The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-18
From the Ptttgburg DIspatch.


snow Flies and Cold Weather Sets
in.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
There is a charm apparent to all in the
life of a Gypsy in summer. Then the roads
are good. the hedges are green, there
is pasturage on the strips of no-man's-
land, and tent is an ideal shelter. But
when winter comes it is another matter
What do the Gypsies do then?
In Scotland, as any one may know who
has read Guy Mannering," the Gypsies
have villages or permanent camps to
which they resort in the winter, and in
which for the last century or more they
have remained throughout most of the
year. But in England and America the
Gypsies have no such permanent quarters
and they shift for themselves 5 best they
can in many ways
There are certain families, the Costel-
los and Whartons and others who travel
southwark as autumn approaches and pass
the winter in Florida or along the Cuff
coast. I have met them camped by the
levees out of New Orleans and in Mobile.
They usually remain near enough TO some
city to permit of fortune-telling and horse
trading. Here they live much as they live
in the Northern states in the summer. The
Gypsies of California and those along the
Pacific coast have such a mild climate
that southwark migration is unnecessary.
But 1t is the Gypsy who remains in the
North who is confronted by serious
problem, which he solves in various ways.
Some families there are who by sheer
hardihOod live through the winter with
no other shelter than huts and wagons,
Old Plato Buchland, a Gypsy, made fam
Gus by the writing of Goome in Eng
land, passed such a winter when he first
visited America. With his family he re-
NAMED in the mountains of Eastern
Pennsylvania when the snow was up to
the hubs Of the wagons He had small
portable stoves In the tents and boards
were put down wherever passible be-
meath the straw TO keep the feet from
coming in contact with the frozen ground.
Paths We're cleared about the tents and
wagons, and a rough shelter was impro
Vised for the horses. No one complained
IN the camp. The most serious problem
was the food for the horses; hay and
other feed had to be purchased, as there
was no pasturage.
Just out of Philadelphia I once found
some Gypsy families living in a permanent
winter camp. Board floors had been laid
Gown IN the tents and there were car
Pets and chairs and a stove that heated
'he place very comfortably The tent was
entered through a low vestibule-like ar
fangement of old roofing tin and boards,
when served to keep out the cold air.
ana from the rear of the tent a like YES
uoule connected ii with a sleeping tent
a part OF the steep hillside had been dug
away to form a wall, against which a
sheiter OF boards and roofing tin had been
lorihed Ter the horses and chickens Odd
us II may seem, chickens are frequently TO
~ met with IN Gypsy camps where they
pcome domesticated and learn not to
wander far from the tents When a fam
ny is travelling they are put into coop
5antams and fancy chickens are most
t'quenuy met with IN the possession OF
We roVers. who keep them rather as pets
"an FOR the eggs which they lay.
nave known a gypsy fumny TO travel
rom Denver TO California 10 ne dead Of
winter with no other shelter than thelr
l"'a ana wagons afforded The dangers
" crossing the mountain passes al thar
a,4son ala not deter them at ai There
,''. therefore, not "a few Gypslos who
A''p to ihc roads in winter as well as
m summer Bui FOR The most part those
sr-irs who DO not so South come 81 20
'A' cliies ana towns a. the approach Of