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Show Shutting Out TSramps. 'Weary Willie," "Dusty Rhodes," and other similar gentlemen of leisure who have been arranging to spend the win-. win-. ter in Chicago may as well make an Immediate change in their plans. Mayor Harrison has had a change of heart. Several years' experience with the gentlemen of the road have convinced con-vinced him that their room is to be preferred to their company during the cold months. The mayor has not only ordered that no tramps shall be lodged In the police stations this year but has also stated that the condition of the city treasury makes it impossible to open a municipal lodging-housa for their accommodation. Tramps and vagrants va-grants who are found in Chicago hereafter here-after will be promptly arrested and sent to the bridewell, where the terror 9f compulsory baths and hard work stares them in the face. Chicago Tribune. |