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Show "THE PIXIIEAD KID." He Describes Some Distinguished Toung Visitors to the Fair. San Francisco Esaminer. "Seven er der kids has started for de worl's fair," said the "Pinhead Kid" of the Western Union messenger service, his eyes dancing with enthusiasm at the thought of the departure of the first party of tourists for the great Columbian exposition in Chicago. Chi-cago. The ' Piuhead Kid" has his own ideas of life, and in his view the exploits and explorations ex-plorations of Columbus, Pizarro and the other gentlemanly road agents who worked the new world for all it was worth sink into insisniflcance beside the achievements of the seven boys who started for the Windy City last night. In his slow. messeBger-boy way, the "Pin-head "Pin-head Kid" told the story of the start. "Who composed the party," aked an interested in-terested bystander. "Oh, dere's de Bart Kid an' de Larry Kid, HatcheLFace Daley, de Windy Kid, Kelley ' mebWsomS morels goneTHBut dTms 3e5nij " nnns 1 knows." "How are they.'eoing to make the journey ?" "Oh dey've got money." "How much; $3?" "Ah, naw. What yer take 'em fur stock brokers? Dey've got quite er sack. I bet dey got f 15 mebbe $17." "Seventeen dollars Detween them?" "Yes; between em?" "But that will not take them to Chicago." "Oh, dey knows dat. Dey's goin' ter make Fresno on what dey's got Den dey's work er while an' maker er shoot for Chicago." "But have they any idea how far it is from Fresno to Chicago ?" "Oh. it's mighty far." "How long do they expect to be on the road?" "Oh, er year, mebbe er yearnahalf. Dey're ail right. Yer see, der Windy Kid he's been up der road before. . He knows. An de Webb Kid, he comes from Kansas es som-ers, som-ers, an' he's been in all der big cities. Oh, dey'll be all right if dey don't get ditched. Yer know wot ditched is, don't yer?" "Where are the boys from what company?" com-pany?" "Oh, de Bart Kid, de Larry Kid, de Windy Kid, de Webb Kid an' Kelly de Club-Foot, dey's from de Western L'nion. Daly and McShane, dey's from one o' de oder companies." com-panies." "Do you know their other names?" ''Naw; dat's what we calls 'em." "Are there any other tourist parties being made up?" "Haven't heard o' any. Dis'll start 'em, though; dis'll start 'cm. Den wen day gits started youse'll wih you hadu't cussed us so much. Wait'll yer ring, an' ring, and no messenger boy comes. We'll all be Uere if dese fellers gets through. Den yer'll walk wid yer own notes." What the "Pinhead Kid" told was true. Last night between seven and eleven boys, none of them over 15 years old, drew all the money coming to them, crossed the Oakland ferry and started on their pilgrimage to Chicago to see the glories of the World's fair. Their exchequer does not contain over 15, and the brakebeams are all men's size. Yet it is a good bet that the boys will all be in Chicago if "dey're not ditched, see?" - |
