The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14
Doubles Back on His Trail.

Doubles Back on His Trail.
 The most accommodating train crews were going in the direction of Sacramen- to- Cal, when he decided to quit, and, as time was no object with him, he took another trip back across the Sierras. Just outside the city he was ditched in the snow sheds of the company and put to work After three days at repairing passenger train with a hot box offered chance to escape, and the Yankee did not stop to collect his back pay, but skiddooed.
 The logging camps of Siskiyou county were the next places visited, and for ten days he worked hard. When he drew his pay he had money enough for another long iaunt, and Portland Ore, appeared on the map attractive to the eastern lad. milk route offered him employment there and after thoroughly doing the city in five days he quit his farm Jop and started railroading again.
 By this time his various odd jobs had given John enough money to enjoy life like A traveller. and he landed in Seattle, Wash. with money enough to see the sights without working. When all the cash was gone except barely enough to buy square meal a day the young tramp started out by fast freight for Salt Lake City. He stopped long enough there to inspect the Mormon temple, but ac- cordng to his description, "only from the outside. as it did not look good enough to go in
 The Mormon atmosphere not proving at tractive to the Puritan lad, he made, by the brake beams of a passenger train, Tor Rutte Mont The mines were the princi- ple sight for him there, as he did not stay long enough to look up any literary art ists.
 When he arrived al Billings, Mont, the allurements of an eastern circus proved
 l la. haA fn ct1 enough to take in the show At Sheri- dan. Mont he decided to take trip across the prairies, and for two hundred miles he went by prairie schooner. When this mode of travel began to pail on him he laid off at one of the towns and worked digging ditches' and then tired ms luck at COW punching.
 The last two occupations proved so lu- crative that John left Sheridan with S4o Tn his pocket and started back again to Billings From there he picked out the Northern Pacific road as his route east to North Dakota. Jamestown anu Farso both got q short visit from the traveller, who continued as blind baggage to Mihhe- apolis, Minn.
 Chance acuuaintances had advised him not to try his luck stealing rides in that immediate neighborhood, as the onicials were wise. so he travelled to South St. Paul by trolley. From that point he took a in a through cattle car.
 Drawbacks to Travel.
 The only objection, according to the venturesome lad, to this mode of getting about was that the cattle continually mistook him for the hay, and he had to stay awake all the time to keep from being swallowed alive.
 one day spent entirely on the trolley car covered Chicago for him. and that
 al tfsr4sa fns railroad fare, giving S1 to an employment agency to ship him out to Grossport Ind, where there was a scarcity of working men, Just before reaching GrosSport he learned that the place was twenty miles from a railroad station. and John, instead of getting off with the rest or ms party climbed into his old place, the passenger coach brake beam, and rode into Indian apolis.
 If was an easy trip from there to Cleve- land. whence he shipped on a cattle train for Buffalo. Again he tried the nay racks but this time was caught by the brakeman and locked in the car. It was not ,,ntiI John had expended 25 cents in tins that he was finally allowed to come out of the car at Buffalo.
 A through milk train to New fork landed the lad in the metropolis with S2 on hand to see the sights. on ms rlde into New York the train took water with
 
 feed pipe was put into the trough the young traveller got thorough soaking in ice cold water.
 The trip from New York to this city was the easiest part of the journey for the Connecticut lad, wno when he arrived was in good trim, except that ms c'olhes needed pressing.
 Before John started east he travelled from Los Angeles to Mexico, being shipped out ,of an employment bureau and returning on fast freights
 At the various cities he visited the New London traveller confessed that ne dlssi- ra+ad to the extent of a plate of ice craan and when there was no money for tbe ice cream he remained long enough to work for plate.