Smyrna times., 1889-05-29
THE BEGGING BUSINESS.
a POLICEMAN COMMENTS UPON
THAT AND OTHER SUBJECTS.

san Francisco. Mendicauts Who Soil tt
Food They Receive-It Is Used for Fro,
Lunch-Tho Officers Grief 3ec,,.. t,,
Can't BE President.
What a policeman doesn't know /,
oftentlmes past finding out He is q
travelling junk shop of SCRAP inforn,a.
tion; peripatetic encyclopedia of mis-
Seilaneous bits of knowledge. AS rnIe
ne isn't much up on theology OF science
cause he never had no show" in tbot
me- but on the hows and whens and
why's and wherefOres of the life that rolls
On ABOUT him he has "prettv tiUbt
grip II you know how to 90 TO him
you can learn great deal more than tbe
way TO the pavilion or what time the last
car leaves the ferry. Of course tboro
are few policemen and regiment of
other policemen. 7''''o''' VI
This lisa pretty hard kind O. life " eoid
one who belongs to the first cIass Ias+
night Its killing. After y mo-, i,'9s Las
OeeH al Oiilcer Tor while he's good for
nothing else. Hobbling about from one
corner to another, and keeping within
SOUND OF the sergeant's whistle. is bad
lOr ambition. You never heard of ,
Poilceman getting any high Office. Tail.
OTS, Plowboys, rail splitters. canal hove
ana printers devils have climbed to the
PreSldents chair, but nary a policemen
once heard of an officer who bac,n,o
president OF literary society in Kansas
out the meetings were held i'm his bor.a. |
ii9 uIuShter was the secretary. his SON
was the treasurer, his other son was tba
SeigeahI-at-arms an his wife an bobr /
Hlaue The audience. He was the frs4
oilcer ever heard of who got = birb
position, and perhaps he didn't count
some officers graduated to the dash bo,rd
OF street cars, but they never a,,no,, -,
go any higher Although we arn co,,
SI"hVly telling people to move on. we
always stand still ourselves. We nick
up good deal of information ON diifor-
eilt SUBJECTS but the only people thai
seem TO want it are the reporters You
see that girl there with the bundIoy"
Inc reporter took off his glasses and
saw her at once. She was very dirt, ,
SIovenly dressed child. and had = Lao i,
her arms. % '"9 III [
one $ a beggar, and is loaded I'D with a
Oread' cake, meat, slices of pie and ahort
everything that's eatahle." n
. "hy' she has enough to last n fan1iIv +
Ior a month, said the reporter. II sun-
pose she can lay off, now, like tho ant I
On, no she cant or won't" ret1rnaJ o.
the officer She'll be out again IN .r,r,.' is
row morning and will work another ,,,.t il
u Town DO you know what the bco. z
4 CARS DO with the bread and other stn7T W
~ ne >, charitable people give them? No. Of
" ELL they sell it to the saloons ON tbo bi
'arDary coast and in other touch ouar- "
erS' The meat an loaves that ard mn, 81
mo the dirty hands of mendicaDt nor. ch
rVy today furnish the free lunch cn,,n ~
ers OF the saloons tomorrow. Tb,t ,rirl no
VII ' make from So to S3 a day b,,,,;nr, VIC
mes sells what eatahles she gets and cIaan, it.
p quite penny from the sales Tho, eg,
'lne people give the 5eggars money. orI rel
week the earnings amount to y onod
cal" ~ soou
THE WAYS OF PROFEssIay,ts -,i
lcm: ''' - gwen re-
" nat would they do with If? Ar VIII
me- houses they get enough 10 Keen . G
lhily fora week. ihcyaII have - ,oro,' lear
more pockets in their clothes. .1' T.. iol ,lI.
it 'hey make their appearance at = BIO,
1onu mousse they have slowed awav snTi 1IrG
nat they got at the first" pJjct
10 they eat Of the contributions" Pi,r P9T
Oh' yes indeed People throw oit a wi
'if oacG door better food than many M NJ
honest man has ever a chance, Of 500 ever
: Inc beSSars Keep the choicest and A.. r.
the rest ''i'' egair 1i
"Hat co they 90 with the clotbir,, MI
y get?" ''''iiii9 @ ~ h
ne .., ooyS and girls don't go for cloth. great
me fathers and mothers worl, t,.a Ia1I
fufooe racket. The old man i. viii icine
to DO amy kind . work for coat or vIi,o r.
ar pants, and the woman bos tL,ra tonic
Sed boys at home who can't ,-a'to ooii, Ih,,
l,,,..,,. i ~. 80, nave no clothes. Addr
'e us the clevercst business man in -
city. lie picks out the houses with -.
wen trimmed gardens and the claan 1nCe
"i'lNs and steps. The woman ~
- th" places where well dressed I,o,.s
an"dt The door All the clo+i,in,,
a'' IL Soid' so:he for rags, some IN
S''"nu hahd dealers, and the pro.
~ Eo 'or df'Ak | have been travel are
Oe"t Tor seven years, and I rorer Sd SI a
~ or bn,r,J az o., T. ~ t-cNSI ArOm
or to door canvass for i assistannas ina[lns Yer
'','''L no" near he was to starva- Fe
tne decent man wont do that"
20 beggars get any food from reston-
-. H., JaILib
cry little \ bit Of meat is in a bad sibl0
when 1t can't be used by a restan.
AND then the refuse in all the cat -
houses Is sold to the dairies or Dio
IS. 9len go around every dav wir6
ms collecting the refuse, and tba
OF The stuff is knocked off the milk
re the sergeant's whistle sounded
'hen the officer responded he had
'f'"tn enough to continue his re.
s. San Francisco Chronicle