New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-10
RENO HOBOES IS TUTORS
Thsv Shosc Busted Sports" Hoe to
Ride Back Home.

laid low along with the money you had saved
for an automobile: when your home bank has
refused TO take your unsecured note by Wire
md local hank" has discounted your return
ticket for ten spot" which has disappeared
on another 'coppered ten spot: when you find
yourself stranded il a towo where a black
thunderstorm Of q prizefghter has curdled an
the milk Of human kindness-tFlen you viii find
that the place where you are is a place where
you do Tot wish TO be, and you VIII feel an in
ierest in any wheeled thing that is going to
better one.
So il was in Reno when the fight was over and
tie population Of that hospitable city began
. shrink from twenty thousand back to its
normal five thousand souls. And SO it was that
& most remarkable school came into being
Two hundred OF the visitors came into Reno
e undisguised '9hoboes," riding on freight
trains wherever they could hang themselves
Six hundred visitors went out from Reno in
similar undignifed positions Now to q novice
f is dangerous business to ride on railroad
tain unlimited One is likely to leave slices
q ones mortal frame along the right OF way.
So 1t was that the practised two hundred
started The Reno College Of Applied Transpor-
taton for the preservation Of the amateurs
Each initiated tramp found himself, il he
wished. suddenly q professor.
How long does It take to walk to Broad
way" was the question that the humorously
disposed were asking in Reno barroons, hu-
norously answering themselves that il took
Weston seventy-eigflt days" But the question
WIS anything but humorous one TO the men
who had bet away their tickets Those were
fortunate who saw their chance IN time and
GOT of il the confusion OF departure on the
first night And most Of them soon learned the
need OF scientific instruction
man with q farm near Wichita, Kan
found in Reno after the battle tramp to
whom he promised job at So a day. the work
70 be purely nominal If he could get him home
within a week and keep the family from know
iag what had happened The farmer had lost
lis money on the fight and had had his ticket
s.oen; the tramp had saved up SO and spent
al for admission 10 the fight
They caught a special train Just after 1t had
pulled out OF the station, and under the tramp's
Instructions they 'decked her'-that is, climbed
goon the roof Of one OF the cars The top OF
6 passenger coach that is travelling fifty miles
e. hour is place OF excitement The slope OF
The sides is too steep to make II safe to lie
down, and the centre SLAVES too close under
bridges and tunnels to make standing posture
advisable.
The tramp had found bit Of rope, and they
themselves across the roof OF the car like
pair OF saddle bags on horse The car swayed
and jumped and almost flung them OF again
and again; the smoke and cinders filed their
eyes, and the farmer was glad enough TO climb
Gown when the train reached Carson City
They decided freight would be more com
iHlaole, even If il were not so fast They
were hitting the bumpers" halfway across
nevada, when brakeman with an unloVapie
disposition looked down from the car roof and
ordered them TO jump They demonstrated, but
WIEN he started down the ladder with
~uplng pin and two more trainmen beh1no
I'm they reconsidered and took his advice
1he farmer landed in what, according TO the
s"ne, was the only barbed wire fence between
arson City and the Utah line, and broke MS
~Aaroone The tramp came out with rev
scratches. The pair dragged themselves nVe
--es to the nearest water tank. where the
Naner telegraphed a night letter" to his Wl1e,
s1-ch Included full confession and request
.ar funds
nc accident" as the calamity OF the fifteenth
"o has been called for some foconce1Vaoie
Son They Were black with disappointed
loIioTFe-s. The railroads suspended their
Or encouraged the rainmen TO Wink al
e0Ar''ies, and the amateur ''hoboes" FOR the
pa't rode out the first stage OF their jour
0ey Endist1rbed
r.n o. these pupils OF the Transportation
- rode the bumpers" which is the Sim