Show FARM I-FARM If ARM GOL CONY NY HIS 1118 I I SOLUTION FOR HE THE HEMen T VAGRANT PROBLEM I Men in New YorK Bread BreadLine BreadLine Ii Line Unworthy of Aid I Says Commissioner Commission r. r NEW YORK TORF YORK Feb Feh S 8 Robert W. W Commissioner ioner of charities of I Il New l W York takes the th stand with Special A Agent Po dt Powderly rh of or the tho States department of immigration ration that n. n majority ma ma- of tho m men n in in the thA bread lines of the city an In professional tramps tramp u und unde undeserving serving cl of ot aidIn aid In an nn 3 address s to tho the members of tho the thor Y r M. M f. f C. C A A. A in Brooklyn 11 y yesterday tr h he declared the tramp and amI vagrant arc are a n menaco to C civilization n and he Hr urged ed stringent treatment to regulate thorn Thom Ho Ire indorsed erl the thc movement mO for far tho the establishment es- es es establishment I I nt of colonies by the state where such men mon cnn can be put to work a abill ahill i hill bill for lor tho the creation o ot tut which is already already al 31 al- al ready before tho the lc legislature i lr A conservative tivo estimate t matA of the number ruin num ber of unemployed cl in K New w York City it toda today ho lie aid 3 id is 1 Of these perhaps are trade union men tent tem out of work Those men do donot donot donot not coine come to 10 th the department of chari chari- ties tiCS Thc They generally general have o mone money sa saved a cd up to tid tide thorn them over ever the th hard times For that r reason 3 on the men who frequent frequent fre fre- quent iho Ibn bread line Hue and the municipal Jorl lodging n houses are arc not fair foam pIes of the tho unemployed Not one in in twenty of tho the men who come to us is williD willing willingto to work Wo We have hae many positions open in our department and und yet they wont won't take and hold old them For the tho lower JOl class of the unemployed the the vagrants and the bread liners liners we wo must adopt stringent trin methods meth troth A farm colony has hc been n tried in I Germany and Switz Switzerland with great success and I r am nm am confident it would work her here We Ve should havo ha hath th the power to tn keep thE these o men at work in the colony colony col col- ony for lor t two wa years yrs if ne necessary II |