Eureka Reporter | 1905-05-12 | Page 7 | Begging as a Business

BEGGING AS A BUSINESS thousand thousands of professionals Profession alst make good living the he profession of the beggar la is 0 now o w as well established as the pro bession of the thief says the new york commercial at the lowest es ornate there are probes beggars in the united states no beggar in new york makes less than 5 a day according to some recent newspaper estimates they re aromy fromy belve 1 contributions varying from one penny t to 0 25 some of them are ex in their lines and play only tor for donations ot of 5 and 10 and upward telling plausible stories of unpaid rents dying wives and starving chil dren of funeral expenses and other harrowing experiences that appeal to the sympathies of tender tenderhearted hearted hu inanity manity during the ten weekdays of the holiday season therefore the amount of alms collected by th this gentry probably runs up to at least