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Show j r', J VANGUARD OF THE 1 l . , .' WINTER ARMY. H j J 1 Officers in the western counties of H j ;t Nevada report a small army of hoboes H I i camped at Big Bar, on the Feather fl j ,j river, waiting an opportupe moment H v j to begin a journey eastward. m I j At Gerlach, the first town of im- H;': portance on the Western Pacific in B t. , Nevada, where tho tramps are cx- H J , pocted to congregate, deputy sheriffs HJ'lj are preparing to extend a warm re- H 'X , ' ceptlon, calculated to hasten the H', F strangers on their way. Within ten Hfji f ' days Ogdcn may receive the vanguard Hv ' of this army of discontent. !! i Last winter thero was much sym- ! I j pathy extended to the poor rellows fj who arrived here by the thousands I, I and a shelter was established on it ' lower Twenty-fifth street, where they f ij could obtain a night's rest and some- L A. thing to eat. There was no employ- Hj; f! ment for the mon nml the wanderers Hi 4 I were entitled t0 the cbarit-y of the Hi 'I community. But conditions arc dif- Hj'l J ferent this year. There has been Kf. much work for all classes and the Htfj J travelers who today are without Hif ti funds and dependent on others have Bgg if? themselvos to blame. Tlfe great ma- HfSj jority of them are lazy loafers, tin- '1 jj worthy of assistance, and still no com- Bi j! munity can hoartlesbly disregard the Hl appeals of cold and hungry men Hf h even the pleadings of dissipated ho- H.' Loes, becauso the hobo is one of the Hl' S products of our haphazard civilization. Hll 1 Tho tramp is a part of the chaff Hfr S which comes from the grindings, of H 111 the social and commercial mill. |