The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-17

ago. These uDfortunates usually work side
streets or from house To house. They
are also known as Lame tourists aud
travel from city to city without difficulty,
as the railroad men do not often MAKE
crippies get Off their trains.
the blister workers are fellows WHO
apply fly bIisters 10 Their arms or lower
limbs. The result is great irritation OF the
skin, which makes the limb appear as
though 1T had been terribly injured. The
worker then calls at the residences OF
charitable people and exposing his bogus
wounds, represents that he has either
been bIown up by a gun powder magazine
or injured in some other manner the
police are on To this game and nave
''yagged' many OF the biisterers.
Another trick that has been successfully
worked in " ashingtun is known as the
split shoe racket A well dressed young
man operated this racket here several
days ago, and claimed that he made from
SI.50 to So a day.
He wore pair OF shoes, the uppers OF
which had been purposely split with a
knife until nearly his whole foot was ex-
posed. OF course, he had better shoes In
his room, but wore the uliapldaIcd ones 10
extract sympathy and money from the
charitably disposed persons In visiting
u house be would represent that nc was
printer, when, as matter OF fact, he Is Il
cooper, and does not know the difference
between a shooting stick and pcrfecting
newspaper press.
Upon meeting the lady of the house this
styIsnly attired fraud informed her that
ne was highly respectable young typo, who
had been thrown out of employment by the
introduction OF the type-setting machines
and tnat lie was anxious TO return 70 ms
widowed mother and sisters in some Iar-
away city. 1t would be necessary, he
added, TO walk to his native place, as he
was without financial means
Then II was his practice TO ask the lady
of the house for an old pair or shoes in
lieu OF the badly used up pair he had on.
If she gave him shoes, they were quickly
disposed of at q secondhand store Tor cash.
If she did not give him another pair or loot
coverings, the fellow asked for 20 cents
with which to have his own repaired he
told a pitiful tale and nearly always re-
ceiyed either pair of shoes or the amount
of money mentioned.
Another trick of the hobo fraternity is to
enter hat store wearing dilapidated
derby, representing thathe is without money
and had his hat battered up in street
railway or other accident. II the halter
was kind-hearted and gave him new or
secondhand hat, the trtckster would carry
1t around a neighboring corner where his
confederate awaited him with his own hat
The one given him by the merchant would
then be sold to one of the d street second
handlers
PAPER MACHE SORES.
Many coIored fake beggars make good
living by begging from door to door for
money with which to bury their wives,
sisters, mothers or children, who died iii
poverty.
Among the novelties in the bogus begging
trade are a series of awful looking ulcers and
sores, made by an inventive Connecticut
company from papier mache. They are
so arranged that they can De made TO ad-
here to the skin OF the hands, arms or face,
and give the wearer a hideous appearance.
A beggar with papier mache sore at
tached to his or her flesh has but little
difficulty in working upon the sympathies
of the aims giving pubic. Several fakes
with their paper wounds have been ar
rested in this city and sent to the chain ga ng
as Migrants.
Several weeks ago an old woman who
had long braved the elements on a street
corner IN Baltimore, where she asked aims
from passers by, was knocked down by
a passing vehicle. When taken to the city
hospital and undressed for examination
as TO the nature of her injuries the beg
gar DOQy WIS " NC litsiotu III
several suits OF raw silk undergarnents
and a buckskin vest. The outfit did not
cost her penny less than $40.
blind man, who formerly played a
gheezy old ACCORDION at Seventh street
| and Pennsylvania avenue, was holding
| olt a tin cup to receive small change from
pedestrians. One day well-dressed
stranger attempted to drop nickel in the
| receptacle. The piece OF money fell short
into h.
The supposed blind man waited until the
street was almost clear of people, and ther
walked deliberately to the eurDstune anC
| picked up the piece. A policeman who wit
| uessed the mans sudden restoration TO sigh
gave him orders to cease begging, under
| penalty of being sent to the workhouse
| Several days later the bogus blind man sc
| cured position as sweeper In the Capito
| park.
In connection with street begging, good
| story is told on Congressman Moses, oil
| Georgia He had Just returned from his
| native State While there he went on q
| protracted and luckless hunting expedition
| While in the mountains his food supply gave
| out and the Representative; went hungry
| In ia ct, as he expressed IL, lie became raw
| enous. IL was the first time, he said, that
| he had ever been really hungry, and while
| suffering the pangs of abdominal empti
| ness, he vowed he would never pass py an
other person who was in need of food.
| Soon after Mr.. Moses return to Wash
ington he was accosted near the Capito
| by seedy looking individual who asket
| for money for food. The 6eggar said h,
was on the verge of starvation. The Con
gresham, remembering his VOW and ex
| perience when he was in the mountains
without food, gave the fellow 90 cents ant
babe him go and get good, hot dinner.
| Passing down the avenuea while tier, h,
saw his beneficiary being towed along to
the patrol box by policeman. The beggal
was very drunk and boisterous. He hat
taken the 90 cents and filled up with hum
mer whisky at q nearby cheap groggery.
"Well," remarked the Georgia Member
philosophically, 1.-THE poor fellow has some
| thing on his stomac CHI now, anyway"
A man of Bath is the discoverer of &
process whereby clinkers, engine ashes ant
other waste material can be converted int
paste, and then formed, without burning
| into bricEs FOR building purDOSeS