The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
parade Of coxeys Army 10 TO bs Du.
picated on smaller Scale by tho
March From s.. Louis to
Milwaukee.
TO BEG FOOD ENRoUTE
Bunch Of Tramps viii Leave January
10 to Attend Convention Of Ma
tionaI Brotherhood Wei
fare Association.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 19.-The march of |
Coxey's army is to be duplicated on a |
smaller scale by some of How's |
hobos. members of the Brotherhood |
Welfare Association, who will leave |
st. Louis in a body January 10 to
tramp to Milwaukee, Wis, where they
will attend the annual convention OF
the National Brotherhood Welfare
Association, which meets in that city
for a week, beginning January 81. The
distance to Chicago, the route chosen,
is about 2S5 miles, and Milwaukee Is
about eighty miles further. The jour
ney will be made entirely on foot and
the hobos will subsist on food begged
from farmhouse doors T. F. NC
l.aughlin, head of the Mclaughlin
Typewriter Exchange, will be one of
the walkers.
Not only will the tramp be novel
In experience and privations, especial
" in cold January weather, but the
party may contain few business and
professional men of st. Louis as well.
DR.. James Eads How, president of
the association, yesterday afternoon
at the regular meeting at Druids' hall
announced that several hobos would
make the walk and called for volun-
teers. Mclaughlin, who is secretary
Of the st. Louis Socialist party, vol
lnteered to take the walk with the
hobos, and said he would live like the
rest Of them wlssIa IA The journey.
Alter the meeting How and Nc
EAughlin shook hands in the presence
OF score Of witnesses and agreed
On the walk.
The walk will take about two weeks
according to How. and is to be made
for the experience. Business men
who feel athletically inclined, and
some OF the more athletic ministers
and physicians of st. Louis, as we'll
as st. Louis charity workers and
phiIanthropists, will be asked to ac-
company the small army and get act
ual facts relative to the real living
conditions, socially, morally and ply
sically, OF the hobo.
President How announced at the
executive meeting held after the reg
,ilar meeting that the mayor of Mill
waukee had announced his intention
of receiving the hobos when they ar
rive at Milwaukee, and that they vii
be accorded all the honors possible
to be bestowed upon them.
No baggage will be allowed. and al
will be obliged to follow the hobo rule
and customs of walking and sleeping
at night. The suggestion that litera
ature be taken along and sold to pay
for provisions was turned down
Yesterdays meeting was the larg
est ever held by the How organiza
ton. The hall in which the regula
meetings are held was SO small tha
the big hall in the building had to bt
procured To accommodate the GROVE
after several hundred were turned
away.
The question Of permanent quarter
for the hobos came up, and man.
urged that the city be asked to pre-
vide rooms for the men. The SPEAK
ers yesterday were: Oscard Leonard
y. F.. Laughlin, Millionaire Charlie
Jones. who declared new politica
party was needed, and Richard Kenn
Of wisconsin, and Robert M. Wilson
known as the king of Hobos.'
special meeting to hear the report 9
the location committee will be hel
at Druid,s hall tomorrow night.