How Tramps Travel

A tramp in relstimr bis cxpcrieoce to a reporter of the J'liiludclplua l'ress, said : " I'll teil you wliat I done once. There's an expres train that leaves Detroit for Chicago at about eleven o'clock at night. It ftops at Wayne Junctiorj, Ann Arbor and Jaokson. lietween Jackson and Chicago, I tliink it ouly stops twice. When tbe train pulled out of the Detroit depot one Mareli night in .1877. I bounced the front of the ejipress car. The doors of the espress MN on those Lig Ihrough trains, you know, are always kcpt locked and barred. The niünseugers carry Liar suma of nioney and art' alVaiJ of being rubbed. One time son. c men did tè on the train and sawcd their way throntli the front door of the car, but tbc tstpttm MeiMBfar was up to üDufi'uml dbox onu ut' the gang. The otbor two jumped t'rom the train and escapel. Wcll, as 1 was sayine, I got on the platform and rode tlirough to Adii Arbor ill right. My racket was to get off the train wIrti we !u.h d aml keepon the side of the etr.s froju the t-t at ion until they starled up. At Ann Arbor the brakeman tiiii-t have Meen 1110 pet on, Ibrwhen we had nullcd out about two miles the train stopied anci J was putoff. The moment they starled 1 jumped on agin. Tbey .saw nie, and by tbe time tbe train had stopped the econd liim; tbo cuuductor and brakemen wero taaring mad. " ' 11 you nat in thciv tgBÍB the codluctor íiiid, ' J'U break everjr bone in your wdy. ' 14 I ent un, tnoftgfa, all tbe same, but thia imo on the eow-catchcr of the engine. As uck would have it, they didn't sec me when í got on. At Jackspn 1 went back to the expes car aain and rodo clear through to he Grand Drösurjg at ('hicajro without eing bothered. lt's terrible wearing on a follow'.suervoa, tliuu,'h, that kind of business. " BnginM r.-i and tireincn never give a felnv away, 'J'hcy'rc the best set of men all hé w;v tlirouirli 1 ever met. They always V!i'iu to liko it wlien they MM a tramp givug the eondiK tur and lnukciuan trouble. Many's the time l've rodeón ongines when lie tiivman and engineer luth knew il and wouldn't L'ivo it away. "Anoth'T Wï r'hlv I taade in ope night v;is i'roiu Tdleili). ., toCincinnati. I left 'oledo ai al'out half-past ten on the night jpresa nf ike UinoiöBati, IJamilton & l)ayon Raitroad. Il was sodark youcould not ee yWur hand before ycm, and it was rainnf( likc tut. Ium] die train pulled out stood uu ihc p'utlui 111 of the second car 'rom tlie reai and just in front of the Pullman. Tl, o conductor naased through and aid ' tickri.-.' Ltolü liini I wan just going 0 ridi' out tu the Air-Jjine JoDotioo, three liles from tbë city. [la y.i'uU 'All right ; éwnefOú gat off Ihere.' The moment lie door of sic pet otoaed al'ter him 1 ;ot on to the bralie, rcached up, caught told of tho top ui'i'a'-h rar at the end and ulied hij fioli" qp, V'ii kimw how a Pullnn is made m top? ell, I just laid own Hat, mul, ñoidtng dn to the ventilaors witli niy banda, i rode cloar through 1 Dayton. Tirere'e a oovered depot at that laco and I kntw il. V II. n the train pullui in I -lood vi tv Looi bi ut -H1.U un the plat'orm and eot off wilh the rest of the pasengeTs. "V }icii it mllod out I managed get mi top :i::nn beftjw tlc conductor line through. In tÜ inurnÍDg I was in ïmaonatii IWmpa oall tliat road one of ie bardest in the country to work." It is dangerous to limi a spot on thi.s loba -itn ter tu a in:iii (han liis own home.