Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
MILLIONAIRE HOBO
PLANS TO GIVE AID
TO HAPLESS HOBOES
Comes as a Full-Fledged
Doctor With Scheme to
Revive Brotherhood of the
Unemployed.

Learning that his international Brother
hood Association and Committee for the
Unemployed was languishing, j. Fad,
How, whose heart gave birth to the or
ganization is back in Philadelphia.
He has opened a free employment
agency in Lewars Hall, Ninth and Spring
Garden streets and he has set the
brotherhood ON its legs. He expects to
have it stopping out Just like q recover
ing invalid when he finances the Brothers
little by means of play called "Hitting
the Road or Riding the Break Beam" 1t
I is a little drama dedicated to the hobo
| by Miss Cora D. Harvey, suffragette and
national treasurer of the brotherhood.
1t will be presented at the headquarters
September %. Admission will be 10 cents.
DR.. How, for he has become n physician
since he organized the brotherhood he
| modestly admits, heard while he was in
st. Louis that his Philadelphia brethren
We're scattering to the four winds. Ed
Hoey, the president, got tired of his job
and went UP State as farm hand. Joseph
Miller, vice president, one day heard that
there was job as a waiter in New
York just yearning to be filled. Three
meals day went with the job, so did
Vice President Miller.
htlI lllt rent VI lHt CluDTOOillS AZ SlNlll
and Callowhill streets came due. The
members discreetly drifted away.
DOCTOR HOW ON THE JOB.
Now the brotherhood can reassemble.
DR.. How is on the job. II any Of the
members want job DR.. How is there
TO help them.
DR.. How was on the job this morning.
but no one else followed his example.
The labor bureau got away to a bad
start, although Dr. How says that 100000
men are camoring for work and he
wants to be the agent to supply the Jobs
DR.. How reached Ninth and Vine
streets last week. He started a search
for his followers. None was found, but
the doctor sent out his message and fast
and mysteriously It Sraveled. Within an
hour the doctor was shaking hands all
over Franklin Square with fellows in
misery, some of whom he had met be-
fore.
DR.. How first OF all engaged bed in
the Berkeley lodging house, Sixth and
CallowhlI streets. Dr. Hows followers
say that flop" at the Berkley costs
10 cents night. Dr. How, in more es-
thetic language, stated that he had a nice
clean bed every night for Is cents.
1t was at the Dewey restaurant, Ninth
street near Vine. that Doctor How was
found today taking a late breakfast He
ate 10 cents worth. The breakfast was
oatmeal and milk, two soft-boiled eggs,
French fried potatoes. coffee and rolls.
Very nourishing and quite cheap II
one takes in consideration. however, that
man can afford ten cents for a break
fast" said Doctor How, as he wiped his
lips with q handkerchief The waiter
had forgotten to furnish a napkin.
MR.. BIDDLE CHILLY.
1.-The boys have sort OF drifted away |
from the Brotherhood. but they will
reasonable" said the president of the
order hopefully 81 started my work
Sunday by visiting the Bible class of |
Anthony Drexel Biddle. The reception I |
got when I started to talk was" and |
Doctor How hesltated-"one might say |
chilly.
However, talked on. I maintained |
that II the Lord should come to earth |
He would not be received in most of the |
Philadelphia churches.
~ wanted to interest Mr.. Riddle in my
work, but he also seemed a little distant. |
He did not promise to visit the new club
rooms of the Brotherhood"
A friend of Doctor How who was
listening to the conversation. advised him
not to be DISCOURAGED He was of tho |
opinion that TONY" Bddle had only two
interests In Philadelphia, Jack O'Brien |
and his Bible class, but II he were culti-
waited In the right way he might be in
duced to take a glance or two at Doctor
How's hobOes.
~ want the newspapers to help finding
Jobs for my friends" said Doctor How
Now you see a man offers a position 10
a man through the papers. He is be-
seigcd by applicants. Such occurrences
discourage members of the Brotherhood
Through the newspaper offices We might
learn OF these ads before they are pub
lshed and then our brothers would get
an early start. They would then avoid |
tho great competition for work, you see"
Another thing that Doctor How Is In
terested in is a municipal lodging house.
Hc has petitioned Councils to appropriate
900 Of the proposed sll 800. 900 loan bill |
for the purpose free lodging house
Is as important as City Hall, according
10 Doctor How.
Doctor How was first heard of in Phila-
delpha three years ago when he called
a hobo convention. He opened the con-
yeution with ten weary men. Three he
sent ont with covered tin buckets, which.
when used In the transportation OF beer,
are called ducks" For five minutes
Doctor How had a crowded hall The
buckets came back filled with coffee. The
audience for the great part sighed its
way back onto the street
Doctor How. although a full nedged
looks more like his brothers
today than he did severa. years ago. Then
he was Just a bit too dapper Today
he wears straw hat. much battered, on
his head, and the shoes on his feet could
be improved By cObDing.
His ambition though is the same That
IS. to organize the hobo; make him a
power They cant be a power, he ar
CUES. when they sinRly stink along the
right-of-wsv Of railroads. Confederated
he holds, they would become a power In
national politics.
MANlTOU AS TROOP SHIP