The Washington times., 1907-07-06
THO Young RunawayS
Tour Whole Country;
Work at All Trades
Cover More Than 10000 Miles, Pass Through
twenty-five States, and Are Away From
Home Many Months.

PHILADELPHIA. July 6.-Cerrying
out an ambition to see something Of the
country in which they were born. two
Philadelphia boys returned home recent
~. after an absence Of almost two years
spent in travelling over the United
States. Up TO within a few weeks or
their return the young tourists kept up
a regular correspondence with their
folks here, but. wishing to make their
homecoming a surprise. they then drop
ped all communication.
Taking no one into their confidence,
Albert Klein. of SIS North Fifth street.
and David A. Davidson. of SIS North
Sixth street. left their respective homes
on the night OF July 10 1906. and took
night steamboat 20 Baltimore, where
their clothing and other effects had al
ready been consigned. That was the
last time their parents saw them until
their return. Two days after their dis
appearance Leopold Klein and Abraham
Davidson, fathers OF the young men,
received letters from Baltimore inform
ing them OF their sons intention TO
travel over the country.
After a short delay in Baltimore the
lads started 10 carry out a program OF
travel which they had already mapped
out. In their travels they covered over
1000 miles, passed through twenty-five
States. and visited innumerable cities,
towns, and hamlets. in most OF the
larger places in which they stopped
work was obtained. and in almost each
instance they sought To secure employ
ment IN different occupations.
Their first stopping place for any
an 81 ~ MA q
pair found employment there in a cotton
mill. Klein. aided by some previous ex-
perience worked as a bookkeeper and
stenographer, while Davidson tOiled in
machine shop. firing Of Norfolk.
Klein and Davidson made a tour OF a
large section OF Virginia, visiting New
port News. Portsmouth. Washington.
jamestown, Richmond. Hampton Roads.
Petersburg. and other towns
Leaving Virginia. they went directly
70 Cincinnati. where they remained six
weeks. being employed IN the meantime
as machinists in foundry. They next
went TO Cleveland. and then 20 Buffalo.
Niagara, and Detroit.
From Detroit the young men went 10
| Chicago, where they remained for some
time working at hrst in a coffee mill
1 Later they were employed By the Amer
u
a sort OF circus on a small scale.
After leaving Chicago Klein and Da-
wilson went 10 St Louis and then 70
Kansas City. They then went by rail 10
| Sheridan, Wyo.. riding continually for
/ two days and nights. There they pro-
cured work on a ranch. where they
STAYED for several months.
The two travellers then went 10 Black
Hills. Mont, and put up at the leading
hostelry, which consisted OF a one-story
shack. with three rooms and a bar.
/ Klein and Davidson then went 70 Basin
Mont and worked in an irriRating
ditch for q time. After a tour OF the
| cities In this section, IN which they visit
/ ed Livingstone. Billings. Helena, and
] Spokane, Wash they went TO Seattle.
/ on Puget Sound. There they worked
| for a time in a salmon canning factory
| and then shipped as seamen on a ship
| sailing for san Francisco. This trip
lasted four days. in which they worked
! harder than at any time during their
/ travels In San Francisco they set VI
a cigar store. Little profits were u
4 be made from this business, and they
/ introduced several card and slot ma
| chimes. from which they derived cOnsid-
4 cradle revenue OF the Chinese and
/ Japanese. They continued IN this bust
ness for some time. Then, after visit
/ ing the interesting places in California
! they began their trip homeward
| From San Francisco they went 70
/ Salt Lake CITY. and thence to Colorado
/ Springs. Kansas City and St Louis
i were again visited, and the pair stopped
/ for a while in Cleveland and worked IN