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Show THREE GIRL TRAMPS. Without Means They Started Out to Beat Thair Way to California. It appears that a number of women have taken to the road as tramps and are traveling toward California. They are said to be honest women who are in search of employment. There are three of them who are said to be headed for Sacramento, having traveled together from Portland. They were without means, and starvation stared them in the face if they remained in the Oregon metropolis during the winter. It was a decidedly bold thing for women to do, but these three maidens determined to get to California in regulation tramp fashion. Accordingly they sallied forth and climbed to the top of the first freight train they came to, and seating themselves them-selves on the edge of a box car they allowed al-lowed their feet to dangle along the side and waited for the locomotive to roll away. It is said that a brakeman who was running over the top of the train was so paralyzed with astonishment when he saw the petticoated tourists that he almost fell overboard. "Where are you going, my pretty maids?" he politely asked and gallantly lifted his hat. The girls told him plainly that they were going to California; that they had no money to pay their fare, and that they did not propose to be put off the train. None of the train crew interfered with the women. At various stations the girls went, about and begged, food. A.t one place, it is reported, a tramp insulted one of the women, when the three sailed in together and gave him a trouncing that he will remember for many and many a day. San Francisco Examiner. . |