Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-01-10
TRAMps.
a Nuisance That Is Becoming Hn-
r0lernble-The Remedy.

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tolernbie-The Remedy.
While the climate Of Southern Califor-
mia attracts many wealthy people and
numbers of industrious people, it also
holds out an alluring invitation and pros
pect to the genus tramp which is eagerly
taken advantage Of, The city is literally
overrun by these pests and they are get
ting to be almost as bad as the scale bug.
The greater part Of them come here for
the climate They will not under any
circumstances work and subsist By sneak
rhievery and by committing depredations
on suburban orange groves and hen
houses. Not a day passes that COM
plants are not entered Of the peculiar
methods of these Cheraliers d'Indasfrie.
and they are each day growing bolder.
Mr.. Jas. I. Ward, who owns an orange
orchard on Tenth street near Charity,
says that they are becoming simply in
tolerable and that even in the day time
he has to keep constant watch to keep
his orchard from being despoiled. While
he is driving a gang OF tramps out
OF one part of his orchard another
lot would get in on the other side
and proceed to gather fruit in a
manner to put the swiftest Chinese
orange picker to the blush. The or
chardists claim to get no protection
from the mounted police. and seriously
contemplate seeing what virtue there is
ia shotgun. The police seem to be
yiqilant, however, and arrest every
tramp and suspicious character they find.
II is said that our worthy Mayor allows
his big, warm Irish heart to get the bet
ter of his judicial sternness, and when
the tramps promise to leave town or go
TO work he turns them loose. The tramp
neither leaves town or goes to work, but
hies him forth to snap up such uncon-
sidered trihes as are not under the
watchful eye of the owner thereof.
There is way TO solve this tramp
question, and one which is amply pro-
yided for by our city ordinances. g.,
put them to breaking stone or doing
some other manual labor. II 1t became
known by the peculiar free masonry
which exists among them that every
tramp caught in Los Angeles would |
have to put in several days OF good, |
hard work, they would give the city a
wide berth, because the tramp would |
rather tackle rattlesnake than labor.
To illustrate the profound aversion to |
and disgust Of labor which permeates
the being Of the average tramp, gem
tleman living on the Southern Pacific
railroad tells the following: he was
bothered nearly to death by the solicits,
tions Of tramps, all OF whom had not
eaten anything for three days previous
to making the application for food. As
the tramps all looked sleek and tat. the
gentleman concluded to utilize some Of
the Drawn and muscle which was evil
IDENTIFY going to waste. He needed
cellar and decided to exchange a meal
for each hours work ON his cellar.
Whenever tramp applied he made the
proposition to him. an 4 at the end of the
week, by actual account, he had been
interviewed by ninety seven tramps and
three hours work had been done on the
cellar. The rest Of the applicants were
amazed and indignant at the proposition
and strobe haughtily away, Labor is
the severest punishment that can be in:
flicted on tramp, and the Mayor should
make note Of it.