San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-11-24

of the "lady of the house."
You can always tell a tramp beggar
from the ordinary daily beggar. He
generally gets behind and on the side
Of you, closing upon you, until he has
you up against wall. Meanwhile
he has sized you up, and If you are
club man, it's sure to be, won't
you please help poor stranger who
| is looking for work, but hasn't had
bite to eat all day." When he sizes
you up as man of the home and
family, you can always expect the
following, and in very low tone that
would indicate his modesty in beg
ging: sinister, won't you please givea
| poor, sick stranger, unable to secure
work, few pennies to get place TO
sleep at?n
1t has been said that should a
tramp accost a newspaper man, but
discover his mistake in time, he slut
tiers an apology, and chagriped at the
blunder, slides around the darkest
corner. This however, is an infamous
fabrication Of a chestnutty nature, q
slur and libel on the intellect of the
tramp and should be stamped as such,
by our intelligent readers, wherever
1t Is met with.
A great many people labor un-
der the impression that when a
theft, burglary, or robbery has
been committed, the thief rushes
into pawnshop with it. Perhaps a
few of the greener class would do so,
but all experienced tramp never. If
he does so, he'll generally succeed in
pawning the goods before the matter
comes to light, at any rate before the
parties have set out TO notify the
pawn brokers of the case. The thieves
naturally hold their booty until the
affair blows over, or until they leave
| the city when they dispose of
their plumber with much less
| difficulty or danger in other towns.
Concerning the pawn brokers, one of
our ablest officer made this remark
Eyes, we generally get much good
assistance from the pawn brokers in
| the city. There are, however, some
minor shops from whom we get but
very little satisfaction, especially if
| the theft is an old one. When we
| tackle these brokers Immediately
! after q theft Or burglary, they let out
| all they know, but if they think they
hold the winning cards, you'll never
| find out q single thing from them.
They generally get these things from
parties for a paltry SUN and sell them
at great profit. If they have TO
refund the goods to the owners, they
are in great many cases the
| losers, and of course they don't
let us onto anything if it's safe or
advantageous to Withhold the informa-
! tion from us.
when 1 see a seeGy, suspicious
| looking individual hanging around a
pawn shop, generally lay for him.
If he enters L investigate and have
| in such cases never had the least
trouble with the brokers. OF course,
I only speak of a few of the lowest
kind. On an average we get much
good information from them.n
AS a general rule the tramp is his
own greatest enemy. 1t is his personal
| appearance that so often causes his
arrest as O vagrant or suspicious
character, which arrest very often
brings his trampish career to sud
den stop, by several years labor in
the penitentiary, but it is said of q
| tramp like of the gorilla, he seldom
thrives in captivity, the daily wash
| which he must take while wearing
the stripes, evidently breaks his
heart.
For the most miserable and des-
picable piece OF the fOulest of
humanity, the tramp Out-tops all.
| He is perhaps without exception the
LATEST human being that ever put
his foot upon the soil, and yet he can
and does work hard and apparently
with a will when working out fine.
1t is not so much his laziness as his
unparalleled uncleanliness that robs
him of every claim that his physical
and intellectual being has on the
name of man, and forces him below
the ranks of the average brute.
A tramp when run in by the police.
is often in such state of uncleanli-
ness, that the most degraded, drunk.
en- sot when forced to associate with
him In the jail walls, shudders at the
contemplation of the mans dirty ap-
pearance, and forgetting for the time
his own miserable condition, he ex-
presses his regret that man should be
able to fall into such abject degrada-
ton.
Talking of tramps and their habits,
one of the officers remarked: AZ
believe there is one thing
the city ought to do with
the kind of tramps we sometimes run
in, those who have been wearing
their clothes the last three months
| without ever changing them, the city
ought to give all such people a good
washing and l warrant you that they
Will never return to this town again,
they will avoid it as though it were
! very hell. This may sound funny to
you, but have had considerable ex-