Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-08-31
PRIVILEGED PRECINCTS.
Mi'hin Which the Weary Tramp Can
Rest and the ChonIc
Bum Is Safe.
Queer Characters who Rest Their no,cs
Every sunday In the Court
House Yards.

THANK goodness, have got where the
police won't bother me at last"
These words were uttered Yesterday
afternoon by an old, grcy-haired. man as
he stretched his weary limbs ON The soft
grass in the courthouse yard. A re.
porter for The GAzETrE happened TO he
passing at the time and the slngularlty of
The remark attracted his attention. "a
place where the police won't bother me. "
Had this old traveller at last reached such
a placer II he had, the discovery of the
locality should be published to the world
that the "gang" who must ever "moyc
on" could reap benefit from II.
Approaching the old fellow the re.
porter asked him II it was true that the
police never bothered persons in the
courtyard.
"Neycr have bothered me, sir, and |
have been coming here all summer and
have daily taken my nap in the shade OF
the courthouse"
"Would you be bothered If YOU did the
same in other portions of the city,"
"Would II Why, If cop caught me
asleep in any open lot or sitting asleep in
doorway would be arrested at once
! Here, however they never modest me-"
Glow is 1t II man in drunken CON
dition lies down here to sleep?"
ln hn a. L. \
\ man could come to this yard and ~.
main drunk for a week, aud lust as long
AS he didn't attempt to walk about n,
would never be molested. II is my
| opinion that horsc-thief could come
! here and never be oustcd"
"lf true, that is very strange"
at looks that way know, but know
q man who slept here four or five nights
this summer while the police were looking
all over town for him. Doyou see that old
fellow laying under that China tree?''
! (pointing to the sleeping form of man
well known in the city,)
! eyes, what of him.
"Well, he goes cumming all over town
until he gets his key pretty full, and then
makes straight shoot for this place
| Sometimes he has to stop on the way, but
]
end"
"Would he be arrested by the police
| If they should see him drunk on the
/ StrcctSyn
| "Thcy have been on his track all sum
mcr, but the old fox is too sharp fol
them. Yesterday evening was watch.
ing him as he staggered up Nam street
and just on the opposite side of TIA,
Str a 10
| tons. Now If he had stopped and 81
down the cop would have been on him
like u duck on u June bug, but the chal
was watching the officer, and kept on tn,
move until he got here. lie Hoped dow
ON the grass and the policeman wen
back up town"
"lIuvc you any idea why it is that n,
one is interferred with hereY"
"No, sir. All know is that we an
not bothered, and that suits me. Now
right over yonder by the hydrant is a 1T
gro who sleeps here every day, but whe
night comes he is off and gone. Come a
any time between and O'Clock In tn
evening, and you will lind that fellow
snoring away like wild-lre have ofte
wondered what he did for living"
"lIave you ever arrived at any conclu
sion ON the subject?"
SEQ ask some people who have chick
en-coops and smOkc-houses, and mayb
they can tell you | know this much
if all the chickens in town We're stolen
nobody would come here looking for th
+ thief"
GLOW about you and that fellow lay
lag up there against the wall Of tn
court-house?n
"Got nothing To- say about him. ha
fight with him the other day, and W
are not good friends"
| "What were you fighting aboutY'
, ''lIe got here ahead of me and went
sleep in my place. That's what "
fought about"
! "Who is that young fellow in Il whit
! shirt?m
+ "That one by the fence? Oh, he's
, poor devil the police run In a while bac
because he was not working. He wa
fined in the recorders court, and, havin
no money TO pay his fine, had To work
out on the streets. Ever since he was n
leased he has been living up here. Polit
c won't bother him here. SeeIn
r "Does none of the men who sleep hei
work -
= "Some, but not many"
/ "What do you do :"
"Ilaven't done anything this summer.
,. GLOW do you manage TO live ~
= 'Dont know that IL makes any diffc
!. ence to you. Say, what do you do for
llving?"
81 am newspaper reporter"
"Great Cesar! And here am maxim
i an Internal fool out OF myselfl'
lie was assured to the contrary, but M
another word would he speak. u
6 turned his back on the reporter and SIN
r both his mouth and his eyes. In th
condition the scribe left him.
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