she thought Of enlisting the aid
\ * the police. She was Just about to
% 20 tho station house yesterday when.
~ the door Of her fat. she bumped into
. young man. He asked her IL she was
Mrs. Henry L. sayre.
~ am a representative of the New
York and Porto Rico Steamship Com
pany." he said. when she nodded. I'VE
have received a message from the cap
tadn Of our steamer, the San Juan, say
ing that a Miss Rachel Sayre has been
found on board-a stowaway. The mes
sage was picked up by a wireless sta
ton In the South and flashed on here.
From. It We understand that Miss Sayre
IL alike without money and baggage"
And Mrs. Sayre changed her mind
about going to the police station. She
told the young man. who seemed a
sympathetic person. how she had been
separated from her husband for eigh,
years, because she could not endure
th6 climate OF the tropics and because
NJ could not find employment here.
what 10 going TO happen to Miss
Rachel Is not known definitely, but II
% assumed by those who often have
admired her square. purposeful lit;ie
saw. that she Is going to reach the
side of her sick father at San Juan her
empty pocketbook Notwithstanding.