A LONG STROLL

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 203, 26 August 1913, Page 7

A LONG STROLL

NEWSBOY TURNS GLOBETEOTTEK. 'A young man with a Canadian accent, and a bundle of books under his arm, dropped into the "Star" Office this morning, and announce'! in a casual manner that he was walking round the world. H« gave his name as Pittsie Ryan, aged 28, born at Alberta. Edmonton, and, before he started on lii 3 long stroll he was a newsboy for 22 years. He left the land of the mapls leaf in April of last year, and already he has covered 23,000 miles out of tile 75.0091 he hits to accomplish before )«■ can lift I the 30,000 dollars he says he is to receive when he gete 'back. There were j seven of them in the w.\aer when the I thing started, tout the other six dropped i out, and Pittsie is left to accomplish! the pedestrian feat alone. He went; through Canada, the United .States, and ] Mexico (where he fell among folk who took him for a spy, and acted accordingly), and now is passing through on the Mataira. for Australia. He is due; hack in 1917, and save he is confident he! will lift that trifle of dollars that is: hanging to the job. His armful of; •books, proved to be his collection 'ofj autographs, many of them being ac-1 compared by the weird seals public bodies and others use in America. Pittsie ie working his paeaage in the Makura, ■ and ekes out a living at other times by selling papers and postcards. He looks fit and well on it, and the life of a tourist evidently suits him.