Arizona republican., 1910-07-04
A NO. | ARRIVES TO
SPEND THE FOURTH
HE MADE 1T IN NEARLY SCHED-
ULE/ TIME FROM FLAGSTAFF.
He is Now Doing a Side Stunt in
Vaudeville.

"A No. l., the worlds most per-
sistent tramp and the most success
full one who has stuck to his job and
wrought his success out of it, has
arrived He got here about midday
yesterday, for the purpose of cele-
brating the fourth of July i'm Phoe-
nix, just as he telegraphed The Re
publican on Saturday from Flagstaff
that he would do. He says he may
be here three or four days. and last
night secured an engagement in the
Coliseum vaudeville house for one
night and possibly longer. He has
been doing a few vaudeville stunts
of late and says that it is the only
line of endeavOr that seems to in
vite him to a new life of activity
for if he should take it up, and sue
cessfully, he could satisfy his wan
derlust and still have money to ride
on the cushions, for. giving up his
ceaseless travel is not to be dreamed
Of
His vaudeville stunt is the recital
of his experiences, showing the hui
man nature of mankind from a
tramps viewpoint which paints the
make the lives of tramps more miser-
able than they are even supposed to
be, with here and there a touch Of
the tramp's side of the case which
shows that even the hobo has some
good i'm him. Always, his moral is,
that the tramp's life is a hard one
and there is no excuse for it, save
that the travelling habit is formed
in youth, encouraged until it becomes
the hobo's impelling force and he
cannot stop. His advice to every boy
is never run away from home the
first time for if he does the seed of
sorrow may be sown.
The last former visit of A No.
to this city was i'm November 1908
since which time he has Travelled &c.
602 miles. beating the railroads out
of every mile of it. and spending four
months of that time in a hospital in
San Francisco on account of brok-
en- ankle, suffered by jumping from
the top of a Pullman car to keep
from being arrested. Since 1888 when
he first took to the road he has
Travelled 474.34O miles and during that
time he has spent but little over
seven dollars for railroad fare.
When he started west this time
via the Santa Fe. which road he
gives fine credentials but whose de-
tective force he thinks is unneces-
sarily irritating to travellers of his
sort. inspired by rewards, he did not
discover until he got into New Mex
leo, that all had been warned to make
a special effort to catch him, so he
was off his guard until he reached
Ration. He had beaten a train from
Denver to Ration and was sitting on
a platform when an officer, disguis-
ed as roughneck, struck up a con-
versation and wrought a confession
from him that he had beaten the
train in. Then he was taken into
custody but the local court kindly
told him that under New Mexico's.
law. if he paid to ride into town, or
Offered to. no charge could lie against
him. Then he volunteered to pay the
fare from Lynn, the last town back,
to Ration, to avoid thirty day Jail
sentence and there was no one to
prove that he had rode any further
than that. 1t cost him thirty cents,
paid after he had enjoyed his stolen
ride into Ration so the ticket he
bought was never used. That he says,
was the nearest he has come to pay
ing his fare in many years. When
he leaves here he will go to Tucson
and thence to Mexico City. How he
got from Flagstaff to Phoenix in al.
most schedule time. he refuses to
divulge.
During his career he says he has