Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — How He Traveled. [ARTICLE]

How He Traveled.

There fc> a man in Nasfiville, says the American, who teas traveled the length and breadth of the United States, from Maine to Mexico, from New York to San Francisco, and did not pay a dime for his passage, and he rode half the way'in a first-class passenger coach, the other half in box-cars and as “blind baggage. ” “I made SSO once,” said he, “and it was the easiest money that ever came into my hands. Major Clarfee was the passenger agent of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Itoad, and I went to him in Fort Worth, told him I was an unfortunate, and I wanted to get out of town. He gave me a pass to some point about thirty miles up the road, and I left that night. When I went into the coach, who should I meet but Major Clarfee. He motioned me to have a seat by him, and commenced asking about me, and how i managed to get about. ‘Why, Major,’ I said, ‘I have traveled over your road a thousand times and never paid a cent or had a pass nor beat my way.’ At this the old man pricked up his ears, for he thought he would catch some one of his conductors at some underhand trick. ‘How do you do it?’ the Major asked me, ‘That’s a secret,’ said I. ‘l’ll give you S2O to put me on to it.’ ‘Make it sso,’ said I. ‘Done,’ and he passed over the money. ‘Well, Major, I walk.’ ”