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...still a bachelor in spite of many reported engagements, he has retained yachting as his major hobby. As a boy of 12 he had spent his vacations knocking around the Ida Lewis lighthouse. In 1913 he sailed his yacht Vagrant from Portsmouth, Maine to Lisbon, Portugal in 23 days and won the King's Cup. He was Commodore of the New York Yacht Club for three years and served on a submarine chaser during the War. At all his amusements he works hard. He went into training last spring to be in shape to sail Enterprise. He smokes...
...Klein, prosperous Cincinnati lawyer, hastened to the station, was less astounded to find his vagrant friend James Eads How there than to see him so decrepit. They sped to the Klein home. A doctor was summoned...
...love of all mankind became concentrated to a particular interest in wandering, jobless workmen. He stubbornly believed that every vagrant could be persuaded to work. Newspapers ridiculed him, exaggerated his wealth, called him the "millionaire hobo." But his mother approved. When she died she willed him a half-million dollars, half in a trust, half to spend on his idealism. He spent all his money on his tramps. He financed the organization of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association, hobo "union." He founded some 60 hobo colleges, several lodging houses. Bums attended meetings and classes for the food he dispensed, ridiculed...
...Vagrant...
...book has some dramatic power. Creda Reid is suddenly freed from one of her major complexes, hatred of her mother, by the unexpected murder of that unpleasant old lady. The nerve doctor assures her that all will be well after this, if she will only learn to confine her vagrant affections to one man instead of to the Fifth Regiment of Horse Marines, or their equivalent in citizens of the realm. Creda consents, but we suspect that she had a cunning twinkle in her eye when she hurried from the consultation room...