The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-17
TWO YOUNG GIRL rRAMps.
Feminine Hungry Hawkinses Take
Naturally TO the Tourist Ways.
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Naturally TO the Tourist Ways.
From the Omaha World Herald
Two girls who looked very much like
the breaking up of a hard winter reused
Mr. Richards of the Rescue Home on
Thursday and asked for "A nights lodging
One wore a red waist and a polka-dotted
dress, the other was in plain RrONimo
white. They did not carry all the marks
Of every town between here and Chicago
about them, but near il. They were
travel-stalned, with that stain of travel
which comes to those who 80 by the box
car route. And yet in a way they had
disappearance of attempted tidiness, but
the odds were too heavy against them.
The names given were Camilla Hansen
and Botsey Cody. Camilla Hansen is a
large, hOmely Swede; Betsey is not so
homely, but is more youthful and still
has chapce. She is German. The tale
by the Young women is a startling one
The two are tramps; they are feminine
Hungry Hawkinses, with all the attri-
butes of successful and painstaking
tramp. From the story related to the
superintendent they have had about every
experience which comes to the idle male
tourist, from sleeping in outhouses and
robblng melon patches to riding on
freight cars and washing their clothes
wherever Overtaken by water.
. Two weeks ago Thursday, according to
the story told by BeUSey Cody, they
started out from Chicago to get to Pine
Ridge Agency, $. D., where Betsey as
serts she has a brother who owns a farm.
They had been beset by invitations to de-
sert the path of rectitude in Chicago, and
the great city was little too wicked for
them, so they started for the free sand
hills of the west, where even hOmely
virtue is appreciated. Their first idea of
Pine Ridge Agency, they freely ackuowl-
edged, was gathered from intercourse
with the cowboys and Indians of Buffalo
Bills Wild West show, and when the
happiness of life on the plains was fully
made known to them by one of the Indians
who made violent ana utterly uncalled-
for love to Camilla, they recalled the
fact that Betsey brother resides there,
and set out to reach him.
They started east, and arrived at Ham
mOnd, Ind, before learning that Pine
Ridge lay about $4,000 miles in that di-
rection, and, being furnished a map by
an accommodating agent at that point,
they retraced their way as far as Willow
Springs, where the station agent be-
friended them by putting them in box
car, which carried them to Streator.
Just before reaching Streator a brake
make remarks not suited TO their pres
ence, whereat they fed from the train
while in motion, fortunately getting off
without injury. They slept on a sloop in
Streator, and a friendly young woman
came out and gave them piece of carpet
for blanket The next morning, after
washing their faces at hydrant, they
were ready to combat withthe world
eve managed to get on a coal car which
haA i,,f - Dot -,
relating their adventures. by and by a
brakeman came along and wanted money
from us. We had none, and then he
talked bad to us, and we gOtof as soon as
the train stopped at the next station, La
Rose. There was no train for the west,
no freight train, until evening, and so we
walked down to Willard, and on the way
struck a farmhouse for something to eat,
and got the run. We got some corn out of
a field and ate it for supper. We slept
in an clubhouse that night and the next
morning got on a freight car Just behind
the engine, where the sparks and smoke
nearly killed US. The men saw us and
told US we could ride in the way car, so
we went back there. At Chillicothe we
had to walk, and we walked across
the five-mile bridge there In the
middle She" indicating her companion
got dizzy, and dropped our bundles OF
clothes, aud / had to boost her all the
way over the water. When we got across
the river we were sill on a long trestle
and below US there were people in tents
camping out. They called TO US and told
US it was dangerous for US to be up there
as the trains would come and run over us
So we climbed down the beams and took
breakfast with them. They gave us stuff
to cook and she cooked it. Then we
climed back on the bridge, and hadn't
hardly started before a train came along
and we had to climb down and hang onto
the timbers Till it had passed over u.s.
1t was awful sCary there, hanging with
the train running overhead and long
way down to the solid ground"
A friendly policeman at Chillicothe
helped the girls to find shelter in a cheap
lodging house, he going good" for them
The next day they set cut on foot for Pc
0ria. and outside the town they came
upon a man driving team. They asked
for and secured permission to ride with
him and had a great time, stopping once
to gather in few watermelons, which
were growing in a neighboring patch
"They made US sick, though" Betsey ac-
knowledged in confessing, at Camilla's
suggestion, an overfeed Of watermelon.
But we got over it, and at Peoria we
struck the Salvation Army and were
taken in by woman soldier, who gave
US something to eat. From Peoria we
took a box car to Galesburg, and from
there we had the luck to strike a freight
train. and rode in another box car all the
way to Ores ION, i'll Iowa. We didn't have
to make 50 many stops in Iowa, but came
right on in a cal TO Pacific junction, and
walked from there over to the town with
the big bridge"
"Plattsmouth, >" said Camilla.
Eyes, PlattsmOuth. We started to
walk across, but man sent us back and
we had to walk clear up to Council Bluffs
A farm woman on the way gave us some
thing TO cat and asked us if we were
Christians, and we said yes, and she fixed
us w nice meal She was the first
farm woman to do that. The others
nearly always set the dog on US or told
us they would, which was just the same
When we got TO Council Bluffs a woman
told us we could not get across TO Omaha
till we paid our fare, and after awhile
she gave US 10 cents apiece and we came
over. We got here the circus day, and
have seen several people, but couldn't get
any work. A woman who sells horse
radish on North Twenty second street
took us in, and we were told to come
here"
"And what is the programme now2"
I'VE are bound for South Dakota. If
we could get work here we would stay
but we can't"
The desire of the girls to embark on a
life Of toll in Omaha, is not great, Judging
from their refusal to perform the duties
asked of them by the Rescue Home peo-
pie. They declined, but said that if