New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
James Eads How Suc- cumbs to Pneumonia Following 15 Years of Denial of Necessities of Life - In Trouble With Proteges.

Staunton, Va, July B LP)-James Eads How, the millionaire hobo" is dead as the result of Is years of self denial
 Physicians attending him when he succumbed in a hospital hers yester- day said death was due to pneu- monia, evidently superinduced by starvation" How was 56 years old.
 Despite bequest of s500,000 from his mother, Mrs. Eliza Eads How in necessities of life to aid unfortun- ates. especially hoboes. His time and energy, as we'll as his fortune, were spent in the interest of migratory workers and he was the financial "anger' of the International Broth erhood Welfare association, with hobo shelters in s cities.
 From Noted Family
 How was the son of distinguish ed St. Louis family and was we'll ed ucated. John How. his paternal grandfather, was mayor of St. Louis several terms before the Civil war, and his father the late James F. How, was vice president and general manager of the Wabash railroad. His mothers father was James Buch- snan Eads, builder of Eads bridge across the Mississippi river at St. Louis.
 The millionaire hobo studied at Harvard and later became licensed physician, although he never prac- ticed
 One half of How's share of the es- tate. or s250,O00 was left by his mother in trust, but he was said to have spent almost all of the remain ing quarter million and the income from the trust fund on his charita- ble interests
 I'll When He Arrived
 He had been here only since Fri day Attendants at the hotel where he was stopping said he was i'll when he arrived. Monday his condition became worse and he was removed to a hospital. His body was sent to Washington 10 be taken in charge by Louis How, a brother.
 Whether it be in the shade Of some lonely water tank on the sun baked deserts of the southwest or in the unsavory atmosphere of two bit Bowery flop house, wherever hoboes meet the name of Dr. James Eads How has passed current for 30 years.
 The rigid self-denial which led him 10 give away his inheritance be- gan when he was a student at the Meadville Penn.) Theological school where he sold his dress suit and gave away his banjo to help the needy IL was the habit of his whole life.
 In Harvard Class of S8
 He attended Harvard where he was q member of the class of lSSG and later went 10 Oxford. His de- gree as doctor of medicine was ob- tained at the College of Physicians and Surgeons New York city. an ad junct of Columbia university.
 Although he was for the hoboes and among them. he never was quite one Of them. They ate his free meals slept in the Hops" he provided, but they could not forget that he was a scion of wealth and social position and q college man.
 Twice they read him out of the hobo organizations which he had founded In 1913 he was busted from a national hobo convention in New Orleans for preaching socialism.
 Socialism" his fellow hcboes told him, lis for workers, not ho- boes"
 Among his welfare projects was the founding Of the Hoboes' college on the Bowery, New York. IL was established to teach hoboes how to obtain and hold jobs. The students ate the pie, doughnuts and fruit pro- vided but paid little attention 10 the cour-o in economies, industrial law and public speaking.
 Criticized For Trips
 In late years How forsook the rods and blind baggage for Pullmans in his rounds from city to city looking after his welfare enterprises. Riding the 'varnished rattlers." as hoboes call passenger trains, and his trips to Europe first class won him more adverse criticism frcm the class 10 which he devoted a life time and a fortune