Show HOST OF TRAMPS Nearly ITiftyScven Thousand of Them in the United States Prof John D I McCook estimates that I there arc now ofijSUi tramps In the United Uni-ted Stales a gain since 1S70 of 2U51 per cent ihrce and fourfifths times that of population He says that these men cost the country at least 11010000 a year and produce nothing Jn dealIng deal-Ing with the I tramp problem he asserts that we have scarcely got beyond an impatient Ioe on that our tramp laws In the several States have been so fierce and panicky that after a year or Iwo I they have everywhere ceased to be enforced Prof McCook suggests I hat since reformatories an effective in 75 out of every 100 cases of ordinary felons there Is no reason why they should not be tried I on at least the younger among our tramp population He offers an authentic report of one Institution which exhibits the following follow-ing results In 211 cases Twentyfour have kept straight for live years and over Twentytwo have kept I straight for four and a half to five years Flft Comm have kept straight from four to four and a half years Twentytwo have kept straight from three and a half I lo four year Twentysix I have kept atm ahgiit from Hire to thrcu and a half years 1 IlIt > ell have icept straight from two and a half to three yeuis Txvenlytwo have kept I ltmU gut from two to two and a half years Twentysix have kept straight from one and I a half lo two yearn Tblriyone have kept straight from one lo one and IL half years Here are tangible results saya Prof McCook and It Is only necessary neces-sary tomultlply HOC by SMO the ascertained ascer-tained annual coat of these people for arrest and malntenirice to hoW how Important they are In dollars and cents A number of these men have found employment In I Urn place and some of them have been traced by me with the following results One estab lltihmcnt has seven for permanent places as salesmen porters clerks etc four of whom were what I should call downright bums and six more for temporary Jobs None ban ever disappointed dis-appointed mo the proprietor says and he always hcndb there when he wants a man Another uslabllshmtMit has found them part good and part bad A third has had a number and none of them has none back 01 the other hand two other employers have tried fu sill from eighteen to tweiuyflcven or them and found thorn thoioughly unsatisfactory un-satisfactory This testimony Is on the whole corroborative of the modist claims of the Institution much failure fail-ure much uncertainty but definite success I suc-cess nufllelent to pay for the effort and 1 cost Outlook |