The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-29
THE HOBO AS TOLD BY ONE
SOME INTERESTING CHAT ABOUT
THE CRAFT OF THE ROAD"
The Piker. Musher, Cockney anu
BibIe Stiff Described by one oA
tho Fellows Who Has Travel
- A.. tJ,a Eour Points.


the Fellows Who Has Travel
ed 20 the Four Points.
"can YOU give me something &c
eat?" r,ror
40 March wind had an edge ike
COW New York city man was au'
dressed in these words. 1t was
ebivering fellow in ragged thousn
neo+ clothes and a weeks beard pu'
Ser an anparently open face, WhC
hod asked the question so important
- his health and comfort. Later II
was learned that he was John D.
diamond, a Bowery hobo.
.eWhv can't you get work?
..you give me a meal in the res
,uon+ across the street and I'll tell
YOU all about it. ,,o
The man took the tramp at MS
word THAT was good meal anu
7 feel better thai a three-year-olu'
said the panhandler. Now TOT NY
Glory I've had good jobs-some Oh
Tho best-in New York, Boston, Chl-
capo and on the Flagler seacoaS'
roiIroad in Florida l don't Kho"
what to call it-desire, disease oi
,,,onia-but have to go on the
hobo and
Cannot Control IT,
..First I get to drinking. l can
1eave the stuff alone for five or SIX
months at a time, but that seems 10
be my limit.
80 far as the hoboes are concern
cd when so many men are Out u
work as at present it is tough
game A man in the bread line at
gets there at least an
bour ahead of time, end II ne Is
downright starved two or three
bonrs ahead. With good shoes or
underwear, in rain, slush or colu
winds, he is supposed to stand there
for a piece of bread and cup OF
coffee.
CATER he gets it he walks to the
Mission to get another leeu
~ I q m. The next thing is to look
the morning papers over for 1oO'
If the lob is uptown by the time ne
IAN walk there he finds from 20 TO %
men ahead of him HIS clothes are
qainst him, and it's one best bet
If 100 to / he doesn't land the Jop'
stiu he tells his story, and gets TINS
answer:
!. We've heard that before. You
rink. That's why you are down
and out. Nothing doing.
"After a week or a month OF TINS
he won't look for work, and ne
be able to do a days WORK
# he found it. So he keeps on work
ing the mission, and in the fine days
IF spring takes to the road. That's
The Way a Hobo Starts
cone cold night / arrived at the
,oal chutes in Ashtabula nearly froz-
an About half mile away was
,amp fire, and l went there to warm
nm had the fire all to myself Tor
about ten minutes, when a gun bark
ed and the command Throw up your
hands fonowed.
GAS / obeyed 20 men surrounded
me. searched my pockets, asked all
sorts of questions, and decided | was
all right. They made me go with !
them to Toledo. They broke open a !
sealed car in train of meat empties
bound west, threw out the ice IN
each end of the car, dug the axle
dope out of the journal box and kept
a fire in the car all night,
"The brakeman bothered us only
once, but decided. to let us alone. In
daylight we looked like lot of mig
gers from the smoke.
ION the afternoon of the next day
/ learned from the wife of railroad
man, who gave me a hand-out, that
the gang I was with was known as
the Lake Shore Push, that they had
just killed a conductor and were be-
ing hunted down.
1.-The conductor was coming over