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Show MEN LIVE ON 40 CENTS A DAY University Professor Directing Direct-ing Study of Submerged Tenth. I j CHICAGO, 111, July S. (By the As-6u. As-6u. iat d Presa) Men ar" living on W.st Madison street on forty and fifty (cents a day. according to No Is Anderson, Ander-son, who Is making a study of homeless home-less and migratory men under the direction di-rection of Prof. Ernest W. Burgess of jtho University f '"ni mo for rh--- I'nit-ed I'nit-ed Charltli and the Juvenile Protective Protec-tive society. Mr. Anderson become a wanderer ; himself as a i-.,y. he eaid today, but happened to find work on a ranch Iwhere the famll) took an Interest in him. At the age of twenty-one he entered en-tered high school Eventually he Was confronted by the problem of 'selecting a topic for his doctor s thesis and findln? according to his statement, that no study had been made previously previous-ly of the hobo, he began to write on thai subject oil the basis of his early experience. After he had written 2 f0 Pages he felt a desire to .strengthen his preparation for the task by renewed renew-ed Investigations. Accordingly he hafl been mingling with tramps as one of thern at their Jungles' or summer camps, on the road, In the city streets, and In jail STORIES HARD TO ;F.T. "The average student who hasn't been on the road himself,," aid Mr. Anderson is apt to lliul himself unable un-able to approach a tramp and get his true story. Not only are tramps Chuck-full of suspicions and prejudli and likely either to exaggerate or to keep still if they suspect their questioner, ques-tioner, but the have a slang of then own. "For example, a man who woi ks with a Shovel Is known In the fraternity fra-ternity of working tuffs' a a mucker'; muck-er'; the man who drives a team is a 'skinner', one who tamps ties on the railroad is a 'gandy-duncer.' "In the winter the tramps flock to tho big cities. They manage In some cases to make. $50 last a long while, for they know where they can get three doughnuts and a cup of coffee for five cents and lodging for ten cents, If in the morning they will sweep of the floor they slept on. You win find 300 men on the floor of on of tho popular Chicago flop-houses In the winter, though In the summer the same placi will !- m at'y empty. ; VI HIK IN JUNGLES. "Where are the men in the summer" sum-mer" Many, of ooui-s are engaged in seasonal occupation. The idle ones are often gathered at the Jungles.' which is an institution In Hobohemla like the fashlonuble c'ub In another stratum of society. The men select for their camps a shady place near enough to town for arl occasional handout and farenqugh fn m town to seem secure se-cure from the "mills' or constables. They build shuck.-, pi wood or roofln?-tin roofln?-tin or whatever material they ;ind handy- i have teen wry good rhacksj built of ripped-up oil cans. "Last summer I tramped hrou.Hi Idaho. Nevada, Utah and Wyoming, covering three hundred miles. 1 talked talk-ed to some 2.000 wanderers, and tabulated tabu-lated 102 cases. I had slashed my ves; to earn my Index cards; only one man notlcMij. the .-lushes and the .-dip.ht bulges, he asked me if I was an' organizer or-ganizer for the Wobbllca.' ) ait n and thai Mas all." K UU SEJLiF RESPECT. No man ever sinks too low "to retain re-tain some spark of self-respect." according ac-cording to Mr Anderson. "I knew an elderly 'blanket stiff of the prospector typo who refused to go to an institution institu-tion for treatment though he was a victim of miner's consumption. He gave two characteristic reasons. First, he diil it t want his relatives t find out about him. Second, he felt that to go to an Institution would be equivalent to a surrender, ami it would only be a question of lime before he would give, up the ghnst IJ- declared vehemently ve-hemently that he ould never think of going home, for he had Called to com; muni, at.- with his family when he was well and had money, and he wuuld not communicate with them after he had become ill and Indigent). "Many take t (he road or Hie city streets because they ace physically In-icapacitatew In-icapacitatew and therefore dependent, and they feel thai t h are unwelcome Incumbrances upon then families. "Many are tho dodges employed to get means for subsistence nr man addresses a street corner crowd thus. 'I am different from the rest of youse stiffs. I want to get enough for a flop tonight: I want to eat today, tomorrow to-morrow and tin day uftr I'll take tc you on any subject ou choose' Then he makes his speech and hands round the ha'. Ariybody can get up a crowd on West Madison st . for there are always al-ways Idle men who are glad to listen " |