Show YAGS > Their Namber Should Be Redacted It is a positive disgrace to thiB fair city to hive the corners and shady places of the principal thoroughfares thor-oughfares so constantly infested by bilks beats and bummers In many localities the y are a nuisance to decent people especially ladies who are necessitated to pass by where theY eroun and cousreeate Day after day week after w eland month after month the same hard looking cases are to be seen about the same localities and it is a puzze to many how they maintain their perpetual loaf what they live on and where they get it Many of them are confirmed rags if we may judge of their appearance and outward out-ward signs and the hardest work they eeem to do is to guzzle intoxicants There are a num ocr who if they do any manual labor at all apparently do as much of it as will furnish mean to buy drink with and a number who do not pretend pre-tend to earn anything by toil at all When one comes to scrutinize some of these fellows and think of their behavior it occurs that probably their number mignt be lessened by an application of the city ordinance in relation to vagrants to some of their cases which reads It shrill be the duty of the Mayor or ny Alderman of said city having personal Per-sonal knowledge or on complaint bain made under oath that any person is a vagrant to cause such person to be brought before him and if upon examination exam-ination such parson ba found guilty of vagrancy he or Eha shall for each ufFensa I be liable to a lino not to exceed thirty days or both fiae and imprisonment A number of these chronic loafers might be induced to explain their I source of sustenance were they introduced in-troduced to an alderman once in awhile a-while The petty thieving and numerous instances of burglary which of late have been noticed in the newspapers have generally been credited to the transient tramps and toughs but circumstantial evidence prompts us to believe that many of them have been the acts of the class referred to They have lounged about so long sponging and bumming bum-ming that those who Know them best have CI thrown off on them they are shunned by those who formerly treated them well and they are thrown upon their own resources re-sources to obtain the wherewith to satisfy their depraved appetites Nobody will trust them nobody will give to them nobody wants them in their present condition What next They steal And it is our conviction that the circumstance > circum-stance of a few nights ago the breaking into of a blacksmith shop on Comm rcial street and the taking tak-ing of u few trapswas the work of some of these fellows whom everybody recognizes as vagrants or bummers who were strapped and thirsty appropriating what they could to buy whisky with And as before remarked the various petty jobs which have been done at night of late could probably be traced to fellows of the same stamp Let them be carefully watched and our word for it they will be detected in some of their nefarious practices When they are send them up and give the community ares a-res t |