Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-10-07
Arrives in Bismarck From Puyallup,
Wash, After a Five Days
Passage.
he is Travelling From Puyallup to
New York and Return on
q Wager
To Make the Round Trip in Twenty.
Four Days Without Spending
q Gent.
The King Of Tramps.

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The prince Of tramps, the sovereign
railroad beaten and the king of travellers
arrived in the city Friday morning
from Puyallup, Wash. The name of this
individual is Octavius Marius Feldt, and
he is travelling from Puyallup to New
York on q wager of $500.
Feldt is an odd individual who seems
to possess an ~irrepressible desire to
travel. He also q q peculiar dislike for
railroad companies, for he positively re-
fuses to pay them a cent of fare. He
travels on the Pullman sleepers, too, but
instead o riding upon q cushioned seat
IN the inside of the car, as. does the
''bloated capitalist" Feldt rests upon
the trucks underneath. To do this he
makes use of an invention of his own
called the "hobo's delight" which is a
board, fastened so as to fit between the
rods beneath the car, and upon which he
perches himself and rides with ease and
comfort. ..... ,.. 49,.
Octavius Marius Feldt is of Swiss
parentage, and is to all appearances
about 25 years of age. In his career as
a tramp he claims to have ridden about
10000 miles, without the payment of one
cent of railroad fare. His travelling
propensities have attracted the atten-
ton of the sporting world, and recently
a wager Of $500 was laid by Charles
Fulmer, president of the First National
bank of Puyallup, that Feldt could
travel from that place to New York and
return in twenty-four days and notspend
a cent for food or railroad fare. He
bears a letter to Richard K. Fox, and is
to stop at the Police Gazette Office on
his arrival in New York. He left
Puyallup on the 25th ult., and has been
five days from there. He stopped a day
in Helena, and securing a seat on the
ear Pullman truck of the passenger
train, he held it down from Helena to
Mandan, a twenty-nine-hour ride with
out sleep, food or water. Upon arrival
here he showed his letter of introduction
to Fox, and for a time was quite a CEN
ter of interest.
When questioned concerning his trip,
he said: "Of course I can make the
trip, as 1 am away ahead of schedule
time now. I am to stop in all towns
which have 10000 inhabitants, and am
to be interviewed by representatives of
the press. When I started from Puyal-
lup I had a cushioned board to ride on,
but I lost this at Spokane, and had to
make another one. I left Helena in
broad daylight and had no trouble in
catching the train"
"Have you had breakfast?" he 9as
asked. '..
"No," he replied. II had supper last
night. but no breakfast. I'll rustic that
by and by" -.. 49,. .. +
"Feldt then requested that nothing be
said about his presence in the city, as it
might result in the presence of a crowd
at the depot to see him of, and thus ex-
cite suspicion and prevent his scratching
the train. He then started off in quest
of breakfast. =
Luckily for Feldt, last Fridays train
was over an hour late, and it was dark
when it arrived. .. .
A reporter accompanied Feldt, and
watched him as he deliberately placed
his board in position and then sat down
upon it. It seemed a comfortable
enough seat, and he placed his feet on
the rod opposite and seemed fully as
contented as though riding costly upon
the inside Of one Of the sleepers. II am
fixed until I get to Fargo, he said, land
I shall stop of there. No, it is not cool
enough to bother me, and I'll have no
trouble during the ride; good bye" and
the train pulled out, carrying with tone
of the oldest personages often en-
countered.
Somewhat Tough.
There were two genuine specimens Of