Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-02-23
IS
EASY WHEN YOU
KNOW HOW
st. Louis Is the Town Where
It Flourishes Like Green
Bay Tree; Professional Bum
Lays Bare Secrets.

tst Louis Tlmes)
Market street from Sixth 90 Eighfh
was a veritablo whirlwind Of snow.
a lbmilc wind swept great sheets of
line, penetrating flakes IN the faces
Of pedestrians. swrled them under
their hats and down their upturned
coat collars
Most OF those who were forced To
be on The streets sought the shelter
OF friendly GoOrways, vonturlng on,
into the storm only when falteriug
street car hravely fighting the snow.
succeeded IN blowing It's way through
the drifts across the tracks.
A man wrapped 10 a great cont the
hhawl-like collar turned up 10 ward
on the wind ana snow. stood on the
corner Of Market and Eighth streets,
lie pulled vallanty a. half cigar
that had been eXtinwished by tnoh
snow and cast % disgustCdly in enc
gutter whining voice at hts shout
der caused him 10 turn lie looked
INTO the pallid face of a tramp-iust
common, ordinary everyday tramp.
o. the sort that infestg Market street
day and night
SAY, Cap" began the hobo I'm the
ingraiiatlng tone OF his kind. Couldn't
you help poor man To the price on
meal? ! amt had thing 10 eat since
yesterday morning honest, / Amt"
The man had begun 20 shake his
head In donial before the tramp had
finished bis stock plea. Then ho
hesitated and was lost u may have
been the weather or 4 may have
been any one OF half dozen other
things. Dat he changed his mind ho
reached into his pocket Bughten
ing M tho prospect of aims. the tramp
started 10 speak again when the man
interrupted him.
Didn't Won Just come mft Of an
eating houae?" he asked inquiringly.
~ didn't mister, homes: 10 God
didn't The tramp raised his dirty
cold hand AND wiped several d0ughnut
crumbs on the siuhblo board on his
chin. ~ Amt had a thing % ear Tor
two days. VIII You pay for somothR
10 cat for me? You en- watch me eat
a. Cap, if you want TO-"
NO. ! don't want 90 bother with
you like this dime and get drink
"A drink Cap? / wouldn't drink I'm
too Young for that never drink"
'Nou wont come and have a drink
with ac, then. viii you?" well.
friend. 81 YOU offered q buy ! couldn't
turn You down ia drink just fer
sociahilitys snko ! likes a sociable
drink now an then, ! admit
Come ON, ~ buy Il, said the
stranger who appeared TO be- on an
investigating turn OF mind. Where is
good place 20 drink?'
one drink led TO one more. and the
tramp. warming mp mentally and phys
ically, became louuaclous
Listen. ilo,' he said ~ been Kid
din Won I'm panhandlor aud you
know u as well as ] do I'm a orator
"a winter fiicher lll tell YOU th'
whole yarn fer another drink. Yes.
gimme 90a. You see. pal, IT'S Just this
way. I told you I was from New
York, didn't I? / amt used to live
In Scranton. Pa an that's how got
nv Pennsylvania Harry
You think I'm goin g. tell YOU / got
rich parents, don't you? amt My
father was a coal udncr, an he was
bum Drink killed him
II slipped tho village when / was
~ years old-throe years ago. (
didn't go OF my own accord believe
me. They made me beat Il, an ! can't
go back
IL was the dlrtiest bum In tho
world an "a year ago. when / made
big stake. Never mind how ] made n
Il got A. That's enough. An whore
did / hit when / got the stake? Hot
Springs ! lost the stake an more
too, a month ago. hit this town |
because I knowed II was tn best !
frafun' spot ON Ia map. An / amt !
been disappointed q BIT since / got !
here neither
There amt nothln' like this here |
Market street nowhere else In IN |
world. lessn it's In Chi Bat my ad- |
vice 20 YOU N you want To bum rs |
never 30 try Il on Market Con on /
the street as FAR as YOU can. Keep |
on ot Olive street an Eighth street !
lhem's the rules that applies T. good !
weather but anything goes iu storm /
st Louis Is soft IN any kind o
weather but It's too easy now Slip |
In snow storm ana everybody |
couahs, even the old boys with red !
muifiers tied around their heads !
Sleep -Four Courts. They're feedin
va now, too Work? / should say not
lts too blame cold q work Could |
YOU buy me another drink governor
Thanks old pal Regards"
Tho man OF an investigating turn
of mind lclt the saloon ANA returned
a. the storm The next hougar THAI
approached him was pushed uncero.
moniously into the gutter
The experienced "hand out" man
aud tAe fellow for the first time broke
and down on his tuck met as they loit
the Four Courts basement The one
had lust come from the south and