New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-18
Notes of Travel Far Abroad and
In California.

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vacaeoyD JOURNEY AROUND II z
WOPLp: A Narrative of Personal tx
perience BY Harry A. f ran - l,us,
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Company.
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FoRNIA: A Record Of the Adventuies
Of are Author While Exploring Fehln-
solar California, MeSiec. 6ss,.-l,-4 nv ~,
waIhridee North. With a foreNord ~
Admiral Rohley y. Evans. =. =. "
Illustrated Svo. PIP. SAG. Inc SHhe' q
Taylor Company
Mr.. Franck's "Vsgabond Journey
while FAR from being novelty In the
aeis Of travel literature. ranks with the
,,o-e vivid narratives of its class. 40
,,e,+,,-o,,s shirts have ere now made
the,- way around the world without
money, as sailors or taiIors, merchants
clerks. cflarnbermaids, cooks. walters aho
what not, hut he 5ourneyed with MIN
irrurn of labor and comfort; indeed Tor
speed il almost would seem that noth-
ing. except a well filled purse, is so ef-
fective as tranping II.
A Michigan village boy, Mr.. FTancK
began unconsciously to prepare himself
for his fifteen months trip by working
his way through college, his summers
being spent in the West as railroad
iahorer OF harvest hand. His way of re-
turning to Michigan University in the
fan was that Of the tramp, in order to
save railroad fares. Thus he learned the
WAYS of the American hobo. which. he
found out afterward, are. with local
notifications, the ways Of hoboes
the world over. He took a preliminary
trip TO England on cattle boat in 1900.
worked as stevedore in Newhaven,
visited the Paris Exposition, returned To
London BROKE" and shipped before the
mast for his return trip. a course in
sociology, the writings Of Professor
weary wyclzoff and Josiah Flynt, and,
no doubt en- innate penchant for the
road" suggested TO him the long Jour
nev Of which his book is the result.
He left America on a Canadian cattle
steamer from Montreal for Glasgow on
June 81, 1904. and reached Puget Sound
in September. 1905, on 'wind-jamIner'
from Japan. technically a stowaway.
True to his plan till the very end, he
beat" and worked his way back to his
starting point. the paternal home in
Michigan. His trip without money.
weapons. baggage or passport led him
through England, Holland. the Rhine
region. France and Italy; from Naples
TO Marseilles, and thence through Egypt
and Palestine; through the Red Sea and
the Indian Ocean TO Ceylon; thence
On his road he played many parts. tend
ing cattle. doing odd jobs Of every pos
sible description, as stevedore in Mar
settles. interpreter and public scribe IN
Beirut, substitute circus clown in Ceylon.
streetcar inspector IN Madras, errand
boy In Cairo-wl1ich, by the way, ap-
pears to be the white tramp's paradise
In the Eastern Hemisphere. The tramps
he met and associated with supply the
most picturesque feature Of the advent
ure-narnps Of all nationalities, men Of
unmistakable education and men from
the depths. fraternizing everywhere with
the freedom Of the road. In India he
had the rare experience of hearing an
Irish convert TO Buddhism discussing
comparative religion with Hindu con-
vert to Christianity. In Japan, during
the Russo-Japanese War. he and a
Gillian sailor slept in the deserted Rus
sian consulate building in Yokohama,
protected by its extraordinarily and
In unexpected places in the Near East
he happened upon natives who had been
in 'the States The italian peasantry
he found to be hopelessly muddled on