The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-14

last Wednesday morning. The discovers
was made by a bartender in one of the
saloons across the way. From the doorway
OF the saloon the most noticeable object
Wllhlh Sight IS the big wheel and over the
queer-shaped roof of the buildings which
surround it may be seen all excent the
very lowest cars. The windows of one of
the cars visible were covered thick with
frost, while those of all the rest vera
GEAR, and the fact became the subject OF
l0Ie conversation at the bar.
How dld the frost get on the windows?
us existence became a problem, for it is
a well-known fact that there can be no
ILost on the windows of a room unless
there Is moisture within it, and the cars
suspended from the wheel could receive
no moisture from the earth, nor was it
propaple IN any other way, except from
some ones living in them. This did not
a. once occur to those who noticed the
frost, but the conversation brought about
a closer watch of the wheel by the bar
tender Whlle on duty, and in the eVenine @,
three men were detected climbing tho
broad sweep of the wheel toward the car
WIN frosted windows. They had nearly
reached the car when they were first seen
ana thelr hgures were hardly discernible
against the darkening sky There was
however, light enough to follow their
movements. One by one they reached a
point over the roof of the car and low
cred themselves carefully to It, Then
Ihe Igures disappeared over the further
investigation followed.
how long the tramps have inhabited
tlelr strange home is now known. When
the wheel was visited last Thursday af-
ternoon there were no tramps to be found
Either they do not inhabit the place dur
ing the daylight hours or they had re.
celVed WIND of the fact that their "hang-
out had been discovered There were
plenty or evidences of their occupancy
however. The cars had been entered
through doors, the bars over the windows
preventing entrance in that way The
chances are that the tramps climbed to
t me tooI OF the car and lowered one of
thelr number to the door to break the
fastening. At least this seems the most
likely manner of getting into the cars
though no one saw them do il. The en-
trance to the grounds had lIndoubtedlv
been made over the wall to the north Of
% wheel and behind the little restaurant
WNnich fronts upon Clark street. A
from the sidewalk.
In the three cars which had been made
70 serve as homes there were signs testi-
Tying that a dozen or moro men had or.
cupied the place. In one an attemnt had
been made TO cover the windows with OLD
newspapers, apparently to avoid tho
from the street below or to prevent he.
travail by light from within. This car
seems 10 have been the one in which most
OF the tramps lived.
Rolled in one corner were a number of
blankets, not very whole and decidedly
dirty. Near them was a stove improvised
OUT OUT OF a mllk can stolen probably from
one or the railroad stations. hole had
been cut IN the side near the bottom to
furnish a draft. and the tin was black
with smoke. but there were no signs OF
any 1uel other than the greasy papers
Wnlch lay scattered everywhere.
several empty tin cans and a tin nail
were hidden under the blankets, and with
them was an apparatus which slammed
IT'S possessor as a genuine hobo" and no
aE-c.tt "a gay-cat" will sometimes
work, but a hobo never. This appa-
ratus was ticket" such as the ir-
reclaimable hobo carries to aid him in
MS railway journeys, a broad. fiat piece
or board, with cleats nailed TO It's under
SIDE so IL may be placed across a rod
ana furnish firm seat on the trucks or
railroad car. Scattered here and there
among the papers were mangled ends Of
cigars, and carefully wrapped in a dirty
cloth was a large double handful OF
picked up in the street.
The two other cars which had bean
broken INTO showed no such signs of con-