The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-28
AN EDUCATED TRAMP.
College Graduate who Is known ns
king of the S4ObOs.'

king of the HObos."
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Marcellus F. Graupner, who boasts
of being a Harvard man, is also known
as the King of Tramps.' Only a
young man. he has crossed the conti-
nent twenty times, has twice braved
the dangers of the Alaskan gold mines,
has "hoboed" his way around the
world, and, at a conservative calcula-
ton, has Travelled without script or
purse an aggregate distance of $4,000
miles.
Graupner is a genius at travelling.
Blind baggage" on dizzy truck, on
top of swaying freight car. or doubled
up in a sandhole on a ramshackle
gravel train, it is all the same to him.
No matter where he wishes to go, or
how little money ne has, he gets there.
RaiIroadmen all over the country
known, or have heard Of, the college
hobo" and when his own pull" won't
get him through a stock of native grit
and daring sends him whirling over
continents to whatever place he
aims.
Graupner had "hoboed" since he was
a boy. He started out at the age of
10, partly because his parents, who
lived in Guthrie, Okla, had some finan-
cial reverses at that time, and partly
because of that spirit of adventure
which has made him a veritable globe
trotter" since. He YVES an ambitious
boy, and he wanted Ito see the world"
But he had no money. There was
only one thing to do, that was to board
the nearest freight train and trust to
his own resources and luck.
Since that day Graupner has been
more of the world for less money,
than probably any other man living.
Graupners sole aim in travelling is to
better his condition. He confidently
expects some day to be d millionaire
and 1t IS this desire to accumulate
riches which has sent him to the
globes extremes. He is energy person.
flied. There isn't an inch of laziness
in his body. When he travels he trav
els to get there
In spite of all his wild life and rough
experiences. Graupner has always
been anxious for an education, and so
after he had knocked about for ten
years he entered Harvard as a special
student in the fall OF so. Having no
money, he relied on his own efforts to
defray the expenses of his education.
but in this. as in everything else, he
showed his native resources and ener-
of the largest publishing houses in
the country, and sold books to Harvard
students doing a business that in a
single year Melted him nearly $1,000.
All the millionaires knew him and pat
ronized him.
At the same time he worked faith
fully with his studies and engaged in
other activities. 1t seemed as it, with
all his work. he could not wear out
his energies, so that winter found him
Shaving in the Hemenway gymnasium,
anxious to establish record as an In
tercollegiate strength champion. For
81 time he led the college In this, and
to-day 1t is one of his Droudest yefiec-
tions that he was once strong man
of the Crimson University.
One year at Harvard, however, was
not enough to cure Graupner of his
hobo" tendencies. The summer follow
ing found him restless and itching to
strike out into the world again So in
1901 he was off to Nome, in the Klon-
dixie region, sleeping. eating and rid
ing with the common tramp, and think