The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-26
bic OF RICH MEN
ED as HOboes, They Start
Out to Settle a Wager.
As AUTOMOBILE WAITS

City, N. Y, LaVishes Cold
.,sIs on Them-TramP Who Got
Lemon Won 5et-Thsn Auto
~ Dimes at Losers Expense.
sdwick E. Sawyer is twenty-one
old. lives in Garden City, N. Y,
aoesn't have to work. Patrick A.
nv is twenty-five years old and
IN New York. he feels that he
hard days work when he winds
d automobile and runs out to see
rer SAYS the New York World.
me refreshment room of the Gar
city hotel the pair are considered
of promise. They were in there
.tber afternoon after a day Of ar
golf when Fogarty pushed the
m and remarked amiably to Saw
that he looked like a tramp.
party sprang up and-looked In the
Then he came back and said to
yer:
i an say look like a tramp. 1
YOU look like one. Now, let us
INTO tramp clothes and 60 out on
Iericho turnpike. You take one
Of the pike and l take the other
and Wen call at the back doors
e plethorically rich and the front
Of the worthy poor, and the man
RI -. 4Io hfoDayf hanIns1% g es4vxoly
inners for everybody in this room.
sure thing that the bigger the
out man gets the more that man
ike a tramp. Are you onT
Eyer pushed the button again in
uimitable way and replied that he
"on." Everybody in the room
in a mighty shout Of approval.
ouple Of dishwashers supplied the
or raiment Fogarty and Sawyer
themselves into these clothes,
ed enough of Mother Earth into
faces and hands to complete the
up and said they were ready. A
more pushes of the magic button
select party drove away from
ear Of the hotel in Fogarty's tour
ar.
lived at the Jericho turnpike, the
adventurers alighted. The rest Of
party cruised up and down in the
mobile. Sawyer, looking truly
ore and weary, with a note OF
rending appeal in his voice
cd his bread from door to door
be farmhouse of Thomas Wicks
Ot four biscuits. Mrs. Orin Pear
nve him a ham bone, and a Ger
hmily at his third stop gave hin
dies of rye bread and butter.
bis fourth, fifth, sixth and sew
stops he received so much mort
be was compelled to stop the auto
ask his friends to take care Of it.
W about Fogarty2 Well, he go
b Of cold pancakes, prune pie
led cOrned beef and left over tapi
pudding, but it was at the farm
e Of Orlando Titus, near West
that his 'handout'' won the bet
Eus has a daughter that everybody
be party agreed ought to be hang
put In the orchard, ''she Is such
b." Instead she was hanging on
hes when Fogarty came slouchini
the yard. For full five minute
listened to his Arabian tale of tn
owed mother and the seven littl
dren In the Bronx who Woul'
We to death In their cherries
ns If some kind lady wouldn't Civ
+ only support Of the family Fogal
piece Of bread so that he shout
strong enough to work and ear
! icy enough chopping wood to 81
to the Bronx and maybe get
that would keep the wolf from tn
Of the widowed mother and tn
en children. Then Miss Titus SAX
{ don't think anything you say
l believe you drink liquor an
N afraid of work"
g ogarty retold the story of his 50
4 lie.
: Well, all right" replied Miss THU
q give you the same as give a
tramps that come here II you
mise TO eat it,
Gladly, num-" said Fogarty. IT
starved 1 could eat dog"
Miss Titus went into the houi
returned with a plate covered vii
nowy napkin.
ID Put your hand under the napkin
commanded. 1T won't bite 20
isn't dog"
ogarty complied, and drew out
smooth, round lemon.
hen he got out on the road
wed by it that Sawyer was more
ramp than he. So Sawyer climbs
! ard, and they all drove back
rden City and dined on Sawyer.