The morning call., 1893-10-25
STILL THEY COME.
The Unemployed Are Not
Growing Less.
INFLUX OF TOURISTS AFOOT.
The Hospitalities Afforded on the
Sandlot Are Attracting Them
to This City.

The unemployed are coming here faster
than they are going away. Monday hun
dred of them were conveyed across the
bay "free gratis" by the Davie ferry, but
as many more came into the city yesterday.
The meals and lodging afforded by the
Salvation Army and the postoffice site in
this city are the loadstone that is bringing
in tramps and unemployed wOrkmen from
all points of the State.
They come "lootback" and on the brake
beams; they get here. Over 1900 of them
took dinner on the sandlot yesterday; and
this is q slight increase over the number
that dined there before the New Orleans
company of 100 set out
Perhaps 10 per cent. or more, of the un-
employed in this city are professional
tramps. TO them the hospitalities afforded
at the sandlot are in the nature of a picnic
Such "leasting" is not theirs every day
in the week They will stay on all winter
and grow fat
1t is not so with the bona-fide workmen.
They are impatient at the enforced idle
ness, and each day they scan the press
dispatches in hopes of reading of some sec
ton of the country where labor is wanted.
The move made by the workmen who
started for New Orleans Monday has fired
the others with ambition TO do likewise.
There are already more than one company
of fifty or more organized Tor the purpose
of taking to the road as soon as there shall
be some indication that their services are
needed, no matter in what part Of the
country.
Were ready and willing to do anything
that Offers" said the leader OF one Of these
companies to CALL reporter, yesterd ay.
I'VE can dig cellars or build houses. lay
roads or run engines. or do almost anything
that offers. You will find among us work
men as skilled as any in the State, and
whatever talent in mechanical pursuits
that is lacking in our crowd can be easily
found among the 600 or more skilled me-
chancs on this sandlot to-day"
These breadwinning brotherhOods are
rather the fad at the present time in this
city. Half hundred or more Of the un-
employed band themselves together on the
basis that if any of their number shall be
fortunate enough to secure work within a
certain time the lucky ones shall con-
tribute pro rata of their earnings to those
still unemployed.
In this way they are greatly easing mat
ters for each other. 1t makes it rather
hard for the families or dependents of
those who do not get employment to have
the scant wages shared among so many
outsiders, but on the other hand the de-
pendents of those who have no work TO do
ana no wages coming i'll find things a
little easier by reason Of this method.
Out of one company of f0rty-fve labor
ers that was formed some days ago twelve
have already secured work in the country,
most of them picking grapes. According
to the unwritten but well-undeIstoOd law
of their organization they are bound TO
send part of their earnings to the secre-
tary of the body until there shall be no un-
employed members.
These fortunate twelve have kept their
word admirably so far, and now this un-
chartered society or union has a weekly
income of S15. This amount does not GO