Show TUB THI OF Ob TIlA A writer In tho thus Independent esti estimates estImates mates that hat thieve there art nt at present t about fifty thousand tramps roving the tho coun conn country try Iry on what they can cnn ob oh obtain tain tub by lIy bogging or stealing Home years nolt wall tan u it common argument that the t s hart hard times drove droo honest Into the ranks of ot the tho tramps but bust It appears that tho the tramps are In number of or orthe the opportunities of ot earning nn no honest homiest living liv It Is not camy lo in t understand how re reliable reo liable statistics on such lIuch a n subject ran cnn nil be obtained o but It Is Id explained that they Ihy are based hn tl partly upon Information lion tion from lodging houses housea and amid partly upon furnished by tho the tramps mInIm themselves In tn 1810 1870 there were wore at nt n a taught rough guess CU GU tramps In Man Alas and NS tU tImes time as many mallY or In tho the United In 1870 1810 It Is said tho Ito num number her ber Increased to 1660 In lii Massa Massachusetts and In the time United Slates an en n of ot per emit cent while the time In hit population was only per I t or 01 not much moUrn moro than thana a 1 I sixth as nil great Since the ho he ti la is mid ash to have hae reaching In IStO 9 the total of ot r h Is 19 rt it gain of at 2351 nearly tour four thomas tho Iho gain patti of It f the time total population lion tion If IC this Increase o Is going to keep kepp up imp It II cannot be Ie lung long before the tramp question will become one ono of at moment nt to hI title this country For or not only Is in It an anomaly that the this Industrious people lOlle should support nn FIn able bodied boll 11 army arm of ot Idlers Idler but I ut It Is I evident that thAI much of lit It the crime that Is Is I timed lilt and fostered within tho lie ranks of ot that element An army arm of ut tramps tramp U is I r men mento nee lICIe to tD the public |