The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-12-24
OUTSIDERS FLOCKING HERE.
STATION HOUSE BODaERs MOSTLY
YOUNa NEN FROM our OF TOWN

Sew E.s,s.s. Chicago, s-a Ewes D.uv.r
Csntrtb.ts 60 the Hurdea rpou the Metrop.
sis-Sk-ii We send These People uore
On Friday President Porter Of the Depart
neat OF Charities and Correction suggested
10 the Police Board that the police be directed
10 arrest habituh station house dodgers and
have them committed to the NJ bile institu-
tions under the vaRrancy act In that way II
vas thought the professional beRRars and sta
t,on house buns" could be sitted out for the
bensnt Of the worthy who happen to be tenn
poratily destitute Superintendent Dyrnes
vas directed to Instruct the police Csptains to
sct accordingly. With view to finding what
che effect Of these instructions had been re-
porter called yesterday at the Tombs, Essex
Market and Yorkvllle police courts. and at
the OAK, EldridRe, and East Fifty-1rst street
station housea
The Oak street station IL perhaps the best
Known and most popular OF all the station
houses which the tramps como to look upon as
lsdginR houses. Said the Sergeant there:
sWs have heard nothing about those instruc-
lions. but We have lots OF lodaers here these
nirhts. Last ni9ht We had forty-nine We
lei them ali 20 this morning. We have been
Averaging about that number every night for
weeks and sometimes more, and we turn away
hessns more. Sometimes there are 100 and
even $50 men applying here. Their form In .
ioar line out there in the street about
8 o'clock In the afterroo and wait
foe their turn. They are not tramps either,
that's the peculiar ehlns about them. They arc
nearly all young men-that Is. between IL and
80 yearA They look AZ though they were used
70 work. They dress quito decently. and they
appear respectable and as though they were
N hard luck. They fle In here. and some we
tske and some No refuse. Another queer thing
about them Is that they appear to be strangers.
Many Of them say they como from up the
COUNTRY, from New England. and over from
Jersey and down from Yonkers and other
plaesa Nlnsty-nins per cent OF them come
from out OF town. or say they do. They tell US
thsy we're out Of work and came here hoping
20 get something to do
Down at the Tombs. Warden Fallon said that
President Porter was making an attempt to
sort out the city's own people from those from
other cities. and wanted tho poor from other
cities who are asking New York to take care Of
them sent back to their own cities. there to be
provided for. Warden Fallon said that in tho
last month there had been committed at the
Tombs as Migrants about sixty men and forty
women, which was . much smaller number
than he looked for whom the hard times began
TO Soss Up aSof Eddss Street station tn.
geants said they were busy from ouQtll 10
ss aTs ssFs sls
0s The m 81, said one. are nearly all young.
most Of them. They know nothing about the
city. We, direct them to some other station
and they look at US, some of them, and ask
what's the Boweryr Where Is itp Or We
dUa re e station man Ssy wsn to e
how far 1t is They dom appear to Know any
1s Ss nas her: :: liz : :w I Sa;s
reesIysd at the iail there within the last
% in Capt. Rellly's district. known as the
miilionaires precinct. the SAM en-. strangers
a f es sSa OsE. SSoai
sss snn the
shoaEh ,hsss Ism; %SSe we IL
lows, and LOOK as though they worked. Then,
IN addition to the men. we lodge about the
prison said that on Monday sixteen men wore
S.1s q. roS the . Tasss
station hsu .sa o. hYm so wsrs quilts
ana neatly every man wa. American born,
some Of them told me they had lost their jobs
in ths towns whore they worked IKE some because
ioosiuG Tor work. Many oi them w sS' from ron
connecticut and other psrts Of New England
.ABd Just this afternoon a man walked into the
Jaii here and asked to be com lifted. He
said hs had embeEzled $500 in boston three
years ago, and he was willing to GO back and
stand trial He said he had boon In the city
back TO tine court and give himself up In ad-
aition to the unemployed men from New Eng
land and other near-by parts OF the country
they are coming on from chicago. A nephe v
Fl mine. who has been living -four, years in
Chicago, Gays he has met doEens Of men hs
eAuss, OF the Worlds Fair. and they were all
dead broks He says also. men are comm Z
the reputation Of being charita6 and Of hav-
ing fewer mechanics out OF work than any
coming here hoping to find work"
Acting on the advice OF the Police Board,
supeEntsndsnt Byrnes called the Inspectors
and Captains before him Yesterday and In
strueted them TO act according to the sYg-
BOARD superintsndent Byrpes also invited
the Captains TO take part In his scheme oil
raising fund tor the unemployed By contrib.
using on S 81 one Per cent OF their In.
Superintendent Byrnss's remarks about hiI
fore the men in their commands II tho plaE
81 nearly $4,000 could be raised every month