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day to the establishment of New York's
most fashionable 'confectioner where
she complacently ordered ice cream
soda and finally purchased some high
priced bon bons. After she left the
store, the self-appointed detective
learned that she was a regular Gus
toner, the attendants wondering how
a girl so shabbily dressed could In
dulge in such expensive luxuries
Against such professional mendican-
cy as this the Charity Organization
Society is directing its efforts. It's
special officer, James Forbes, Coop
crates with the police department, par
ticuiarly with the vagrancy squad. He
first attempted to place these unfor-
tunates-for the average pan-handler
is to an extent united for earning his
living-in state or charitable institu-
tions. and during the past summer,
few arrests were made. But with the
approach of the holiday season. the
pan-handler drifted back to their old
stands and became as persistent as
they were numerous. so that one day
early in December Mr.. Forbes had
nineteen committed for six months.
Then followed a general exodus of pam
handlers from Manhattan, and many
good stand" is now vacant for the
first time in years.
"A movement Is HOW On TO eSldpiSn
an institution which shall strike a
mean between the penal institution and
the dependent institution like the aim
house. 1t will probably take the form
of farm to which the pan-handlers
will be committed-not invited The
commitment will practically amount to
the inderterminate sentence. An ef-
fort will be made to treat the inmates
of the institution as individuals CIV
ing out work within their limitations
such as chair Gaining for the blind.
When men. untitled for heavy work,
| show themselves worthy of trust, posi-
tions will be secured for them as rail-
! road flagmen, gatemen and switchmen
or watchmen. But reformation must
first come under a discipline humane
yet strict. On the farm every man
will be given chance to work out his
| own salvation in decent surroundings
and pure air, with decent food. But
if he refuses to avail himself of these
opportunities. he cannot drift back to
the city without once more running
| against his arch-enemy, the special
officer, and a trip to the island.
Winthrop Allen.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-09

