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The writings of A-NO 1
"The famous Tramp"
by Leon Ray Livingston
Livingston was not poor but he was fasinated with being a Hobo himself back in the first decades of the 20th century. His books will give you a feeling for what it was like to be a Hobo.
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Out in the cold world and far away from home,
Some mother's boy is wandering all alone,
With no one to guide him or keep his footsteps right,
Some mother's boy is homeless tonight.
Oh, bring back to me my wandering boy,
For there is no other who's left to give me joy,
Tell him his mother, with faded cheeks and hair,
Is at the old home awaiting him there.
BECOME A MEMBER OF THE HOBO COMMUNITY
A ONE
"A -NO. 1"- WAS A HOBO AND A WRITER
HERE IS HIS STORY PART ONE
The Road took thirty of the best years of my life ere
I broke its bonds as if by a miracle. While I traveled
. with tramps I did missionary work among
them, but failed to induce even one of the three hun-
dred thousand chronic hoboes who ceaselessly and at will
range over this continent, to forsake his unnatural ex-
istence.
Profiting by the knowledge that publicity of its almost
incredible harm was the only weapon wherewith I could
hope to succ'essfully combat the Road, though I was handi-
Capped by a lack of funds and education, I set to the task
of saving penny upon penny, at the same time studying
(at the age of thirty-five) the "First Reader" and other
literature of primary learning. Thus, but insufficiently
equipped, I attacked the Road by writing and publishing
books which exposed its foremost curs&--the boy tramp
shame. Though four of the titles were issued while I
was a wanderer, still so well did these humble books fulfill
their mission that thousands of youths were forced from
the Army of Hobodom, while many other thousands
were deterred from entering its foul ranks.
THE DANGEROUS WORLD OF CHILDREN
What wass the world like for those children that didn't end up in Orphanages or working in Mines and as lumberjacks ?
HOBO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
It was April of 1930 and Thomas Agen was a Hobo staying for awhile in Lancaster Pennsylvania. The depression had just started in Oct. 1929. Thomas was not a young man anymore. At 64 most Hobo's are dead. He wasn't. He had come to the United Staes in 1889 as a young man, probably full of hopes and dreams. Did he achieve them? We don't know. He told others that he had never married. Did he lie? We don't know that either. We do know he was a Hobo because he said he was.
What do you know about him.?