| Show I FRENCH FREN H BEGGARS MAY MA Y HA HAVE VE TO WORK Bill Introduced in in the Chamber of Deputies Providing for the j Establishment of Labor Colo Colonies Colonies nies to Which Vagabonds and Mendicants Will Vill Be Sent Paris Pans Swarms with Sham Blind Sham Cripples Sham Deaf and Dumb and Other Humbugs Who Wheedle a Livelihood Out of the Charitable I Special Ant April It AH Is III pretty well P known knowlI In III America Franco and particularly Paris Is tho Iho happy ground of oC tho Iho vaga uga vagabond bond und tho mendicant The Tho beggars nf this country have 1110 i re educed the thu pi on 1 of getting a 1 living out of oC society without working for fOI it to 10 a tL lino IIno art alt i They Thc havo hao their theil organizations and 1111 lIk regulations for tho govern government Jern i ment of their nich members Their number It I continually Tho need ot of comprehensive measure to deal with such human parasites Ins has Ions Ion 1 1011 apparent At t In ft there has coma forward a IL man mun who tho evil is hi prepared 1 to 10 grapple with Ith It This is I M 1 Georges Kerry ll Ir deputy for fill till Ninth l who has In Introduced tU into the tho French 1 chamber u a hili for Co I the ot ago and atHI Ills His remedy l lu u IL nutshell is III Worle colonies m i ic c 51 1 Berr has devoted d many lI u years to careful and study r of uC a slum tinn which IK II 1111 lell I onu of ur th CUI rR of or Franco and In tho of his Investigations he ha gathered n IL remarkable nin ma s of or facts and He lie declares II tOt for Instance that out of every hundred thieves brought to justice SO at lell t como from the ranks of tho tramp and the tho beg 1111 He states further that In 10 years conscientious ho never o in finding a poor POOl blind bol bolJar par Jar who was not a IL sham that out of ot the Ih unemployed ed to whom he offered well wel paid jobs job only 18 accepted his uffer while an all tho Iho ro 10 pull oi o another experiment only 6 or CR G C per cent continued steadily to work and did not throw up 1111 their employment after they had earned a few fo Trance Crance He 11 lias hns followed tins tho professional beg Kir flIr Into tho Iho lowest lodging houses Chateau Rouge Pero Lunette Lunetto and Mere Ielo i Ga lay seen Roell how he hc lives lIes IllS his recesses appraised hi nil mentality and now ho comes forth and asserts that Is IN tho root loOt of oC and that It lt we wo want wu t to pro professional wo must make o tho Iho beggars work ur SHAMS OP OF If If Dells Berrys memory Is III stored with amazing stories of tho Iho raws employed by beggars and Ind vagabonds to 10 compassion lolI Thoro are tho sham blind sham cripples shorn deaf deaC and dumb epileptics and amI thuM l with St 11 Vitus dance There nO the sham Rhum unemployed sham old nol rUN who fallen upon evil days mid havo not lIot even oon a II few to francs where heln wherewith with to bury hury decently their theil latest de Ile dec c 1 used tl child I m said Jl I Her BUI Herri ri f to tho writer as 1111 deputy have been h rn Applied to over over again for tor money wone to 10 bury babies that novel never havo boon lI n born bornI I could tell lell a II hundred gloria at ot tho blind 31 1 Horry but butone butone one will 1111 1 I to tu notice in on inthe till the to 10 a fL atall tall and powerful man whose eyes worn 1010 hidden by hy spectacles and who Im Importuned with persistence all who passed that 1111 Ono day ha lu hamade mule made uso u o of ot an all expression l lolI because b 1 would not nol 10 him alms and In III my Indignation I told him that his hl blindness S was as mere men sham Kham In u a moment ho mined Ill I hell at III me his hi stick forgetting that ho he not lIot sec sh and a 1111 I hal had to 10 hen beat t a It hasty h t re 10 Into the station Not ot long afterward I came norms s the samo fellow In another part of ne tho Iho town he ho was wan In u and IH being wheeled by h a 1 lad Iud who Implored th public not to forget his hili