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Show COLLEGE STUDENT 1 BECOMES A HOBO i TRkMPS FROM NEW YORK TO rRISCO DURING VACATION. TELLS of his experiences. Trivels from Coast to Coast and Back to Omaha Without Paying Cent of Fare Partner le 8hanghated. Nllwaukco, Wis. With faco bronzed by cxpusuro In tho open air, and hai ds roughened by hard work in tho del Is, Oscar F. Aschman, a Junior ut Un on collcgo, Now York, Is on his wa back cant aftor being a tramp for two months. ' x"es," said Mr. Aschman, In nn In-tor In-tor 'low, "I havo boen a hobo for tho lani. two months, and I must say I havo had enough ot It. It was my flnt cxperlenco ot tho kind mid It oui ht to be my jartf and yet I'm atr ild that next yt?nr tho tovor will bo on mo to try It again. This Is not tho only tlmo I havo been In Milwaukee. Milwau-kee. I passed through ( hero about Juno 20 on my way wo'st. For ob-votbs ob-votbs reasons I did not stop at a hotel or fo sightseeing very much. 1 camo in st 12 o'clock midnight on a freight, nnd went out on anothor freight 20 minutes afterword. 'Tho peoploi?onerally don't know anything about that traveling that got-on In this country by mon who don pay their railroad tare. When I left I thought, of course, that I should be obliged to tako tho passen-gortralus passen-gortralus In somo places. Mut hero I nn after a trip from Mutavla, N. Y., to San Francisco and back again to Omfibn, and I never paid a cent for riding on n train. "At Omaha, whero I havo somo rela-tlvef rela-tlvef I ripped some bills out of my vest., bouulit somo clothes, and havo traveled tho rest of tho wny In style. "All through tho west I round plenty plen-ty ctf work lying n round tor nnyono who wstitcd It. At Mutto n common laborer Is paid three dollars a day. If a i tan knows a trade ho gots moro In pi (portion. I worked a week thory pushing n cement car In n now buTlfing. Then 1 quit ntid mado a hlko soutt to somo ot tho ranches. Tho worll thoro Is hnrd. They pay you well! but you nro on your foot in haying hay-ing ilmo from live o'clock in the mora-Ingftlll mora-Ingftlll late at night. I had nil I waited at that game In a few days, 'in Missoula I formed n partnership wltflk hobo who had been hitting tho tnvneo tho yenr ono. Ho wns a lltBbltot everything; seemed to jAHBlvat about ovory trado un-Band un-Band a B' In his hip We y on our can H wasn't n train V,lo from tho tlmo we Vj morning wo plunked HRenttlo. Most tho ay pnBscngors. How? Well, it K on tho cushions, but wo got Hjust the same, Byou ever noticed a passenger cuHpu'd remember tho sort of a broOT'tnverted trough that runs along tho tJa. Woll, you flatten out on that nboun nlno o'clock nt night when It's n I co lind dusky and there you are. At it kt Jons you climb down to the off mm and hide, nnd when the train starWup you get on top again. "At Seattle wo separated, and by stowlnsP away In a lumber boat I AL worked "? to 'Frisco. 1 here was another il'ow on board also a stowaway. stow-away. His Wuo was Flandors and ho claimed to bo A student at tho University Uni-versity of Montow. At 'Frisco wo found a numbor tff eJilps coming nnd going, and Flandors rtM for working our way to tho Phll'pjiinoa or somo othor placo. I caught Jilu fever for awhllo, and thought thort? might ho something In It, and between us we frequented tho water front quite a lot. "Tbero wns a full-rigged ship lying In tho stream named tho Mary It Home. She wns going from'Frlsco to Hong-Kong, loaded with American goods. Tho captain was looking for a crow, but we know n llttlo too much to travel that way. Thoso sailing ships wind Jammers, ns thoy call thorn sometimes take tho third ot a year ror tho China trip when tho winds don't blow right. Resides, tho treatment treat-ment and toed Is apt to bo moro ot less unsatisfactory. No Mary II. Homo tor ours. "Woll, one night wo wero down bjf-tho bjf-tho wator front, and Flandors saO MsvHsr I rtBflHHiHslHli'SsJskjSsV "He Rode on Passtngtr Trains." tho shipping agent who had tried to got us for Iho Mary. Tho aBont was going Into a saloon. Flandors loft ma whero I was and hurried In aftor him to find out about a coalshlp Just In I waited for Dvo minutes, but Flandors Flan-dors didn't show up. I got a little nervous, and looked In tho door. A couplo ot tson wero by the bar, but no Flanders. "I called tho nearest policeman, anjl wo senrchod tho place, but thoro was no trace ot Flanders. Then tho oi-fleer oi-fleer got disgusted and thought I was putting up somo sort of a bluff. Thai night I rciortcd to tho pollco headquarters, head-quarters, nnd they promised to look II up first thing In the morning. "That sounded nil right, but when I camo down In the morning tho Mnry M, llnrno wasn't In tho stream any moro. Tho natlrca said she'd been towed nut to a along about live n. m. And I'm Just as sure as I am Hint I am standing hero that Flandors went with her. Poor chap, he'll seo the world all right, hut bo's going to havo u tough start. Thero's mora hnrdshtp than oiiry In being shanghaied," ... m . .m .- rt.i i iftflnn |