“From A---- [a city of 100,000 people] go to B---- [a neighboring town] Sunday afternoons. Jump freights other days and go to [two other large cities, one of them nearly a hundred miles away]. Stayed out one or two nights. Ran away from home [nearly two hundred miles]. Stayed there two weeks.” “Sometimes go on a trip in the country on Sundays. Catch a freight, go to [near-by towns]. Go to B---- to shows and circus.” “Take a car, go to City Point, just for a little ride. Nice and breezy on the cars. Went to C---- on a freight. Got back same night about one o’clock. Go off for a trip on Sundays. Go out to A----, W----. Went to P---- [one hundred miles]. Had a tent in the woods for a month.” “Jumped freights. Was going to New York. Stopped [on the way]. Went back, was arrested.” “Took walks to Y---- Woods and R----’s Pond. Some saved up money and went to L---- Fair [one hundred and thirty miles each way]. Some went to [state capital] to ball-games.” “Broke into a store and then ran away from home so we wouldn’t get caught. Went to B---- on a freight. Stayed at Hawkins Street Home one night. Went to O---- on freight. Stopped for a week in Armory in O----. Walked to N---- [ten miles] to sister’s. Stayed a couple of days. Went to W---- and then back to M----, and was caught. We planned to go to A---- [which would have taken them two hundred miles into three states].” “Go off to different cities on freights. Went to P---- [one hundred miles], five or six times. Stayed a week once. Went to N---- twice. Stopped one day each time. Went to A---- six times. Stayed two weeks. Went to E---- five or six times [these are within fifty miles of home], stopped three or four days. Went [across into Canada three hundred and fifty miles]. Got a job in a steam laundry there. Saved up money and then went off for a good time.” “Stay out nights three months to a time. Stay in cellars, freight cars, and entries. Sundays go out to [a surburban town] to get apples and pears. Jump freights to R---- and K----. Get off and come right back.” “Stay out nights. Go in back yards and sleep. Run away to [nearest large city]. Walked. Took four days. Got arrested there.” “Go down to Apple Island in a boat. Stay out at night; stay in paper offices on Washington Street. Lots of boys get there at one and two o’clock for their papers. When woke up, say: ‘I am waiting for the papers.’ Run away from home several times. Get as far as W----, turn round and come back at nights. Say we would try it some other times.” Or, to sum up:-- 23 boys had jumped freights to other towns or cities. 3 walked to distant towns or cities. 4 paid fares on cars to different towns or cities. 30 gone off to distant cities. 14 of the thirty had run away from home. 16 had stayed out nights. In addition to the records of travel found in these gangs, the following records taken later are interesting:-- _Boy Number 1_