New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1921, Page 9

SAILOR SINCE 61, | WALKS FROMN. Y. (Continued From [irst Page) mvied by men of middle ¢ . Sixty years hefore the mast have |’ 10 hardened and toughened him that h eshows none of the infirmities of what in many others would be called | A vipe old age. None who met him can doubt his statement that he is “good for 20 years more."” Astonished the Cop When the venerable old scaman, fust 18 days off a ship, the very plc ture of familiar types of sea captaing populiyr in song and story, walked up to Trafflc Polleeman 1 Wagner about 10:30 yesterday morning and ealmly Inquired the best route for ans to Hartford, that minion aw began o feel that he had eaten too much plum pudding and was “seeing things." His astonishment knew no hounds when informed that his questioner had walked in from New York the day Sons of Veterans to the Rescue Mr. Wagner, who is an active mem- ber of the L. D. Penfield Ca of Veterans, which organization hs as its basic fundamenta fraternity, charity and loyalty to soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, was at a loss what to do. He could not leave post, so he turned his new friend ¢ to o Herald represen ive, who is als a member of the same organization, and Mr. Wheeler's wandering now probably are over. Today he expected to be settled down in his future home, in Massachusetts for the balance of his life. ‘Worked on 76th Birthday Seventy six years of age, on March 13, 1921, George Wheeler celebrated his anniversary on board ship by hox- ing comp splicing ro canvas and doing other jobs which fall to the ot of able seamen. Although a member for over half a century of Kearsarge Post, G. A. R., of Boston, he still was in active service, A few weeks before Christmas his last cruise ex- pired and he decided to give up tl gea. He left his boat, the British mer- chantman Roena at Liverpool, from which port he had shipped, and on December 13, a Cunard liner owned by the same company deposited him at New York Comrades Gave Help But true to the szilor type he had 1iitle money. 1 decided to spend his declining years in the soldiers’ home at Che husetts, near his birthpla I'ramingham. He did not have enough money for earfare s0 decided to wzaik to Chelsea, trust- ing to comrades of the Grand Army to look after him at night along the way. That this was done is shown by {h nt of the husky veteran, “Al 1ys on the road T slept in before, his pes, sewing his statem \pqu. War Vets Help “I thought I'd never get out of New York,” he added, stating that he went as far as Stamford the first day. At this town he met his only rebuff from a G. A. R. veteran, who told him the way to get to Chelsea was to put his feet on the road and move on. How- ever a veteran of the Spanish-Amer- fean war, took him in, gave him sup- per and breakfast, a bed over night and started him off in the morning| with some cash in his pocket. Sunday | evening he arrived in New Britain, having turned off the main road, and spent his last dollar for a room and | breakfast in a local hotel. Sonnies on the Job Mouday morning he inquired the way from Policeman Wagner. A t phone call to George A. Wier, of 2 Cottage Place, the problem was solved, | Mr. Wier is commander of T. D. Pen- field Camp, Sons of Veterans. He im- mediately took the visiting veteran to his home, got a few of the “boys the phone, and while the aged “hik was having a dinner of Choristmas turkey a railroad ticket to Boston was procured. Mr. Wheeler declined an invitation to stay for supper and go to Boston on the express, but left on the afternoon local, saying he would get a bed in the Salvation Army parracks in Boston last night and this morning would go to the state house and arrange for admission to the sol- Afers’ home. He was supplied with a lunch and some cash and sent on his way. Wi gonc would wreek an intere Jupan [ Afrien, a not like, e [British hospltal and a few sallors’ on the er and Cantacuzene, great | thing else. G All Over the World In his 60 years before the mast Mr. | Wheeler had crossed the ocean so many times he has lost count. He has had shore leave in almost every port on the face of the globe. e has seen | the people of Arglntine herding cat- tle, has help load sheep skins in New Zealand and kangaroo skins in Aus- tralia. He has been on coffee planta- | tion In Brazil and walked on the shores of the Mediterranean. He has caught| fish In China and has walked the| treets of Yokahoma and Tokio. He has traveled the Nile with T ans and one of his last vessels was 1t, upon which he sailed the A channe! and York and return to Liverpool. Shipwrecked in Brazil U'nder an Austrian sailing master, a vessel he served on during the Civil| War, was sent down to the houth America t to capture a R-‘h(‘l Privateer and v wrecked in a storm. He. in company with three boat loads of fellow sailors, was w ed oshore on the Drazillan coast. very country | on the face of the earth that has a port, Tve been In” he sald. Narrow Jiseape When asked if he had ever been married Mr. Wheeler replied that he mever had had time to get married, 21~ though he¢ hinted at some escapades | with feminine admirers In the earlier days. “1 had a narrow es time,” he sald. “A girl propos: in leap year and 1 didn't know i Jeep year. But sne told me it 1 conldn't refuse her. She y NEW robation for six tha and then ut her on probatlon for nonths, Then | ' Wit unother .| P yoar was up and 1 A twinlkle In his eye asked permlssion to hiy s he | he udded, *f that light he had & face a frefght traln Interesting Talker A conver vith Mr. Wheeler 1s ting thing. He tells stories of Alglers, fn Canton, in on Chinese house boats, cateh blrds fn China and soenes country which ho does spent o few months in a in in England. He has been n Wales, the Scandinavian peninsula ind Siberfe, “But of all the countries face of the earth,” he says, here fsn't one can touch the good Jld United States.” City items Victrolas and advt. James ife in Tunis, in ng fish witl morc honmi Records at Morans', Lyons, formerly this city, who has been vis moth sister in Har 5 gone to Washington, D, C. to attend the coming out ball of Princess Bert) Uresident Grant, A complete Hne of (ol onolas and records, at John drews & Co—advt. Gus Meyers, Jr., has re home in moia e home reet. Mr. Meyers §s o ¢ nt in violin at Yale university, and is re- garded as one of the institution's most promising artlsts. After ting his studies he plans to take wp cor cert work. A serious accident na averted Sunday evening when a ¥ bound trolley jumped the tracks and ran into the sidewalk in fro the Methodist chu occurred just as a Chris cantata. rails, skidded on the fcy crashed into the curb, grazing o lamp post before it stopped. There were a number of people on the sldewalk in the path of the runaway car at the time, and had it mounted the curb before stopping there s danger that someone might have becn injuerd, compl The s wers ISON BREAK FAILS Auburn, N. Y., Dec. 27.—TFive con- victs, held in the death cells of Auburn Prison while being tried on charges of rioting in Clinton Prison in failed in a desperate effort to Christmas night escape becar refused to abandon one of the lier who broke a leg in droppi one of the buildings to the ground. 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