The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-11
INFESTED WITH BHooARs.
They Are in Savannah In Great Force
Just Now.


They Are in Savannah In Great Force
Just Now.
Savannah In evidently q very popular
winter resort for beggars, oripples, the halt,
lame and blind, and every species Of human
deformisy that calls for the sympathy and
cash OF the average citizen. Just now she
Is full Of them and the air during the day
Is resonant OF the sounds Of sQueaky hand
organs grinding out the threedbare, but
once popular tunes Of the day.
Chief among them, and the most persist
emit OF thsm all, are some blind people, or.
at least, they appear to be blind. They roll
their eyes back until nothing but the whites
show aud some people are skeptical enough
TO think they are fakes. There are four Of
them. including one woman. They take their
stand on some prominent corner and grind
away at their little organs, never forgetting
to hold their heads high in order that the
passer BY cannot fail to nots their afflio-
ton.
The scheme works most successfully, and
their little Tin cups Jingle ali day With the
nickels, dimes and quarters that
sympathetic women drop In them. Most
| OF the contributors are ladies, though, Of
course, now and then a mans heart Is
touched into sympathy. These people may
or may not be deserving OF charity. but the
fact is. they have one Of the ''softest snaps"
going. IL they keep on at the present rate
they will soon be able 10 retire from bust
ness GA nice little competence. They are
never seen together, but as they all began
business Ia Savannah about the same time
IL Is supposed they are confederates and di-
vide up the spoils between them. Outside
OF their real or fancied aff1iotion, these peo-
pie are pretty fair specimens OF manhood.
They have evidently not recently suffered
from the pangs Of hunger. for, to all APP
pearances, they live on the fat OF the land.
Besides these there are many beggars of
another class who infest the fronts of
hotels aud others public resorts. They
have been blown up in an explosion,
lost leg Ia their country's service, or have
been cut up in q railroad accident. They
have q nice little story 20 tell aud they re-
peat IL 100 times daily without the slightest
variation. Unless their face or their breath
gives them away and shows that they are
two-thirds full OF liquor, their little story
brings a quarter or some other small
amount. These fellows haven't been hungry
lately anyway TO judge from their sleek
appearance.
Then there IA the regulation bum and
dead beat. He IL, II anything, more numer-
Gus than the rest he wants whisky, and he
wants 10 bad No matter In how great a
mands enough to get something to eat"
He doesn't look like he is hungry, and he
isn't, but his thirst is beyond computation.
Only very green man wouli give him
anything, but there are evidently many of
that class, for this style of beggar is always
full and somebody must give him the
money 20 buy il.
Then again one sometimes runs across a
fellow who Is honest He frankly says that
he wants . drink and asks for the price of
it. One Is more inclined to give him some
thing than to the other class who lie about
their real wants. As may be imagined
this specimen is a rard ariS and ia not often
seen. There are others with other schemes
and stories, but the above are the principal
GLASSES seen now on the streets of Savannah.
Where they all como from and where they
all go Is mystery, but the fact is they are
here now, and more abundantly. too, than
for . long time