DECEMBER 2009
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Beside the western water tank
One cold November day
Inside an empty box car
a dying hobo lay
His partner sat beside him
with his low and drooping head
Listening to the last words
the dying hobo said
“I’m going to a better land
where everything is bright
where handouts grow on bushes
and you can sleep out every night”.
“Where you don’t even have to work at all
Or even change your socks
And little streams of whisky
come trickling down the rocks.”
“Tell my sweetheart back in Denver
that her face no more I’ll view.
I’m going to jump the fast freight
And that I’m going through.”
“Hark! I hear her whistling.
I must catch her on the fly.
Farewell partner,
It ain’t so hard to die”.
His head fell back
He had sung his last refrain
His partner swiped his hat and shoes
and jumped the East bound train
Brian Allen
Queens New York
1900 Federal Census
1905 picture
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IN MEMORIUM OF CHILD HOBO'S
Not all children abandoned by parents or left Orphans because of the death
of parents ended up in Orphanages : many took to the road drifting across
the country aimlessly. They traveled the rails and lived in Hobo Jungles often easy
pray of seasoned drifters.
12 years old is to young to drift
tucked in the corner of of a railroad freight car
Have You Checked for These Records? Part Two: Orphanage
Records
BOY'S ON THEIR WAY
TO TROUBLE!
Evening World Nov. 15, 1902
Whatever happened to them?
Two youthful robbers are locked up
at the Oak street stationhouse for loot
Ing the store of Peter RInsa at No 29
Roosevelt street and a third youth Is
held on suspicion of being an accom
plice
John Comeda nine years old of No
52 James street and Francis Persia ten
years old No S3 Madison street were
found with part of the stolen goods In
their possession Frank Cantlno twelve
years old Oak street was seen
with the boys and held on suspicion
Comeda Is a typical Bowery boy This
Is how he admitted his guilt
You see me and Persias been on de
bum for a long wile an las night we
thought wed have to do a Job Wile wes
passln do place I say to Persia Oeres
a good Join td crack so we done It
The boys broke open the rear window I
and stole several boxes of cigars a large
amount of Turkish cigarettes and the I
money box containing a small amount
of cash A man who lives In tho rear
saw the broken window about 4 oclock
this morning and notified Policeman I
Wilbur
He was joined by Policeman Culllty
They saw three boys In New Bowery
and after a chase Wilbur caught Com
eda and Cullltv arrested Persia Can
lao escaped but was later arrested at
his home
The first boys caught had several
boxes of cigars and the money had been
divided between them equally Cantlno
hall nothing and said he had not been
concerned In the robbery but had met
the other boys after It had occurred.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR LIVES?? HELP US
FIND OUT!
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