The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-13

laboring class.
OURABOUTTOW
have been shown the latest thing OF
Pawtucket manufacture, It 10 . Combina-
tion Baby Carriage and Summer Cottage,
and is said to be just too sweet for any
thing.
Miss Mary b. B. writes easily and well,
In correspondence / think she would be
charming. The story she submits II
worthy of compliment, but Its finis sug-
gests the call of some one with tandem
wheel. The story is not ended, the writer
just stopped. Come in and tell why.
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The ssMan About Town" for the Salem
News, has been given such an attractive
view of the care-free existence OF an ac-
compllshed tramp that he frankly con-
fesses yearning for taste of 1t. can
not do better than to reprint the alluring
picture.
"what doingY' "Oh, anything and
everything" he answered. "Last week l
was down in Magnolia picking laurel and
selling it to the summer residents. Made
$500 in two days, and that will do me for
long time. Keep it in my stocking when
I've got any, and never let my shoes of
my fc ,t when Pm asleep. For tramps will
steal from each other even when they won't
steal from anybody else. l slept all the
week in brick yard down that way.
There were seven OF us there one night,
and in the woods further back they have
a bang-up brush shelter where all through
passengers stop for a rest. You see al
ways have some money with me, as il the
police hold me up they cannot send me
down for vagrant If l have some money
in my raiment." This was novel one
for me.
He knew more about timetables-those
relating to freight trains-than railroad
man, and had all the best trains down in
his memory like book; all the way from
Maine to Florida, for he was traveller,
was this tramp friend of mine. 1t was his
habit to drift along with the good weather,
in the north and wintering
where SHOWS came not to interfereiwith
his idylic existence. The B.. & M. and the
N. Y, N. H. & H. roads, he said, were the
best managed ones in the country, and
catered most advantageously to his frater-
nifty. .sBut the B. & 0. is the worstgthing
doing business" he said. According to
his story every trainman is colored, and II
a tramp isn't of the same race himself he
stands poor show on freight. They'd
throw him off the top Of car at full speed
If they caught him.
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One of his original assertions was that
no one need ever pay for anything he
wants II his desires are only reasonable.
"Just ask for it," he explained. "The first
fellow you ask may not give it to you, and
he may threaten to break your neck, but
keep asking. Sometime you are bound to
run up against somebody who will give 1t
to you, and it's q lot easier than working
for it. There's never any trouble about
getting enough to eat on the road, but rum
and tobacco are hard to get. That's one
reason why never use 'em." Clothes and
clean shirts were also easy to get, he said,
but he wouldn't tell me the way to 60 to
work to obtain a fresh outfit. That ap-
peared to be one of the secrets of the ''pro-
fesh."
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Some OF the expedients resorted to by
the worthless to get what they need with
out working for 1t were ingenious in the
extreme, and showed that the active classes
have not q complete monopoly of the
brains and ability. 1t occurred to me, a.
he told Of the clever schemes and deep-laid
plans to obtain the necessaries of existence
without earning them, that one-half the
resourcefulness, inventiveness and pa
tience, applied along legitimate channels,
would make rich men OF some of the "ho-
boes." swell, I'm of for week or 80 in
the hay field down near Portland. S'long,"
was his parting salutation as he started OF
for the lower end OF the tunnel, where he
proposed "jumping" the train and taking q
seat on bumper or in load Of lumber.
THE ToURIgr.