The sun., 1883-12-23
FOR THE II DIP NUISANCE.
NEW JERSEY LAWS THAT ARE THE OUT
CONE OF YEARS or TROUBLE.


| SO great has been the tramp nuisance in
| tho towns and cities along the Pennsylvania
Railroad. between Philadelphia and New York.
that year after year tho Legislatures OF New
Jersey have been trying to invent new and
| more effective means for restraining and modi-
| Tying IT, and local authorities have been yuiny
| wrestling with 1t. 1t has only been recently
| however, that that long felt want has been sup
| piled. The spirit OF the old laws. at least rs
far back as 1875. was good enough. but they
! had not proper enforcement until about six
| weeks ago. and already a great fear has spread
| among the vast army Of tramps from the awful
manner In which that enforcement comes at
| last In Trenton.
Chief OF Pollcei McChesney discussing tho
subject the other day. said: " The tramrs have
| had their regular stopping places on the way
| between Philadelphia and New York. at Bristol.
| Trenton. Princeton. New Brunswick Elizabeth.
| and Jersey City. All those places will probably
| adopt the system authorized by our State law
which We arc energetlcaly applying hero.
| Already hear that Camden and Elizabeth arc
| preparing for It. We are careful to discrimi-
| nate between the chronic irreclaimable tramp
| and the honest laborinR man In hard luck who
| is going from place to place. the best way he
| can. looking for work. There are q great many
| Of that latter class about now. the stoppaRe of
| the iron works having thrown O great many
| out Of employment. and among them are sur
| prising number OF young Germans and Swiss
batween the ages OF Is and a. more think
| than ever cav before. looking for work. On
an average. suppose about thirty apply for
shelter At the police station every night. We
examine them very carefully as to where they
| have worked. and what at. how long they
| worked. and find out. as far as We can. whether
they tried to save ANYTHING from their wages.
a lf-ay Ian
We can AN tell that kind on sight as
charge Of It, That ticket entities the. man to
nights shelter given TO each Individual: other
,asas u
Justice. who commits him In short order on a
houses, barns. or other places or in the open
Of 6ss have
ndludged him to be disorderIy person. and he
son; SC and have adindEed that he be committed
the county Jail iaii q ~ MsreGr county there 70 DO
Ihat hs % bant o9s viii be- M ie5 ~ with amy
ber from ten to ninety days. The tough, old,
got to %avs him We Ss'S will Keep him Until he gets
as tired OF us as we are OF him and his kind;
sGIa Ss Ss
where the music plays and the iron enters
hs hardest kind Of Some Nc "nd do
1t all day long. Already the horror OF such an
impendingM ia fate is making tramns scarce e. about
Of town, where in past winters the tramps used
to eon@grrgate @ in in great i,u numbers: Often wo
ty-iiys or thirty at a haul in an an evening. they
! would lie around there and send in u boy.
kid tramp in their nomenclature. to beg food
. for them around town. At night they would
make little plltering excursions about the
/ wonder that they were not all sutIocated
Gangs of them would stay there all winter.
: ior for work they have lied from the kiins Hardly
. ever does one venture there now, and those
, astonishing with what ,aPdi,y intelligence Of
} matters affecting their class spreads among
them, have no doubt tina, they know already.
} from Maine to Georgia. what Trenton is doing
" 1t was not solely on account of the tramp
nuisance that such energetic suppreSsive
measures have been innugurated. Bad as that
: was there WAS even worse element than the
mot ie Of IT,
a compared notes with other Chiefs Of Police in
Chat set
bold vaGrant thieves have been wandering
as but rna quite atpSt nj
thieves. snappsrsup s per q uneonsidered triilss
ready to annex H any; any portable property IT that It
W but @ lie SoS
= ness for burglares and acts OF robbery with
Sasass by THass
!, these more dangerous rascals the whole class
hns nuna hs to
r the county iail or house. % IS " the Free
d a terror to the tramp, Assistant Warden Yard
i ter as many as 1873 va4:rants. OF whom at least
ninety were regular tramps. But now we have
las fast G'y as we catch tGem-as FAR as We can1and
]. that is Frightening them away. Our arrange
them % al i at t. once. nee but they viii be eStensys
n enough to employ all We can get tn
: drunkenness and lighting; who belong about
Ss0 iRe a H DB' But the f" regular
d as such. we set to breaking stone In a yard that
Of Taydr nus anI y Wsen Ms
o working them it almost broke their hearts.
IA for Sas 1Ss ans
n with only bread and water to ent and drink
ar ns% to sy ssss soua d
: to labor. and one chap. Charles Borsnet en-
dnrei the for seven days before he
5 = I SeT jersey: and Ssw 5srsss stands no FOOL FOOL
II werc found, working industriously with bucL
'r and saw. while three others were splitting the
They wore no irons Although contp@,s,,e!}} @ y
8 and i Sss Fay I" believe ths, thsy S%rkst @
IS ing But they were fortunate by compar rsor
t. with tho trnmps employed as stone breakers
Y Eight of them at the time OF the reporters
!. visit were deemed fit to turn out for work
It True representative tralnps they were. filthy
l. unkempt. ragged snllen. slouchy. down
10 looked. The seeming famiiy likeness
10 among them was increased by tn,
y uniformity Of their only ornamentaion-aI
~ iron ball weighing eighteen pounds attache'
10 to heavy chain about five feet lon. which WA
l. made fast to II shackle on each mans leg
When going between tho, stoneyari and th,'
10 jail short chain is attached to each indiyid
80 uals legs AT such Length that he can only taxi
D short step. Each iron bail had handle u
10 carry ii by when tho wearer moved. The tramp
st worked under an open Shed. in u small mian
y. guar lot. breaking big CHUNKS Of coat III
10 stone into small ones for rond m"nding. Tn
,r Goat Hill stone is famous as the hardest AM
10 toughest that the State OF New Jersey pro
vi ducSs. II would not bs more difficult 10 bate
ut big pieces OF east iron into Fragments than 1
II. break this peculiarly flinty and ubdurnte stone
70 Two keepers, armed with rey0lvers. are con
'e stantly on guard.
" After a breakfast Of a cup Of coffee and half
o. loaf OF bread ut about O'Clock. the tramps 4
n. To the yard and pound tho stone. Al moo
IN they 20 back to the Jail and get u dinner. con
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