pany cared for him until his recovery
and paid him literally for his affiic-
ton On leaving the hospital, Dean
promptly divorced his wife, and started
down the Connecticut valley, working
his population for a pair of artificial
legs Eventually he reached New
York still minus the legs, but with
plenty of cash and scored a record as
a most persistent beggar. Later he
appeared as applicant in two more
divorce suits. The police no longer
keep track of the number of artificial
legs for which he has collected funds,
but they do know that his mother owns
fine Connecticut farm, probably paid
for by a credulous public, and in New
York she runs good-sized boarding
house for her son.
! The old Irish women who huddle in
! doorways or on curbings at night can
generally be claSsed with misers,
| They have seen their sixty winters,
| and properly belong to the almshouse,
but they prefer to herd, four or five in
a two4room fat, kept by one of their
number. Sugar Bowl is a somewhat
noted character of this kind, and has
five. or six old women in her box-like
| apartment every night. They pay ten
or fifteen cents for the privilege OF
| sleeping on her floors, and their diet
consists of tea stale bread or crack
ers and whisky, each jealously guard
| ing her commissary department. When
these old hags die, money is unearth-
ed in some strange hiding-place or a
| bank k-book comes to light. Immediate
| lv the legacy is claimed and spent by
4 dissolute younger relatives.
! In the vernacular of the police, the
writer's of begging letters are about
| the slickest article in the metropolis.
! This is an art in itself. Sometimes
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the writer assumes the name Of the
person addressed as an excuse for the
epistle. Often he claims to have work.
ed for the prospective beneficiary, or
if the latter is a church worker, the
beggar has once been in his Bible
class. The topics discussed in the. let
ter are, carefully selected. One woman
wrote to matron on the occasion of
a christening and mingled with con-
gratulations on the heirs birth and
prospects, was tale of woe that could
not fail to touch a happy mother as
she thought of little children born not
only without the golden spoon but
also without spoon at all.
Mary Ann Myers made record in
New York for this line work. A mere
peasant, she could write a letter illit-
crate, but as rich in real feeling that
the very heart-strings of the recipient
would be wrung The Charity Organ
/ ization Society has a collection Of
nearly six hundred letters written by
this woman who eventually fell into
the clutches of the law.
A clever Jewess posed as a working
woman out of employment and foiled
the police for months. When COM
plant was finally filed against her.
the fine of $40 and costs was promptly
paid by a friend and the officer who
, arrested her was given tongue lash
ing such as man seldom received. A
few days later. during a run on a
. downtown bank Miss Jennie lined up
/ with other depcsitors. Her handbook
showed credit of 1888.
peculiar case reported to the Char
ity organization is that of a young
girl who poses as a working woman
out of a position. She approaches
women clerks leaving the stores on
Sixth avenue. and appeals for help,
setting forth desperate conditions at
and her horror of appealing for aid to
any save members of her own sex. A
philanthropic woman followed her one
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givers are those who can least afford
1t. working men and women, the great
middle classes.
In the underworld and the police
circles, the professional beggar is
known as the "pan-handler." a sobri-
quet gained by the custom of holding
a tin cup for aims. Pan-handlers have
a peculiar if unorganized union. One
of them never monopolizes indefinitely
a good location. Whether or not there
is any exchange of money for the good
will of a stand" certain it is that
beggars trade locations, thus keeping
charity from becoming stale. The
value of these stands will be under
stood from the fact that special off,
GERS and police on the vagrancy squad
have been offered S25 a month protec-
ton money for certain good locations
in New York.
The most successful and the most
common pan-handler is the young
man, with the intelligent, American
face who drifts in from almost any
point between Maine and California.
Of respectable parentage, possessed of
rudimentary education, his downfall
begins with cigarettes, dime novels and
evil companions. Unable to hold a
situation at home, he takes to the
road, mixing with tramps and Grim
mails. Before he goes beyond the
petty larceny stage, he makes a mis-
step at the end of a stolen ride or
Participates in a fight on a freight
train. and loses one or both limbs. He
enters the hospital potential criminal.
he leaves it a 'Dan-handler."
He begs or steals a ride to the
metropolis, making Immediately for
one of the furnished room houses
which exist solely on the profits of
pan-handlers. Here he meets others
OF his ilk who instruct him in the
pest locations and CRAFTS to be
worked. He pays $3.50 or So a week
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advancing. Nor is the life as trying
as the credulous might think. The
professional seldom works during in
clement weather. and though he may
crouch on the damp ground for hours,
he uses an antidote in the form Of
liberal potations of rum.
Once a pan-handler, always a pam.
handler, seems to be the rule. Among
the notorious beggars of the metropolis
are an old Jew and his wife who have
been placed in charitable institutions
time and again by friends. He is
blind and the wife feigns the same
affliction. On the night of the late
President McKinley's funeral, they
were arrested, and a few days later
jointly put up 1921 to go free on
legal technicality.
At night the pan-handler returns
to his lodging house to squander the
accumulation of copers, nickels and
dimes. One of the most notorious
lodging houses for this class of men
is located on Eldridge street. The
lounging room is reached through a
dark, evil smelling passage way, con-
Meeting the front and rear houses. The
room is well lighted and in winter
warmed by red-hot stove. The pam
handlers gather around the rough
table for card playing, and young
girl or boy is kept busy rushing the
can" to the nearest saloon. In the
corner of the room are tossed the
artificial legs, the strapped boots, the
crutches and even eye-shades used to
touch the hearts and incidentally the
purses of a thoughtless, hurrying
public during the day.
Occasionally the police run across
pan-handlers known as lone wolves"
that is they do not mix with others
of their class. notable case is that
of man named Dean, who years ago
lost both of his, legs while working
on the New Haven road. The COM
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-09

for his room, taking his meals wher-
ever the hour may find him. The
accommodations are apt to be bar
rem for the price, but he must nay
for association with men of his class
and frequently the landlady must pay
fines for running a disorderly house,
which come higher than lace curtains
and woven wire springs.
During the regular shopping hours.
the pam handler suns himself in the
great retail district, but at O'Clock
he changes his location. He knows
that the Jewish working girls are kind
hearted and of socialistic tendencies.
Dressed in overalls, a rough coat, and
derby hat and without a collar. he
lays for thm in the heart of some
factory district. If he plays well the
role of disabled working man, he Sc
cures between and o'clock not less
than $1.50, while on pay days the
amount runs up to $4
Every possible serene is employed
to eXaggerate deformities and excite
pity. Where the amputation has been
made below the knee and the man
could walk easily with crutches. he
straps on a long shoe fortified with
sole leather and laced in the back.
Sauatting on this gives him horrible
appearance and a hight of four feet
or less. Thrusting the arm through
the lower cross bar of his crutch also
lowers a man to a distressing position.
Blind men augment their deformity by
constantly rolling the eyes which in
time become bloodshot
The old time methods of cruelty,
such as bandaging an arm to one side
and showing an empty sleeve, or using
soap and aicds to cause horrible sores
on the face, hand or arm, have dis
appeared. The art of mendicancy is
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THE PANHANDLE Err"
~rw YORK'S PLAN TO RID THE
STREETS OF BEGGARs.