blind und and father rathel unit LA it 1 Fortunately I hud had a II 1 at Itt the Prefecture and 1 I reported the affair to 10 him Tho pollen were liem told to 10 watch tho Iho man limn and It was wal not nol long before discovered that this thi blind the chief hll of or a gang of thieves Iho had committed mi 1111 burglary only a week or Ol two before Tho man was with his accomplices tried at nt the thC assizes and sentenced cd to five solitary confinement nt It was proved at nt tho trial that he hud com milted no fewer than thun 33 burglaries OF TIm every ool sham beggar Is III so dan dangerous as aN tho Iho with the blue Take for Instance the tho two brothers who used to walk and possibly still do the Hue nUe lIons and St SI Germain Ono alii had acquired a II trick of or doubling his leg up under him us ns he hobbled along The Theother lh other dragged his hili leg III after aftel him They Tho had both bolh been wounded In battle and their theil earnings were welo 20 to 2 francs i iday It day dur They wore were so 10 thrifty that even turned to account tho slices o or bread which charitable folk tolk would them Other Othel beggars throw tho bread away nIl In disdain Those however hoover sold it to an agent or In other words ord a I receiver of ot stolen good at lit court who ho In his hIli turn hill had customer for It among bourgeois who kept Still moro more curious Is the tho ease of an nn clerk who lost loot his situa situation tion after borrowing GOO COO francs from his hll employers desk This man hav having ing turned professional beggar nu 1111 amputated leg through tho streets ot Im Is for tor nine nino months In tho year AH AI noon o a July comes ho starts for Cm th Iho In a II variety troupe of oC which he Is a II star 1111 dancer on rho ex cx clerk has haH not nol a II character for respectability rel to 10 maintain n II confrere who works regularly tho great cafe In III tho neighborhood of the tho opera and lives in III easo caso at lit he In Iu supposed to bo nt at tho ministry ot oC justice D Thero or course OU c swarms swann ot cripples In Paris hilt but there urn III nillo real ones victims of ot tho most fiendish brutality us tho following ab uh absolutely u n I lien I lo Incident will Some limo ago a Il friendly official ot Of tho prefecture of oC police guIO M I Berr warning of ot the arrival from of ot about WO as tho French will cripples who having lost both logs or of thorn thom drag dluG thorn thom selves along on ou a II of laigo lalo bowl bol Thoy rho had como up for tho Gingerbread fair and to bo found located In Iu about tho du 1111 Trono M hurried hurrle thither round that tho hall already rell II received notice from thu Iho lo 10 quit territory Ono of oC tho party STRIKING T IK MEASURE NOW BEFORE THE FRENCH CONGRESS 1 i I j I t 1 i n t Hi 1 i 1 1 I 1 P J ff Q I V 1 i X i t Nt t b t ti tu mi mit f u un u n n U could and ancI this IB III he ho told lold M 1 Kerry BOrl My I father s a Il organ my mother is J a II fortune fortuno toiler and I Iam am the th youngest of 11 children all boys the exception of ot my eld eldest ol est CHt brother wo WU 10 all handed over oer hll quite young to HI a specialist doc doctor tor 1 1 to IJ be hI made cripples None Nono of us u died IlIe but I havo lOon many of oC tins the children ehll in III my m village to loho bo killed by IY bythe the torture they the hUll had to undergo und Vo We used nEed to earn a lot of money mOlley hilt but crip cripples ples havo hao Increased e so 0 rapidly In Spain of or late years that thaI we older ones II de 10 decided to emigrate to 10 Prance France We Vo havo haYo only been heen here three days and 1 our takings have hae been heen very er good but bl t now nOl the police llolleo hayo lod to expel us IS ISAs As a 11 matter of nt fact tho very err next day tho whole party of cripple mon men and women alike were taken by b tho police back to 10 the Spanish frontier jr r rDell Berry Dell adds that th so cripples go In couple as us man and wife