Show All Classes and Creeds Are Aret Found In Every Great City C ty t I Iv HE TRANSIENT POPULATION of THE I Salt Lake Is made up of several separate and distinct classes There Is ht i the tramp who knows not nor the meaning of work the hobo who works work occasionally the common laborer who drifts from town to town here today gone tomorrow ready to spend his wages for liquor and then bum somebody for the price ofa of ofa o oa a bed In one of the cheap chaap Ch lodging ing lug houses the criminal class who work when opportunity for gain pre presents presents presents Itself and the honest but unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate It Is a hard proposition to give an accurate estimate of the size of f Salt Lakes transient or floating population population population tion One man yesterday said 2606 2600 to would be a conservative guess Suffice to say there Is a great many of ot them and It Is mainly through them I i that the cheap and lodging houses exist I Take for Instance the tho American This I House In Commercial street place with lodging accommodations ranging langing In price from 15 cents a night up has been truly called the House of all Nations Here may be found transients from every quarter of the globe Mexicans negroes Italians Greeks Slays Slavs Japs Poles Irish Oer Jon man English American In fact titers are few countries not at some time or other represented at this I I rooming place Then there is the Lincoln House on First South street This be It known Is a establishment than the American House Its cheapest rooms being 50 cents a night The Lincoln caters to a more select trade and ana houses few of the real tramp or hobo variety The rooms are comfortable and many people patronize the through pecuniary reasons The transient population those thore who have no regular hor have varied and I peculiar manners me come for a night and then fly to greener pastures much of which Is due to Judge J M or Bowmans floaters while with others It Is due to a natural In Inclination Inclination to roam Then there are those who wio come for weeks Sometimes they can not raise the price of a bed and they thoy are forced to apply at head headquarters headquarters quarters It Is here where the real down and out congregate especially when the nights are cold and the elements with without without without out make the convenient doorway a most miserable lodging place On an average men are each night provid provided ed with lodging at the pollee police station They sleep on the bare concrete floor but It Is warm and that suffices Some of them return night after right night while others are seen but once Then there Is the Volunteers of America home This Is really cheaper than the American House In that abed a abed abed bed can be had for 10 cents while for the princely sum Bum of 1 16 15 cents the oc occupant occupant of a room is provided with a akey ake akey key ke a ap in Iii a real hotel boteL There are a great many of the cheap lodging houses hou throughout the city ant ana antaU all aU of them are well patronized It would seem that with the advent of weather business would drop off bat but such say the proprietors is not the case ease The dullest months Inthe In Inthe the year are February and March Now that spring pring la Is at hand the Influx front from points commences and Salt t alt Lake Lako is la being crowded with her float floating ing lag population During the day the Idle class of ot the transient population spend their time in sleeping reading playing cards or 0 r roaming the streets street They procure means of sustenance by appealing t ti tithe the publio public for aid and they get it Finally tiring of the city elty ani Its It environs they wander away to oth r climes Most of them start for the tha Pacific coast from Salt Lake but not nota a few decide to go back east where hundreds of them came from and here there may be a home or family await awaLt awaiting awaiting ing |