The "Pan-HandIer" Gets His Name
from Holding Tin Cup for Aims.
Eour Hours In the Shopping Dis
,rict often Brings in Fifteen
DolIars-Two BeEEars Who Put
In $500 to Avoid Arrest-Twenty-
rive Dollars Month offered PO-
lice for a Good Stand-Charity Or
vanization Now Planning an In
stitution for Keeping Beggnrs Tn
der Commitments.
>Copvright, 1902, by Winthrop Allen }
New York, Feb. EVERY city has
&c beggars. but New York is the mecca
of all of them, for in no other place
are the profits so large or so easily
acquired. On an average of four hours
daily. a mendicant takes in from IS to
s15. according to his powers or per-
suasion and the extent of his real or
assumed misfortunes. By experts in
mendicancy it is estimated that thou
sands of dollars are given daily to the
professional beggars alone, and the
major portion of this amount comes
from New Workers. Metropolitans are
prodigal even in their charities, while
the outsider regards every appeal with
suspicion, as a part of the frauds prac-
ticed in a great city. The principal
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-09

At Pensacola. Mobile and New Orleans.
Tickets on sale Feb. 4 70 10, inclusive.
via seaboard Air Line Railway linn
ited for return until Feb. 10, but BY de-
posting same with joint agent and
upon payment OF 10 cents Zee an ex-
tension untn Feb ~ wil De granted.
Seal board AIR Line Railway trains leave
Savannah 4ii0 "a. m. and $50 b. m.
railroad lime, for Pensacola, Mobile and
New orleans. only twenty-f0ur hours
run 20 New Orleans Hnrlor cars On
day trains and Pullman drawing room
sleeping caFH On night trains. 6erurs
your reservation ~ ticket ofiire. corner
Buil and Bryan streets. Phone t.-rad.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-09
To cincinnati aud the West.

The Southern Railway operates
through Pullman sleepers from savan-
nah 10 Cincinnati, making close con-
nection there for all points beyond.
day ride through Western North Caro-
lima. the beautiful Land OF the Sky"
Il. q. Thomson, City Passenger and
Ticket Agent, l41 Bull street.-ad.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-09
8 Something Fine.

Commencing today, Jan. Is. the
Plant System inaugurates their Flor
ida fast mails. Six magnificent Pull
man trains, Savannah to Jacksonville.
only four hours. Leave Savannah
AIS a. m, 600 a. m, 9:20 a. m. HIPS
a. M. 11;55 a. m, 4:15 p. m. Savannah
cftv tfrne-ad
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-09
Hest Service.

II you are contemplating taking in
the Mardi Gras festivities see that
your ticket reads via Seaboard Air
Line Railway. Double daily trains
from Savannah 70 Pensacola, Mobile
and New Orleans. Leave Savannah.
7:iO a. m. and $3.50 p. m. railroad time.
Parlor cars on day trains and Pullman
drawing room sleeping cars on night
trains. Ticket Office, corner Bull and
Rrvan streets Phone 28.-ad
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-09

Trains leaving 100 a. m. and f.55 D. m. are daily,
carrying through Pullman Seepers and Southern Railway
Dining Cars.
Train leaving $50 D. m the SOutherns Palm Limited, is
daily except Sunday, and is composed exclusively of the
finest Pullman Observation, Compartment, DrawingrOOm
Sleeping and Dining Cars
E. G. THOMSON, c. P. & T. A., al Bull Street.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-04-30
WHO COME TO THIS
BIG TOWN OF OURS.
People Who Travel in Trains Back
and Forth.
THESE VISITORS TO AMERICUs.
Are Among the Recent Arrivals Here
- Read the List Below and See
IF Your Own Name Is Written
There.

