The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1924-06-27
TAR HEEL BOY SCOUT
IS TALK OF NEW YORK
Publishers l3-Year-Old Son Invades Big City
Single Handed, Lands Job in Conven-, :
ton, and Gets Written Up

When w. 0. Saunders, edi-
tor and publisher of THE IN
DEPENDENT slipped away
to New York the other day
to enter a hospital fora GER
tain treatment, it wasn't on
the cards that everybody
should know about it; but the
editors thirteen year old son
Keith has spilled the beans in
a big way. ~,
knowing New York 80 well him
self, Mr.. Saunders had no qnalms
about taking the boy along aud let
ting him see New York by HIM
self while dad laid up In the hos
pital. And Keith made such good
job OF seeing New York by him.
self that he attracted the Alteration
of New York newspapers, got aim
self photographed and wrote up In
The World, The Times, The Herald.
Tribune, the Bulletin and other
papers, telling all the world among
other things that his dad was In
the hospital.
Not only has this thirteen year
old Elizabeth City boy seen New
York. but he has personally met
and talked with as many celebrities
In II week as most North CarDlinians
meet In life time, meeting among
others In single day Governor
Smith, Franklin ID. Roosevelt. Tom
Taggart, Tex Richlid, Josephus
Daniels, Mayor Hylan. VIII Rogers,
and hosts fothers. He tackled
Tex Rickard for Job as page at
the Democratic National Conyen-
tion and when Tex disappointed
him, the boy went on his own ini.
tiatlve to AL Smiths headquarters
and got himself fixed up there aud
is having q whale OF II time this
week strutting his stun In q pages
uniform In Madison Square Garden.
Hut let the New York papers tell
'ihoiG Of the story. Thc-Nrw York
World suys:
"I.et those among you, whether
residents or visitors, who consider
1t difficult to find their way about
In New York City, paste In their
cumpnign hats this chronicle OF vii.
liam Keith Saunders, thirteen-year-
old native of Elizabeth City. n. O.,
here. on his first visit to. any big
town and '"doing" the metropolis
alone and unnided save by an oc-
casional COP.
Keith, as his family and friends
call him, has been here since sun.
day. When he returns to Elizabeth
City next week he will be equipped
to act rs guide, to the next Carolina
contingent that comes a.visting us.
Hikes 10 Coney Island.
without fear, escort or lost mo-
tion he has travelled from the Bat.
terry 10 the Bronx, from Coney Is.
land to the Hudson River aid iron
the WOolworth tower to the Hud-
son tubes. His itinerary included
the Aquarium, the museums. zoos.
Hippodronie, Grants Tomb and. the
Statute Of Liberty. as,
"IIis political lcanings toward
william G. McAdoo were consider
ably shaken yesterday by warm
handclasp and welcome from Gov.
Smith and Franklin ID. Roosevelt,
whereas ut Mr. McAdool, head.
quarters IN the Vanderbilt Hotel he
received a souvenir bandanna. but
learned with regret that Mr.. Nc.
AdoO was Mt luncheon.
although the averade boy OF
Keith's age: alone in New York for
the first time, would not venture
far afield. Keith unhestitatingly
hits the long trail In any direction.
lie Is boy scout and attributes his
ability to find his way about and
take care Of himself largely to his
scout training.
Saw Prize Fight Free.
"Undeterred by darkness. he has
been OH the go nightly until long
past Elizabeth City bedtime. We'd
neslny night he jou'rryed 70 tho
velOdrOme. found "a ScOutnIastGr
who helped him get by the door.
man and saw Romero.ltoJas out
point Joe StOessel.
Thurstlay night ihc bought a
ticket for kid Boots" at the Earl
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