Show ANa A No 1 a Famous Tramp in America Describes Life L fe J JACK S VAGABOND CHUM Wins Gold Medal and 1000 O Oby by Beating Way Across Continent Wanderlust that has become a mania mant a brought to Salt Lake yesterday the th e only really famous tramp in the world who is known as A No 1 I whose e diary shows that he has miles mUe In the last twenty years When he was asked If this record was no not t doubted by some he replied Oh yes but they are the people who dont count Men like me and Dr Cook with reputations to sustain have the confidence of people who matter 1 I have never been to the north pole but butA x are c N iz s n uA A NO 1 I I know Cook has He has never rode rodeon rodeon rodeon on a but I know he would believe my story if I told it to him Whenever A No 1 has an Opportunity he gets some police official or railroad officer to write on a card that A No 1 has presented himself elf at such and such sucha a place During his twenty years of tramping A No 1 has prevented many railroad wrecks and he has some un unquestionable unquestionable unquestionable questionable credentials from Erie and other railroad officials Sheriffs and police officials have also written ritten acknowledgments of their in indebtedness Indebtedness indebtedness to him for information These papers together with a history of his life which he Is selling make tramping much easier for him than for forthe forthe forthe the ordinary homeless outcast This book contains pictures of the theauthor theauthor theauthor author riding on the on top of Pullmans Pullman under vestibules and on the cowcatcher It also advises boys boy bo bonot not to take a tramping trip for Cor once a tramp always a tramp is a truism Friend of Jack London The most interesting part of the vol voluminous v voluminous stories A No 1 tells is about his trip from New York to San Fran Francisco Francisco Francisco cisco in company with ith Jack London In 1894 For beating their way across the continent in eleven days and six hours A No 1 has a gold medal from Richard RichardK K Fox and he says Fox paid him 1 WO which was promptly invested in a cemetery lot and tombstone at Cam Cambridge Cambridge Cambridge bridge Pa PL A No 1 says he could have made the transcontinental trip sooner if it had bad not been for London al always always ways was being hungry and insisting on missing trains whenever he saw the prospect of a substantial meal He says London could eat eight meals a day and then clamor for more which is something of a contrast from the millionaire author with an appetite so eccentric the stores of his private yacht contain nothing to tempt it A No 1 has an autograph letter from London wishing him good luck On this trip the pair had been put off a freight train near Lima 0 O and were compelled by the pollee police to walk out of town It was a rainy night and after tramp ing about ten miles they saw a light beneath a shelter made of brush A negro tramp had supplied himself plen plentifully plentifully plentifully with chickens and was cooking them He invited the white men to share his repast Then and there the negro explained his races peculiar ability to get chicken Had to Steal Chicken Wen Yen you ou wants a chicken be sure to notice notice which way the wind ind Is coming from said the negro Mr Chicken always sleeps with his head toward the wind so o his feathers will not be ruf ruffled ruffled ruffled fled Ef you know the way of the wind you can tell where his throat is and you kin grab him without his making a holler boiler I never seed a white man yit that the scent which is why white men go hungry while colored men do not A No 1 I who will not tell his name names says s y he never steals chickens nor begs beg His Income from his book he says is quite sufficient to clothe and feed him He carries a gold watch and wears a 8 40 suit of clothes cl thes but he has overalls to protect them when he goes tramp ing ingI I expect to be killed in fn a railroad accident he said Ninetynine per percent percent cent ent of deaths among tramps comes that way Sometimes they are thrown off iff the moving train and killed by brakemen 1 Then there Is an unknown man supposed to have been walking on the track and struck by the engine A grave In the potters field Is the end of the he story Of course the high officials of ot the road Toad do not know what their men do but I know that hundreds of men are murdered iu in h Just this way Others become so o weak from hunger that they fall tall asleep ep ana let iet go their hold lold while riding A few are killed in fights with gangs gang of and oc occasionally 0 one of the is blown to small bits by the nitroglycerin he carries to open safes Hard to Become Beggar The average man who has always been will go on an aver average average average age of three days day before he will beg bed continued A No l 1 Often Otten he becomes Insane from hunger I want to say a word to persons who occasionally feed a tramp or give him a dime You hear a great deal about tramps who refuse to work Well Veil when a man is hungry he lIe hela has haa la the delu delusion ton that the whole world is against him and he Is so weak and down hearted that he has no ambition and sometimes no strength to perform the task Feed him first then give him the work and nine times out of ot ten you will get value received Another thing I want to impress upon the thc charitably disposed If It you give a 0 tramp a meat meal mea or a dime you have given the equivalent of about So if you sent it to an organized organised charity Any intelligent man who will read reports of charity or organizations organizations will quickly learn that five dollars an ara ar spent In distributing one dol dot dolar dollar tar lar ar and then It seldom goes to the really needy leedy but 13 to t pr fess onal paupers who lave Ian some sort of a pull When hen you feel charitably disposed t put whatever ver you give in the hand of the tho beneficiary You may be imposed upon but you will know you are giving it to the man you Intended to have it and not notto notto notto to some sleek charity worker Look at the big houses charity superintendents superintendents superintendents build on modest salaries That ought to convince anyone How did A No 1 adopt this queer tame name That Is a story too When he first started on the road it was with nn IU older man The latter was attracted by the Ingenuousness of the younger com companion comp companion panion p by his bright ways wars his natural aptitude for a life In box cars and rid riding ridIng riding ing the rods beside beshle the grinding wheels underneath the heavy h avY freight where re lease for fOJ a L moment of the bar of Iron would mean rhean a horrible death Kid youre all right declared the older oneat one oneat oneat at the end of a particularly hard journey youre oure A No 1 The title has since stuck and the wanderer has more than lived up to it for if ever a hobos life could be said to be a success It is that of this fellow Travels In Overalls He travels in overalls and Jumpers but after arriving in a town divests diveRts him himself self elf of these those and appears in a neat brown suit is always clean shaven and has a avery avery very verv prosperous appearance He has lias a profession which is carving potatoes and In this he has 85 no equal Hundreds of times he has carved faces for persons parsons pr ns In return for small favors faVol He Is also a wood carver of ability The railroad officials who have given him cards freely state that he has pre prevented prevented prevented vented the loss 1088 of many lives in frequent cases By telling train operators when beating his way of broken car wheels or other disasters or disarrangements he has prevented pr vented serious wrecks He has been In four wrecks but has never been badly hurt During his travels A No 1 has learned four languages English gUsh German Ger German German man French and Spanish His His parents parentiS were a mixture of French and German but he was born in San Francisco His Hie toilet set is complete though It takes little room to carry it It consists of a toothbrush and soap shaving soap comb and a few other necessaries HH His HI carving tools are two knives kept very ver sharp Blackening and shining rags oc occupy occupy occupy cupy a part of his pockets A No 1 left last night over the D DR DR DR R G for the east The fact that he was wason wason wason on top of a Pullman prevented him from making his usual demonstrative adieu |