The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-27
A TRAMP AROUND THE WORLD.

A vagabond Journey Around inc Morta' Iens
n Narrative Of Personal Experiences,
By Harry \: Franek illustrate WIN nnl
Published by The Century Company
New York,
II is seldom that one fuds a. volume
with so much human interest IN ~ as
this; ii is, in fact. an astonishing doom
II is the record of world-voyage with
out money and without scrip.
A university man, impelIcd by
strong desire for adventure and toI
literary material, made the trip arounu
the world. accomplishing 1t apsoiuteLs
without money. except what httle ne
earned as n sailor, and IN other crafts,
obtained by the way. Mr.. Franck is
nossessed Of keen observation, hne
sense oC humor n graphic literary style,
and of the faculty OF taking things as
he finds them. He comes in contact
with classes of people TINT the ordinary
traveller seldom or never sees, both IN
the civilized and the unciviliZed part
of The world. He mingled with tfench
tramps. underground denizens of Ger,
man cities, Arabs OF the desert: ana
the high and low caste people OF lndla'
and some of the outcasts OF inc near
and far Orient, and makes hLs way
without harm among them ne ee5s
helm where least expected. and mas
adventures where he least looks FOR
them. and escapes perils threatening
aud expected. ,,,,
"It was my original intention,' MI
FTanck saws, ''to attempt the journey
without money, without weapons, and
without carving baggage or supplies;
to depend both for protection and tne
necessities of life on personal cndeayor
and tho native resources OF each To-
calitv. That plan T. altered in one par
iiculnr. 7 decided to carry y Kodak;
and TO obviate the necessity of earning
enroute what 7 might choose to squan'
der in photography. ] set out WIN
sum that seemed sufficient to cover that
extraneous expense; to be exact: WIN
SlCI. As was to be expected, L spent
this reserve fund early, in those coun.
tries of northern Europe IN which
had not planned an extensive stay,
But the conditions Of TIE self-lmposed
test were not thereby materially al.
tered; for before the journey ended
l had spent in photography, from my
earnings, more than the original amount
to be exact again: Sl15.'
He travelled through the most OF
Europe. through Palestine, Egypt: Ccy-
lon. Burmah, India, Siam, and Japan.
He saw pretty much of everything that
any tourist sees IN those countries, and
a good deal that foreigner mover
sees. He slept and tramped with boboes
of every land, creed, and color. Some
times he had little money, and very
often he had nothing but the rags on
his back. He tried his hand at every
kind OF work that a clever, all-around
able bodied American man would dream
of. and he bluffed his way through
seemingly impossible barriers. He slept
cold and hard many night, and was
hungry many R day, but he saw the
world, and had "Vagabond 50 royal
,-n1- Of fisn Tf O
fine writing in this story, but he gives
straightforward narrative of his ex.
periences And his story is helped out
by snapshots from his kodak of many
interesting and curious situations.
Mr.. Franck was born in 1881, in a
village of Michigan, and was the son
Of blacksmith. He got good no
tion Of various manual trades, by which
he paid his way through high school
and the University of Michigan, He
earned his money by selling papers,
waiting on the table, and by doing all
sorts cf rough work. He engaged as
railroader, worked with the pick aud
shovel or in the harvest fields of the
Northwest, then hohoed back to the
college town He followed this every
summer. Then he took a cattle boat
worked as a stevedore in Newhayen,
visited the Paris Exposition. arrived
in London broke. walked to Liverpool
and shipped as an A. r. in time to
reach the college town before work was
far advanced. These trims. with some
courses in sociology, which included the
reading of such works as Josiah Flvnt
and Wycoff first gave him the idea
Of this trip around the world, At the
and of his college year he taught French
in the Central High School Of Detroit,
Michigan. and made final plans for this
trip. Some months after he returned,
when he was master Of modern Ian
guages, in Bellefonte Academy, Pa. he
began writing of the story which makes
this book. He changed his labors to
the Browning School at New York
taught there two years, and between
these years made walking trip of
three months through Spain. and tu-
tored scions of the school during the
two summers of this time. He finished
writing up the trip during this time.
and in the last year, while head of
modern languages of the Springfield
Technical High School. he put on the
finishing touches. He was twenty-five
years OF age when the trip began, and
twentyfour when If ended
The account which he gives Of the
trip in this book is likely to be n
classic. sought for In libraries for a
long time to come