| Show COLLEGE STUDENT BECOMES A HOBO TRAMPS FROM NEW YORK TO FRISCO DURING VACATION TELLS TELIS OF IHS HIS experiences travels travel from coast to coast and back to omaha without paying cent of fare partner Is I 1 shanghaied Shanghai ed milwaukee INIs W is with face bronzed by exposure in the open air and bands ro roughened u ghenes by hard work mork in the fields oscar F aschman a junior at union college new york to Is on his way back east cast after being a tramp for ot vo ro months yes said bald mr achman in an in ter view I 1 have been a hobo forsbe for the last two months and I 1 must say I 1 have had enough of it it was my first experience of the kind and it ought to be my list and yet I 1 in afraid that next year the fever will be on me to try it again this Is not the only time I 1 have been in kee I 1 passed through hero about june 1 20 0 on m way any west for ob nolus lolus I 1 did not stop at a hotel or go sightseeing very much I 1 came in at 12 0 clock midnight on oil a freight and went out on another freight 20 minutes afterward the people Lene generally rally dont don t know anything about that traveling that goes on in this country by men who dont don t pay their railroad fare when I 1 loft left I 1 thought of course that I 1 should be obliged to take the ger trains la in some boma places cut but here I 1 am after a rip aiom batavia N Y to san francise francisco and back again to omaha and I 1 never 0 paid a cent for or riding on a tiala at where A here I 1 havo have some rela thes I 1 ripped some bills out of my vests vest bought some clothes and have traveled the rest of the way in style all through the west I 1 found plen ty of work lying around foi anyone who wanted it at butte a common laborer Is paid three dollars a day it if a man knows a trade he gets more in proportion I 1 worked a week there pushing a cement car in a new building then I 1 quit and made a hike bike south bouth to some of the ranches the work there Is hard they pay you well but you are on your foot feet in hay bay ing time from five 0 clock in the morn ing till late at right night I 1 had bad all I 1 wanted at that game in a fw few days in missoula I 1 formed a partnership with ith a hobo who bid bad been hitting the trail since the sear one ile he was a little bit of evey thing seemed to have worked at about every trade un tin der the sun and he h carried a nice blight revolver in ills his bib pocket we dlan dian t loaf any aay on our you can bet there w aan t a fi height eight train in the schedule dulo from the time we left souli to the morning we plunked flunked doa down n in juittle St attle most of the A way ay we rode passengers liow how well it v t on the cushions but we got there just the same it if iou eier noticed a pas passenger seager car loud oud remember the sort of a broad Ini m cited trough that runs along the top well you flatten out on that about nine 0 clock delock at night when ahen its nice arid and dubay and there you are at stations ou on climb down to the off side and hide bide and A when hen the train baarts up you get on top again at seattle we me separated and by stowing away in fit a lumber boat I 1 worked my way to I 1 I 1 isco I 1 inere bare was another fellow on board also a stow slow away ills name was flanders and he claimed to be a student at the varsity of montana at frisco we found a number of ships coming coining and going and flanders Flan deis WAS ads for or working our way to the philippines or some other place I 1 caught hla his fever ever for awhile and thought there might be something in it and between us its we frequented the water front quite a lot there was a full rigged ship lying in the stream named the mary 11 33 home sho she was going from frisco to hong kong loaded rufth american goods the captain was looking tor for a crew but A we e knew a little too much to travel that way those sailing balling ships wind whid cammers jam mers as they call them sometimes take the third of a year for the china ti ip when the winds dont don t blow right besides the treat ment and food Is apt to bo be more or 01 less unsatisfactory no iso mary 13 home for ours well one night we were down by the water front and ri rl andera anders 9 sav a 1 lo 10 A 71 I 1 re f int N y 4 T Z T he rode on passenger trains the shipping agent who had bad tried to got get us for the mary the agent was going into i a saloon ri flanders andera left me where I 1 was and hurried in after him to find out about a coal ship just in I 1 waited for me fhe minutes but flan ders show up I 1 got a little nervous and looked in the door A couple of men were by the bar but no flandris Flan deis I 1 called the nearest policeman alio adf wo me searched arched ee the place but the there waa no trace of rl flanders anders then the of fleer got disgusted and thought I 1 was putting up tip some sort of a bluff that night I 1 reported to the ape police head bead quarters and they to look it up first thing in the morning that sounded all right but when I 1 came down in the morning the mary 13 home gasn wasn t in the stream any more the natives said shed been towed toned out to sea bea along about five a III and I 1 m just juat as aa sure as I 1 am that I 1 am standing here that flanders went with nith her poor chap he 11 see the world all right but he be s boing to have a tough start there a more hardship than poetry in being shanghaied shanghai ed |
