The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-07-16

YE HOBOES
The Police Begin Crusade
Against Knights Of the
Railroad Ties.
ALL vAGS COUNTED IN.
While Seekers After Work Are
Kindly Dealt With, Impostors
Get Frozen Faca.

Notice has gone out from the head
quarters Of the Hobo Journeymens
union. formerly very Strong in Ham
mond, to steer clear and give this
burg a wide berth. The police have
started a crusade against the cripple
that is not, the deaf and dumb man
that can hear and speak, and the
bachelor who has sick wife and fam
lily to support and can't get work be-
cause he won't look for it. Not only
these people will be yaken care of. but
all the vags found along the railroads
will be sent to Crown Point and given
enough work to keep them busy all
summer.
Yesterday was a busy day for the
knights Of the Road, and one of them
who gave his name as Edward Wood,
with no visible home or visible means
of support, pleaded guilty to being a
vag before Judge Mcmahon and was
fined S11. Being unable to pay, he
will work out the kinks in his bones
at Carter's villa at Crown Point.
Four men were given sleeping quar-
ters at the police station last night
but they were not vagrants. but un-
fortunates seeking work. Two were
young fellows trying to get as many
miles as they could between themselves
and the metropolis of Chicago, and
two were doing their best to get to
that burg to get job.
"Put Me OF at Buffalo,
| Harold Costine. Is years of age, $50
Eagle street, Buffalo, n. Y. and his
chum, w. j. Winkler, II years of age,
110 South Division street. the same
city, thought several weeks ago that
they could make fortune IN few
minutes in Chicago, but they don't
think so now. They shipped with a
number OF other fellows on contract
job in Porktown and they had not been
in the big city but short while
when they wished themselves back in
the pretty New York city. They had
no money for railroad fares, so they
tried to make it by hoofing it over
the railroad ties. They arrived in
Hammond last night foot-sore and
hungry and they applied at the police
station. They were fed and given a
place to sleep, and this morning tried
to hunt up some work to earn enough
money to pay their fare the rest OF
the way.
Chicago For These.
Pete Trowhowick and George Chat
mare were just the opposite OF the two
other boys who occupied the same beds
with them. Pete came all the way
from Monessa, Pa, and George came
along from Clinton, La, because work
was very slack in both places. They
heard of the many good jobs waiting
for good men in Chicago and so it was
over the road for them. Although they
had but a short distance to go, they
were compelled to make a stop-ovel
in Hammond, and rather than be taker
for hobos they sought the police sta
tion at once. They were sent on THEN
way this morning. and it is hoped thai
they Will find their golden goal al
that they think it may be.
But the vags, they Will not be treat
ed so leniently. and they will feel the
full force Of the justice in Hammond
No fairy tales win so as to intentions
and they viii have to show Chic
Rimhach the broken legs and arms
Hereafter they Will stick TO the freigh
cars when they pass through Ham
mond.