The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-09-09
ROBOS FIND FRIEND
IN MILLIONAIRE HOW
Labors to Aid Needy-Lives
With Tramps in
New York.
REFUSES TO TOUCH FORTUNE
Rides on Trucks, Goes Hungry
and Works on Railroads
University Graduate.

New York. Sept S.-James Eads
How, the young ST. Louis reformer and
heir to 100000 who refused to touch
1~penny of it because he had not earned
sIt, is in New York as an agent of the
charitable organization to which he
turned over his fortune for the bet
terment of INDECENT men and espec-
tally Of professional tramps.
He will also deliver lectures al the
meetings of the brotherhood Welfare
society. a branch of the organization
he started in st. Louis several years
ago, and aims to extend to all the
large cities in the United States.
Mr. How is the son of the late James
r. How, vice president and general
manager of the Wabash railroad, and
grandson of the great civil engineer,
James Buchanan Eads, who built the
St. Louis bridge. the first marvellous
network of steel thrown across the
Mississippi River, and later achieved
still greater fame by constructing the
jetties in the river below New Orleans.
Mr. How is a graduate of Harvard
University and studied at oxford. He
is not yet 80 years of age, is of medi-
up height, with pronounced features
and expressive grey eyes.
VIII Live With HobOes.
He wears rather closely cut beard.
because BARRIERS are expensive, and he
has elected to live among the hobos
as the hobo lives. His clothing, though
neat, is plain, almost to shabbiness
His food consists of simple bread
and butter. potatoes, coffee and occa-
sionaly a vegetable. He never eats
meat, in the belief that q vegetable diet
is more conducive to health and a spir-
ual life, and. besides, the tramp is sell
dom able to get lamb chop or a
porterhouse steak, and Mr. How is
studying the tramp question from the
viewpoint of a tramp.
He has ridden on trucks, gone hun
cry in hobo camps and worked as a
laborer on railroads.
Though his charities are general,
his interest is conferred in the hobos.
In his lectures he expects to teach
tramps their rights as citizens, why
they should have an aim in life, and
how to become useful to the world
and make the world useful to them.
When in New York Mr.. How sleeps
at the Mills Hotel. To a reporter he
expressed his reason for giving UP
wealth and social position to live
among the poor.
Believes I'm brotherhood.
You must live the life of these peo-
pie, live among them, to get at the
root of their troubles" he said; "be one
Of them, a brother. 1 belives in the
actual, practical brotherhood of man.
do you believe one of these men
cast into the sea of despair who has
fallen from grace is going to confide
his real troubles to fellow in patent
leather shoes, and a hundred dollar
suit of clothes?
ON the other hand. do you think
such a man could truly comprehend
the tramp's condition or even SYM
pathize with it? No. The outcast
would merely grow more bitter at the
injustice of life. draw comparisons,
and the gilded youth would throw him
a few coins and leave him to his fate,
The tramp is made what he is be-
cause he has no aim in life He is
down and can't get up. and he sinks
so fast that no one will help him
no one will lend him a dollar. How
can he set out of such a hole? But he
can be redeemed"