Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-05-11

wisconsin 10 Milwaukee,. The iro,
mines had shut down. and business wa
OF standstIli.
From Milwaukee I went TO Mime
apolis and st. Paul. In the latter plnc,
J met Mr.. Arthur Law. general super.
intendent OF the Great Northern, and
from him got pass through to Port.
land. Ore on the way west stopped
o. 6Iuo 'siuiod iuulIodm, su Iiu N
md everything fun Boise city, spo.
kane Fails. Tacoma and Seattle. nearly
always good for work. were crowded
with miners. railroad men and mechnn-
les out OF work. who were getting a
precarious living out OF the few OF
their fcllow-leborers who were lucky
enough 10 have job. l went down
through California 10 Sacramento. and
from there to san Francisco, II was
worse. II anything. than when / was
there before. and I left tho same day
arrived. over the Southern Pacific
for New orleans. A conductor l had
known In the East. who was In a good
Job in Frisco. gave me 49, and with
this for starter / hardly left the
train until had covered the 26Q0 miles
between San Francisco and New Or
leans. There wasn't much Of the $40
LEFT when arrived In the Crescent
city; Just enough for a breakfast In the
French market. and after the meal 4
walked up through the yards, looking
for that office | had hunted for 80
long.
No Dctter Luck south.
"Busincss was good. Cotton. sugar
and tropical fruit was coming ia In
great quantities. but the men from the
East, North and West had nocked In
In such numbers that half OF them
were literally starving found lots
OF old friends In the yards, but neither
their influence nor my own ability
could get me Job. Disguised with
the outlook. started for the North
over the valley route a.. N. o. & IT,
for Memphis. got along all right
until rot % Nicksburg. and from
N'aH'" NfhAA fNlH ~ hNfl wv ANhN
by taking a 'sldc-door Pullman Cbox
caro- In Memphis one Of the boys
laid off fifteen days. and gave me
chance TO get On iny feet. My clothef
We're gone up and l was nearly bare.
footed. Ills kindness enabled me 10
get good suit OF clothes and "A paii
OF nhoes. when the Job played out
/ went across the river and trca
Jonesboro' on the Cotton Belt and
Lituc Rock, Ark, on the Iron Noun
tain, from little Rock TO Popular
Blum. aud from the last place to st.
Louis.
II got to st. Louis during the holl-
days. and, u It had been bad In the
summer II was awful now. Here
We're thousands OF Idle men. OF al
trades and professions who were only
too Glad OF a chance to earn a dime
shuyellng mud or snow In the streets
In front OF the big business houses.
The charitable Institutions and police
stations We're fun every night, and
hundreds u men slept on the bare
Ilours OF the courthouse and city hail.
one place there, called the yellow
Front saloon. was Il doleful curl.
osy. The building was three storieg
high, forty teot front and one hun |
dred ana forty deep. Forty feet o
The lower door was used as a bar
room, and IN the rear a huge stove |
was kept rel.hot. day and night.
warming through large holes cut in
The floors, the rooms above. and here
tile poor fellows who could md no
other place could sleep on the bare
hoor II they w'Thed The only price
was the purchase or a glass OF beer at |
The bur IA 'front.'. II the rooms were |
not fun at night with the ones who |
had potronzad the bar the propricto,
was not eSae,lng, and many q poor
levIl who otherwise would have |
walked an night to keep them warm
was given eholtor here.
Long, Fruitlesa Journey.
II lott st. Louis January /, and |
since then nave been In every city Of
any Importance and every railroad
.own from che Mississippi 10 the Al.
antic. There isn't Job anywhere
and now, as an the unemployed nre
'oming East 10 Join Coxey, Pm going
back West 10 Try once mora for n iob.
since ! starred | have Travelled over
10000 miles, ind have been In thirty.
light states and territories. and have
ridden, more or lvsa, over nearly 1900
'ulltoade, to III 90 which, and To some /