The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-03-21
MIRROR OF CITY LIFE.
a plain Tale Of Tramp Iifc-Iic Liked
Iurnstiles-A New Secret Society
Of Young women--A Man Kicks.

A real tramp told q genuine tramp STORY
about himself this morning just before
Che line of dodgers started from the zen
tral Station to the city wood yard IL
was not romantic story in which were
uoubtful illusions to better times ana
Christian home far away. On the contrary
the uniQueness OF his three minute auto
cipsi statement. made with a
refreshing frankness, that he was tramp
always had been, and always expected 10
be. He said that he was about nity
years old. and put II about. no. ~ enas ne ne
was unwilling to be exact, but because ne
did not know himself the year and month
and day when he was born. The
birth was In New York ana
that had been the starting point for bis
travels that had continued ever since ne
was old enough to run away from tene.
ment house and make the first
steal. In the interval OF 40 years he
claimed TO have been everywhere,
across the country and up and down its
various North and South lines, and he
looked it. He had never really SUI
Tered from hunger, nor been set upeh
by the farmers dog or brave
servant girl. He did confess TO having
experienced good many rough nights
sleeping out, but that was his own fault,
for he knew the way South in cold
weather. The dodgers then went over to
saw wood and the tramp without MS
tory made an Intellectual attempt TO break
away on Canal street.
He Likes Turnstiles.
The midnight express was just steaming
out OF the depot last night when belated
individual carrying black valise in one
hand an overcoat in the other, tore across
Exchange place from Washington
street toward the station. As he ran
L. 60 faE the sltnatl0n
and coming to the conclusion that time
was valuable he veered on his course
somewhat and darted toward the open
shed at the west end of the depot used by
the express companies, thinking that he
could reach the train in that direction.
AS he approached the shed, the new turn
stile which has been but recently erected
in proximity to the shed, caught his eye
and moment later he plunged into the
little house containing the gate
and started TO push his way
through This turnstile, however,
il about eight feet in height and resem-
bles q huge hat rack, or rather clothes
horse, with its multifarious arms, and as
he banged into it the arms swung part
way round and then stopped. There he
was behind the bars, prisoner,
and there he stayed while the train passed
away. He pushed one way and then the
other but could not stir the gate and he
in the little house until morning, bad not
q stray railroad hand happened along and
released him by unlocking the gate
Still Holds Its Own.
Sergeant Prout with trio of patrolmen
for company did guard duty through the
night about the building OF Peter
MCGOWAN now situated at the corner of
Friendship and Lockwood streets, in the
middle of the road, and cheated the neigh
bors out of seeing riot without leaving
home. Work on the building is being
pushed about as rapidly as 1t Is on the
new Consolidated depot.
A New Secret Society OF Young Women.
A novel society has just been formed in
one of the local churches. 1t is composed
OF young ladies and although IL Is sup
posed to be of q most secret character the
object of the organization has leaked out
in some strange way. The young ladies
are banded together for the purpose of
making young men more manly and all
have agreed to "cut" any young man who
IL known to be guilty of a deliberate wrong
or an ungentlemanly act. Each member
of the society Is committee of one to de-
tect any such Instances among the young
men and when such case Is found she Is
to report it at an open meeting of the So
ciety. The next time the guilty young
man meets one of the members he receives
dead cold "cut," and by the time he has
been subjected to this treatment by a
dozen or fifteen young women
he will begin to think
that there is screw loose
somewhere. This is certainly a radical
change over the old method Of marrying
aman to reform him and the result OF the
work will be awaited with interest.
And Man Does Nothing but Kick.
The annual use-cleaning period, that
occupation SO fascinating to the house,
wife, is close at hand. For the next two
months the household, which has been SO
quiet, orderly and comfortable during the
winter, will be torn up and rent with the
active woman's war upon dirt.
The exhilaration of the chase after dust
will sooner or later prove too much for
woman's endurance and he who started
out from cosy home early in the day,
will return to find the beds piled in the
cellar, his slippers and dressing gown in
the back yard and his pipe in the parlor
stove. His meals for the next two weeks
will be served cold in the kitchen, and the
food will be redolent of soapsuds. How
ever, the natural run OF this fever for
cleanliness rarely extends over two or
three weeks, and the household soon re-
sumes the even tenor OF its way.