The Hobo

The Hobo is a 1917 American silent comedy film featuring Billy West and Oliver Hardy.

Back in the diner Harold has finished the pancakes and starts work on eating a whole sponge cake.

The cook takes over in the ticket office and the hobo puts on an apron and goes to the diner.

He accidentally puts hot pepper on the pancakes, but gives them to Harold who swallows them in one bite before his throat starts to burn.

A food fight begins but the train whistle goes and all except Harold and the hobo leave.

A black-face couple arrive: a small man (Bud Ross) and his huge wife.

The wife takes three negro children out of a "handle with care" trunk.

A well-dressed man goes into the station with his wife and offers the hobo his auto in exchange for two train tickets.

The hobo returns to the ticket office where the well dressed man is trying to get into the safe.

The police chief gives the hobo a large pile of money (even though it is Harold's car retrieved).

The Chicago Board of Censors required a cut where the man blew his nose in a cuspidor.