The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-11

single Individual Of this Wretched
community had the appearance OF
thief or hoOdlum. Thieves ana
hoodlums fare better. The reporter
smoke to an old man who was gathering
a few chips with trembling hands,an
endeavoring to set the damp wood
alight. as,
The man looked up with IA lean and
hungry face: it was pitlfully hungry.
Work SIR he said: lido you think
/ If we could find work we would live
here and have to fight for our meals
with the dogs of the city! All the
men here go every day from wharf
to wharf, and hunt the whole city
over for a job at any price. Two bits
would be gladly taken for day S work,
but we can t get anything.'
Several of the other dumpies drew
near, and a tall, fine-looking fellow,
who had been washing himself IN a
can of water, said: Il have lived on
this lot for three months, eat ane
sleep here, and have never let a day
pass by that I have not walked mile
after mile to get job. Sometimes L
have made four bits, and weeks | nave
not made anything. have offered 20
work for
HALF THE PRICE
that Cinnamon can get in any brancn
of hard labor. But no use. NO one
would take me. I don't get drunk; l
don't steal; but / have got either to
starve or live on such stuff as this,
and he pointed to some putrld bones
which chum was washing prepara-
tory to putting on the Goals III rusty
pan.
"Weu," said the old man cheer.
fully. sometimes we we get good
piece of food. Why, you could not
believe. sir, how many good potatoes
I myself have picked out OF the dumps,
One day | got a whole watermelon
that nobody had ever touched.
eve are as we'll off here as hun.
dreds of other men around the city.
! said a gaunt, but decent-looking fel
, low. crawling out from 4 dllapldateo
piece of China mating. ''Ihere are
, gangs of as good men as ever USED
! pick and shovel who sleep in the Gem
q eteries and under the wharves. Coo
o knows we are all starving, and TO-
:. one will be glad when the end comes.
s "Can you get no work III the coun
q tryl" said the reporter.
h ssWork T. he replied, 'there is n
!. work there. The country is dried up
r and the farmers don't want any help
: And if we could, how are we to &c
q there! If / had two bits don't yo
think before I'd spend it for travelin
., I'd try and put some flesh on thes
bones!' and he drew up his ragge
sleeves and showed an arm shocklngl
attenuated.
"The butchers are very kind to us,
said the old man who seemed to b
the Mark Tapley of the encampmen
ANY odd scraps OF meat they nav
J" they give us, but what we want
work. We are willing to work
FOR ANY WAGES
ry to keep body and soul together
The cook of another dump had di
inferred rnsty Oil can and filled
Sc with some raw potato Feelings, a fe
crusts of bread and half a dozen or
decayed onions. This mess was
a serve for breakfast for almost dozt
men. While squatting on his haunch
he stirred it up with a stick. The me
watched him with hungry and imp
~ tient eyes. Unwilling longer to loo
~ on this scene of suffering and degr
-, dation, the reporter left hefDumpS.
81 1t seems almost incredible that SUI
- a condition of things should exist
no no San Francisco, the queen city of Il
nc West, the Ell Dorado that the peop
e To
u pn precious community on the globe.
~ NOT A MILE
~ from the Dumps is the Bank of Neva
III with it's millions upon millions, Ca
~. fornia street, which swells every d
" with it's hundreds of millionaire
go while the starving creatures at t
" Dumps turn over the citys refuse q
" quarrel with the starving dogs for
40 crust of bread or Il rotten potato. I
poor emaciated laborlng man wal
\, 10 the streets and is jostled by sic
.lis well-fed Cinnamon. Why Chinad'
,eu is an Eden in comparison with
10y Dumps" The leprous wretches "
live huddled together in its noxio
~ w alleys enjoy all the Injuries of
ioi when the condition of the deniz,
on of this refuse pile on Berry street
= considered. The criminal IN
= . country Jail leads the life of an
s., cure besides the workingman out
WV employment who sleeps and eats
the dumps" And these men are
tramps or vagabonds-not men
ng. break into houses or steal; althot
few there would be some excuse
rms starving men to take food TO allay
ich pangs OF hunger. They are work.
ler- men who are willing to do anythl
rom as they suy themselves, for food;
her would work at half Chinama
for wages. and who have been driver
my this appalling necessity CT hunting.
hat subsistence in offal heaps and sleep
ONE at night in the ashes--San France
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