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Show SWb OT llWCJl y '5tIH KanMa City, Mo. A view of a section of the assemblage of VvW'r f5 hoboes of the country at they Gathered In convention In this city pM''gS-l 2$5 recently In response to a call from hobo headquarters. This meet- IJggEiJ Ing was called In order to bring to bear effective co operation and "Q MSJtfS " organization for millions of Industrial workers out of work. International Shotn Kansas City, Mo. A view of a section of the assemblage of hoboes of the country as they gathered In convention In this city recently In response to a cell from hobo headquarters. This meet-Ing meet-Ing was called In order to bring to bear effective co operation and organization for millions of Industrial workers out of work. which were always to be found there. Oilier tins were used for "crum kettles," ket-tles," "peeorl" nnd "mulligan," and others for plates. The "Jungle" wa? always located near a stream and the unwritten law of the "Jungle" was that tins should be washed after u and left for the next 'bos who should wish to use them. Wuter for cooking was always taken from upstream nnd downstream the hobo "crumuied" (cleaned up) and washed his clothes which ' hung on the "gooseberry" (clothe ir). His food consumed and he hlni:. f "crummed" he brought out his "stoop tobacco" (cigar stubs picked up on the street) and lay back for a pleasant hour of gossip with his fellows. That was the hobo of the old d:ys. James Fads How, the "Millionaire Hobo." I? typical of the new. He Is a grandson of James B. Eads, builder of i he Fads bridge ut St. Louis, and a son of the late James F. How, an official of-ficial of the Wabash railroad. Brought up In an atmosphere of luxury uinl refinement, a college man, he became a hobo by choice, and for twenty years had devoted his time and money to the hoboes-. He was the founder of the hobo college, which may be estab llslied almost anywhere. Usually It Is a one-room affair and here the men eat, sleep and are taught Teuchers come from universities and colleges nearby to lecture on almost every sub Ject under the sun. The "classes" ure conducted through the winter, for. with the coming of good weather, the "students" take to the road again, some of them carrying their "diplomas," "di-plomas," mimeographed on paper, certifying cer-tifying that they have attended a cer tain number of "classes.' The forerunner of the college and the new status of the hobo was the organization movement which began In 1907. In the fall of that year there was much unemployment and about five hundred men were stranded In Tacoma, Wash. Jeff Davis, Dun O'Brien and a few other prominent member? of the fraternity made an offer to the mayor. If an unused schoolhouse were given to them for shelter they would keep the hoboes from begging at back doors and out of mischief. The mayor agreed. Restaurants Res-taurants supplied left-over food and the hoboes spent n quiet winter there. There was held the first hobo convention conven-tion and the organization Idea came Into being. So now they have the International j Brotherhood Welfare association, in which J. Fads How is a leading light, which holds conventions from time to time in various parts of the country at which economic problems are discussed dis-cussed and the purpose of which, in the words of How, are to "educate, organize, abolish poverty and squalot and unemployment everywhere." They have "advance agents" on the road who carry the gospel of the organization organiza-tion throughout the country nnd organize or-ganize "locals." For the hobo. W model. Is no longer the picturesque Individual. In-dividual. He Is fast becoming a standardized member of an organization. 1 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Bark! Hark! The dogs .do bark: The begrnars are eomi.m to town Eome In rags, and some In tas. And some tn velvet gowns r a OE3 thut old nursery D rhyme bring up in your mind a picture of that class of vagrants, variously various-ly called hoboes, trumps mmmm. or bums, which were once , a picturesque, If uot ex-JmftTZ ex-JmftTZ actly ornamental, part of "" the American scene T If It does, then you'd better change the reel, for the picture isn't exactly true any more. For Hobo Amerlcanus Isn't the "bird" that ho used to be. First of all, It Is Interesting to note in 1Vmt to otle can tell for sure Jurt how the word "hobo" originated. There Is one theory that It came from "boo boy." long used In certain parts of ' the country to designate all migratory farm workers. Another says that It is from the call "Ho! Boy I" used by the early mall runners. The. hobo himself, who has a picturesque vocabulary vocab-ulary all of his own, has contracted the name to one syllable and simply calls himself a 'bo. Be It known nb.'o. that he bus become class conscious and, according to his caste system, the three