Show acee be aise standards makes smooching mooching Moo ching ice as other ries bar it alms alma for the ih lias re sounded stine since mohammed becca but the au have anything t will no langei in tourist jerusalem abs down on begging asque ilij nondescript import the unfaithful alike ii t s here their ironed the stifled the beggars diat elv he ire to fzens round up Is those of alie ails who are too phoud to loto the workhouses given opportunities to sd the minors will be and write he authorities siv has cm lip stem or panhandler pin handler nc ron street he Is which permits him to by a t he Is found of if the society de ilin he 1 to or leave tov n and the city corpora lonie what novel steps ind from the s decided to pension rho now enjo a pen increased to 25 slilla ile those who have no ill find them ITS pay roll for a e ity estimate that this t in the neighborhood ir hd problem eval with history and d people has had this to solve when corn plentiful in the land me were lined with the who called on witness their singular ailments and the stranger ap ity of the seven hills coppers swept through the its flocked to the thin he gates and swelled f argument ats that it in the land those who efrom their abundance re not and if there be i ho have should give those who hive not on the richness of the ories opened its cof out doles to the cites bums flocked to the ays of the kings d its lepers and at in the sun at ie cit there they ased and cursed the coir ing in from egypt in successive ng as they gave or ived in the middle as an aristocracy of athers before them for 1 been loafers they allies in rags and aqua squa of b and the ent begging down in sunshine and ers heat and winters door and prison gate t of social graces had washed unfortunates 1 quota of loafers ber r of bums and petro of haupers paupers pau pers colonial days t advance guard of this established itself in during colonial ras practically unheard the revolutionary war CT no mention of men e were abolitionists and but no bums as such 5 estimated that there barg in new aber it has been said this latter number however seems to be a snap estimate or else are times when tin entire corps Is working one particular section at the same hour many of these are crip pled but a fair proportion ot them are able although not willing to get out on the argumentative end of a pick or shovel the me ilcin beggar has raised the art of smooching mooching moo ching to the science of stemming and he Is constantly am proving on his practice in the most wiy of separating a few coins from alie pockets of the the novice in on the less frequented streets he approached app roachel eacle and every person that comes within his rin P As he becomes more prof clent in vo k he sizes up his pro pacts rejecting tills one classing tint one as doubtful and putting the 1 ihal sucker good for five cents up on still another he avoids the police As lie 11 ore capable in wilney coins floii reluctant int pocket bo ks he mocco up towal the more districts during ills ap reship hp li ims to snail a bull a hok n iv this Is the distinguish ini mirk of a prod professional and a cheap the good pro ft vv fri out daiy diy after daiy diy or rather night after night and collect from he to ten dollars in two or three hours stemming without coming into condict with the blunt toed shoes of the detective hureau the cheap pan handler on the other hand will fie find himself answering cm barrns sing questions asked by a dek through his sheer inability to weed out the dicks that wander up and down the streets one of the favorite approaches used hv the professional beggar who Is just below the top of his class Is to prey on the sympathies of the populace with a hardluck story some of these are masterpieces that would bring their authors a fat check from a num her of the cheaper magazines it the raconteurs could but find time to write them down it there ta a flood in ohio the beggar Is one of the unfortunate who has had his chattels wife and children washed down the river he assiduously studies the stories of the disasters as they appear in the newspapers until he has bis locaco oriented then he improvises details and adds tears until ahe listener hears the roar of the waters the howls of the wind and the shrieks of the vie tims as they are boope through the night it there is a fire bis life savings been been burned op ills home hi wiped out his family has been lost in the ruins he escaped because he was working and came home only to find that all was lost the he money took out of the bank in crisp new hundred dollar bills to home buy a little was turned to ashes broken hearted penniless and without a filand in the world he faces the bleak future to build up from the ashes a new life etc it Is heartrending even though it Is not true and ultra only the hardened can listen through it all without digging down to relieve tills unfortunate victim earthquakes help some earthquakes wrecks at sea railroad accidents every disaster that ats the land creates its hundreds of victims who were from several hundred to several thousand miles away from the catastrophe at the time it happened As long as the story holds a good position in the newspapers the vicarious victim laments in the ears of the hard working citizenry when the story passes fram a half column to a half stick the beggar begins to cast about for some other disaster on which to fas ten himself it it happens to be a time when current events are particularly free from holocausts and calamities he will go baal to his old familiar snivel of mister could you spare me a few cents for a cup of coffee I 1 aint any beggar but I 1 m broke hungry and I 1 can t get a job some of the more enterprising in alej of a better plea will mention that they have just been turned loose from a hospital and haven t been able to find a job that they are physically fit to take such a one played west twelfth street near the seventh avenue subway station steps for the better part of a month he approached one prospect four times in one week and became so well acquainted with him that he remarked on the pleas antless or unpleasantness of the weather whenever ue saw the pros hect coming ap the subway stairs one of the favorite methods of approach for the professional beggar la the young man walking with the young girl the moocher sizes them up at a distance it they seem to be enjoying each others society he feels another twenty five cent piece jingling among the nickels and dimes in his pocket it on the other hand they appear to be bored with each other he realizes that his possibilities have been reduced to a dime and that probabilities are not worth more than five cents elderly persons both male and female are also made to order for the experienced stemmer the middle aged enjoy a rather high immunity the beggar knows that these as a rule are hard to make and that lees than one out of twenty will come through so he devotes his time and energy to the old and to the young especially when the young are in love |