Daily Republican., 1883-07-30
TRAMPS AND BUNS.
Their headquarters - How They
Obtain Whtsky-A Picnic to be

Obsa1n WheSky-A Picnic 10 %
Held.
As stated in Saturdays issue, our
city is, AZ the present time, overrun
with traInps, and added TO our own
buns, make quite formidable appear
aLcy, and no wonder housekeepers are
in dread of them. Their persistency is
only u4Ialled by their brazen.faced
impudence, and they hesitate not a mo-
nent to vent curses on those who re-
fuse TO furnish them food. Why they
do uot demand lodgings as well AZ food
is matter of wonder to US, and lately
it has puzzled us considerably 10 learn
where those gentleman lodge. In
our saunterings around town early on
Sunday morning we wandered down as
far a., Market street bridge, when our
attention was suddenly attracted by
loud and boisterous conversation, inter
mingled with oaths and curses of the
most terrorizing kind One voice par
ticularly struck us, as if coming from
some one in authority, and he is,u"d
his commands in something like This
style:
Get up, here, you lazy s--n Of IA
b-h you have been sleeping here
now for a week, and not l---n cent
have you brought in yet to help fill
the tank; but you take hellisb good
care 10 drink your share, all the same.
Here, you Philadelphia Pluck, turn out
and straighten the covers on your bed
before you leave anickel--all right !;
pass around the hat Reedy let = ste
about the tank being filled first, aud
then for grub afterwards. Holy .Jeru-
salem 70 exclaimed The speaker, who
put that trade dollar in the bat,
"I did, answered some one, the
voice seeming to come from way up
among the clouds. "You all know
worked"
Worked |" screamed chorus of
voices "neck him throw him
overheard !; no man in this crowd
must work, it's degrading, and besides
the weather's too hot. Leave work
alone for those who cannot get any grub
or beer
"Avast there, you buns made
six dollars last week; you are welcOin"
to that dollar ! donate it to you, and
to-day we will picnic in the rnal dis
tricts, and have a jolly cool time 50
now get cnUck full tank and kick dull
care to the devil. As to grub. that can
always be had for the asking"
''See here, Smithy," said the authori-
tative voice, eff you cant keep your
roost in better condition, y"u'll have to
vacate, you will. Here you've gone and
busted this head board all to III. And
you, too, jimmy: you'll have to look
sharp-the cops have got their eyes set
on you. You amt IA bit careful. Them
boots you Appropriated yesterday, now
on your ill-Shapen hoois, have been kind
o traced to you, as we'll as the dress
you took from" here IA whispered con
versation took place, which we could
not hear.
We retracel orr step few rods, and
found that all this co 'verSation and
loud talk came from Tatnall'S lumber
yard, which has been appropriated by
the buns and trampS, and made their
headquarters. There were some TWEEN
ty-tive present, b ack and white, all in
rags and III II filthy condition. Some
were enleavoring to Straighten their
matt Il hair others were vainly en-
itAvoriny to get the dirt from their
faces IA, the fountain on Market street
below the railroad, while others still
were Just rising from their couches on
the lumber near the roof of the shed. A
more disgusting, motley looki & crowd
we have never seen, except aIonnd the
Slums in ard adjacent to Baker street,
Dbl ',l.,l,i,in In,l,y.
to take 4 walk some morning, about
five O'Clock, in the locality which we
have mentioned, he would hesitate nu
innger what disposition to make Of
these people, who are Il disgrace to the
name OF human beings, and an annoy
ancr 10 any locality where they congre-
gate.
In conversation with an aged citizen
abpn, two hour, after the occurrence we
have narrated, We We're thoroughly con
WINGED, As the present tramp law has
been rrndrr' imperative by The failure,
or rather indi~posIrion, OF Judge Cum
minis to execute it,-that IA work-nuus-,
or house of correction, such as they have
in Phi adeiphia, would be u,t what is
n"rd"d. The hrus, no doubt, has been
,eut all along the lne that this city is Il
perfect para'ii for tramp,; that here
they can ( all hey wan, to eat and
drink, and if arrested our tender heart
rl Judge turns them ont of the lookup
after becoming thorough rested. Had
"e "A house OF currection, 10 cOntine
these huIns, and compel them to earn
sufficient, and il little more, to pay for
III i
hem, the annoyance would soon cease
10 exist, ami they would give our city
a vide berth.