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Show A VERT BRIGHT YOUTH. He Made the Journey Prom the Plains of Texas to New York on the Sum of Fifty Cents. ' GAESIDE, WOEKINGMEN'S LEADER The Man Who Manipulated and Led the Eecent Strike of Oloak-makers in New Tork. A fine specimen of young American reliance is Master John Stacey, who a few days ago was found sleeping on a coal barge in New York and taken to police headquarters. Master John is 13 years old, and has seen considerable of the world as will be believed when it is learned that he traveled from Texas to New York city all alone, and with only fifty cents in his pocket when he started. His father, whoHves in Dallas, Tex., and he, he says, "didn't gee." John was a favorite with his grandmother, grand-mother, and for some reason or other his father didn't like it. Beatings, according ac-cording to the boy's story, ensued, en-sued, and he ran away to Bryan, Tex., and lived with an nncle. There wasn't much for him to do thure, and so one day he told the nncle that he was going to New York. No objections objec-tions were made, and with the help of a railroad conductor con-ductor he started. He staid ft day at Dallas, a few JOHNBTACET. hOUrsatSt. Louis and a day at Little Bock. At none of these places did he have any difficulty In getting enough to eat. but at Memphis Mem-phis he had to spend bis entire fortune fifty cents on meals. In Louisville he passed two days, but he didn't like Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, and was glad to be able to get away in five hours. In Buffalo he lived for five days and then went direct to New York. This entire trip he made with the fifty cents and the good will of the railroad men. There is nothing of the braggart about the boy; he tells his story in a plain, straightforward way. When he wants to do a thing, he says, he simply goes ahead and does it. He is not at all handsome, hand-some, for he has unkempt, yellow hair, a queer shaped head and hundreds of freckles. Yet he impresses one as being honest and trustworthy. |