The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-07
ANACONDA NEWS.
TRAMPS ARE TO GATHER
Convention of Hoboes" Is to
Take Place at Danville, Ill.
DELEGATESFROM THIS CITY
The Secretaries and Vags Which Were
tnfesting Anaconda Not Long Ago,
Have Left to Attend Meeting-No
Arrangements With Railroads.

Where are the hoboes which were in
Testing Anaconda not long ago? This
question is often asked these days
around police headquarters, where it
has been so quiet for some time past.
About Is days ago there was seldom
day which went by but one or two
vags were gathered in the police net,
but now this state Of affairs is a thing
of the past. All these vagabonds have
left town, and the probabilities are
that they are now on their way to
Danville, ILL.,. to attend the convention
of tramps which will open there on
June Is.
AS far as can be learned, the hobo
delegates who resided in Anaconda at
the time of their departure had made
no arrangements with the railroad
companies whose trains run out of
Anaconda, but as Chief White says,
they had to get out" and they must
undoubtedly have found some way to
do SO.
The first announcement of the con-
vention was published in the Chicago
Chronicle, whose article was as fol-
lows:
"A convention OF hODOeS mas been
called to meet at Danville, ILL.,, June
Is. The call for the novel gathering
has been circulated in rural districts
for some time and yesterday reached
this city. Quite as unique as the con-
vention itself is this CALI 1t is a tiny
poster. or 'sticker,' for handy pasting
on lamp posts and convenient land
marks of the highways. The hoboes
are their own billposters and they are
pasting up the love feast call at count
less places along the roadways all over
the country. Within the last few weeks
10000 of these posters have been print
ed and distributed at the expense of
Charles Noe, a wealthy young man of
Sycamore, Ill, who styles himself a
society tramp
Under the name of Box Car Tour
lists union No. g. more than 800 ho-
boes of Chicago have organized to get
in readiness for convention work They
claim to be affiliated with 100 similar
organizations covering most of the ter
Titory between the great divide of the
Rocky mountain range and the At
1antic seaboard. An outline of the
programme for the convention has been
drawn up. 1t includes discussions of
the economic and social conditions out
of which the hobo evolved himself or
has been evolved. College graduates
in disguise or reduced by drink will
be among the eloquent speakers at the
@iHeetiHE. IentS anu empty barrels Will
house the delegates and sand lot
owned by Onion Cotton, hotel pro-
prietor of DanVille has already been
selected for the holding of the conven-
tion, which is to be in the open air.
only 'eX-usefuF members of urban,
suburban or rustic communities will
be given credentials to the grassy floor
OF the convention. Those already reg
istered and declared eeli gible are: Land
surveyors, shoemakers, railroaders,
=cigarmakers. designers molders, print
ers and tailors.
by special dispensation of the man
ayers of the convention society
tramps,' ex-actors and ex-college pres
idents are to be admitted. Route pick
ers and providers of 'side-door Pull
mans and of 'eatings' have been
named for the Chicago union. Among
Walters, Edward V. Davis, Charles F.
Noe, Onion Cotton, Adolphus Burk-
hardt and Edward Freeman. With the
exception of Noe and Cotton, all these
have been alternating, along with
others of their ilk, in Easements at 40
Sherman street, 1903 North Clark street
or in similar winter retreats through
out the city.
arrangements for transportation in
box cars, with hay presses for berths
have been made through the good of
fees of friendly employees of the Chi
IdSo ISdSteitl llllIUlS railroad. Inc
11egira from Chicago will be witnessed
June 16. Before the start on the af-
ternoon of that day parade will be
held in the downtown streets. Any
body who wants to fall into line as the
procession passes will have his or her
credentials passed upon a S the box cars
are being boarded at the Polk street
station.
"All persons aspiring to become dele
gates must satisfactorily answer the
following questions, printed on a blank:
How much territory have you COW
cred in the last five years?
How much by cushions or otherwise?
Did you ever panhandle a
dookie?' -- Have you ever be-
longed to hobo campo -- DC
recognize tourist and help him with
all your ability? - will you
Did you ever leave a towr
by request from the town marshal?
Will you help to establish {
free soup house in each railroad cen
ter?' - Will you petition the
congressman in your district to legis
late for steam heat in all box cars?
in political and police circles thu
convention is regarded as a move to
ward a revival of CoXeyism or traml
agitation of the kind that carried TIL
marching army of the unemployed t.
the steps of the capitol building il
w washington SbHle years dSo. w HeLlle
any menace to social order is perceived
in the Danville programme the author
tiles are not yet prepared to say. Tn
organizers of the convention declare
however. that sedition is not contem
plated. They do not anticipate any at
temp at governmental suppression o
interference Still. they very freely ad
nit that the work of the convention
will be largely political and that tn
foremost object sought to be ATTAINED
will be to devise ways and means Il
make the struggle for existence pleas
ure instead of a burden"
Spain's Greatest Need.
Mr. r. p. Olivia, Of Barcelona, Spain
spends his winters at Aiken, S. c. Veal
nerves had caused severe pains in tn
back of his head On using Electric Bit