From Job to Job around the World

TWO weeks of the Greek freighter were enough, and Richardson and I rejoiced to see the picturesque sky-line of Constantinople come into view. We made short work of getting ashor...

THE steamer _Munroe_ was the first boat this year to penetrate the frozen north, and her departure was looked upon as an event of great importance, for an early season trip was...

AT Calcutta we lived in comfort. We were the guests of college friends of Richardson's. In Japan and China we stayed in native hotels and were constantly in contact with the peo...

PRESIDENT YOUNG accompanied me from Tangshan to Peking, to which latter city he made frequent trips in connection with his position as member of the Imperial Government Boards o...

BAKSHISH is the call of the Near East. Nearly every man, woman and child in Egypt must say this word a thousand times a day. At Memphis two hundred people greeted us a mile from...

THE _Asia_ proved to be a good ship and lazily ploughed her way across the Pacific in a manner to indicate that this trip was simply one in the cycle of many more to come. But t...

MY journey through Europe was a foot-race. I was trying to beat a bank-roll which was rapidly diminishing and which I feared would be totally exhausted before I reached England,...

ON our return to Honolulu there still was no word from the Naval authorities as to appointments at Pearl Harbour. We decided to stand by a few weeks longer in the hope that an o...

CHINA proved to be a land of surprise. As we began our travels in this vast empire we little realised that we were on the eve of an interesting chain of experiences. I intended...

ON alighting from the ship I took a deep breath of the fishy atmosphere and proceeded up the street lugging my two bags. I was now three hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle...

THE first-class fare on the large liners from Bombay to the Suez Canal was two hundred and twenty dollars. The cheapest that Richardson and I could find was one hundred and eigh...

WITH our eight hundred dollars each we felt somewhat flush. We realised, however, that it would probably be a long time before we could obtain positions that would pay us as wel...

FOR two weeks we led an indolent life in Kyoto. Then the craving for the trail struck us again and with the help of an American, who had long resided in Japan, we mapped out an...

THE Philippines proved to be a prolific field for jobs. It was our plan to settle in the Islands for several months and add to our exchequers before going on to India and Europe...

PALESTINE is the most barren, desolate and forsaken country--outside of a desert--that I have ever seen. Many people, in their religious enthusiasm, work themselves into a state...

THE company's coal steamer brought me safely to Tromso. What a wonderful transformation had taken place during my two months' absence. Tromso had discarded her dreary winter gar...

PASSING the examination was only part of the procedure through which we had to go to obtain positions as sub-inspectors of dredging on the construction of the Pearl Harbour Nava...

RECOLLECTIONS of a jail sentence in the Pantheon were enough to make any man leave town. The next morning I was riding through northern France gazing at the beautiful fields and...

It was about an hour after the S.S. _Alameda_ had left San Francisco for Honolulu, while leaning against the rail of the ship gazing at the receding city and turning over in my...

RICHARDSON was _en route_ to Peking as a third-class passenger. He had just been discharged--with thanks--from his position of physics teacher at the Tientsin Middle School. Aft...