Show Ho Hobo bo King Overcomes Lure of Open Road j 2 8 e- e S S 'S V W Wt t wiy 1 I 4 I rr I 5 J Above Leon Ray Livingston as heI Tie he I i looks today with his wife and two children below as A A NO 1 hobo king c I By PHILIP J. J SINNOTT N NEA EA Staff Correspondent ERIE Pa March 1 17 A A short haired gray-haired man with pink cheeks reflecting perfect h health his carrIage carriage carriage car car- and clothes giving a dignified air of prosperity Is a frequent visitor visitor visitor vis vis- vis- vis at t the local railroad yards right now v. He watches with interest the switching crews making up trains for California for Canada for Flor Flor- ida Occasionally his keen eye catches sight of a tramp en route refute He manages to engage the wanderer in ih conversation Perhaps the hobo is a youngster fired with an ambition to see the world After this conversation the youth is most likely to leave the rods weeping and with money from his new friend take the train home NO TRAVEL FOR HIM I Perhaps the wanderer is an old- old I time hobo one of those chained to the road Then there is likely to tobe tobe be a Joyful meeting and an invitation invitation invitation to tion to the well dressed chap to Join in a trip I But all pleadings are in vain vain vain- A 1 most famous hobo of all j times is through wandering Thirty years or more of wanderIng wanderIng wandering wander- wander Ing rolls roils the blood of A 1 every spring But hes he's now Leon Ray thor author and arid publisher so each year year after a hard struggle he hewins hewins hewins wins his battle against the lure of the road Dont pont you worry for fe fear r hell he'll not be beable able to resist his itching fe feet t his attractive wife is asked at this time He loves his fa family ny too much is her prideful answer CUPIDS CUPID'S WORK And such is the change Dan Cupid Cupid Cupid Cu Cu- pid has has' wrought in the famous hobo who's mark Is seen along every railroad system in Ame America lea and Canada who has traveled more than miles at a cost of His splendid home with wife and kiddies drowns out the springtime can call of the road Afraid of a whipping Livingston I ran away from his San Francisco home horne when 11 He covered all of America and traveled to England Germany Mexico South America and Alaska He fortunately fell in with a square hobo Always be A 1 whoever you are whatever you do wherever you yoube yoube yoube be admonished the youths youth's hobo friend So A A 1 became his Jack lack London across AmerIca America America Amer Amer- ica with A No 1 I. STARTS TO WRITE Self educated he began to write stories of tramp life with a view to toke ke keeping ping other boys from vagabondage vagabond vagabond- age Thousands of ot these are sold every year A chance chal chace kin kindness ness by a railway man at Erie ten years ago gO go caused A 1 to send local man a box Of f oranges On his next visit the tramp was invited home Here he met romance Livingston Livings Livings- ton left the road and became a husband husband husband hus- hus band and later head of a family |