Evening star., 1924-12-26
TRAVELLER, RESTING,
WORKS.AS BELLHOP
Adventurer Born to Wealth
Has Seen All Ports
of World.
By Consolidated Press.

BY Consolidated Press.
NEW YORK, December 26--In a
blue uniform, with silver buttons,
begging patrons of an exclusive hotel
here to be allowed to trek their 4g-
gage, or do any other p-earning
service they might wish, Percy For
man, traveller de luxe, who has jour
neyed In almost every corner of the
earth, 10 resting up" with a new
adventure in service" before taking
TO his worldwide voyagings again.
Adventure" has been Percy For
mans slogan and beauty" is his
quest. Journeys through Australia
Mexico, Hawaii Japan, China and
Cuba, almost every country of Eu-.
rope, Africa, South America and the
United States, with service in the
World War thrown in-these have
been life. Now he's stopping in New
York to see this Citys beauties, and
he thinks he might as we'll have the
added thrill of working as a bellhop
10 make his experience more COM
plete.
Comfortable wealth was in Percy
Forman's youthful home. He has
travelled much in state and could have
travelled more that way had not his
unsuitable thirst for new thrills led
him on other paths. A foot ball play
er on travelling team, n valet to
royalty, a steward on ship-these
are a few of life's stations he has
voluntarily occupied. Three times he
went back to Hawaii to see a certain
volcano in eruption. He has walked
miles through India to see it's most
beautiful temples and palaces.
Forman is in his late thirties.
Twenty years ago he left Australia
and since then has fed the bullets of
n revolution in Mexico, peered into
Nn1fNa M world
been one Of three in his regiment to
escape death in the frightful siaugh
ter Of Gaba Tepe Beach in the Gal
1ipoli campaign in the World War.
Thrilled by Volcano.
The biggest inspiration of his life
was the sight of a Hawaiian volcano
In eruption, he says. That made him
so sure that beauty was the only
thing that counted in life that he has
given all hts time TO seeking it since.
The jagged stalactites and stalag-
mites and webs of Pele's hair, as the
natives call the thin strings OF lava
caught by the wind and blown into
a million lacy patterns on the edges
of the craters-the spouting fire re-
fiected on billowing clouds below
that's worth going many miles to
see" says New York's newest bell
hop.
Forman was a quiet. studious boy
in Sydney 20 years ago. He spent
his time in reading about the beau
ties of the world. Then his health
demanded exercise, and he worked
until he made n championship foot
ball team, which went to London to
play and then TO South Africa
London was beautiful in its way"
says Forman. But Capetown, with
1y7d nlf q;
even more SO. 1 decided that l could
not go back TO Sydney until Id seen
more of the world, and left for the
Transvaal country when the team
turned back toward home
Then he went to San Francisco and
on to Honolulu. Germany called him
next, but travelling de luxe had no
more interest and he shipped as
steward on an ocean liner. He took
a look at Paris and lost few francs
in Monte Carlos famous 'Maisons
de Jue" and felt the spell of soft
Mediterranean nights.
Il met Sir William Johnson" he con-
tinued his tale, who was on his way
to India and wanted a valet. 1t took
some time to decide that 1 could do
the work, but it was Il new expert
ence-and ! did. We went to Bombay
and stayed there until the heat drove
every oic lillO inc
went up to Delhi, with its magnifi-
cent temples and strange dances"
Going to Sydney for visit, he
landed in time to hear the declara-
tion of war-and enlisted. He was
sent to England, and then down to
Egypt, where he camped under the
pyramids, and was transferred to
Gaba Tepe Beach, arriving in small
boat near the shore just in time for
the opening of the famous fight The
Turks, on top of an overhanging
cliff, showered shot into his regiment,
which had rifles but no ammunition.
He went on-and was one of the three
10 survive. With lieutenant's COM
mission he was sent back to England
10 train reCruits-and alternately
trained and battled through the war.
Since then Mexico, and Hawaii
again, and Cuba, Japan and China all
have seen him. Now he's bound for
Switzerland, Ireland and Russia, al
most the only countries he's not seen
when he gets tired bell-hopping.