The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-23
From the Phi ladelphia Record, July io.1
WAR ON THE TRAMPs.
Measures for Abatns the Nuisance in Penn.
sylvania

The determined action of the residents
Of Mong merry county In the suppress lon
II the tramp nuisance has already pr ductd
= saluta'y fect. Reports for tie last lew
days tend IT, show a great diminution 10
'helr numbers In the places along the line
Or the Penntylv inla railroad This is
probably to be accounted for, however,
from the fact that they have moved their
line of travel to the villages on the North
Pennsylvania road, aud the Inhabitants of
bese places will initiate mode of proceed
ure 1imllAr 10 tnat adopted by the Mont
k"mery county people during the present
week.
The executive committee appointed at
the meeting OF Montgomery county resi-
tents last week essrmnled on Saturday at.
ternoon IN the Bryn Mawr hotel to con ider
plans for the promo iIn Of their obi cts.
About 20 delegates we're present from every
village between Philadelphia aud Downing
ION, ~ well as from Chester, Media and
other lines of railroad. At the outset OF
the proceedings a plan was submitted pro-
viding tor the appointment of a corps of
mounted police at Btyn Mawr. to act under
he instruction of officers detailed for du,y
At each of the railway telegraph offices to
DOwuinRton, this corps to make stimuli ane-
'No Va tidhipo NhC tluF VI Idu-
road. The plan further propo sed that
every resident should be provid d with
morn, a watchman's rattla, aud a billy, to-
ether With colered fires, to give signals by
night. Bank forms are also to be Furnished
o The residents TO eosble them to send
iaily reports of the suspicious characters
seen in their neighborhood.
The reading OF this plan gave rise to a
prolonged debate, which was initiated by
DR.. Evans of Haverford who i quired how
tar the power of arrest could be vested in
in the special corps proposed : In regard
tn the means OF arrests consid rable diff
nee existed in Philadelphia and M0ntgom-
cry county. In this city Judge Biddlc held
to he lawful to fire at an escaping Prison
er, while be Montgomery county Judge ned
it to be an indictable offence. Ii would be
useless to rgtniz the proposed corps I'M
les the power which they could exercise
was definitely determined.
The president of the committee J I'm r
Whitney (Bryn MawD expressed an opiu-
lou opposed to any rig 'rous methods being
ihdscI iminaftlY adopted All tramps we're
not ha6ltual vagrauts. The great deprer-
ion which had existed during the past 40
years had thrown nut of employment num-
hers who were forced into crime by the ut
'er absence of means Of support. He
bought 1t would be practicable TO obtain
mployment for such men rs these aud
THAI the committee could devise means not
only 10 project the residents but also to
rescue the tramp from the d, graduation and
lem raj Itlon which WAS const quent upon
mis- unf unate postum.
These views gave rls, tn come diversity
1t opinion, some members If the comm, {.
"a k.f 4 ,l,l
brought in 4" the question, aud they were
gong to I've just to all, they would never
get IN. Vi lmately the views If the az
sressive par y found txpressit in resolu
ion proposed by Mr. Montgomery, prov,d.
ING for the rganiz zion Of a c,lizen's pro-
ective society ut Cn seer, DE- aware and
Montgomery cnunties This resolution
was. how, Yer, after three divisions, fually
rel Cted, and II vas resolved To refer all
zuggesiions to special e, m niltee, who
were ins'ruc'ed tn devise plaI to be sub.
mlited at subs' qient meeting. The C M
mi'tte then adj Iurned, and later 10 the
evening An Exhibition of the culored signals
ard other alarms proposed In the plans sub
uil trd u the m,einE WAS gwen in the
70 inds fronting the Bryn Ma~r hotel
a lonely old desered building a. limo
creek, liIllr over mule fr, N Bryn
Mawr village, is he obj-cuve p inIs of The
lamps Of that region. AMI prior to the
penIbg at the agi ion full fifty, accord
my 10 the reside. Is could be found here at
any time. but late Sa urday evening tnly
half d. zen had arrived. These were laZ-
" reclining ON the grassy slope which
lronted the building, and all had walked
from the city during The day. One was a
barber. anoIher Carpenter, and third a
tailor. and the remainder labIrers. The
latter evidei ty belonged TO the genus, hut
The three former bore a more respectable
manner, aud In the course Of conversation
hey stated that they had given wav to
drink until their clothes were too shabby to
4ntole Them to get employ ment. AN they
had consequently "aken to the rad"
They expected to make enough money by
harvesting to ''rig up" sgain, when they
intended 10 betake themselves tn their
usual M des of employment. 'It's hard
fat these vigilence committees should say
kill one, kill all, saId tho most intelligent
man of the group ''all tramps are not
Grim ais, and for my own part would
rather work out meal at a farm house
than get In for nOthinp