words used to describe him are not synonymous. According to bis definition, the hobo Is a migratory worker; the tramp, a migratory non worker; nnd the bum. a stationary nonworkc-r. It Is doubtful if the public (vould make that tine distinction, but would be Inclined to lump them nil together as one class under the generic name of holmes, a class that was brought Into being by the first railroad nnd that until the last few years was ever Increasing. But now the "Weary Willie" Wil-lie" typo, as depicted on the vnuile-vllle vnuile-vllle stage and In the comic strips. Is almost extinct. He was a strong In dlvlduall.vt, responsible to no one but to himself and his Inward urge to "go places and see things." The hobo. 19i!S model. Is still pretty .much n,n .In. . dlvldualisf but. he's also a member of the International Brotherhood' Welfare association. He (ins organized and Is trying "to" standardize his "profession." He Is Seeking a definite rtatus In the modern order of things. He hold conventions, such as the one pictured above. . He goes to "college" und. like as not, carries a "diploma." In udd! tlon to being organize! and standard lzed, he Is also becoming motorized For the udvent of the cheap car Ims taken him off the freight trains. There has developed a new type of hobo, dl vlded Into three classes: whole fam files gyppylng about the country In "tin lizzies"; young hoboes who have their own cars and travel alone; and the "hitch-hiker" who haunts the paved roads and main highways. In 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 be shown than a comparison compari-son between "A -No. 1," a famous hobo of the old days, and James Fads How, founder of the hobo college Idea and perhaps the bert-known hobo of the V new era. For 30 years Leon Bay Living: Liv-ing: ton carved or painted his "monicker" "mo-nicker" (name or distinctive sign) on railroad watering tanks, railroad bridges, freight sheds and other places near railroads not otdy from the Canadian line to tlte Mexican border bor-der and from the Atlantic to the I'a clllc, but also, from Alaska to Argentina. Argen-tina. For more than u third of a century cen-tury he rodi! on brake beams and the blind baggngo, und by keeping a careful care-ful account of his expenditures he was able to estimate that before he retired re-tired (as he did a few years ago to marry, settle down, write his adven tuies and do the work he Is doing at present trying to keep boys and girls from yielding to the call of the road I he had traveled a total -of .VJ1.(: miles for the total sum of SS7.CI ! During the course of bis travels. ; this most-famous hobo knew another who later became famous as a writer -k Jack London and the life they lived was typical of the oid-time hobo .Told In terais of the picturesque language lan-guage of tlm hobo, they rode the "bumpers," "to;is," "blinds" of "trucks" of railroad trains until some "shack" (brakenuin) or "con" (conductor) (con-ductor) became "hoMile" and threw them off of the "skLdmir pullmnn" (freight car). If tlk-y succeeded in eluding the "suakes" (switchmen) or "yard dicks" (railroad detectives), they made for the nearest "jungle" (place where tramps und hoboes congregated) con-gregated) where they were sure to find u varied collection of "furennd-niters" "furennd-niters" (hoboes who walked from place to place), "blinlle-stiffs" (a migratory mi-gratory worker la the true sense of the word who "glommed fruit,'' "skinned mules," glommed spuds, or did any other menial labor whenever l.e had the chance), "gay cats" (ordinary (ordi-nary tramps and "stake men" (workers (work-ers with some money). There, too. would he certain to be be some "atew bums" (the tenderfoot of the profession) profes-sion) who listened eagerly as the elite of the brotherhood, the "comets." "perfesh" ' or ' "tilowed in-the-glnss stiffs." tol l of their experiences In towns" that 'were "Jake" (not "hostile" to a 'bo), where he could "butter" (beg) on the "main stem" (main street) for "light pieces" and be sure of getting some "scoff" (feed) from a "buy bag" (woman) when he battered the back door." - Then, too there would be rem'niseences of "decking" (riding) a "peddler" (local freight) on a "Jerk" (branch line) ; or an "orange 8pec-i:il" (fruit car) In "crlmpv" (had) weather, of being "pulled" (discovered) by a "shack" irr.d forced to "hit the grit" (walk), dodging as he left the train, no doubt, a "dev. drop" (stone) hurled by the "shack" or "con." Or there might be tales of adventures In the big cities where they bud to "carry the banner" (walk the street) all night or take In the "Jesus screamers" (religious Salvationists Sal-vationists who s:eak and sing in the streets) In order to get a "flop" (place to sleep). All of this talk would pass around the enmptires In the "jungle" as the "stirTs" ipp"d their s;eaming "Java" (coffee) made In one of the tin cans |