Ifo and un doubt doubtless less their wretched are lO sub subjected to 10 tho torture as they themselves were SHAf FITS Another well known typo ot Paris ParisIan Ian beggar Is tho man who shams an epileptic fit or St HI dance M Berry tells lolls his hi experience with a ayoung young man who appeared to 10 bo af afflicted with the latter malady In Its lIS most distressing form It 11 was lust last October In the tho poor pOOl fellow waH painfully making his way along Jumping now on ono leg hg now on the other othel his body being so shaken by each movement that ho he homade made mudo that the tho perspiration was pour pou pourIng Ing In from Crom hili Finally ho sank upon a neat exhausted In of ot my In compassion says sn 11 the French deputy I could not help noticing that tho Infirm youth now und and then mado to 10 a Il and to 10 a 11 man mun on crutches who kept at al n a certain away awny My sus suspicions ill l wore aroused When hen ho had for COI tho thu twentieth limo pank on to a n peat I went up tip to and began JoSlin to talk to him kindly Scenting an nn easy ells dupe dUlle and a n fat tut alms thu young OllIg follow who stammered most lamentably told mo 1110 his woeful history Ills His father had Ileon attacked 1 by a It mud dog and so bitten that ho hll had died of his wound 1 I won WM with my m father sir IIII nt tho time and my m flight was mich Huch that I J have hlo over oel been I en as III you seo mo now no I 1 listened to 10 tho 1110 young tain with deop drol when whon ho hud dona I told him that T r was a 0 In Ills malady and aUll that I J had Imd determined to him into my ward wad at and cure curo him A cab cah WILS a passing at that moment and 1 II ro to and hulled it What I J had foreseen ro r I OIl came to puss Tho cabman had not even n bad 1111 to pull P my forgetting all 1111 about his Infirmity hall had taken laken to 11 his heels and was lost to 10 sight among l r the trees STAND STA D AUCTIONED gD OFF M t Perry Iel once ls taken laken by h a 11 form former er policeman to 10 witness s a fL sight the sale I liy auction of or tho of a 0 Paris Pad church ChUIch Tho sale took In a shop shoJI well Known to t tho mendicant fraternity men and women crowded round n p long Ions table at the head of tiC which stood till the auctioneer an old man with a 1 flowing hId beard Ha lie was Belling Bellingen en cn ot or the tho syndicate tho folo right to occupy tho Iho steps ot tho church In question lefore and at atthe the tho close of divine service RenN tha Ih luto lulo proprietor having died without leaving any nn recognized 1 heir Bl very CI animated and It II was evi evident dent that tho place was a lucrative one Finally it was III knocked down to 11 toa a It old nM man for Cor RO francs cash down of ot course Nearly tin all such die capitalists C BEGGARS Is an nn Inquiry office tor Cor be benais n In n II back street off If the tho St Ht Germain near tho School of nC It is run by b a IL woman and of course Is I known Imon only to the Iho In Initiated 51 II Derry Berry says aas ho wan told lito address by b a IL garrulous old beg be begill gill Ho wont went there th ro disguised as a n nIe workman Do you want lo Ie fraud jell Jen big pack or Jo 10 petit Jean asked the tho stout lady and she shu added Lo grand jell jcu costs 16 francs f Ill II IK and coutu In 50 addresses all good Tho 1110 people who live IIvo never nevel refuse to Elvo 10 alms With the big bl pack lIDO Ie you youcan OU OUan can an live easily for Cor a r year ur without over er applying to 10 the Iho samo purse With the tho petit Jeu hl continued you Oll have hI I lI is and It only costs cost D 6 francs ranIs Hut But the hou ell ara 1110 overdone for Cor every over beggar luw list lift MENDICANTS There are In Paris at lit least 50 0 known knon to the tho congregate at night to In at nt Somo of pt e havo become famous fuch uch III the Chateau dubbed UI M Guillotine from the painting which some somo popular artist had daubed on tho wall of tho room