Show A BOY TRAMP be he Us bally blile bides on rass nger braim because time I 1 Is money george hughes a young man a about bout twenty two years of age who la is known country over as the boy tramp was ir k st louis yesterday young has rem remarkable reable record he lie has probably trav sled led as extensively in the united states a WY y of the Vander bilts but fits trips hav not been characterized by the luxurious ness of those of the great railroad magnate nevertheless the young roan man has frequent ly traveled on special trains and enjoys d distinction is of having been hurried through to ao his destination atthe at abo rate of sixty ot 0 seventy miles an hour he ile has travelee trav elec f from rom maine to california and aud from tempi bay to puget sound and yet has never pale pak one cent of railroad fare in ills fits life the young man has made ma dethree three trip nearly across the continent and back ant hag has spent several winters in the south ii it the spring ho he always goes i north to demalt during the summer months but docs does not remain in one place any length of time tinto lie ile shifts about from place to place but generally keeps to the north of a it certani talt latitude on account of tile hot weather for borall all his pleasures cost him little or noth not h ing he is quite test re hetio in liis its tastes ano selects the place where he lie thinks he woula lik like 11 t to 0 spend the summer or winter month with much the same caution or concert as would the wealthier sojourners sojourn era there them at the least calculation young says he has traveled no leas less than 2500 miles he ile assumed a rather languid dont don t care air as he be proceeded to tell the story oi 01 hh his travels to a man on washington aveman yesterday evening let me have a alga rette please said he bp before he began hit narrative the favor granted he light lighted A it leisurely and puff puffed ed away silently for few moments before ho he spoke 1 I hav been traveling around the country fo about ten or eleven years and I 1 have seer as ss much of it as I 1 care car e to r see m I 1 have beer in nearly every state and territory in ta tin th union in that time and have seen all kinds of people I 1 started out when I 1 wa a lad iad about twelve years old and have been at ft it ever since I 1 am none of your coin mon tramps I 1 want to say right hero hem I 1 never Dever beat anybody but the railroads I 1 never beg for or anything to eat unless it it 1 an absolute necessity and I 1 can also say that it has been a necessity but very few times in my exper experience leum 1 I am pretty handy at most any kind ot of work and have picked up a little knowl edge on pretty nearly every subject when I 1 strike a place I 1 think I 1 will like I 1 search for employment as waiter in a hotel celeya tor boy helper in any kind of a machini machine shop or carnage factory I 1 am pretty fly with a paint brush and can letter and stripe as goodas anybody but J am most moa at home in a rolling mill almost born in an iron furnace and 3 can do igny thing from a straighten cr to and heating I 1 have served a good dealoe deal of time at the rolls and can shove a hot bar of iron through and back as easily as I 1 could eo ea my an supper 1 I never had much schooling but I 1 will wili wager I 1 know more about the 9 geography w graphy of the united states than any fiig high h school graduate in st louis I 1 can tell you the 0 principal industries of any large city in the union how bow they are lighted streetcar street cai 1 systems 1 and the like I 1 came from terre haute laute 1 where my father is employed in a rolling mill I 1 left home when a mere boy jut just for or the sake of seeing the country and I 1 have hail a pretty rough tough time of it ever since I 1 have gone whole days without food or water and have nearly frozen to death once or twice I 1 generally manage to wear pretty good clothes and I 1 ican can always alway ways say NAY that I 1 have earned them by h hard a m wark when I 1 est a food fob I 1 hold it M f t t f L Aa long as r lean but never stay a poor one the hardest trip I 1 ever made was I 1 believe several years ago when I 1 was on my way to california the trip was fine until I 1 got into new mexico Nl exico and then the real hardships began there Ther ewas was another fellow with me die and we locked ourselves in a box car we were in the car for four our daya lays going across the american desert and had bad eaten everything we had before the trip was wits fairly begun we had no water aftel the first day and when we got through finally wd were nearer dead than alive yes I 1 have rode rodo on the trucks under cars under peats seats and even on top of the passenger p 3 coaches coach es where you are always in d danger n of being killed at any moment I 1 lieve ride on a freight train if I 1 can get aboard a passenger and prefer a special train to any you see time is money and iliceto I 1 like to hurry through when I 1 go home again I 1 think I 1 will settle down there for good 1 I st louis globe democrat |