Show BUMS AXD TRAMPS Every city of any size has its problem prob-lem of bums and tramps New York has been experimenting with a new solution ofit A floating lodging house has been fitted up at the foot of East Twentyslxth street When the house i I was first thrown open no less than 473 men availed themseves of the bath I bed and breakfast Two weeks later I the 1 guestsV had dwindled to 137 in I number i < vv j Speaking of this Commissioner 1 Faure said that it i means that we are I now housing onlythe bona fide and deserving poor The bums and tramps Ii cant stand our methods of investigation investiga-tion They dont like our enforced I baths They object to the work we make them do These fellows used to I spend in drink the money they had I raised by begging and then cOme to I the lodging house to sleep Now they hire rooms in the Bowery with their I 15 or 20 cents and keep away from us It is a good riddance There is any amount of sympathy wasted on tramps and bums how their life is the result of conditions for I which they are in no way responsible how they have inherited this that and the other thing when the truth of the matter is that they are simply lazy and depraved men responsible for their own failure in life who hate work and water above all things There are far too many deserving and worthy poor to aid whom Is a charity to man and a service to God but they are not found among the tramps and bums who go around denouncing de-nouncing society and law and order I whose whole system of reform is comprised com-prised in the one word plunder No matter what form they take they are barnacles and to aid them is to encourage en-courage idleness and vice |