Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-19
AppeaI Throuqh Love For Mother

1 to become good citizens and forget the i life of the road forever.
 Appeal Through Love For Mother "On the other hand the boys with out trade drift from place to place, stopping at swimming holes. pool rooms and other places where town boys congregate, and usually manage to impress other lads about their own age with the great life they tell them they are leading. In this way the number of youthful hoboes are re- cruited all over the United States. Now, if the lady who, pitying the youthful tramp, besides giving him food would try to make him long once more for home and mother, then try to communicate with his parents, there would be fewer hoboes, for it does not take much, as a rule to persuade a youth to realize the hardships of a hobo's life If the young tramp is not stopped within three weeks he will surely become an irredeemable hobo. and the chances an old timer who, perhaps, has done time more than once in penal insti- tutions. Later he becomes in turn a teacher of other youths.
 T have sent hundreds of telegrams collect, to parents whose boys have run away from home, and out of these I have had to pay for but two per cent. This shows that the parents are anxious to have their boys back with them. Let the kindhearted try to locate a boys relatives, for un- less he is turned back he stands a good chance of landing in the poor house, jail, and at last in an un- marked grave in Potter's field. Wan derlust is just like the cigarette habit, for once it gets a hold on a boy he is nearly always doomed to live the life of 8 hobo.
 Three Glasses of Tramps.
 fTramps may be placed in three classes" The scenery tramp, the kind of hobo that I am. This tramp Is always on the go. He starts for a town or city, perhaps. from the op- posite side of the continent and makes every effort to get to his des- tination as soon as he can. When he reaches there however, he is just as anxious to leave again and once more heads for another point. just as Tar away.
 Then there are the Jungle Bug zard's,' as we call them, Just prof sional beggars, dirty, low down, hu- man wretches, whose rags come from hospitals, penetentiaries and such places. Nearly always four or five carry with them four or five boys, to aid them in their begging and petty the yeggs, who are the crim- inals While the Jungle Bug corners during the day and then go into the country to camp at night, the vegas camp during the day and do their work at night. They, too, have boys, but while the Buzzards' have boys for each man the yeggs have but one boy for a gang of five or six men. The boy with the vegas must be bright, for the men depend upon him to do the scouting about places they intend to sWoop down upon."
 Although his home town is San Francisco, "A-No. 1" makes his head 1 quarters at Cambridge Springs, Pa. He has written three books intended ] which tell of life and experiences on 1 the road and at the same time give l warnings of the dangers and tempta- 1 tions that beset the youth who runs away from home. It is this famous tramps object to keep boys from be- | coming professional tramps and he 1 has spent years of his life and much | money in his efforts to reduce the number of hoboes, recruited from happy comfortable homes through l
 If you have never seen queer cabalistic sign painted on depots, ! fences and barns along the railroad rights of way or carved artistically l No r. with the date and arrow be- meath it, watch for 1t and you will be surprised to notice for how many years some of these marks have been decorating those above mentioned | places It is a queer sign, yet 1t l means that "A-No. l." the worlds 1 most famous tramp has passed | through and has left his mark show ing the date and direction that he was | journeying.
 Realizing that he, too, may become i at any moment a victim of an aci- i! dent, he has provided himself against | sepulture in a Potter's field by pur- i chasing a lot in the cemetery at Cam | bridge Springs, Pa He had a tomb | stone placed upon it, and ever mind i full of the curse that has blasted his own career and as a warning to oth- l CTS who seem to be affected with the 1 +sWanderlust" he had this epitaph graven into its granite"
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 The Rambler
 At Rest At Last