Evening star., 1911-09-01
|HObOES IN SESSION BEATTlE T0 Be next
Committee to Conduct Con- Prisoner Will Take Stand Late
vention Is Named Today or Tomorrow.
TRUE TO THEIR PRINCIPL LES ETTING THE STAGE READY
Allow Dr. Do Jury May First Be Taken View
All the Work Scene Of Crime. ],
WHY HE Is "MILI0NAIRE 30" GRIEvED FOR HIS WIFE
Hm-More Of Tell Of His Sorrow
Lunch Fresco. Murder-Reputation Good.
Committee to Conduct Con.
vention Is Named.
TRUE TO THEIR PRINCIPLES
Allow DR.. James Eads How to Do
All the Work.
WHY HE IS MILLIONAIRE B0"
Leader Explains Title Conferred on
Him-More Of "Army" Due.
Luncheon Al Fresco.

James Eads How. Md, who led the
vanguard of the hobo army into the city
from Laurel, Nd. today. stood In the
vestry Of Epiphany Church with two SUM-
day school benches under his arms and
explained why he is called "the million
aire tramp While he was explaining
Brother" E. Andrews. said to be the
youngest hobo in the army. was running
back and forth across the street to and
from the hobo headquarters. 1914 q
street, getting the punk" ready for the
MONDAY meal. Punk is road talk for
food. Every few minutes q hobo would
drop In at headquarters and register. BY
lunch time about forty had gathered
there, all ready to eat-but James Eads
How. Md, and Brother Andrews had
been the only two men to do any appre-
ciable amount of work all morning.
II !. James Eads How should look
souarely into the eyes Of a farmer 8
wife and ask for hand out" 1t is
more than likely he would get ii. He
is the pleasantest tramp one can find
between here and the Pacific coast. He
is tall and thin, has eyes that laugh
and a kind and sympathetic mouth.
that has never been outraged by a
barber. His clothes are good, English
oxford sort Of clothes and have never
been pressed.
So Hit the Road.
Well" he said. when he was asked
why he is called a millionaire tramp
my grandfather built a bridge out
in ST. Louis, and the family have been
prominent and wealthy there at all
times. When some Of the money be-
gan to drift my way I adopted the
Christian view that seeing / had not
earned 1T at all, why 1 would use the
interest at least toward helping the
fellow who 10 out of work. So I hit
the road, and they call me q hobo.
Now about this name hobo. You know
it is q western term. Out there when a
man gets out OF job. be he printer.
pressman, carpenter, bricklayer, news
paper man or what not. he hits the road
and then he's a. hobo. When he gets q
job again he calls himself proudly an
American citizen and swells out his chest.
How many men are going to be here
at the. convention? Oh, It's hard to say.
You newspaper fellows scared some of
them of by saying that Maj Sylvester
was going to do q lot Of things to. any
.one who didn't lock good to him. Then,
besides that. the crowd that came over
through Maryland got to talking with an
Dfd: time hobo last night who remembered
that there Is a man in Hyattsville,
think, who stopped lot Of men, who
marched down with young Jesse Coxey
and Carl Brown, and held some of them
there for Ave long months.
The army which camped at Laurel
last night is expected to arrive today.
but just when Is hard to tell. Brother
Andrews, who has hiked the country from
end. to end, and who hiked here from
New York. says he expects them about
half past 3.
Committee Is Named.
fixing up the headquarters, 1914 g street
all morning, while hobo who knew his
business was out in the back yard max
ing coffee. He didn't have a stove, q
match or a piece Of wood when he start
ed, but his road experience has taught
him a lot. In half an hours rustling he
had collected pile of bricks and a large
pile of wood and some matches. He made
the neatest little stove out or the bricks,
and had coffee boiling in short time.
The first business OF the convention at
o'clock this afternoon was the organi-
zation of a committee to conduct the
conventions affairs. The members are DIR.
How, chairman; Cora ID. Harvey, acting
secretary; Dr. Frank Haviland, DR.. +.
E. Hoenes, Mark jackson. Alexander
Law, John Landberg, e: b. Story, Mich
olas Klein, Joseph Weiss Elston and
Henry w. Woodward.
Plain Knights Of the Road.
Two members Of the army of the un-
employed slept in the army's Washing
ton headquarters at 1914 G street on
a single cot last night. while DR.. Frank
w. Haviland OF New York, prospec-
tive speaker at the convention, slept
in the Central Union Mission. The two
members of the army are mere pri-
Yates, hoboes of the road. unkempt,
pale faced and uncommunicative.
They did not know where DR.. James
Eads How was; they did not know
when the army would arrive; they did
not know who was putting up" for
the army: they did not know how
many men were in 1t. All they knew
was that they had been fortunate
enough to run across DIR. James Eads
How, the millionaire tramp, and he
had given them permission to sleep in
headquarters and act as aid d-de-
camp, provost guards, watchmen and
bureau of information until his return.
On the wall some one had pasted a
placard announcing the objects of the
convention. Among them are the estab-
lishment Of national employment bureaus
Tree W lHS JUD, the SnOTl-
ening Of hours and minimum wage.
Industrial Republic in View.
The placard says that il the brother
hood" does it's duty millions of lives Of
unemployed shall be sustained until The
establishment Of the true industrial re-
public, in which all will receive the fun
product of their toll
Beneath the p!acard is written in ink
that a luncheon will be given this after
noon and that q reception will be held
at 1914 G street between ) and Z O'Clock
D. m. today. No cards.
DR.. Frank. w. Haviland OF New York.
who may speak at the convention tomor-
row, Is the author of several pamphlets
on economic conditions One which he
handed out at Central .nion Mission TO-
day is entitled administration The
Number of the Beast-Six Hundred Three
Score and Six" He claims that man has
fallen below the 606th degree Of enlight-
eminent.
Sixty delegates" to the convention
were reported In Laurel last night. In
curry was made at the Central Union
Mission as to where the 1000 or 4. 600
members of the army are Even the
wisest of the fifteen-cent-a-nightc CO.
terie could not hazard a guess as TO
where they are coming from; but ali Of
them put Implicit faith in the promise
of DR. James Eads How that the army
would be here.
Furthermore, 1t is understood the
army expects to sleep at 1914 @ streot