Show FUNERAL JIM Jill JI ON LIFE OF HOBOES Tells Story of His Career as Gentleman of Leisure TRAMP IS HIS OWN BOSS Sonic Some nJ J Knights hl of or time the Road Honel Ar Are Edit Edu Educated V Men Like till the Life of Freedom lj t 1 1 t Funeral Jim with three of or his l' l buddies was waR han hanging around the I freight yard arll waiting wailing for rOl the psychological psycho PSYChIC logical moment nt foi 01 oi climbing into an outgoing fr freight Just then along came a Q reporter for t Lie Washington e Times s and anti be beIng being belag be- be ing lag of oC an evidently b beguiling temperament tempera tempera- ment he lie coon toon ha had Funeral Jim Jini han handIng hand hand- handIng Ing out of the story of his life Interesting interesting Inter Intel c esting a as being belna a specimen l page pale In inthe tho the unwritten literature of orn My dad was w. a Methodist l minister minis minis- tom lei began Funeral Jim and an he had hadU U It figured out that I was to wall walk In his footsteps The minister proposition didn't sound vel very good gOOl to me mae until the old gent began to 10 talk III missionary IR I 0 stuff MutT well swell tales about converting eon the Chinese Africans African etc elc I 1 didn't care carea I a holc lot about the converting part but the talk tall of ot the foreign lands got me up UI In the air alt and I a agreed I ClI When I was sas 1 IG 6 I 1 was as bundled off cuT to a boarding school chool to 10 prepare for 01 a theological the the- olo cour course e dad getting a reduction lion tion on th the price on account of oC being a n minister an and me waiting on table find anti doing other little stunts which kept kepi do down don n the expenses I never levei did like work an and It didn't take me very long In to lind 1101 out oLit that a trip to 10 China in my mind was as not worth the work T r was wa doing to got get ItI itI it I 1 wrote rote home to th the old gent askinG asking asking ask ask- ing him hint to let mo tue quit Nothing do llo- ing Then I 1 made iJ up m my mind to beat il ii as ns soon as us I 1 could I found another kid that felt the same sume way I 1 Idid Idid did did and we e determined to hike to together to- to gether gethel Now New Yoi York k was to be our off get place but we wo couldn't get the noney and had hind tt to walt wall V I When h Vacation Came Vacation time finally came and ancl when we got ot some Iome mone money for fOI our railroad fare Care home wu we bought tickets i for Cor the town Instead Ive I've never Scott scon my doll dad since Wrote to him him once and he an answered me telling metO me meto to tn go to 10 only of course COUlse he lie dl did it il in ministers minister's language without an any profanity ell Well we struck the best town in inthe inthe inthe the world orld about C G o'clock In the evenIng even even- lug Ing and inside of three hours we were sere V broke We e were down In the Bowery flowery about 10 o'clock when lien up comes s a bum Lum that 1001 looked well looked ell 1 Well he lie looked or worse e than Ihan I tb do 10 now an and Ive I've hC been n hitting hilling side door Pullmans for three days straight He lie comes up to us usand i and braces u us uj for rOl a n couple of pennies i ito to help toward getting a bed hed for the night t We V told him that we wo were i hunting the sumo stone thIng nn and W we got gol gotto to talking We Ve pushes wind at each other othel for fora l a I. I few minutes him sizing us UI up all tho the time find and finally he lie tells us to come with him Y We goes and he leads us usa a a few Cew blocks half halt way through an art aile alley up UI three flights of oC V stairs Into a room crow crowded e with lIh men that we wo fluids finds out later is tho the cream of hobo society There Then was on one man a great big buck bucl with a lot of or his fingers chewed oft off his left hand who seemed eeme to be e the leader and anti our OUI guide goes goe up tip to lo him and the they talks lalk U 11 us over for fol about ten minutes Wiles lIps Iles of Frisco o Slim Shut Then n the big lg bo boy who was Frisco Slim SUm nov no doing a turn in the comes up to tn us and arid aftem fter questioning juc us lets off a LL bunch hunch I f loose talk about out how we can make PlentY lenty of monc money without doing any work ork If If we e Just followed his Iris Instructions ons That sounded good to u us us so sove sow sowe w ve we Joins the gang gong an and me on account account ac- ac count of oC my ray solemn lookin fiz fIz gets nicknamed Funeral Jim which has hus hasluck stuck luck ever since The next morning Frisco I takes altos Calt ally Ben llen the guy that run away awny with me fixes 1 his right arm In a ling and wraps his head hea up In some old Id bloody bandages Then comes my turn lurn urn an and he lie fixes me up good and proper roper He started to lo work rork on my teet an and after acter having me mc take oft off offne ene ne of m my shoes padded the sole with trips strips of ot leather until when I puts puls It 11 Itin iton on in again 1 I 1 walks valk like a Id kid that's Tippled crippled for life Then he gets some ch chemical dope and starts to lo work worl on m my face and right arm Say If Ir Frisco had hod ever had a chance to study art att In Paris Parl he hed he'd ama amade a amade ma made e goo good all uti sk sky for the wa way he lie painted tainted sores an and burns on me nie was something slick Well Vell finally ho hu hadus hall had hallUM V us UM fixed Axed up to his satisfaction and then hen he sends us out to lo beg We c goes and when we comes back bacle that night l Fatty atly had 11 I 1 an and I ha had 14 Frisco o took tool the money mooney put It with that which tho the rest ha had collected an and after taking out his share and a abig abig abig big hunk for the reserve fund kept to lo pay fines and get the m members out of trouble divided the rest UI up between between be be- tween the men My 1 share was something something some- some thing over o 3 Cut Out Grafting We Ve stayed with Frisco Prisco until the tho bulls hulls got wise antI and coppe copped the bunch Frisco got jugged those that got gotoff gotoff off oft all uti scattered except Fatt Fatty myself and those three that are with lIh me mc now We e decided deckled to tu cut out the grafting and confine our work to lo legitimate beg beg- ging It Isn't so 60 dangerous As It Is now we goes over o the country seeing all nil sorts soils of things livIng liv- liv Ing and donl Ilont have hav to do tb arty any work Of OC course e now and then we gets pulled ort oft a freight an and have ha to sp spend md five or ten days das In the workhouse workhouse work worle- house of ot some little town but that's only when things gets going so 0 good that wo ive get careless time aint no object with us us and In the winter were some mighty might gla glad to get caught In the summer when It comes to solid comfort weve we've got you folks Colles to death d Ilou houses is close together we have ways was of oC knowIng know know- Ing lug what's doing Inside theres there's plenty plent of oC fruit for the picking and when we get tired thed wh why theres there's always a hay pile handy where here you OU can roll 1011 up an and sleep leep as os long a as you OU please If IC we we gets tired of oC one place why we moves on to another Th Theres res re's no nobody ll that lint can tell u us where to get off We Ve hoboes are art the only people on earth that thuat are our own O bosses bouses Out Our friends arc are the best st too for Cor art army any on one of my bud buddies les will divide e their last cent with me Any hobo will help another one one we wo stick to- to together get gether her r Dont ever think either that thai Just Jiust I because a mans man's a hobo hes he's a fool Cool Hot Air Brown I over r. r there was vaa I in Cornell university for tor two Iwo years got Jot fired and has haN been It ever vel since but f say wiy he he- can spiel some seine when ho wants to There are arc plenty of oC others too who burn bum It U because they like the tile life Im I'm one Ive I've been hittinG hit- hit tinG line the pike counting the time I spent with Frisco Slim for more morp years than lye Ive got fingers and fingers and Im I'm satisfied saIls satis tied fied I wouldn't tr trade with anybody |