Show PENN THE RAMBLER LER hobo rounds out th mile in beating it into chicago peregrinator who never pays railroad fare starts southward astonished toni shed harriman Harrl man by cross country achievement chicago penn tho the rapid rambler blew into chicago the other day and announced that he had just completed his th mile of travel to see as much of the world as this mileage indicates has cost the rambler just 1277 in railroad fares you see the rambler never got into the habit of paying ills his way when he be could help it many a train has pulled out of chicago since may 4 1894 when penn took to the road with penn as a passenger but ho he has never appeared upon the bill of lading nor has any conductor over ever collected fare from him penn is a hobo de ile he has beaten his way over all the railroads in this country and lie he has ridden in and on every part of a train except the smokestack the boilers and the bell ile he says ho he was born with itching feet ile ho Is 27 years old and has been on oil the bum ever since that night in may when he jumped out of a n window of his homo home in pittsburg and boarded a westbound west bound freight since that time he has been around the world three times he says and has crossed the united states so many times he has lost count ile ho was christened frank C welch but he is known as penn the rambler to every every trainman on the continent non ills his nio bonaker appears on oil every water tank between new york and frisco and duluth ind and new orleans all along the line of the mexican central clear cloar down into yucatan one may see that same nom do de road penn the rambler with an arrow drawn through and the direction of hla his wanderings below penn was in III the railroad yards at grand island neb one day carving his on the side of a boxcar A short man walked up to him eyed his artistic efforts for a moment and then snapped hey youl you what air are 0 you trying to do to my cars penn told him the man laughed why ive seen that same signature all over my system your system exclaimed the rambler then the little man introduced himself so if as E 11 harriman Harrl man he questioned the rambler for a few moments as to the time a man on the bum buin can make penn told him he would undertake to ride from boston to wan isan t francisco in ten days without paying a cent for fare A crowd of railroad officials who had overheard the boast quickly mado made up a purse of 1000 to be given to the rambler should he be make good penn beat it to boston got one of the officials to call the time and showed up at the irisco frisco offices of the southern pacific just eight days one hour and fafty aln minutes tes later to claim the money ile he says im not a panhandler said the rambler yeste day 1 I work at anything I 1 can find for money to eat cat and sleep on but I 1 dont pay railroad tares fares the rambler got into chicago from the northwest via milwaukee ile ho pulled out the other night for indianapolis on oil the big four road bound south |