The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-21

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AAcHEN. Germany. March ~
This n to inform Mr.. Inc Mrs. voss
OF Orange street. Newark. ~. J.. that
their boy In probably safe and well.
Set right side up with care be vas
started on his way 20 Holland mis- ar
ternoon BY the new American consul
AZ Aachen. Henry Damn From Rot
lterdam he hopes he can sail ~ cabin
boy for America
The adventurous Adoiph voss. aged
Is. presented himself at the consulate
toward noon today. He had a pair or
mid blue eyes. an honest smile. and
undaunted soul N not much else TO
recommend him. unless you counted
shivers AZ an asset
I He was ragged but clean. and ne
had 40 pfenniss 90 cents) In his
pocket.
Without preiiminaries he said. II
ran away from home last June" The
absence OF diplomatic extenuation In
the announcement Immediately caught
Mr.. Damm's fancy. and he set the con.
suisr machinery going In Aldopn's be
half.
with a big red yea on IL and a handful
Auf laHrf ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
him TO the good offices OF European
powers and potentates and the marks.
supplemented by the generosity OF his
fellow men-whom Adolph has found
a reasonably dependable quantity
viii keep him In food till he reaches
Rotterdam.
With the wanderiust strong within
him the mild eyed Adolph left New
ark last June and sailed for Bremen
as servant to a ships oficer-did his
washing and shined his shoes for him.
He said he thought there would b
more chances to get on In the world
In Europe than In America. especially
as he could speak both English and
German. Didn't ! think. he asked,
that II would have been so II the war
hadn't GOMEZ
Anyway. he was caught in the vor-
tex. and. so far as ! could get the
hang OF his laconlc narrative, he has
been wandering t~rustfully over the
distracted face OF the earth ever since.
earning a few pfennigs sometimes py
doing odd jobs about farmhouses or
by running errands and carrying par
GELS for soldiers. When he had no
money he ate with the soldiers and
other good natured people.
The wonderful part OF IL H. that
without a shred of passport OF any
kind OF Identification paper he has
moved about pretty much as he listed,
keeping out Of prison and the aims
house. and never encountering n re-
DUN until he tried TO cross the border
into Holland this morning.
There the German military authori-
ties told him to go to tbs Aachen DO
INQa and H. WlN- ---a 4
consulate. When he first came into
the Office he broke down n cried
over the passport problem, then
Strengthened up and answered ques-
tons with the precise ia wohls" and
the rigid posture he has picked up
fro mthe soldiers.
AS an observer OF European Affairs
In war tire he has accomplished
what many correspondents, both
German and neutral. have been I'M
able TO accomplish. even when they
credentials In every pocket.
IL Is the more remarkable tina he
should have escaped arrest, since In
every In in the Rhineland hang mill
tary proclamations ordering the de-
tention OF all vagrom people who
stick TO a job only two or three days
and then row on to the next village
asked him whether he had found
things interesting.
Kind Of" he said in his placid way.
but no whe wanted TO 20 home.
he had one dose OF bitter bad luck
One day when he was wandering In
the fields around Koln he ran straight
across a rife range where some re-
cruits were at target practice. he
never seeing the targets at all. A bull.
let grazed his knee and brought him
down.
"Wha happened them" I asked.
They took care OF me-" he an
swered.
Sent you to a hosptsI?"
Yes. sir"
Then he held HIS knee.
1T was here" he said. II mended
the pants"
So he had. The two inch tear made
By the bullet he had gathered to
gether with awkward stitches.
He said the bad knee hadn't made
u any easier for him TO do his tramp
ing. especially as besides that hurt
he had once got his foot run over by
a taxicab.
He said that he had kept the money
he earned on shipboard as long as he
could and after that-well, here ne
was II seemed that even IN war time