Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1938 — Page 7
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0 f Hobo F reight Train Riders
aut ou ‘want to ‘know when a freight ‘train leaves for where, go to a
The schedules:are as acourately kept there as. passenger train
schedy: ss ‘at the Union Station: This comes up now because the'®
freight train passenger traffic soon will ‘be at a seasonal high through
Indian: polis. It’s getting’ warm.
“ Soon the Indianapolis jungles will be-full of hoboes ‘again, stopping between ‘rains to cook a spot of mulligan, crink a dish of-tea, and wash
. If they arrive at night, the hoboes beat it for downtown, get into a
Mission, and have a night's rest.
There they learn from fellow travelers such items as: When trains leave heré and for where, when the missions close in St. Louis
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be found. Average: ‘Aid 16 to 30
So says Thomas Delaney, Indianapolis Belt Railroad patrolman for
‘17. years, who lives at 2841 N. New
Jersey St, Mr. Delaney says that, judging from the amount of non-
| paying guests the freight tains
have now, there is no recession. Maybe a long train these days will yield 15. In 1931 and 1932 it would have yielded 40 to 50, and trains weren't so long then, either. ~ Most: hoboes are between 16 and 30, most of them carry a razor, soap and towel and are scrupulously clean
3 Fan ‘overwhelming ‘number Nave: Kio kidded themselves that where ever| = they are going their luck will change
and they will get a job.
'A ‘large number ride slow trains
because they kriow “hot shot” mer+ ‘chandise trains carry tectives, dubbed “cinder dicks.” Hoboes Meek r "You can find hoboes on trains, out in the open and’ unprotected, even in zero weather, clad only in wornout shoes, maybe uhderclothes, a suit
coat, pants and a cap. Mr. Delaney}
said ‘he failed to understand how ‘they kept. from freezing. “Not one out of 50 of them gets
carry railroad de-|3%S-
‘Most hoboes drink Yep rum of |
he was going. : “Was do. i carer” the ‘man,
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