The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-11-02
CHAINED LAZY TRAMPS
Mayors Heroic Measures to Dis.
cipIimc SonIud IdIcrs.
Chicago Record Herald.

Has WaIk@san dropped harl, into The
dark ages. or has ii been so Thoroughly re
formed that only future generations will
| appreciate all O! its mcri,s?'
ThH' is the question that Waukr2au
folk are trying to solve as they listen to
| IN" dolly reports Of fresh doings hy their
city officials, Already tho local ncwsra-
rcrs are asitatins The question while ,h"
| residents are rapidly being split into two
factions. who bitterly assail each other
| when The issu" IS raised us to what Wuu.
kcEan ought to be.
| In Wank"&an they truss III tramps ON
tho bars of their cells in n Way thai puts
old-tmc stocks TO shame us the crude
| and inefficient Instruments of an earlier
| age.
In Waukcsun they have introduced
spanking into til" public schools Us til"
| ideal method Of diseirlininG bad boys and
| girls.
| In Waukcgan so the rumor goes. they
| are about to put out the street lights at s
| o'clock. keep everybody of tho streets
after that hour, and duck gossips and
| sruds twice a week in the cold waters
OF Lake Michigan.
| 1t is Mayor Frederick Finer around
whom all tho excitement rruirrs. and
who. according to his orron"nls is tho
leader of the now mcdiacvalism in city
government Mayor Elmer is IN elderly
man with fine long beard. He goes
to church with great regularity. and has
even been known to occupy th" pulpit in
The Episcopal church.
Yesterday he gave the order which
stirred Wuukcgan to manifold expressions
of wrath. And The trouble is all ON az
cuun, of two iramns who did not know
amy better than TO ride into Waukcgan on
the "hlind" rnd of u haggng" ear.
Chief of Police Elmer Green arrested
them when they came Friday. hui that is
mere detail lie took them to Jail,
which is; another detail. Nobody objected
to that.
Then Mayor Finer ordered that the
trampS should be put to work III the
streets. Tho wanderers wcr" led tn tho
stone pile. hut they couldn't b" made to
ro,lnd. They insisted that they were gem
llcmen of leisure who did not have 20
work.
Mayer Finer thought and thought
Finally Ii" hit on the remedy. IN"
lramps' feet were shnckIcd and their
hands were pulled through tn" bars of
their cells ana hnndrnfrd together From
$50 in the morning til & in the evening
they stood thus. Bread ana water WAS
their food.
Work." said Tramp Joseph Lyons, who
says his home is ut Slrcntor. Work -?
And when I'm only fifty miles from Chi
cpgo? Not L."
"work?" echoed Tramp Robert Bandit.
who Processes Richmond. Va. as his
home. "Nnt Till the Jail rots and the cell
bars break from rust"
Mayor Finer. who is republican. sue
cccdcd Mayor W. w. rcarcc. who WAS n
mayor of quite different feather. In the
old days the saloons were wide open. ana
Wnulicgnn was the center for the visits Of
the admiring residents OF cities for miles
around Now tho saloons are shut on
Sundays. and Mayor Finer makes the
rounds himself each Sunday and feels the
handles of the little back doors TO make
sure that no snloonkccpcr has become alb
sent minded.
by the way of oifsctting this good work |
Mayor Finer appointed school board
on an avowcdly spanking platform. Cor
pornl punishment for the ofcnscs of
pupils was ordered by them as soon MS
chosen and the Waukcgan boys and girls |
know by personal experience just what
the rod is,