Arizona republican., 1891-10-31
AN AMERICAN TRAVELLER One Who Mover Paid Anything
 for Transportation.
ue Had Eaten at the Expense of Many of the Leading Hotels Throughout the Country--Hls Trick onn
 Railway Official.

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 dime for his passage, and he rode half the way in first-class pas. scnger coach, the other half in box cars as "blind baggage"
 At present this distinguished traveller is registered at the work house.
 Everybody in Nashville knows him, especially the policemen. A reporter called on the traveller recently and found him in mood to recite various "reminiscences, some of them of thrill ing interest.
 'I reckon" said he, 'I am about as well known in the big cities of the country as the president, and when the authorities of the place hear am com ing on visit they receive me with open arms, although they don't have a 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 i'm pressive 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 leave Nashville rig up in new suit, and get pass to some town about forty or fifty miles away. l never fall in with crowd of buns, for it's always best to travel by yourIelf.
 When l start from one town to an other generally strike the canuon-ball trains and find out what kind of crew they carry. If it's good set of men l ride between the mail-car and tender. If the trainmen are tough on a fellow Icrawlup under the trucks and hang on, or sometimes get on top of a passenger coach and lie down by the lights. Rid ing the trucks is dangerous, and if fellow don't know how it's done he's a goner. You have to cramp yourself up in a peculiar position, hold your feet up and never move during the ride. Some times I ride the brake-rods. That's the easiest and safest way to travel when you're out on the beat. l get 6 plank with a nail in each end, so it won't slip, put it under the rod and srraddle it. When l get in the passenger coach l put up pitiful tale about being an un- fortunate railroad man and having lost my papers, and l generally get my ride.
 Il made fifty dollars once, and it was the easiest money that ever came into my hands. Maj. Clarfec was the passenger agent of the Atchison, To- peka X Santa Fe road, and l went to him in Fort Worth, told him I was an unfortunate and l wanted to get out of town. He gave mo pass to some point about thirty miles up the road and left that n.gnI. When I went into the coach who should see but Maj. Clarfee. He motioned for me to have seat by him, and commenced asking about me and how l man. aged to get about. Why, major said, I have travelled over your road a 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 underhand trick.
 "'How do you do it?' the major asked