Show Bund hundreds reds daily shuffle through streets without money or friends voting hoosier lad leaves small town to answer advertisement of employment Employ mert agency la Is duped and robbed of coin in chicago penniless and without a friend V were you ever in such circumstances probably not but every day sees hundreds of your fellows who are the other day walter summers a lad of only 17 years good looking and apparently patently ly fairly well educated shuf shuffled fied into the desplaines street police station tho lad tired and broken in spirit sat eat down in a chair say the boy asked timidly how far la Is it to wabash avenue about a mile was the reply he smiled halfheartedly half heartedly about a mile eh gee I 1 wish I 1 had ft a dollar for every mile ive walked today I 1 could buy some regular food and have enough left to get cleaned up and pay my railroad tare fare home where Is your homo home was asked evansville indiana yep and then the tired boy told his story atory 1 I had bad a job in west salem salam wis als he ha said and I 1 was getting along pretty well I 1 had a few dollars saved up and thought I 1 was satisfied I 1 saw an advertisement in a pamphlet upshere up there telling belling how easy it was to make money in chicago the ad was sign ed by an employment agency all you had to do was to give the agency 2 and it would ship you to chicago where a job would be waiting you it sounded fine so I 1 thought id try it 1 I gave my 2 to the agency and took the rest of my money with me I 1 was shipped with about fifteen other fellows when I 1 got to chicago I 1 went to the place where the agency had told me I 1 could land a job the address which they had given me I 1 found was a swamp out that way somewhere rind and the boy pointed toward the southwest side then I 1 saw that I 1 had been bun koed hoed the agency I 1 guess was a sake fake or else they had given mo me the |