where the beggars bours caroused at night The 1110 Chateau Kongo nOIl o was 15 historical as asIt asIt It was IS Iho remains of uC what wait tho ot tho ello dl ono UIlO of the numerous of ne JV al tho end of or ortho tho sixteenth I century It Tl was a l on tho I of bedroom hl that O who could afford to pay JI 20 centimes four foUl cents al nl tho Iho luxury of six sl hours sloop S IS P JI m to lo 2 a Il in without being disturbed nt lit every eory moment HII their jess lesl foi Innate fellows Iello below by I fresh comers stepping their bod hll bodies ies ls S The paintings on tho Iho willis walls of oC tho Iho thodi di Inking room on nn the ground floor ot ur tho most clr typo t o AH All AHyou you 01 entered your yo eyes ces fell Cell on a n gull guil guillotine on which perched a swarm of ot ravens and which Mas Ilal built upon hun of or deaths heads On the tho wall opposite you ou saw two to gendarmes arrest arrestIng t tIll Ing Ill a Bill 1111 weltering hi In blood On another wall 1111 an assassin kneeling In front of his victim a I woman and further away was a II lake lalo of or human blood In which lero bathing These horrors w rl to 10 bo ho neon until untila a few months back In tho Iho Hue Huo Oa lande landl a IL narrow street between tho ilver and the fit HI Germain a n stones throw from the Church of oC SI tho St Michel mId and andin in heart hl of ot tho Latin quarter Tho Hue Huo was a IL modern moden Cour Caul den dell Miracles l and worthy of It the pen of oC a n Victor Hugo A few away from the Chateau stool stood tho Iho Maillon Parent for tor the Ih sum lIum of fifteen centimes or three thre cents a It beggar be was Willi given KIml a I of liquor mid allowed to lo sleep till 1111 1 n u m Upstairs III there two dormitories ono for men and ono for women tho charge charo Willi only two t VO cents Here Horo tho men and women lay In on Oil bare floor 1 thu children on the tables Beds of course them thoro ero none lIone Here Herl also would woul l con young youn women of OC 13 to tn 20 W waiting for tOl their theil Apache lovorn who elo out on s II sUK UK CrASS CLASS m A third well known houa hOIlo was WM tho Malon Gay the headquarters of oC the Iho of tho Syndicate S Only tho Iho gathered here and La Jn Moio lIf Gay allY kept good and wall famous for her The Tb walls with paintings il 11 In III horror of oC the Chateau two women emIt eyes COH out f for r tho thu love luve of an 1111 who stood looking on approvingly two Apache u IL man two smoked and nud chat chot H m ted lei quietly a tell few yards away and fo foon I on Oil OilI Mother Gay Mis Idl Indeed how oho I once u mun In III front of or hoi hm door The rim poor 1001 wretch who had hlll been beIL decoyed Into the Iho Hue by h u It young woman had hAlt half and robbed by Apaches her hor nc ne who wore about to him with their knives when Mine Gay rushed Iu hed out and dragged him Into lulo her hOl bar lillI More Gay him known the tho most notorious criminals Many of or them figured on nn her books as n hor hOl debtors at ILl tho of oC thoU arrest and deportation tion U Now Caledonia hut but they nil 1111 sho declares paid or ur iro paying hor by small I In all Installments ent from tho Iho penal settlement most of o them Will 11 upend pen II the remainder of oe their theil lives nut But tho future visitor will sol nook In vain for these haunts of UIO beggar Now streets have hWo boon hoen opened ol up Tho rho Hue has lIon been cut In half and tho last stones of ot the Chateau Kongo tho Malson Parent the alson Gay and similar hotbeds ot oC have ha e Juit jUl been cleared away BUT BU ONE ONH REMAINS One only IH Is left That Is the tho Pero Lunette In tho Hue Huo Anglais ad nil adjacent jacent to Hue Galando Thu Jh tiamo nam of oC this street et alone would testify to Its age lilt It was so culled as 1111 being tho of ot the English students who In the tho middle ll agog lItOS to 10 tho fam famous ous University ot Paris 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