Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-28
HOW TO TRAVEL FREE
IT IS EASY, SAYS 4 GLOBE TRoTTEH
 WHO HAS BEEN THERE.


 Coaches--How He Worked It.
 The might shift" was waiting to re- heve tho "day gang" and as these vet eran railroalers loitered aboat the Lake Shore yarG office at Forty third street they fell ntclling stories.
 They drif;cd around to the subject of "dead hCading" and some ono spoke of the habit foreign noblemen have of starting pcnniless to encircle the globe. One after another gave his opinion of the practice. At last an old "SwitChie'' took his turn. He said:
 "'If I had Some one to back mo and there Was anything ill it, 1 believe could make a trip of 100, 900 miles, never miss a neal or handle cent of money, con- !rtc tho ciis'qnco inside of year and get hack with clothes as good as, if not h"ttc:. than have now, and l WVului't work day"
 This brought mp lot of argument, but tho man continued:
 How mach worse would that be than the trip my partner and myself have just made? A year ago last May the coal strike down i'll West Virginia put us on the hog train, and since then can provo that we have travelled dis tance that altogether would make over two trips around the world. Of course most of the trip has been on land and over railroads, but we have found water just as easy when we wanted to travel that way.
 'Wc started for China to go railroad ing out there, and got as far as Liver pool on tho trip when Jack backed out and we slowed away and camo back On tho trip over n captain on ono of the cattlebOatS carried us on card, but the man coming back didn't recognize let terS and WIG had to mako sneak. When we landed, we hadn't cent. but that cut little figure. We had to have work, and we had to go to some place where business was good, so wo made a start. We got out of New York over the New York Central to Buffalo and the Lake Shore from thcro to Chicago The big strike had just started when we got here, and as WIG didn't want any 'scab' job wo didn't stay hero long. We went south to New Orleans, and from thcre to the Pacific coast over the Southern Pacific and came back east over tho l Santa Fc.
 "The Santa Fe was the only tough streak we struck. Why, tho mon out l there have got the marble heart in its worst form. They won't carry you ill a CahOOso or on passenger train with | out pass, and that the officials won t | give you, SD you havo to watch your chance and ride the rods. I am not much stuck on riding underneath a train. It's hahlo to induce nervous p>ostration, but if it has to he done to 1 get over road I can do it.
 ''On tho new big box cars tho truss rods hang a foot and d half below tho body of the car ana it an easy matter | to grab the Shdc iron of tho door and swing yourself under. If you cant fix | yourself comfortably on the rods. why, you can work along toward the end of tho car and lower yourself down tn tho brake beam.
 ''Eiow do you get on top of pAsSrn- 1 ger train:' Inc Was asked.
 'That'S easy enough Just watch your chance and when the train is about ready to leave pick two cars-the bag gage cars are the best, because no one is | watching them gencrallv-Stund mp on the brake wheel and you can reach tho 1 top of the cars. If you have strength enough it is an easy matter to swing 1 yourself up, and, once up there. you can, if you keep quiet, ride till daylight. You havr to lie down flat to hang on, but that is not bad, because if you sat up or stood up tho cindcrS from the Cn- | gino would cut your faco and hands to pieces. They come back across tho top uf the cars likc birdShot out of gun, I and with almost us much force.
 ''lf you have nerve enough you can | stow yourself aNv:w on tho truck of a | passenger car Su no one can Sro you. I | havc done 1t. and roao over 200 miles before I was caught. For that job you want little hoard ahout six inches wide and a foot long, with two cIeats ill tho mitdlo on one sidC. Then find your four wheel tyurl-u six wheeler won't d" hrrAu>" you can't get inside get on the side "f the track upw'>lt" tho depot, and aS she starts tu pull out Erah a truss rnd with ono hand and a corner of tho truck with the other and slid" iu on the brake hcam feet first
 "Hnltrd tn tho middle uf the hrake beam and rrachiuE from front tn rear is the brake rod Put ynur ticket (thc lit tie hnardl on the hrakr rod. the rlrat$ will hold it i'll place, put your feet uu tho back hrak" hram and your back against the center beam uf thr truck, and yOu can ride almost aS comfortably as you could up stairs i'll d seat You arc ill behind the whCC Is, and 1t will tako a pretty sharp eye to find you il you keep quiet. Oh, I tell you d man can do heap of travelling t7a nothing if he is a hustler.
 'Siuro We started my partner and have been ill every state and territory oi the United States, and l figured it up last night, and we huvo travelled over 90, 900 miles. and if there has been any one time that We have had over Il dol lar don't rrcollcrt il.
 "How did you get food on that kinG Uf trip?" asked d listener "Sometimts iho boys were good ana would throw meal into you, but il they didn t, why thero was nothing else to do only to hit back door and try to batter out n lump. It sound: tough, but I've had it to do severa times ill the last year. tell you when get to work steady I'm going to sinl my dough. and when I get enough IT go to some new country and get mo { piece of land. Railroading is getting tt be too much of n 'hot foot job for me. , Chicago Record.