Hoboes

In the cold dawn of March 4, 1897, a freight train drew into the city of Washington. Two dirty, shivering, hungry young hoboes hopped off the bumpers and began to wear out the pavements of the Capital. One of them tried to cash a check for $15. He was indignantly refused, although he explained that his father was a judge in Pittsburgh and he was a freshman at Princeton. The two hungry boys walked up to a well-dressed man in the street. He smiled when he saw them and grinned when they told their story. "Here's $20," he said. So the two young hoboes ate, saw President McKinley's inauguration, then returned to Princeton by pullman. Last week one of the ex-hoboes filed an appeal with the Federal Board of Tax Appeals alleging that he had been overcharged $3,106.05 by the income tax bureau for 1922. He said his contributions to the Republican campaign fund in Pennsylvania in 1922 should be a legitimate deduction as a business expense, because he was seeking election in that year. He was Senator David A. Reed.