Show COLLEGE STUDENT BECOMES A HOBO I TRAMPS FROM NEW YORK TO I FRISCO DURING VACATION TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCES Travels from Coast to Coast and Back to Omaha Without Paying Cent of FarePartner Is I Shanghaied Milwaukee WIs With face bronzed by exposure In the open air nnd lands roughened by hard work In the fields Oscar F Aschmnn a junior at Union college New York Is on his way back east after being a tramp Tor two months Yes said Mr Anchman In an In torview I have been a hobo for tho loot two months nnd I must say 1 have had enough of It It was my first experience of tho kind and It ought to be my last and yet Im afraid that next year tho fever will be on me to try It again This Is not tho only time I have been In Milwaukee Milwau-kee I passed through hero about June 20 on ray way west For ob volus reasons I did not stop at a hotel or go sightseeing very much I came In at 12 oclock midnight on a freight and went out on another freight 20 minutes afterward Tho people generally dont know anything about that traveling that goes on In this country by men who dont pay their railroad fare When I left I thought of course that I should bo obliged to take tho passenger passen-ger trains In some places But hero I am after a trip from Uutnvla N Y to San Francisco and back again to Omaha and I never paid a cent for riding on a train At Omaha where I havo somo relatives rela-tives I ripped Borne bills out of my vest bought some clothes and havo traveled the rest of the way In style All through the west 1 found plenty plen-ty of work lying around for anyone who wanted It At Butte a common laborer is paid three dollars a day If a man knows a trade ho gets moro In proportion I worked a week there pushing a cement car In a now building Then I quit and made a hike south to some of the ranches The work there is hard They pay you well but you are on your foot In haying hay-ing time from five oclock in the mornIng morn-Ing till late at night I had all I wanted at that gamo In a few days In Missoula I formed a partnership with a hobo who had been hitting tho trail since the year one Ho was a little bit of everything sjoemed + to have worked at about every trado under un-der tho sun and ho carried a nice bright revolver In his hip pocket We didnt loaf any on our trip you can bet There wasnt a freight train In tho schedule from the time we loft Soula to the morning wo plunked down In Seattle Most of tho way wo rodo passengers How Well It wasnt on the cushions but wo got there just the same If you ever noticed a passenger car youd remember tho sort of abroad a-broad Inverted trough that runs along tho top Well you flatten out on that about nine oclock at night when Its nice and dusky and there you are At stations you climb down to tho off side and hide and when the train starts up you get on top again At Seattle we separated and by stowing away in a lumber boat I AA AA AA A A worked my way to Frisco There Wall I another fellow on board also a stowaway stow-away Ills name was Flanders and ho claimed to bo a student at tho University Uni-versity of Montana At Frisco wo found a number of ships coming and going mid Flanders was for working our way to tho Philippines or some other place I caught his fever for awhile and thought there might bo something In It and between us wo frequented the water front quite a lot Thoro was a fullrigged ship lying In tho stream named tho Mary B Home She was going fromFrlsco to HongKong loaded with American goods The captain was looking for a crew but we know n little too much to travel that way Those sailing ships wind jammers an they call them sometimes take tho third of n year for tho China trip when tho winds dont blow right Besides tho treatment treat-ment and food In apt to bo more 01 less unsatisfactory No Mary B Homo for ours Well ono night wo wero down by I tho water front and Flanders sat > I y y nth tr + e + h B rM r n Nye O + 1m I l 9o a i He Rode on Paosenajr Trains the shipping agent who had tried to got us for tho Mary Tho agent was going Into a saloon Flanders loft ma where I was and hurried In after him to find out about a coalshlp just In I waited for five minutes but Flanders Flan-ders didnt show up 1 got a little nervous and looked In tho door A couplo of men wore by the bar but no Flanders I called tho nearest policeman anjl we searched tho place but thero was no trace of Flanders Then tho officer of-ficer got disgusted and thought I was putting up some sort of a bluff That night I reported to tho police headquarters head-quarters and they promised to look It up first thing in tho morning That sounded all light but wheel I came down in tho morning the Mary B Homo wasnt In tho stream any more Tho natives said shed been towed out to sea along about five a m And Im just as sure as I am that I am standing hero that Flanders went with her Poor chap hell see tho world all right but hes going to havo a tough start Theres more hardship than poetry In bolng shanghaied a h d |