The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-30
CANNOT SLEEP IN CITY HALL
TRA1rpS HAVE BEEN USING TT FOR
 4 LODGING PLACE.

Their Scheme Discovered and All Doors
 Are Now Kept Locked-Tramps Have
 sIept in Committee Room and Boiler
 Room-Wim Have to Seek Other Quarters.
 For several weeks past the travel
 ing gentry familiarly known as tramps
 have succeeded in getting the best of the city officials and have secured nice
 warm accommodations in the city hall.
 This has, however, been discovered and from now on the impecunious wayfarers
 will no longer be able to enjoy the hospitality which the city hall has until recently afforded them.
 Every night the sergeants at the desk at police headquarters have been compelled to turn away anywhere from ten to dozen homeless wanderers who applied to them for aid into the streets, as the rules of the department do not allow them to give lodging to anyone in the lookup except prisoners. If the applicants for lodging made their appearance prior to 10 o'clock they were directed to the Organized Charities, but as at this and other like institutions they are compelled to cut wood for their lodging and breakfast, the arrangements were not satisfactory and they again went out into the cold night. After 10 o'clock, no matter how worthy the applicant he was unable to get into any charitable institution in the city.
 Some of these mendicants were how ever, more knowing than the rest and discovered that quite a comfortable lodging could be secured in the gen eral committee room (rooms 10 and ID of the city hall. After leaving the police station the tramps would ascend the stairs in the police building, cross the little iron bridge which connects the police building and the city hall and by opening the door, which was never locked, found themselves in the general committee room, where they proceeded to make themselves comfortable on the cushioned benches and enjoyed a good nights sleep.
 Naturally this snap became noised abroad among the road men and com sequently as many as a dozen tramps have slept in the room during a single night. Now all this is changed and when the tramps return to seek their accustomed lodging they will find the hotel closed The discovery was made by the janitor of the city hall.
 Last Monday morning when he ar rived at the city hall he was surprised to find crowd of sleepers in rooms 10 and Il and upon Investigating fur ther found still another batch down | stairs in the boiler room. All were quickly routed out and the matter reported to the city auditor. Actingl under orders from that official the door to the hall is now kept locked and it | is impossible to either obtain ingress or egress, The door is closed and locked | every night at the close of municipal business.
 The city auditor is of the opinion that this class of lodgers, while they have not as yet done any damage toI the hall, is not desirable to have around and so has taken this means to keep them out. In speaking of the subject last evening, he said that he had ordered the door locked as a pre- measure. While he did not object to homeless wanderers having 3 place to sleep, he did not believe that it was safe to allow them in the hall, fearing that some time someone while under the influence of liquor might get into the boiler room and pos- sibly in drunken freak, blow up the whole building. Tn view of these cir he had ordered the door closed and kept locked.