Sam d. Bennett came mp from Ga
milla yesterday morning upon matters
of business here.
James A. Lowery, we'll known citi-
zen of Dawson, was in Americas yes
terday on business.
W. f, Jenkins, Jr. of Eatonton, was
among the several visitors in Americas
Yesterday morning.
D. W. Lucas, of Macon, was among
oilers from that city who came to
Amerious yesterday. 3
A. L. Smith and ladyregistered from
Hartford, Ala. yesterday among the
arrivals at The Allen.
W. T. Conn registered from Mil
ledgeviIle yesterday among the several
arrivals at The Windsor.
Mr.. James Galloway, the popular
representative of the Macon Telegraph,
was in the city yesterday.
Mrs. A. H. Wood, of Eatonton, is
visiting relatives in and near Americas
where she formerly resided.
Miss Miner Wooten, a charming
young lady of Buena Vista, was the
guest of Americus friends yesterday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-04-30
sEABOARD Is WORTH MILLIONS
Property In State of Georgia Alone Is
Worth S6,5Ol,151

Few people in Americas, perhaps,
realize the value of the Seaboard
SYSTEMS properties, that in Georgia
alone being worth more than six and a
half million dollars. Then add to this
the SYSTEMS properties in other states
and the total is more than double that
figure. Following are the valuations
placed on the different lines of the
Seaboard system in Georgia: Column
bus Southern 1861 1854; Georgia and
Alabama, 81, 854, 967; Georgia, Caro-
lima and Northern, 81, 1913, 1888; Florida
Central and Peninsular, 81, 458, 93S;
Seaboard Air Line Belt, 1866, 800;
MeldrIm Extension, $192, G49; Logans-
vile and Lawrenceville, $4,000; Alb
beville and Waycross, $151, 1898; Lyons
Branch, $3.50, 1854. Total valuation of
system So, sol, ISL.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-04-30
ACCEPTS PLANS FOR CHURCH.
Start Upon New Building Will Be
Made Soon.

The building committee of the First
Methodist Church of Americas, of
which Mr.. j. w. Shelf is president
and Mr., John Sheffield treasurer,
has just accepted plans submitted by
architect Denny, of Atlanta, and is
now prepafed to begin work upon the
new edifice. A call is made upon those
subscribing to the building furd to
pay their subscriptions to Treasurer
Sheffield. The plans accepted insure
to Americus very handsome church
edifice of pressed brick and gran
lite, costing $4,000. The committee has
been very successful IN raising money
for the building fund, the citizens of
Americas, of all denominations, sub
scribing thereto. It is hoped to have
the new house of worship completed
at no distant day.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-04-30
THE PITH AND POINT
OF WHAT IS SAID
By People of Americas in Various
Walks.
TALKED WHILE THEY TRADED
a Roundup Of The News and Gossip
of a Day Here in Americas = A
Bunch of Little Tales Whacked off
Quite Short.

Freezes SHERRY, pineapple and choco-
late, are served at Hudson's Drugstore.
Our handsome new fountain will arrive
shortly.
The price of cotton is still away up,
and any kind of good article will
bring 81 cents in Americas now. But
don't plant big crop.
If property owners on Jackson street
will not curb it with granite, why not
grade the street and require the plac
ing of wood curbing ?
That was a merry throng indeed
that went down to Wells Mill yester
day to fish dinner as guests of the
Americus Fishing Club.
Police Officer Barrow is again at his
post after having attended the veterans
reunion at Dallas and visited relatives
in the Lone Star State.
The candidate here now has his ey es
fixed upon next Wednesday, and in
his mad flight will run over everybody
except the festive voter.
Mr.. Wiley Williams, who is candi-
date for the Office of prison commits
sioner, was in Americus yesterday
mingling with his friends.
Just as we had settled our coal bills
and hoped to save a dollar, there
comes melting weather and the cease
less rattle of the ice wagon.
On and after today stoves and dia,
monds cannot be bought here after 6
p. m. The jewellers and hardware men
close at p. M, after today.
Taylor Walker, properly handcuffed,
was brought in from the Fifteenth dis
trict and jailed yesterday upon the
charge of larceny after trust.
With tomorrow comes May and the
bill collector, hand in hand, May
brings the picnic and the primary; the
bill man brings reproches only.
So far but three of the state house
candidates have invaded Sumter. And
yet some people complain that we
have nothing to be thankful for.
With the price of beef advancing,
and the oyster going out of business
today, the common citizen will have to
rely upon catfish and blackberries.
Passengers aboard trains entering
Americus express surprise at the
scores of darkeys along the banks OF
Muckalee. This is the catfish season
Mr.. S. M. Gordy, residing on Nc
Garrah street, is now bringing into
the local market some of the most
delicious strawberries seen here this
season.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-04-30
Want to Help Others.

