Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-02-06
UNDESIRABLE soJOURNERs,

"a Dill cO0OO
TUCsoN's att actions have brought not
alone the desirable in its sojourners but
vast numbers of the highly undesirable.
To walk the length of the business
streets is to meet from one to dozen of
the genus hobo. To look at them is to
INVITE attack and to venture near res
taurant, looking intensely interested IN
the far away notwithstanding, is certain
to result in being wayiaid.
"Mister"-or possibly it's ''friend, or
''podner" even-''won't you Please assist
me?"
The whole Of them, from those who
bloom in the early fall to the present
crop, all persist in that everlasting "as-
sist." Probably it will be assist with
all who are to come for the next month,
and next year they wall bob up for
some more assistance.
But people get tired Of the old song.
Repeated failure, and those of late fare
harder than they Of earlier in the season,
wakens them to new tactics so that they
are not so altogether monotonous.
Last Saturday as the boarders at the
Cosmopolitan were sitting in the smok-
ing room the door suddenly opened. In
hurried a man and walked swiftly and
deliberately to the other end of the
room.to a picture there and stopped. be
stood there afull minute. Then be sud
denly faced about and demanded:
"Is the proprietor in?"
Landlord Sam was in and told him so.
Then came the tale of woe, but 1t had
been warmed over;
"Pm broke, I'm dead beat and l want
drink. If you give 1t to me you won't
regret 1T"
This was a sumner, Sam caught bis
breath soon. and thought he would cast
40 bread on the waters that day. MIR.
Tramp vamosed.
A good dodge among them is to carry
some article that takes away the tramp
impression. One day or two ago was
going about with halter on his shout
der.
A Phenix paper tells Of still one
more. They work In gangs. One
burns his arm with acid, giving it
horrible appearance. He then tells at
each house to sympathetic women al
ready eternally tired of the plain tramp,
that he was waiter at conveniently
remote town, and split hot tea on his
arm. He wants money in this case
and Of course gets it.
A short time ago one struck Tucson
who took cash, bank checks, drafts or
money orders, only--no feed" He had
a crutch. foot IN a sock and long
yarn. In brief he rad had his foot
smashed somewhere, and asked aid to
get on to e. Paso. Twice that morning
one smart young man had refused him
and then SAID:
II believe you are a humbug. I'll
give you quarter If you'll take that
sock off aud show me sore foot He
paid for the offer.
"All right. 1 can show you" Down
he got on the floor. Of came the sock.
Yards and yards Of rags were unwOund
and all about looked for horrible sight.
The horrible was in the smell, however,
and only in one sense of the sight. 1t
was a rather dirty foot, TO correspond
with the odor, but oh, what a pitiful
little sore it was! Just a tiny bit OF
thing and the quarter which he got
would have covered it altogether from
sight. Probably it was prepared for
such emergencies as the present, as the
scalded arms Of his brother, had been.
Overheard in the CITIZEN Office wash
room:
First tramp They say the town.is
bigger than this.
No. 2--Yes, but it's thirty miles up
branch road.
No. 10, thirty miles amt anything.
No more is it. They have travelled
their thousands of miles; not a county
Jail in this great and glorious land Ct the
free but what they can describe its
interior; not lie but they have told it:
not a petty sneskiug kind of thievery
but they have done it; not a person or
charity affair, but they size it up.
Which brings another tramp forward.
He was high toned tramp. He had
been about and wrote a letter back to
brother outlaw, giving directions regard
ing the working" Of a Jewish charity
association. By mistake in address it
fell into the box Of the association and
the good ladies were much astonished
at the uses to which their funds had
been perverted.
Directions were implicit. Now when
you go 10 Santa Fe, go to SO and-sc,
strike him for $40. 1 asked for s., but il
came easy. At such-and-such a place
get so-and-so" Tucson WIS on the list.
The kind ladies were to be worked" for
a certain sum. 1t is now among the
archives Of the society.
So they go on.
Assist me. Hear me lie. Listen to my
pitiful yarn while | size you up. Whit
had l better strike you for? Grub OF
clothes or money? One or all. All,
thank you sir. You have helped poor
but deserving man and you'll never be
sorry and be walks away to laugh al
the gulhbIlity of the charitably in
clined.