The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1900, Page 1

HARLIE COOPER i ty-two States and ~was . absent from: 't} d down endless de- is entire triphe pald three = times, amount- 0 guess,” T replied. verty miles!” And he seemed t winter ‘to save $a00 July He carries his . ‘part:of it i°some of it in his ‘vest, with'spare for-emergencies. “Thus. ed it is improbable that . via Sacra- to' Ogden, as City, two m’ “Kansas to Chicago—540 'm le in thirteen hours. next - stop - w i 10ld “ail’ the s of Niagara itted to pay- d comp cents, Thence he n int6 Canada fora t “T ‘traveled thifteen miles it trains,” casu; assenger trains n on freig 3 yed there a couple of days and was soon in New The Dewey celebration was. oneof t had -sent him across the co: ing he found y-three days ahead of time. Then he de- to Boston and boarded the Adams Express, 1 $ ‘the run of 232 got into Provi- ck 10 the v ing: tly " lighted like a flash of ligt ce, R. I, about 1:30 0'c Il of. a 'sudden ‘we sliot into .a . bi and I thought surely I should be pinched,” ‘said “The t had stopped to take on water. But wasn't a soul to be-séen anywhere.- I started to: ff and cross over to-the other side for safety, when u 1y a-trainman-yelled at-me and 1 thought-surely I was in for it then. 'But he was good and. crossly in- formed me that 1 would surely be ‘pinched’ if ‘I-went over there, and he directed meé where to standin a2 sort As morning ©f @ shadow. The train soon pulied out -and’ 1 ‘was become necessary for him aboard.” t, he brushes off his hatand = In elite Boston Cooper stayed four days, going to' the t a speck of dust remains, with his hand- theater, visiting Bunker. Hill, the old: South -Church, ace and hands and finally combs his- Faneuil Hall and the famous burial places: thereabouts. He also ran down to classic -Harvard “and looked his arm he leaves his “through the noted - Cambridge museums. the crowd at the depot. ,”is next run: was to A]bu|y', and after seeing ;Xl the Cooper sights of the city he 'still had- several days before the Dewey. celebration. - He' decided, therefore, to g0 out into the hop country about Albany and do a-little work. “It-was delightful ‘there,” he said.’ “All day long we picked hops in the hot sun, but when evening. cime everybody took a:plunge in a beautiful lake near by— ast. This_eaten“he- hasténs one of New York's gem spots.” le -do g-house; rents a He ‘stayed there ‘several .days. and then went down s room is his headquarters the Hudson River on the steamer. Adirondack. Just as s scen the sights of the surrounding country hegot aboard he neticed a.young man whose every ap- pearance was-that of a millionaire’s son.’ ‘He was finely dressed and fastidiously groomed. - “I thought his: face with t protector, Then, or and a clothes brush, he is overalls gage, cow-catcher or freight done at night. ever - suspects, He walks oyt of the re -before, had business ¥ important that he get ver ves-on he catches up with his good clothes If in.a first-class hotel and stays a of the .h i He seein; ke a prince. When tired of this he puts i‘:,a:h:r:me ‘,:y ,fiz‘}"fi:‘ e . the prockl nics’ overalls and commences a new round. “Still ahead of the Dewey celebration,” continued One of his itineraries is interesting. Last year he Cooper jauntily, “I had time to take one other bit of ag was familiar and ‘we soon recognized each other, He excursion.” I. ran down to. Philadelphia, then on te Washington. - I stayed in these places quite long enough and’ then:tpok a- quiet run down to Mount Vernon. 1 even paid my fare down on the train—I wanted to be feeling my best and perfectly ‘horiorable. when T saw the things sacred to the memory and associations of the ‘Father of His Country.’ - But I didn’t often pay fare— $1 50 was all my. trips cost me as far as my transporta~ tion was concerned. “Then back to New York—and ' saw the magnificent Dewey celébration: "-It' was grand.. That over, | began to ‘think of ‘getting back: to the. Pacific Coast.: 1. was soon in Harrisburg, Pa.” Between Harrisburg and Pitts- burg I came very near being drowned one night." I was riding ‘the ‘blind baggage. . Well, sir, trains on this run don’t stop very many times and consequently the engine takes ‘water ‘on the fly.” You: krow about those patent arrangements. - My engine took' witer four times that night and. evéry time: she did the front-end of the bag- gage car was déluged and I was wet through to'my skin and almost -washéd off the platform. The night was cold ‘and frosty and I almost froze to death. Just as I would' get- somewhat dry- and a little warm along wonl4 ‘come another flood and I would be almost drowned again.. Four times was enough, T tell you. “From Pittsburg I went to Columbus, O., then to Clne RIBING ON THE BRAKE BEAM. clnnati, then to St. Louls and Kansas Clty and thea to where I took q a ey e trainmen was something terrible. 3 fired off, but I and ahc on:. The dirty, hard-| CAME Well, I noticed that the VERY NEAR: ried an umbrella and a BEING quite settle my mind about | DROWNED anything to do wi m and we d ONE NIGHTILS “I-arrived in Los Ang the over! H make up meandered int, T prepared to do justice to a lot ¢ ment somebody across th nd 2 night to good clothes and class " hotel, , how are you?—and so you got in safe, did I didn’t know i be. he quickly re- “‘Yes, I guess so,” I replie: who in the world my: talkas “‘Well, you doa’t know m marked “ ‘I certainly don’ d “ ‘Well,. you- remé with the big cost and umbrella who r the other night, don't 'y “‘I do; are you astonishment with an *‘l am the same fellow. “And sure enough he wa never have known him. - H holder and I guess he dic enough. There are | do some of their trav: Cooper usually takes professional tramp when he ¢ he has any money. “How about work, can a tramp usually get it if he wants it?"” nd keeps cleany om Winslow with yoy i //(///;, he cut off my remark of ¥ /1 Jn, 7 d rips alone, avoids the and never lets on that /////ly “Well, yes. if he wears good clotk But if he once gets down i 1 starts 1o -May for (= s ONTHE FREIGHT. °°°