Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-05
TAKE FUNDS, TOO, is SAID
Place and Time of Entertainment Is
Uncertain.
CALL ON REV. J. H. NELMS
Committee Seeks Use of Ascension
Emma Carus May Sing.

several HODOeS WHO nave DteH
ing the hobo convention at 1914 q
street are making tracks away from
Washington as fast they can today.
These are 'boes who sold tickets for the
hobo entertainment and who. 1t is
charged, have failed to turn in the money.
The entertainment is to be what Broth
err MCGUIRE from Idaho calls a dead
swell show" Sister Harvey promises
| that she will bring Emma Carus to sing.
The hobOes persist in calling the singer
Mrs. Caruso
Just where the entertainment is going
to be is not certain. 4 hobo who spends
all his time making copiogs notes of
everything that goes on was put on a
committee to call on the Rev. J. Hennng
Nelms, rector Of Ascension Church, yes
| terday. This hobo reported with a great
| flourish this morning that the reverend
had told 'em all to come and partake of
the parish house, and dey got one o.
dem pianny t'inss up dere. SOS we all
can have some reglar music, besides dat
stuff what Mrs. Caruso sings
The committee was anxious to impress
| on the public the fact that the entertain
| ment will be held this evening at Ascen-
| sion Church. Rev Mr.. Nelms denies
| that he Is turning over his church or any
| part of it for hobo vaudeville show.
Decamp With Funds.
However. the hoboes are selling tick
cts. AS has been intimated. there is sad
! ness in the hobo camp today. for certain
| very we'll thought Of hoboes sold many a
ticket last night, and with the money
| have departed for scenes unknown.
A few hoboes who were not quick
enough IL their getaway were shaken
| down for varying sums this morning,
| and the remaining hoboes now want to
go to work for millionaire Hobo How
| selling tickets for Mrs. Carusos' sing
/ ing at a salary and commission.
|. There are but few of the 'boes left in
town. Should the coffee give out tonight
tomorrow will see the city free Of them.
Hobo and Socialist Clash.
millionaire Hobo How and Brother
Saunders, the Baltimore socialist, clashed
over the socialist faith yesterday and last
night Brother Saunders would speak,
and Millionaire Hobo How would in
sist on stopping him.
/ All was going well i'll the open space
back of tne Center market. Several
speakers had discussed the economic diff
iculties Of the nation, when Brother
Saunders appeared primed for speech:
TIT iss evident dere iss too much
monney where der people can't get it.
he began. and frantic cheers from the
crowd indicated that there were others OF
the same opinion.
| Der capitalistic propaganda iss going
Ito make for der American people der
same what der Bastile made fer der
French revolution
Brother Saunders, interrupted Mil
Ilionairc Hobo How 1--WE have set pro-
gram for the evening. and, as there has
already been too much socialism in the
speeches, / would suggest that you sit
down"
There was an uproar Immediately. Ho-
boes in the outskirts of the crowd clam
lored for Brother Saunders, while the rfoN
faction yelled sit down. Brother Saun-
ders had to submit TO the ignoininy OF
sitting down. however, and millionaire
Hobo How is now facing the terrific
calamity of several of the hoboes leaving
ihis banner entirely and hocking under
the socialist wing Of Brother Saunders.
Experience of Russian Hobo.
| A Russian with fierce whiskers blew
| in to the afternoon meeting yesterday
His name is to an American combina
| ton of spatters and sputtcrs, and !:
| best written in English S Gorskovitzky
He started to make a speech amid cheers
as he had been introduced as a brother
| from across The water, where liberty
lies shackled beneath the iron heel Of
| despotism
"Brudders,'' lie said. from long times
come out from Rooshia, from two years
| I come. and because from times l comes
| from Rooshia ! makes it by myself tt
| learn something about America. But
| from times l comes from Roosha, where
| everybody has hard times
Two policemen, whose curiosity got the
| better of them. walked into the front
| door of 1914 G street at that moment.
Il gets chobs by a tailors and makes
| from cloth der pants and sews on but
| tons und der money l gets iss little
A POLICEMAN coughed. The Russian
| looked around and paled beneath his
whiskers. siberia he muttered and
| rushed to a seat gargling some fright
| full Russian words Of protest.
| A local employment agency was ap-
| pointed yesterday afternoon, the object
being to get all local hoboes jobs. Not
withstanding the fact that a contractor
not two minutes walk distance, has q
large sign hung out begging for laborers
1 to apply for work, the local COMMITTEES
| is cogitating on where to find employ
ment The local committee is formed o'
! Bro. Charles Pattee. Bro. 7. III. skin
/ ner socialist Mother GantZ, Bro. Cohen
and the Russian with the awful name.