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Friday, June 7, 1912
A NO, 12 Thaup
R Sl Fova” iy mal 3
Is Well Informed and Talks
- Interestingly of His
Wanderings. ‘
. Have you ever seen a queer caba
listic sign painted on depots, fenceai
and barns along the railroad rights
of way or carved artistically into
shanties, water tanks, etc. “A No.
1,” with the date and arrow beneath%
If you have never seen it, watch_l
for it 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 it means that
“A No. 1,” the world’s most famous.
tramp, has passed through and leftl
his mark showing the date and di
rection that he was journeying.'
This man, whose only known name
is this sobriquet, “‘A No. 1,” visited
Marietta last week and made a per
sonal call on The Journal and gave
some very interesting experiences of
his roving life.
He is well known to all the local
railroad men, yet no one ever heard
his story, nor that his fame rests
upon actual facts. It i\yill, no doubt
be interesting to repeat the same
here: »
He has hoboed since 1883, 500,
275 miles and has spent only $7.61
on railroad fare.
He has been around the world
three times.
He has prevented more than
twenty wrecks, wearsa $4O suit of
clothes and a gold watch, keeps his
name a secret, does not chew, smoke
drink or gamble.
A tramp gave him his name in
1883.
“Kid, you are all right,” declared
the older one, at the end of a par-!
ticularly hard journey. ““You are
A No, L.’ The title has stuck and
the wanderer has more than lived
up to it, for if ever a hobo’s life
could be said to be a success, it is
that of this man. He travels in
overalls and jumper, but after
arriving in a town divests himself of
these and appears in a neat suit;
is always clean shaved and has a
very prosperous appearance. ?
He has a memorandum book full
of cards and letters given him by}
railroad officials. Many of these
state that he has prevented the‘
possible loss of human life and pro
perty by telling train operators,l
when beating his way, of broken
car wheels or other disarrangements
and thus has prevented serious
wrecks and disasters. He has been
in five wreeks, but luckily, has
never been hurt.
He has autographs and endorse
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A The entire household revolves around the telephone. Neigh
bors, friends, msrket, doctor and store cam be reached in an instant
by the home hzving telephone service.
The Rural Telephone
frwides this home necessity and pleasure at very low cost, 10 peo
pe who live in the country.
; It s proving a paying investment to thousands of farmers.
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ments given him by President Taft;
Ex-president Roosevelt; Thomas A.
Edison, the . inventer; Luther Bur
bank, the plant wizard, and many
other eminent Americans, .
He also has an autograph letter
from Jaek London, the author,
telling. of their companjonship on
the road together in 1894, .
~ During. his_travels.“A. No, 1”
has learned four languages—Eng
lish, German, French -and Spanish.
His parents were .of the French and
German natioialities, but he was
born in San Francisco,
There is something about the
man, aside from the distinction
which his remarkable career carries,
that is strangely appealing, It is
perhaps the humanity of the man,
or the pathos that lies mutely con
cealed in his life, that makes him
so strangely attractive. Endowed
with all the neccessary qualities for
success in life, he is yet homeless,
friendless, nameless, by an element
in his make up which has gained
masterly over all other impulsesl
and motives, namely, the ‘“Wander-'
lust”’ 1
Gripped in its subtle power im
pressed by its resistless influence,’
he is forced to lead a life, the bar
renness of which he realizes and is‘
condemned to roam ceaselessly all|
over the world without a destina
tion in view, to be a nomad of civili
zation. He knows the yearnings of
other men for home and friends,
but the master yearning of all is to
move on and by this he must be
governed. ‘
Whenever “A No. 1” meets a
runaway boy upon his journeys he
gives him a talking to that is al
most certain to make the lad home
sick, and glad when “A No. 1”
purchases a ticket sending him
home to his parents.
If the boy is alveady a confirmed
wanderer “A No. 1’ teaches him
his own motto; ‘' Never associabe‘
with anyone in whose company you
would be ashamed in broad open
daylight to pass your mother’s
home.”’ . ;
~ He entertained the -office for an
‘hour and a half with his instructive
'stories of the road and the solution
!of the tramp problem.
~ ““About 350,000 minors run away
from home annually’’ said ‘A No. 1”’
Of this number over 35,000 become
confirmed hoboes 7,000 are crippled
8,500 are killed and the rest can
only stand the hardships of trampl
life about 10 years, until they are‘
in a poor house. '
90 per cent of all tramps started
their aimless roving as runawayl
boys. By sending boys home whenj
first they runaway, there is no need
to send later on old hoboes to jails. !
So many mothers, if they only
knew it, are the cause of many
young men living the hobo life. If
a regular grown up tramp comes to
the house and asks for a meal she
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turns him away and tells him to go
work for it, but when the young
fellow comes along just starting out;
to be a tramp she takes him in
feeds him on the best she . has, .not
realizing that within -a few short
years the same youngster will be
exact prototype of the bully tramp
she bad just turned away,” -
~ “Now if she would only get his
name from him and his address,
and talk to him in a nice way about
his home and mother, and if she
would" tell him about the fearful
shame and disgrace of leading tne
disgusting life of a worthless tramp
all his days, shunned, despised and
hounded by humanity, there would
be a good chance that he would gol
back and it would be a help towardl
reforming a large number of the
boys.” ‘
“A No. 1" makes his transienti
expenses by the sale of two books
the first being ‘‘Life and Advenjures!
}of A No. 1,” tells of his travels
among tramps all over the world.
!The second ‘“Hobo Camp Fire Tales’"
is a true story of the pitiful hard-}
iships of the road. Both show the
)dark side of tramp life so that any
restless boy will get a good idea of
its disgusting features. They can
be purchased in any bookstore and
on every train for 25 cents and are
worth every cent of it in keeping
boys at home.
“A No. 1” has proofs in the
shape of manv lclwrs of gratitude
and numerous newspaper clippings
mentioning names of men in all
walks of life whom he has sent
home in the past. He devotes nearly
every cent of his revenue in sending
boys back to their homes and future
‘usefulness.
- He was asked why he had not
‘written his books sooner as they are
illustrated and highly interesting
stories and he stated, that lately
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;tfter twentynine years of roving, he l
had come to the conclusion that the
dangerous, senseless and pitiful lire!
he had led all these years ha.vcwe:lmeul
wasted, and that perhaps by telling
his . own pitiful . experiences.. he
might possibly prevent others fron‘x;
following his footsteps. He said
that to force a boy to stay at home
after he has once ,st‘arbpd townp@er[
is almost ii;ipossiblg, as the maxi
mum, ‘‘once a tramp, always a
tramp,” has been many timea pro
ven to him by actual experience, as
he has met many a boy of fine fam
ily and home who ~never knew of
the filth, misery and dangers a
tramp comes constantly in contact
with yet cannot resist the ecall to
wander.
In 1894 he received $l,OOO cash
and a beautiful medal from the Po
lice Gazette for tramping from
New York to San Francisco in
eleven days and six hours, and with
$750 of this prize he bought a tomb
in a cemetery in Cambridge Springs
Pa. The epitaph will be a silent
everlasting warning to others who
seem afflicted with this strange
longing to roam, very aptly called
“Wanderlust”’ and ig simply:
“A No. 17
The Rambler
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