Show PRETTY GIRL BEATS WAY ON A FREIGHT MEMBER OF SEX TURNS CRAWLS INTO A BOX CAR bides on bed of tiles from st louis jollet where she Is discovered by a kind brakeman who helps her chicago an 18 year old chicago girl enjoys the distinction of being the first of her sex to make a long jour ney by stealing a ride on a freight train it Is not strictly true to say that she enjoys this distinction when her experience was over she declared emphatically that a life on the rolling freight did not appeal to her no more hobo life for me ex claimed miss helen hansen as she crawled out of a box car miss hansen Is a stenographer her parents life in chicago but she had a job in st louis thrown out of this SHE CLIMBED INTO 5 A BOX CAR by the firm s failure she tried in vain to fand another job first her slender savings melted away then she pawned her cloth ing piece by piece till she had only one suit left her parents were poor so that she could not appeal to them for help she did appeal to one of the firm tor whom she had worked asking him to lend her enough money for a ticket back to chicago the reply she re calved made her decide that anything would be better than to trust to ap peals for help she was at the end of her resources when it suddenly occurred to her that she had heard of people traveling without railway tickets and that what other folks had done sarah hansen could do too on the spur of that inspiration sh made for the freight yards of the achl cago alton railroad there ab found an embarrassment of riches in the line of freight trains they were scooting up and down and switching back and forth in the most disconcerting manner tor it was impossible to this new recruit to the hobo profession to decide in which direction any one train would ultimate ly decide to depart an angel in the very unusual disguise of a small boy appeared and told her that no 6 on the third track waa the chicago freight that was welcome alon slipping away from the small boy angel miss hansen stole along in the shadow of no 6 until she came to the open door of a box car halt full of tiles she climbed in and crawled into the corner to await developments these promised to take the dunwel come shape of two other hoboes who were not pretty girls or even girls at all one of them had actually climbed into the car and had turned to assist his brother knight of the road when an approaching brakeman caused them both to take a hurried departure miss hansen rode all night on her none too soft bed of tiles morning came and hour after hour went b without her being molested at jollet she crawled to the door for the pur pose of spying out the land and dis covering her whereabouts instead of discovering however she was herself discovered tor at the door she came face to face with the brake man it was a tossup which of them was the more disturbed by the en counter when the amazed brakeman man aged to demand the why and where fore of her presence in his car miss hansen burst into tears and told him all about it well said the brakeman I 1 thought I 1 d seen every kind hobo that ever beat a freight train but you re the first lady hobo that ever come my way whereupon like a gentleman and a philanthropist he his pockets of their contents which were 60 cents and banded the amount to miss sen with the advice to complete her journey via the trolley line the girl took both the money and the advice got herself the first food she bad ed in 24 hours and departed forever so she vowed from the ranks of the |