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Show FARMS FOR VAGRANTS. An innovation in dealing with the "tramp" problem has been suggested by a legislator ,f th-Umpire th-Umpire state in n bill introduced in the legislativt assembly of that state. It i nothing more or b-- , than a tramp farm for the hoboes who. either ivw choice or necessity, lead wandering live- with w steady or remunerative employment. The .New Turk scheme is to establish two , hisses of farms, to which will be scut those who are arrested in cities on charges of vagrancy. The first class will be for those who would work if they had work to do. and those who. on account of physical disability, disabil-ity, are compelled to choose between- the road and the poorhouse,' and select the road, and the other class will be for the professional, able-bodied "hobo"' who never works unless compelled to. Tho-e who are arrested ami sent up to the farms of the first class will be privileged to leave the farm i't any time they can see a chance of bettering their Jj condition; those ent. to the second class will be If ; compelled to serve a determinate number of days or months, as the committing magistrate ees tit . to impose. It is believed that the farms will work for the good of both classes of "hoboes." the first by giving employment to those who need it, and the second by compelling work to be performed, depending up- I on a hope vain, perhaps that honest labor will y bring about reformation. It is urged in support of the scheme that the farms can easily become self-sustaining, and that the work performed by those committed will return a moderate wage to them. It is proposed to establish the farms on lands that have "run out.' or lands of rather inferior in-ferior quality, and to build up the farms and make them productive. The scheme is not altogether new, as several European countries have tried it. and it is said to have met with success in Holland. Belgium and Switerland. It is said that many men have made application for positions on the farms of the first class in those countries, and that it is not considered consid-ered a disgrace to work there. Indeed, the disgrace dis-grace attaches to the man who will n of work there when he has nothing ele to do. In Europe the results are said to have been all for good, and the experiment in New York, if the farms are established, estab-lished, will be watched with interest by other states, and especially by the people of cities where i tramps are wont to congregate, and where idleness j leads many of them into crime. |