The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-17
YOUNG GILHOOLEY
AN AMERICAN NOW
StOwaway Lands at Last Tn.
der Wing of Woman of the
Same Name.
WHISKED OFF TO FARM
War Waif Will Have Every
Chance to Make Good in
Adopted Land.

hlCndel 1llnOoley mas attained MS
hearts desire. He won't have to spend
the rest of his life sailing the Atlantic
Ocean like Flying Dutchman of mixed
| Irish and Belgian descent Knocking at
Uncle Sans door and getting the icy
hand again and again. 1t certainly did
| begin to look as II Mike was fated to a
! watery career, for when you want TO be
an American and your home such as It
| is, is In Brest. there Is nothing to do but
| take the first ship that sails. Taking
ships had got to be a habit with this
energetic young stowaway, by Intention
on the other side and compulsion over
here but he can drop the habit now II
he wants to. As the adopted son of
Mrs. Marian Gilhooley Curry of Cleve-
land, Ohio. re can call his marine life
of with this his ninth voyage, and pur-
sue a peaceful existence on dry land
forever more.
Peace and Mike have had scant &C
quaintance heretofore, but when Mrs
Curry appeared yesterday at Ellis ISL
and. where the lad has been sojourning
since his arrival October on the trans
port Orizaba. and told him that her trip
10 Washington in his behalf had been
successful and that Commissioner Can't
netti said she could bring him into the
country, he vowed that from now on the
gentle lamb would have nothing on him
for good behavior In fact, since early
morning. when news came that the kind
lady with middle name like his who
lad miraculously appeared on his hori-
zon aud taken up the cudgels in his be-
half was coming over to escort him to
the Hotel Vanderbilt, Mike had been
hard at work fixing himself up to look
q a mir
Dolls I'D After Chow.
The minute he finished his morning
choW Mike astonished the Ellis Island
laundry staff by asking to be allowed TO
wash and iron his blue sailor suit Then
he demanded his shoes, which had been
taken from him because he had used
them to kick In the door of the ship's
Orig, where he was confined as a stow
away. and putting them on he proceeded
10 give them a good shine. The Ellis
Island barber was visited next, and one
OF Mike ingratiating grins melted that
artist TO the point of trimming the lads
rough locks and giving them a dash of.
the nice smelling stuff that Mike insisted
on.
Then young Gilhooley allowed serenely
that he was about dolled up to go to the
Hotel Vanderbilt, and he put in the time
till Mrs. Curry arrived taking lessons
from the island chef in absorbing chow
without getting It on his face-beinR
worried. in spite of his nonchalant bear
ing, at the prospect of the public din
ner in the hotel which some gay young
gobs on the island piously assured him
would be his first ordeal in this the land
of his dreams
happy boy was the slxteen-year-old
lrish-Belgian when Mrs. Curry appeared
with the $500 bond required by law.
Meek and docile the boy who had out
witted ships officers any number of
times. who thought nothing of jumping
off Ellis Island and swimming for the
Jersey shore in the pursuit OF American
citizenship. who had been characterized
by the island people as "a liberty motor
in breeches" stood by while Mrs. Curry
completed formalties with Superintend-
ent Baker. and then trotted after her to
the boat.
To Farm IL for while.
What the curious folk al the Wander
bilt saw when he stepped through the
entrance was lad of stocky Belgian
build with an Irish cast of countenance
a reserved, almost bashful lad, who cast
down his eyes and said little Meekly
he allowed himself to be taken to the
roof and photographed but he heaved a
big sight OF relief when Mrs Curry
swept him off TO start his Journey to
New Milford. Conn. where he will live
on the farm OF Mrs. Currys sister till
his newly adopted mother decides what
school is best fitted to contain him
Mrs. Curry says he is going 20 have a
chance to learn to do what he wants to
90. Mike has not yet decided what that
s For long time, ever since the dread
full day when a German bomb destroyed
Mikes home in Charleroi and killed his
mother-his father was already dead
and since drifting about with the Ameri-
can douShboys over there convinced him
that they and their relatives would be
pretty nice folks to live among-ever
since then. Mikes mind has been SO filled
with the desire to land in America that
he has had no room for any other wish
Now he IL an American, and while on
account OF birth he can't be President.
there is nothing else. Mrs. Curry says,
that he can't aspire to IL he has It in
him.
Escapes Public Dinner.
Mike, much relieved that the public
dinner he was dreading was not to take
place said goodby to Mrs Curry with a
heartfelt assurance that he was going
to be a good boy on her sisters farm in
New Milford and cut out smoking and
crap shooting and not set Are TO the hay
with cigarettes or demoralize the
ROSTERS with bad language. Mrs. Curry
said after he had departed under the
care of n friend of hers who had volun-
ttered to take him to the farm, that she
wasn't worried one bit over his alleged
inoorrigibility