The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-01
BOOTBLACk IS. BACK
IN HAGERST0WN FROM
$4,000 MILE JOURNEY

HAGERSTOWN. Ind. Dec. i
John G. HORNE, GO years old. a boot
black. and a resident of Hagerstown,
returned Monday from a $4,000 mile
trip to Japan, China, and Australia.
He went by way of san Francisco.
Through the efforts of Charles StoltZ
Of the recorders office in the city hall
at San Francisco, he was able -
obtain a passport for China in a
shorter time than is usually the case.
He left San Francisco after a stay of
one month and five days.
Our first stop after leaving San
Francisco was at Honolulu he said.
We We're here only a short time,
and then went to Yokohama. ] staid
there one week and then took the
train and went about 40 miles by land
to Toxic. ! was here about four days.
then ] returned to Yokohama, and
took the steamer to Hongkong. From
Hongkong | went 10 Picking, then to
Naeasaki
My next stop was Sydney, | went
by boat from Sydney 10 Melbourne,
Australia then back to Sydney, where
! stayed two weeks. Australia is 4
thriving country. 1t is a great coun-
try for stock. The horses are much
on the same order as those used b.
the French.
Oct %. left Syndey on the return
trip, on the British steamer Mariana
Australians Friendly.
The Australian people resemble
Americans in many ways They are
friendly, and always ready to talk tc
4 ,FgE ~
cars are in use there.
During my stay in YOkahoma anC
Toxic | had an opportunity to tall
with many people, some of the Amer
. lean residents OF Japan, and some ma
. tive Japanese. who were learning the
language. One of them took me on
to see some Of the Japanese artillery
He told me they had been making ar
tilleTy for 303 years. 1t will not bt
many years before we make war OF
your country he told me
He showed me guns ranging in siz'
from 20 to 40 inches in diameter ant
about 20 to 25 feet long.
Il told him when they got ready Il
start over here, America would show
them what she had done to Germany.
The Chinese people, and the Aus
tralians as well. sympathlze witt
America. But the Japanese canno
feel friendly toward this country be
cause this is a republic and they arr
ruled by a king America must watcl
those sharp-eyed little Japs. The!
may make a break like the Kaiser die
some day"
Stops in New Zealand.
WELLINGTON. New Zealand, was ont
of the stops made out of Sydney Of
the way home. We left Wellington
Nov. 8, stopped at Tahiti and cam
back to San Francisco, l had intend
ed 10 come back by way OF Panama
but could not purchase a ticket 10
this route.
HORNE has attended practically ey
cry exposition of note in this countr
in the past % years. Among tn
cities he has visited are Buffalo, Chi
cago. New Orleans. Portland, Ore
Seattle. Wash, Sitka. Alaska; James
town. Va, and St. Louis.
While in Chicago, shortly befor
1900, he saw a banner on the street
advertising the Paris Exposition.
took $l75 with me and made up m
mind it would have to last me bot
ways" he said.
While in France. he took side tn
g across the channel to London.
- When he first started taking thes
trips. HORNE worked his way. But o
his latest trip he was unable to d
this. and took along enough cash
pav his fare each way. Besides &C
ing as a bOOtblaCk. he beats rugs, an
spades gardens, and attends to Othe
odd Jobs about houses in his HON
town.
HORNE was born in Castine. O.. an