Show - r t ci :iOT ayjJzfc) THE 'lit I GAniNDTfME3?iARIN TAIL 1 Tn h:AW Dr Hugo Echeiver r ? II XO Lyut ¥ V"'4 v i v rr j times ns service 5 i yri of the late Count Zeppelin the throngs which attended the christening at addressing of the which was called Count Zeppelin The huge ship — 775 feet long one and — will go Into regular transatlantic the' Los Angeles and a tenth longer than the Seville and Iiuenos Aires after a flying trip to the United States aldte Germany long as between French Journalists Honor Unknown Soldier ? rr International ihoto Kansas City Mo— A view of a section of ths assemblage tof hoboes Of the Country as they gathered In convention In this city recently in response to a call from hobo headquarters This and lug was called In order to bring to bear effective c organization for millions of Industrial workers out of work mtr SCOTT WATSON ELMO 8rkl Hark! The dis do bark cninlns to town— besgure ere senna In tan rasa and The luma In And some In velvet wanna old that nursery bring up In your mind a picture of tlmt class of vagrants variousrumps ly called hoboes or bums which were once a picturesque If not exornamental part of actly the American scene? If It does then jrou'd better change the feel for the picture Isn't exactly true any more For Hoho Americanos Isn’t the "bird1 that he used to he First of all It Is Interesting to note that no one can tell for sure Juet how the word “hobo” originated There la one theory that If rants from “hoo" hey" long used In certain parts of the country to designate all migratory farm workers Another Buys that It l from the call “Ho Itoy I” ucd by the early mall runners The hobo Idmself who hns a picturesque vocabulary all of his own has contracted the name to one syllable and simply culls himself a 'bo Be It known nlo (hat he has become class conscious and according to Ida caste System the three Vords used 'to describe hlin are not to his synonymous According definition the hoho ta a migratory the tramp a migratory nonworker nnd the bum a stationary nonworker It Is doubtful If the public would niuke that fine distinction but would be Inclined to lump them all together as one class under the generic name of holmes s class that was brought Into being by the first railroad and that until the Inst few years wns ever But now the “Weary V1D Increasing lie" type as depicted on the vaudeville stage and In the comic strips Is almost extinct He was a strong to no one hut dividually responsible to himself and his Inward urge to “go The hotx places and see things” lOIS model Is still pretty much sn Individualist tint he's also a member of International Brotherhood Welfare association lie hns organized and Is his “profession" trying ttKStandardlse He Is seeking a definite rtntus In the modern orderXpf things lie holds conventions suenNiS the one pictured above He goes to “College" nnd like as not carries a ’’dlploiha’ In addl tlon to being organised snXgtandnrd lzedJie Is also becoming moteqjzed For the advent of the cheap carnys takes him ofT the freight trains Then hns developed a sew type of hobo divided Into three classes: whole famalsvut the country In ilies gypsying “tin llszles" young hoboes who hqve their own ears end travel alone and who haunts the the paved rondis and main highways stead of the railroads and who “bums" rides from passing motorists Perhaps no better Illustration of the contrast between the hobo old and new 'style can bo shown than a compart-tottweei of the old days and James Rads How 'founder of the hoho college Idea and 'perhaps the beet known hobo of the (HO D 8 rhyme Bazaars Streets In the bazaar districts of are only 8 to 10 feet Astatic cltle wide Tbe larger’sbops are 8 by 10 and the smaller ones 5 by 6 feet wlih one side giving directly wr'the Is a Gwtreet In each khan for every lfl or 12 shop® These Limns are two stories high with an on rooms center and Id the ojien court all opeulng Into the U four Shies now era For ingston curved years Leon Itay Livor pnlnted tils or distinctive sign) on tanks railroad rmlromfc watering sheds und other hfif'gbs ‘’freight ees near railroads not only from (lauiidlnu line to Mexican burner nnd from the Atlantic to the Pa clllc ImkHtbto from Alaska to Argentina ' Fpr more than a third of n cen jury he rode on brake beams and the blind baggngS a ml by keeping a careful account of his expenditures he was able to estimate thut before he re Bred (us he did $ few years ago to his adven jjmrry aqttlo down writ tqm und do the work he Is doing at present — trying to keep boy nnd girls from yielding to the call of the roud) lie find traveled total of 520000 miles for the total sum of $7(11 'Hurtof the- eoviras of hi travels hoho knew another this who later became fnmous ns‘ a writer —Jack London— mid the life they lived was typical of the old time hoho Told In terms of the picturesque language of the hobo "they rode the of "blinds" “tops" “bumpers" f railroad trains uuLll some “trucks" “shatk" or “con” (con(brAeitmn) ductor) betaine “hostile" and threw them off of die "sldedoor pullmnn" (freight curf Tf the? succeeded In eluding the “snakes” (svvlti biucu) or (railroad detectives) ‘lynrd dicks' they' mnde fog the bearcat “Jungle" (place where tramps nml hoboes con where they were sure lo gregnted) find a varied collection of “fore und irtctf '(Iodides ' who walked from bimlle stlfTs" (a mi lluchUot gratory worker In the true sense of the word who "gtomtned fruit” “ski nn iM 'nudes' glonihied spuds or dld any other menial labor whenever h hnd the chance) “gay cat'" (ordinary trnmps and “stake men" (workers with some money) There too would he certnln to be he some “stew luima’’ (the tenderfoot of the profes slon) who listened eagerly a a the elite “comets" tlie of the brotherhood of “Wowed In the glass “perfesh” stiffs” told of their experiences In towns thHt were "Jake (not “hostile’’ to a ’bo) where he could “bayer" (main (beg) on the "maln stem” sired) for “light pieces” and be sure of getting some “scoff Tf cod ) from s when battered he "hay bag" (woman) too there Then the back door" of “decking” would be reminiscences (riding) a “ppddler" (local freight) or An on a “Jerk” (branch line) (fruit enr) In special “orange weather of being (had) "crimpy" Stnlhfd" (discovered) by a “shack" Mudprced to "lilt the grit" (walk) dodging A be left the train no doubt a "dew dropC (stone) hurled by the “shnek" or “cbi" Or there might be In the Mg cities tales of adventufeq where they hnd to “agry the banner" (walk Hie street) aTTnljliJ or TukeTa the' “Jesus screamers” (reTtgJous who speak and alngAt) the streets) to order to gd a ’'flop’' (place to sleep) — pass around the eatnpfirjes In the "Jungle” as the "stiffs" sipped their steaming “Java" of th tin cans (coffee) made (name court Ieds frdm tlie open court Into’ the street shop Cach huzaar has a cofift-width is a large open place covered n cumlter partly br'a rtH)f wlieie-aof wTooden settiH's ranged til rows Any whn sits donJ first given a capful ot Turkish coffie and then with ULLud narghile ijaMve da Shriva t' ticcok Tl)hargfor coffee nd the use of tlie pipe Is 2 cents t re' nverch art's gflher trade blits were always to b found there tins were used for "crum ketand and “nrulllpux1 "peeorl" others for plates The "Jungle alwuyra located near a sLrfcutn nnd the unwritten law of the "Jungle” t Vo that tins shoifld be washed after IL'O and left for the next ’bos who should wish to use them Water for cooking wns always taken from 'upstream and "drummed” liob the downstream Tdeaned np) and washed his tolottaes which be hung on the "gooseberry" consumed food and His nc) (clothei he hints if "crummed" be broughUotit stubs his tobucco" (cigar “stoop picked up on the street) sad lay back for a pleasaut hour of gossip wUb bis fellows That was the hobo of tbe old days James Kudu How the “lltlllonatre Hobo” is typical of the new If Is s grandson of James li Lads builder of the Kuds bridge at SL Louis and a son of the late James F How an official of the Wabush railroad Brought 6f lutfiry and' up lu an atmosphere a college man he became' refinement a hobo by choice and for twenty years had devoted his time and money to He was the founder of the hoboes the hobo college which may be estab-lUhod almost iui) where Usually It lq room a one affair and here the ined Tom herd cut sleep und are taught and college come from universities nearby to lecture on alino-j- every sub Jeet under the sun " The classes UiroiiKh conducted the winter with the ronflhg of good weather th ‘'stndents” take to the road again some of them carrying their “diplomas” mimeographed on paper certifying that they have attended a cef tain number of "classes" The forerunner of the college and the new status of the hobo wus the which began movement organization In l!k7 In the fall of that ypar thee was much unemployment and about In men were stranded five hundred Wash Lkn Taeonia Jeff Davis O’Brien and a few olher prominent of the fraternity made an members If an unused offer to the mayor were given to them ftr achoolhouse shelter they would "keep the hoboes from begging at back doors atid out ResThe mayor agreed of mischief food and taurants supplied the hoboes spent a quiet winter there There was held the first hoho convenIdea came tion and the organization Into being So now they have the International In Welfure association Brotherhood which J Kuds How Is a leading light which holds conventions from time to time In various parts of the country at which economic problems are discussed and the purpose of which In the word of How are h) “educate organize abolish poverty and squatot and unemptojtnehT Pvery whereTTTIey on the road have “advance agents” who carry the gospel of the organiza' tlon throughout the country aud or “locals" For the hobo 192S ganlze which Other tles” dlv tduijl U:S fit J a Htsik U V“‘ M:fcTUKjJ3! p T’hree Soldier at npt Leon the French f41 - French newspaper men visiting prominent Left to right: Capt Andre Iafond Arlington Holder of the Ilavas agency and Dr Marcel press America paying their respects to the Unknown American owner of Ie Journal de Rouen oldest paper In France Kuecht chairman of the committee of Tunney Retains Championship jt Capt M Koolle one of Germany’s foremost glider pilots photographed In bis glider which he used In the contests held at Corn IIIII Truro! The Gcrmnns Mas are trying to popularize gliding which is so fur ud vanced Ib their country kw This picture Is telephoto by International shows Heeney down in the tenth Pound- from New York to Cldcago and ENVOY TO BULGARIA John D Jr Buys a Historical House He Is fast becoming a member of an organlaa- standardised Gianf T Urtlei s Ttiere turtles are numerous typeof ocea: The largest typ wlrvjj commercial value — the' trunk p tie S’ ' or pounds and attains a lcaU of 6 or 7 feet An official record oi file t the National Smith in Instl tutlon descrihes a svecimi n found at the American Museum of whlili wns cuugtit const of Connectlcu’t and was sli fee weighed 713 pounds’ longhand vO- V !irt - H F ANlinr Rchoerfelt has to ppointed by ‘'Presidout Coolidgebe Ameticnn hiiblstor to rulgnrta 'le’ts h TufThe of I’javyidence Rtmde Island and has been tnNtdje consular ervke since 1010 The Moore house Vorktow n Va which Jojin IX Rot hofetlor Jr Ins - q )n Just puirginia attempt to restore the lustoriul propertied-iIt was in this house that Lord Cornwallis signed the articles of surrfa ler drawn up ly cUOtge Washington— thusj'iding the Ihevolutionary Jwar 17 The pnrHe-ACtilflLSrender Includes the' surreimfttTvg OeWt on- wLBtb ' took plae i iff |