81 had. a -stomach trouble all my
life," says Edw. Mehler, proprietor of
the Union Bottling Works, Erie, Pa.
and tried all kinds of remedies, went to
several doctors and spent considerable
money trying to get moments peace.
Finally l read of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
and have been taking it to my great
satisfaction, [ never found it's equal for
stomach trouble and gladly recommend
it in hope that I may help other suffer
ers." Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures all
stomach troubles. You don't have to
diet. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. digests
what you eat, W, A. Rembert,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-04-30
A VALUABLE MEDICINE

For Coughs and Colds in Children.
81 have not the slightest hesitancy
Recommending Chamberlain Cough
Remedy to all who are suffering from
coughs or colds" says Chas. M. GA
mer, Esq, we'll known watch maker,
of Colombo, Ceylon. cit has been some
two years since the City Dispensary
first called my attention to this valu-
able medicine and I have repeatedly
used it and it has always been bene-
fetal. Tt has cured me quickly of all
chest colds. 1t is especially effective
for children and seldom takes more
than one bottle to cure them of hoarse-
ness. [ have persuaded many to try
this valuable medicine, and they are
all as we'll pleased as myself over the
results" For said by all druggists.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-04-30
The Great Dismal Swami

OF Virginia is breeding ground OF
Malaria germs. So is low, wet or marshy
ground everywhere. These germs cause
weakness, chills and fever, aches in the
bones and muscles, and may induce dan
gernns maladies But Electric Bltters
never fail to destroy them and cure ma
larial troubles. They will surely pre-
vent typhold. eve tcied many remedies
for M alaria and Stomach and Liver
troubles" writes thn Charleston, Of
Byesville, O., "but never found any
thing as good as Electric Bitters." Try
them. Only SOC. The Eldridge Drug
Storos guarantee satisfaction.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-04-30
AN ARTIST IN HIS PROFESSION.
Lecturer Macy Charms All With
Matchless Eloauence.

A large audience, doubtless, will
greet Mr.. J. Williams Macy, the re
nowned lecturer, at the opera house
Thursday evening, as indicated by the
advance sale of seats at Hudson's
Mr.. Macy possesses vitality that pre-
possesses listeners from the start, and
his facial expression and mimIcry are
remarkable. He bubbles over with fun
and conYulses his hearers with merrl-
ment by his inimitable gestures and
vivid acting.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-04-30
GEO D. WHEATLEY GEO. D. WHEATLEY.
Nothing Threadbare About Our Arguments.

There's nothing threadbare about any argument that
possesses money saving meaning to buying public
Nothing flat, stale Improbable IN our ads No limp
the quick energetic stride that marks the progressive
Of this store Every section teeming with seasonabe
newnes every priced arrest attention and APP
take advantage of the trade that may again
Tn them your advantage. This Is goth century shop
keeping This the kind OF shop keeping you II find here
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-04-30
WHOLE PUSH IS GIVEN A DOSE
For Creating Disturbance at Col
ored FroIic.

A full score of young negroes were
lined up in police court Monday morn
ing upon the charge of having kicked
up disturbance at a colored enter
tainment night or two ago. AS the
"water cure" applied in any manner
whatever might have been attended
with fatal effect to the young Zulus,
they escaped with a fine and repri-
mand.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-04-30
Her Sons Life Saved by Chamberlain
Collie, Cholera and Dlarrhoea
Remedy.

"a neighbor ran in with bottle of
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy when my son was
suffering with severe cramps and was
given up as beyond hope by my regu-
lar physician, who stands high in his
profession. After administering three
doses of it, my son regained conscious
ness and recovered entirely within
twenty-four hours" says Mrs. Mary
Halter, Mt. Crawford, Va. This Rem
edy is for sale by all druggists.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-04-30
AMERICUs GOING TO COLUMBUS.
Public Schools and Sunday Schools to
Picnic There

1t is not at all improbable that
Americus may storm Columbus in
force at an early date, 1t is said that
a movement is on foot to give the 600
pupils of the public schools here a
Picnic, and the choice of many is a
visit to one of Columbus pretty parks.
1t is also stated that the various Sun
day schools here will unite with the
public schools, in which event mon
ster crowd of big and little folks will
INVADE the city of spIndles on the Chat
tahoochee. In the event the excursion
is arranged q party of at least a thous
and people would go.