The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-12
A City,
. Where ALI Men Are
Treated Alike
ALL SORTS and CONDITIONS.
As Many as Sixty Visitors
Have Been Crowded
Into One Room.

prletor because their rooms were not
heated, or because there was no bell
poy tapping at their door five minutes
after they touched the electric bell. Yet
tills same lodging house has more guests
In year than the Bay State house. and
q glimpse over the register will show
that the occupants of the house come
from all points Of the compass, and
the names of men who fought with
F'arragut at Yicksburg and Schley at
Santiago can be found in the list reg
1t may seem strange. but when one
hnds out that the house mentioned is
the Waldo street station, and the lodg-
ing section. of the station is a room
about 80 by 30 feet, it will not be such
a surprise.
For person to sit in the guard room
for an evening, when the thermometer
IS registering anywhere below the tenn
perate3 mark, and the air outside is cold
enough TO necessitate the wearing of an
oVercoat, human nature can be studied
to a detail.
The tramp room at the station " nat
urally removed as far as possible from
that part which is inhabited by the off,
GERS, and, despite the persistent efforts
of Chief of Police James M. brennan to
see that il is kept clean, a collection of
members of the insect world could be
made in the room in a short time that
would delight the widest faneies of a
bugologist.
AS soon as the o'clock relief leaves
the station, applicants for lodgings be-
gin to pile in, and from that hour until
midnight Lieut.. James T. Johnson is
kept busy with his other duties book
ing emu rHn al hox IN,
money to purchase a bed, or feel that
they would prefer to sleep in a sta
ton house and keep the moneysfor an
other purpose.
AS SOON AS THEY ARE BOOKED.
Lieut.. johnson turns them over to
Doorman William A. Piper, and Bill"
like a general Of old, tells them, in stem
torian tones, 'to put their stuff in their
hats" Many times, when the hats are
collected from atbatch of 10 or Is, there
is not enough in them to fill large
sized purse, and again sailmaker
could get a respectable outfit for a
small snip out of one of the hats.
Occasionally Doorman Piper sees a
hobo" who looks rather suspicious,
and he Immediately orders the man to
put his razor in his hat Nine times
out of ten, Doorman Piper does put two
and two together, when he makes the
request, as the hobo's beard would
easily show the officer that the appli-
cant for a lodging never owned a razor
apparently, and generally the applicant
is taken by surprise, and tells the off,
Ger in a shy voice that he has left his
razor at home.
The march to the "houdoir'' is then
taken up, and a scramble for Layout"
begins as soon as the gang is turned
loose inside the door of the tramp room.
Many times the room has been pretty
well filled with men before the gang
arrives, and more than one soft swear
is heard as a weary, sleeping traveller
is stepped upon by one of the late ar
rivals.
The record for
ONE NIGHTS LODGING
at station to date is so applicants, and
some evenings not even one knight of
the road has applied for lodging. Oc-
casionally an old man who is past 60
will drop in and ask for lodging and
when this is the case. generally the
old man can conduct himself with all
tramp etiquette and get himself
booked and lodged for the evening
without a rustic.
In other cases, where youngster who
has left his home in search of adVen-
tltre winds up at the station, the Off
Gals have more trouble getting him
roomed than with all the other apph-
cants of the evening,
AS. soon as the crowd are roomed for
the night there is always an hour spent
in conversation among the men before
they allow themselves to sleep, and all
sorts Of stories are told about what
once happened and what might have
been. eac e
Months ago a man who had served
IN DO mil h II, i l.,
been welcomed, but now the "hero' has
to take back seat for the man who
has found place where feed can be
procured bysa good game of talk and
generally the only theme discussed is
the proper place to apply for a bite
without having to work for it.
To a man who has not been accus-
toned to being thrown in with a lot
of these men the experience Is anything
but to his liking, if he is without any
prospect of redeeming himself from the
position, but to a man who knows
where to go to a home without fear of
being arrested, the experience is novel
In the morning Doornan Sylvanus
@. Bullock arrives on the scene at
O'clock and shortly before 6 o'clock
Sylvanus wades through the roomers
and gets them out of bed" He then
lines them up and some of them are
handed a mop, others a pail and still
others are armed with brooins. They
are then set to work on the guard room
floor, and Sylvanus acts as master Of
ceremonies and keeper of the patent
mop wringer
The men are allowed to dip their
mops into a pail of water and after
washing over five or six square feet
of the floor they are ordered up to the
patent mop wringer, and Sylvanus
wrings out the mop. He allows no one
to wiring out the nops but himself, and
as soon as the floor is cleaned up in
good shape the tramps are given a feed
of crackers and water and sent on their
way Occasionally a man looks for a
lodging and when seated in the guard
room thinks he would like to play
game of muggins, but he Is quickly put
down and finds that the game Of mug
gins is not for him.
The adjustment of the tramp room
at station 2 ,necessitates the, keeping OF
all tramps at station l and this winter
is sure to be a, heavy one at the cen
trail station Sometimes there are pit
liable sights in the long line Of men who
have neither money nor a home, but
there are so many of the unfortunate
creatures and SO many more OF the
kind who would not appreciate home
or money IL they had both, that 1t is
difficult to distinguish.
The wearing apparel of the average
tramp who calls at the station FOR
lodging is a marvel, and everything
from a gaiter to 18th century stock
can be found in the clothing outfit of
the dodgers.
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