The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-06
REDS EASTERN TRIP
How He Went to the Worlds
Fair Without Paying Fare.
HIS VIEWS or WYOMING Law.
He Finds Chsysnas's Marshal IN Arbi-
srary Despet-ketarnea with
an Opera Cenpasy.

hras t1e uSasooys n38 pee0 20 the
Words fair and. though be did not travel
IN hrss-class sleeping cars. take his
meals in the diner or pay quarter to the
porter for brushing his eoas in the morn
is.g. he hsd thrilling trip and came hack
brimfuI OF stories about his experiences.
Red is only about 10 years old, hat be
is well grown for his age and has seen as
much Of the world as many men of 90.
He 10 called RED" because Of the fiery
hue of his hair. his true name be-
ing John Gleason. and he has q round,
good-nstused face, q merry twinkle in
his ere and q general air of be-
ing able to take care OF himself
which is not usual IN one so young-for q
boy of is is usually an awkward creature
called hobbledehoy-bus which well ac-
cords with his cwn story OF his adven-
lures. Though great travellers like Red"
are accustomed to help out the truth with
their imagination, he is remarkable for
his adherence TO facts, even when they tell
against him, and his candor about some
points in his history is refreshing. This
is about how he told his story, as he sa.
on table with his legs dangling in the
air, encased in rubber boots which would
have fitted a full grown man.
me and Jimmy Egan started from
here to go TO the fair on July q. We beat
our way on the Kingston to Tacoma,
slowed away in the fore cabin. We
walked six miles 10 Edison, then We got
in car of wheels and went to Portland.
We stayed there three days and sold
papers, cos We had union badges, but we
got run in aud they turned US over to the
Girls aud Boys Aid Society. They were
goin' to put Jimmy to work on a ranch at
The DaIles, but he wouldn't have it. We
rode from Portland TO La Grande in an
oil car. When we got there Jimmy went
10 work in restaurant, but his father had
offered reward of $50 for him and the
restaurant man turned him over to the
sheriff. The sheriff gave him ticket to
go home his father had sent and he rode
on it as far as Pendleton and then jumped
of. The last saw of him Was when /
left La Grande. We bummed our grub.
Jimmy had nothing when he started an /
had only q nickel.
II rode in an oil car to Green River, and
got run In there for a suspicious character.
looked pretty id suspicious. because
my pants was half gone. had to stop
there i've days throwing big rocks OF the
roads. Then ] caught passenger to
Rock Springs, but that only took me If
teen miles / caught the car of wheels
again and went to Cheyenne with 'em. I
got run in again at Cheyenne, and the
marshal ordered me out of town. They
don't have no judges in that country. The
marshal just takes you In and keeps you
there for thirty days. or any time he likes.
I got out next day and rode the rods !
could not get anywhere else. because
two brakemen was killed by hobos
on that road {the Union Paciiic)
last summer an that's why they're so
hard on hobos. ! stayed q week in Dem
yer an WIS eaten pie all the time. robbin'
a bakers wagon an sellin' papers. Then
l went over the Burlington q Missouri to
MeCook. When got there I found man
with some cattle who had pass for four
men and only three men with him, so /
took the name of the other one, Peter
Littlefnger. When got to Omaha lost
my watch running over the bridge to catch
train. ! went over the Chicago & North
western from Omaha to Chicago, part
of the time on the blind baggage and
the rest on the deck, that's the top of the
cars. 1t was pretty tough trip. only
got q square meal once in about three
days. The hardest travelling I ever had
was sitting on sharp board like razor
back rod. I took off my coat and put on
1t to keep il from cutting into me.
when / first got TO Chicago had IS I
had made on the way. and put up four
bits to go into the Worlds fair grounds
and stayed there week. slept in dry
goods box and stole lunches from baskets.
didn't think much of the Washington
building. 1t was just made OF lot of logs.
When l got broke l sold papers ut the
Sixty-third street entrance. l stayed in
Chicago three weeks and got drunk there.
You can get drunk for 10 cents there;
why. you can get pretty near gallon Of
beer for 10 cents.
Coming home. struck the Calhoun
Opera Company and came through to
Portland with 'em. I shined their shoes
with shoe-box outfit | stole at Denver
and slowed away In scenery car. The
fellow that had me in the car lost hi, lob
for il at Portland. They got onto me at
Pendleton, but | rode the blind baggage
from there TO Portland. / rode up from
Portland in car where there was bull
tied at one end. | sat up ct the end door
and when the car shook he kicked and bel
lowed so thought be was TO. going break
loose. A hobo that was in there with me
said the color OF my hair scared him. Then
/ rode part of the way in the tool box on
the tender. beat my way on the Multi
nomah from Tacoma, and got back with
Is cents. Then my father gave me $50 and
told me to go an get suit of clothes.
They got Jimmy's cut in the Police
Gazette. The boy that walked from Seattle
TO Chicago but he didn't walk; he
couldn't walk ten miles a dav."
Red" has now settled down 20 business
again, his health beng much revived By