| Show 1 I im R OB d i iH 0 H r t tl l Eastern E s e n I Expert IF finds the 0 AD l U Sentence ce a aI I e t T t THE TcHE Q QUESTION j i 7 the System foi Works toji to En anil f s st sH t Has H Bait S Lako a 3 full right In hi hI si t clUes cities to her 1 j P Poi I to the Uto nearest or ge V 0 J h rn Its members and and elvo 5 lt a wa to lip I II again in Salt Kaki I e Salt Lake Lale receive any any largo pro n of t her hor O because Den Drin vcr Ye Seattle and nd sill San Francisco did Jus it this with their anota of un tramp problem Is ono of tho 1 tho way tho lutt I c cc c tolof who vho Is II your neighbor receives o L lf nsw l each year yeal wITh Holing growing facilities for extensive C Confessedly lt It Is an olly act to dump undesirable citizens on to town tO lIi When other not to know how jt It waB WIlS and a ld Klien tho process very veri to It arc UN dEl dElon lay on or them aro 1110 In i to re 1 e n In tho Atlantic Monthly which takes up the short and nd id eI elCe as a a contributory c cau lui o to climo SUSPENDING SUS ENDING Thov has hus this to say sa mun or 01 suspended sen common first because the th I i potential criminality ot me vagrant ls Is not sufficiently Hull secondly it seems cema more just that 30 90 should e capt than that ono person should suffer l It costs money moncy to cp trumps tramps In jail the good money of tho taxpayers t Why Vh should the tho town pay pa tho lh trump tramps bills They do donot not 1101 belong to tho town the tho railroads therefore let tho railroads take tako J J HILLS VIEW Tamos J Hill Hili president of tho Great Northern railroad writes that ho he her bei gloves that hat t tho passing on ot oC or 01 under short sen Ien sentences to fa bo absolutely wrong only penalty that can cun out or con vagrancy Is en enforced forced labor Tho Jho and work on high way are aro the tho best remedies against roving raying vagrants CAMPS OF VAGRANTS This has hal been a year ot oC many tramps tramp George Gcorge T Slade general manager of the tho Northern Pacific rail rull c Writes under er date of r to the authol of article Tho camps cumps of vagrants are arc to bo be seen at and an 1 water tanks all along our main line and l vagrants J me to be Been een riding QUI our and trains In l every oel conceivable on U le 11 ICO Where they thc can call catch on and be fon ii i time undetected by b the tho train i nien nie 1 In III many t lo aro Iro BO so many va ranta ona that It ous u s for l to top put p t them Off pilfer cars cara set sat fires along tho Iya occupy empty set Mt out on tracks s often flon building fires In silt of tho cars which cause use material for fortl ilia tl l construction of small shanties which aio often fired Or d terrorize tho oc occupants of section houses Ini In Isolated localities and commit the Various usual depredations known Imon to this type Almost all the tho great trunk lines report fur c r moro more trumps tramps than usual LITTLE HARD HABD LABon hut But a town does doos not set got rid of yag rants r because It warns some ot of them out t of town Other towns aro doing thoV tto samo thing and when all neigh neighborhoods are doing the same thing tho community cOI receives exactly as us much as IS It gots ld of Yet Tot when h n tramps aro to jail they tho arc aro generally lI norall Idle or 01 are to do but little work In many man a county the tho penitentiary la Is well known as a IL win winter winter ter vacation In one ne town In Kansas Associated Charities les re Ie reports ports that the sequence of events is 1 arrest 2 lino IIno 3 sentenced to work worl piles In lieu ot fine fiM 00 4 over cr prisoners 5 t n its run away awn 6 which Is what was w s Intended Int Short sentences are no solution for chiefs of police pollee of Y g cl t i f the the United States were w recently asked about the sen sentences of vagrants Tho rho predominating ln t tinS inS ing minimum sentence Is 30 days tho average 30 days daYI and the tho maximum sentence six months Such Su h sentences arc of little deterrent value If unaccompanied unac by hard ht rd labor and tho th prisoners are aro to be discharged before thc completion of or their sentences l v VAGRANTS Some striking facts havo been bc n shown by the l e recently published special con cen census BUS sus on prisoners and juvenile quent ba ed on figures gathered In 1904 stands second soco d In Ir tho number Ilu ot of commitments to penal In Vagrancy drunkenness anil disorderly conducts et total up ull more Inore than half of all commitments the United U States Slates In 1004 1904 Ot Of all the com committed I l prisoners 67 pOI per cent to county Jails and work houses Of the vagrants committed about were vere committed for less than 30 days clays another fifth for fOl one month an another other fifth for tor three months r q In II other words over oer halt half the tho vagrants were committed c for one or less V COSTLY LUXURY If we CUll can once realize that vagrancy Is t 1 serious and costly problem in our country we wc shall to tako sterner for Us lis repression Some SomeI persons I nh y not be loo friendly toward the th railroads and yet et all will It agree one prominent railroad man recently sald tramps and vagrants va cost ost the railroads of tho tM United States a year ye vagrancy Is a ques question hon tion too Important to longer longcr What tal vagrancy costs In public and vate charity ch rity In work house and jails on tho road rOld in com diseases and In bad exam examples ples pes and strong temptations to the young no one can compute yot the aggregate cost In money and In life must be very cr great Frequently we read of vicious assaults not only upon men hut but upon women