Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1908 — “MILLIONAIRE” TRAMP [ARTICLE]

“MILLIONAIRE” TRAMP

Arrives in City on a Freight TrainWill Help Hoboes. Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 16.—-More than 100 unemployed, including a number of the professional hoboes, lunched on bread, fruit, ginger snaps and coffee at the Vine Street Congegational Church yesterday afternoon at the expense of James Eads Howe, “the Millionaire Tramp.” The throng was fed after Howe had explained his Brotherhood Welfare Association and gave his experiences organising hoboes and unemployed in St. Louis, Philadelphia, New York, Kansas City and other cities. Howe does not run to oratory, but his earnestness impressed the crowd, especially after it was announced that there would be something to eat. Howe inherited a million or bo from his grandfather, Eads, the bridge builder. He believes that he distribute this wealth where it will do the most good, and has organized what he terms a self- ' help association. Headquarters wili

be established in the large cities, and the association will give hobo members a card, which will start them right when they arrive in a strange city. Efforts will be made to give these men employment. Labor bureaus will be established and charity dispensed. Headquarters will be opened here within the next few months. Howe distinguishes between the tramp and the hobo. He says a hobo is a man who travels from city to city—sometimes beating his way on railroad trains and sometimes walking—who is ready to work at any kind of a job, but who spends the greater part of his time traveling. Howe came into the city on the bumpers of a freight train. He left last night for his home in St. Louis, on a passenger train.