PLEADS SIZE FOR HALF FARE.
"Look How Small I Am," Said
Everett Crane, 22.
Age, and not height, is what counts in getting railroad fares halved, as Everett Crane found to his sorrow yesterday afternoon. Everett is 22 years old, thirty-seven inches high, and weighs sixty-two pounds. When he is not posing as Prince Henry, the smallest man in the world, with a carnival company he makes his home with his father, John S. Crane, a farmer near Lenexa, Kas.
Everett is so small that he rides around in a go-cart which would hardly accommodate a good-sized child. He has been out on the farm with his father for some weeks, but yesterday he got a wire from the carnival company to join them at Houston, Tex, and getting in to his go-cart, he was wheeled over to the station, where he arrived about 5 o'clock.
An usher hunted up the Missouri Pacific agent for Everett, who has a small body but a well developed head with the unmistakable face of a man.
"I want to get a half-rate ticket to Houston," piped Everett in his childish treble when the agent came up.
The voice was a puzzler, but the face was not.
"How old are you?" asked the agent.
"Twenty-two last October," said Everett.
"Well, you can't get a half-rate when you are that old," said the agent.
"But look how small I am," said Everett. "I don't take up hardly any room."
The agent, however, was obdurate and Everett had to pay full fare.
