St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-02
Total. twenty-oned eeds
A GREAT TRAVELLER.
Here Is a Worthy Successor of the
Late Daniel Pratt.

hcFc rs ~ w cfbny SUCCESSOR Oh the
Late Daniel Pratt.
He is great traveller. says the Nash
vile American.
There is man in Nashville who has
travelled the length and breadth of the
United States, from Maine to Mexico,
from New York to San Francisco, and
did not pay for his passage. and he rode
half the way in a tirst-ciass passenger
coach; the other half in box cars and as
''blind baggage"
AT present this distinguished traveller
is registered at the WOrkhouSe
Everybody IN Nashville knows him,
especially the policemen. An American
reporter called on the traveller yesterday
and found him in a mood to recite vari-
Gus "reminiscences, some of them of
thrilling interest.
Il reckon" said he. ~ am about as
we'll known in the big cities of the coun-
try as little Ben of grandfather's-ha
fame, and when the authorities of the
place hear L am coming on visit they
receive me with open arms, although
they don't have brass band to play
martial music and have me ride in
carriage. The mayor doesn't make a
speech OF welcome, but the address of
the police judge is impressive when he
scowls at me and jerks out, Thirty
DAYS on the rock pile
There's a secret in getting about the
country on your face, and even when it's
known some fellows haven't sense
enough to work the racket Every time
l leave Nashville rig up in new suit,
and get pass to some town about forty
or fifty miles away. never fall In with
crowd of buns, for it's always best to
travel by yourself.
when l start from one town to an
other | generally strike the cannon-ball
trains and find out what kind of crew
they carry. If it's good set of men 1
ride between the mail car and the ten
der. If the trainmen are tough OH
fellow / crawl up under the trucks and
hang on, or sometimes l get Oh top of a
passenger coach and lie down by the
lights. Riding the trucks is dangerous,
and if fellow don't know how
it's done he's goner. You have
TO cramp yourself up in peculiar
position, hold your feet up aud never
move during the ride. Sometimes /
ride the brakerods. That's tile easiest
and safest way to travel when you're
out on the beat. | get a plank with a
nail in each end, so it won't slip. put it
under the rod and straddle it. When |
get in the passenger coach put up
pitiful tale about being an unfortunate
railroad man and having lost my
papers. and generally get my ride
Il made $50 once, and it was the cas-
lest money that ever came into my
hands. Maj. Clarfee was the passenger
agent of the Atchison, Topeka Il Santa
Fe road, and l went to him in Fort
worth, told him was an unfortunate,
and / wanted to get out Of town. He
gave me pass to some point about
|. thirty miles up the road, and left that
night. When l went into the coach
who should see but Maj. Clarfee. He
and commenced asking about me, and
how managed to get about. why,
major | said, Il have travelled over
your road thousand times and never
paid cent or had pass. nor beat my
| way At this the old man pricked up
his ears, for he thought he would catch
some one of his conductors at some I'M
derhand trick.
.'.How do you do it?' the major asked
me.
r. ''"That's secret, said |.
s. sPll give you $50 to put me On to it.
H. ''Make it fifty said L.
b. Done and he posed over the
money.
g. We'll, major, l walk
HE saw l had him and he didn't
kick; but he cooked his eye and looked
at me long time. When / get
hungry l go to the biggest hotel
| lin the city, give the clerk a
pitiful song and dance, and | get
square meal. Sometimes they take me
up in the dining room, and sometimes
they give me handout. | have eaten
at the Palmer house in Chicago, at the
Ponce de Leon in st. Augustine, at the
Fifth Avenue in New York, and, in
fact. the finest hotels in the country, on
that scheme.
''The life is checkered one, but /
like 1t, and l guess will always be
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