The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-06
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selling tickets for sweet charity, are not
apt 20 assay any better Than the middle aged
Ssmpargnora OF their sex who, rerfoTce,
seek tho aid ~ sober color and Kindly
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constitute a reliable introduction. Too
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and Lesbos
There IL a rectal warning against the
-yeggs" who have been fattening on mis-
placed charity 10 Texas sver since the food
at Galveston.
Forbes, and especially in cities and towns,
imposture in the name Of the San Fran
cisco calamity will probably be attempted
In most instances by means OF bogus sub
ecripuon lists and collections for bogus
charities, tire selling Of tickets for enter
tainments engineered by professional
charity promoters and the irresponsible
pleas Of Missionaries and i'll balanced per-
sons Of perhaps good intentions; the pro-
f~essional tramp and mendicant must by
no means be overlooked. He NAV be
derended upon TO operate energetically
and extensively in his particular field.
1t is undoubtedly true that at the present
time some thousands Of professional yegg
tramps and m~endicants Of both sexes,
and more especially those who usually
oonfne their operations to the middle
West and Southwest. are on their way
to or are already invading the State Of
California, which has long sheltered a
large aggregation Of impostors of the
tramp mendicant type. 1t is said by those
in a position to kno that the Galveston
disaster was the direct means of increasing
by several thousands the criminal popu-
lation Of Texas. Criminals Of all types,
but more especially mendicants of the
yegg class, attracted by the excitement
and the possibilities Of loot, focked into
Texas, found climatic conditions salts
factory and the people generous and
have since saddled themselves perma-
nently upon the community.
In California climatic conditions are
In great part as favorable to the yegg
as in Texas, while the careless generosity
Of the people is pI abably eve greater
than that of the Texan. San Francisco,
TOO, with It's reputation OF being q wide
open town, has always been popular with
tie tramp, and has produced a large mum
Der Of yeggs and other criminals who
rank high in the world Of crime. Only
the long jumps between San Francisco
and Sacramento or San Francisco and
Los Angeles, the nearest large cities, and
the hardships Of making the mountain
divisions Of the transoontinental railroad
systems have stood in the way Of giving
San Francisco a popularity among tramps
second only to that Of New York. 1t may
be asserted confidently that the plague
OF begging impostors of all types. now
Invading California, irresistibly attracted
by the excitement incident to the destruc-
ton Of a great city, the momentary dis
organization Of social forces and the
human impossibility Of guarding efficiently
and humanely against impostors at such
a time, will for years to come impose on
the generous credulity OF the West