‘Across The Pacific On A Liner’ by Bert Levy

Bert’s first feature story and series of sketches in a US newspaper appeared in the San Francisco Sunday Call on June 5, 1904. Bert’s stroke of good luck on the voyage happened at the halfway mark at Honolulu.

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1904-06-05/ed-1/seq-15/#date1=1904&index=2&rows=20&words=BERT+LEVY&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1904&proxtext=Bert+Levy&y=9&x=12&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

Click on link above to read the full transcript.

Frank Coffee was an American writer and publishers living in Sydney. He was a formidable traveller for the period. Click on his name below to read more on Frank.

Difficult to find any references to the above jockey.

Self portrait by Bert with the tag, ‘ Everyone Takes Me for a Scotchman’

Peter Hughes was originally an American theatre manager and returned from his US voyage, however he died in a year later in Sydney.
Click here to read short bio and see photo. https://www.google.com/search?q=peter+hughes+australian+theatre+manager+in+1900&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU920AU928&sxsrf=ALiCzsYkwBLzO8kRDj97Ble4Db7Chn_lSQ%3A1659243864339&ei=WA3mYrWoFPGKz7sP4aWDyAE&ved=0ahUKEwi1tISJraL5AhVxxXMBHeHSABkQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=peter+hughes+australian+theatre+manager+in+1900&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQghEKABSgQIQRgBSgQIRhgAUJEGWMQSYLsWaAFwAHgAgAHLAYgB-gqSAQUwLjcuMZgBAKABAcABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz
Titled: A Game On Board

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