made by tramps DEATH LIST ON RAILROADS Day Da after day appear the reports I of tho arraignment of boy bo tramps be bc toro fore magistrates In many of our OUI Am American cities Five thousand trespassers solS sers are aro killed every evory year on our Am American railroads of whom consider considerable able proportion are arc tramps As many moro more arc aro found seriously Injured Tramps ramps crippled d by railroad turn beggars and exploit the tho These aro 1110 but n 11 few Lew of the results of the thc road What can cun we wc wedo do Several arn simple and ef cf effective Ye can call refuse e food at tho door Wo Vo can malio mulio work a for Cor a subsequent meal me l We can urge that vagrants receive reasonably rc long Ion sentences when arraigned before magistrates If they are aro evidently habitual h vagrants So far fal as possible coope ought to be bc m between railroad police cIty Unless tramp trespassers ss is upon the tho railways arc aro convicted when arraigned In court the th railroads have little pt w er 11 to reduce railway trespass City 11 y police should not tolerate va vagrants a grants upon tho streets of the thc city endeavor to obtain when possible more adequate vagrancy legislation n If railway trespass Is at present not covered by our laws It should bo be So longas towns or 01 must stand the expenses of or vagrants or toi to the thc workhouse Just so fOO long will towns or 01 be bo loath to t commit The maintenance of C committed cd Vagrants should bo a 11 state stul charge of all among measures n heat once nce ls Js the necessity ne of ol li 11 sentence for vagrancy y with hard labor Wherever hard liard labor Is required r them too vagrants become suddenly less In COLONY PLAN PL N NIn In connection with Ith work the labor colony colon bill to bo be introduced into tho New York legislature next winter seems a most attempt to reduce vagrancy y This bill framed by specialists specialists In work In New ork state has already received ree much at attention from the tho press and is support supported ed cd by charitable organizations and ald railways Briefly It proposes an appropriation for fOI a labor colony to which habitual vagrants shall ba be com committed their terms to t be bc Indefinite Good care care good food sa a reasonable amount of work reformatory Influences a system s and a chance to learn learna a trade are arc among Its principal feat features features ures The bill Is a n model in many r respects upon compulsory labor colo colonies nies which have already their success In Europe E rope Of course co rsc ono one labor colony colon will not solve the vagrancy question qu sUon but It will make malte a Ii be beginning beginning ginning and will bo be watched with great a an Important experiment I TRAMP TRA IP ON RAILROAD Only anI those who have hit the tho road or 01 who are arc as railroad ad police engaged In preventing railway vagrancy know the many secret and ana tragic sides Of tho life of tho tramp on the railroad r Yot some somo very y significant facts have havo ro re rec c been pre show that every evor some soma trespassers are arc killed arid another trespassers se so seriously sor r o Injured red on American Railroad officials estimates that from to of all tres trespassers passers on on n railroads ro tramps Thc writer states that It these mangled bodies were 1 side e t a It brisk walker would four f ut hours before bc or 1 com coin comIng Ing to the end oven of the line of the tho killed Yet let us s tho train crews relation to the trump tramp It true that th t ron on some roads macIs Individual tramps are arc allowed by sympathetic trainmen to ride even een to the thc end of or orthe the division for forI a consideration But generally gener lly tho relation lation 1 between cr w tramp Is Wo havo ha heard It hinted that on all the trunk lines that campaign vigorously against tramps tamps tho tacitly understood orders are arc that the tramps must got off orr whether or 01 orno no and that there Is to be no stopping of the tho train f departure either So the enmity is maintained el It la Is lafoe foe against foe Officials or r train trainmen men men are always alwa s liable to lose l so their lives in these encounters with Ith train tr ln tramps The death of Policeman Kane at Middleton N Y 0 n few days ago ag who vho was the top of the train In I his pursuit of tramps Is but butone buton one on occurrence o c r ence In hundreds George G rg r SI cIlo generaU manager of th I Northern writes md r dat 16 1 06 that his I Is mOr by v g than over b rore camps of tramps areto arc t bo at rit wath tanks nil all along U th Inal lri line ld vl gl lre s n riding oh o 1 the passenger rn s and aM flight fl trains In every conceivable place where catch on and before lo a undetected u by tl II Iii r i many mi y many In l vagrants v oil a atraIn traIn lous for the trai raIt men Ien to attempt to put J lt Loft And W V H II president of Now ow York o SI Louis I reports that th t ton on one occasion ln In Juno 1908 VpS men were J ct froni Ih tl going ii t Almost one olle toa to 1110 DANGERS DAN El S OF Ol FREE RIDES S The seriousness of this wholesale free fleo riding oh OTI American A railroads Is ob oh obvious The for foi It Is enforcement of vagrancy laws relating to trespass or 01 tho of or such laws as liB soon Hoon its as possible The Themen men m Ilio lire are tho fue of tin tho train crews cres arc tho sume who come to our back doors asking food or r beg from us on tho street or 01 Indulge In petty thievery For Fm tho protection of f c and alId for the general g n ral protection of society free rides for tor tramps n trains ought to be Ie stopped AD SOCIAL |
