BOY'S LONG TRAMT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 222, 16 September 1905, Page 13

BOY'S LONG TRAMT.

1 TO BLACK THE BOOTS OP THE KING. A youth carrying a handbag and a bootblacks box de<-orated with hundreds of • coins called upon the Liverpool correspon- ; dent of the "Daily Mail" and introduced 5 himself as Frederick Racifc, of San Franr cisco. He said he left home a year ago 5 with only five cents (—id) in his pockets, in order to tramp to Washingtou and black i the boots of President Rooseveitf In the various American towns he visited i . he sought out and blackened the boots of . local notabilities and then toot care t« hare i j the fact advertised. In this way his fame 1 I went before him. so that when he presented . himself at White House President Rooser velt was good enough to see him and to put , his feet one after another on to the coindecorated box and allow his boots to be t polished by the lad. At parting the Pre- ; side-nt shook hands with him. i Racili also saw and blacked the boots of i Admiral Dewey, and then he tramped to 1 , New York and got a berth as scnllion »n 1 the Cedric. In that way he worked his ; passage to this country, i "And what do yon propose to do fcere?" the correspondent asked. t "Well," said the yontli. "I gness I mean i to black the boots of Edward the Seventh. - I am jest going to Windsor to see him." j "And after that?" •Well, I am going to Berlin to black tae i boots of the German Emperor.*"