Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1893-10-02
w lfLONDoN TRAMP WARD.
skless Street Wanderers tn the
Greet City.
Losdiy Labor Master and His Vulgar
Wit-scarcfty of Food and Uncom-
Portable Tserths-The Stone
Breakers and Cleaners.

Most people suppose mat 6h0Se luck
IS wretches who take refuge In the
sual wards of warehouses have a
Their good time of it at the expense
the rate payers. Nothing could be
rther removed from fact Some
ions and their officials treat "casu-
= better than do others, but bad is
8 best" and, as a rule. London
lions rank worse than country ones,
Giles being the very worst of all.
the shoplzeepers who constitute
e board of guardians-not of the
for. but of the rates-in that parish I'm
Yse upon casuals task of stone break
which noable-bodied man, no mat
how powerful or skillful--and there
skill or 'sknack'' in stone breaking,
IN other things-could possibly per-
r1a in the time allotted, says the Pail
all Gazette. Hence, as failure to
arforrn the task means being charged
Bow street as a refractory pauper, )"
al as magistrates never, or hardly
5er, believe aught the accused
casual says, a nights lodging in the
acklin street, Dr7ary Lane, "Bastille, -
sually means a months hard labor in
entonville prison to follow. The
ssuaI ward of the parish of st. Ursula
not far from main thoroughfare
I'd is not open until eight p. M. On
ae OCCASION when fate caused me to
eek its shelter had about thirty com
anions IN miaery-a1l ragged, all
irty and all down at heel. We were
ustled into large room. which had,
course, that harsh and chilling
spect common to all warehouses.
he labor naster'-they used to be
alled tramp mastersn-who had adj
lifted us took his seat at a-tahle and
ammenced to take our names, etc.
his was the way in which he went
bout It:
Now, then. No. 1, come on. # you.
re a-coming.' The man nearest-tIre
Ilully crawled forward, hat In hand
Ind body bent forward, the very-pic-
ure Of abtectness.
What's your name~-if you've got
ne?"
''Timothy. snooEs,Ss'
'sEine na1ne, that. How old do you
all yourself?"
Forty, please. SIR
Y u don<t bl95se. What aFe- gerq''
Nothing.
80 r should tffink, - grunted Bully,
nd made an entry of some kind.
Where dtd you sleep last nigfitP"
'sNowhere. .
''Nowherer' repeated Bully. "Ain4
Esau a-going back TO Their SAME placer
No answer.
nWhere are you going top
Anywhere !.
"Anywherel Here, that won't DO for
ne. You must say whege you're going,
wen If it's only to make hiQ3fe. il tue
water" Bully laughed at hiseaWppeor
wit. Snuoks ngttered something and
Bully wrote It down-
sHaEe YER got any money!"
.'No."
Then take seyeryth thing ont of yer
loclets and pitch .,end into that t9sket,
'ointing to-one close by. And Solvent
70. the exsmihatfon.
At last came my turn. Bully, who
Hrss evidently not a bad Judge Of MEN,
ttsonce. discovered that I did not be-
opg TO fthe JhaBftua1 tramp brigade;
snd accordingly, in order to r7s3graS-abe
ne, put an additional question viz:
Are You a good hand at picking
saRama"
:sNo."
WEI, that's all right YsUssl have
! good spsll 81 it 5S6tsSfinorrosss '.AA
Now cadae Ne food. & regatax
pfsiper, or inmate, entered, carrying
NJ 5oaen tfay pflon witch rsSsre slices
II read, ard each casual wagpr6sred
II AXE one slice This ssss our sup
t. qaving eaben-it we werupmazchea
ssses1~and were told TO nu8resa.
Il eaGRpAn had to ~waIl~acrosA a
III ard Md plunge into.s. bath of
Al The one supply of saAAS did
III whole or (at some proyin-
4iiozn, noEntiys X NJ ton n6wbrsy
. Ts~SoTt framP1 70, the same 1tncl4anly
4 s acleanuysess prevailsl, and. soap
a'isr 80 Next we wer3 marched
~ ornitory, which is simply o
EsteS ID shed like barn. alQag
- ii whtoh were ragged futws
ooked like shallow coh3na,
l, from previous experience
the Salvation Army salvage
:, Battersea, knew to- be sheep
" him without bottoms. except the
aipting hicks In each OF these was
ed sn ga ligsse. and one'rag SsrB TapRet-
,fIlatad d1eft our clothes DOPE up IN
], crad;4 in the bath, she'd it Ysayibe
= 0'1'esd how we shttered that with Ter
refused rortah
~ uhatl In the morning a Bel rang
railro tramp master ent21~Sd. :. ssNow,
pay he. roared out. ''out 81, It, all Oh
un1ble. outl No skl1kfng here.
81 ,m lnenguur mattresses auds'put your
,ar:,..s tor. of EN- q Sorgot-tsmen-
M each. man had been, given
~ NV 5n of holes with rags around
'Y anaupposad to he a night shirt,
aTripheft the 'sbath" OVER uight.)
sitors ara dressed and thor marched
:1ssf,,4. Il n ward SUrne of 4ha rnop