The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-10-21
Tramns Are Moyina East.

During the recent search through
the southern part of Norfolk for the
Meadow Grove bank robbers, it was
found that the army of tramps COM
monty known as "hoboes" by the rail-
road employees and police authorities,
is moving from the west and north.
west to the large eastern cities, where
in the cold weather 5 and 10-cent lodg-
ing houses which give a free break
! fast can be patronized. They find that
at this season the call of the least"
is strons. CUld weather is upon them
and they must get under cover. They
came from the south and east last
spring when the weather became
warm. They slowly beat their way
west, always giving the authorities the
same reply:
Il am going west to work IN the
harvest fields" while now the old
story is told the authorities:
Il am going back home to Illinois,
or Ohio to my home. l have been
working in the wheat fields" or 81
have been a miner"
Their hands are soft as a WOmans
probably not as clean, but soft. The
, marks of the pick have not callOused.
In reality the hobo is going to Chi
cago, Omaha, st. Louis, and Kansas
City where the soup houses have beeL
imprinted in his dreams for the past
month. Norfolk is division point in
the long trail of the hobo. He has
come from nearly every part of. the
west and northwest. The brakemen
on freight trains have pulled scores
of them from box cars and driven
, them into the many reserves which
! they haunt at South Norfolk. The
freight brakeman is the hobo's ene-
my. Among the victims of the hook
worm, whose symptoms are extreme
indiffere nee to work." the brakeman is
known as the Shake"
When the Shake" is busy spotting
cars in the night and endeavoring to
throw" the hobo from the train at
some lonely station during the dis
NAL hours, the glittering of the Ian
terms is hideous sight, as far as Mr..
| Weary is concerned.
! According to Chief of Police Mar
quardt and Constable Finkhouse, the
hobo is a harmless creature, but is
put in bad light" by the real"
crooks who take advantage by protect.
ing themselves travelling with the
harmless hobo.
According to these omcIaIs. as
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manity haunt the secluded spots near
the railroad yards at the Junction each
day. They have come from various
parts of the west. They usually have
cTipples among their number who dc
the stunt" and earn enough for beer
and "eats" which, the authorities say
they take to their haunts at South
Norfolk and enjoy their feed On
many occasions they have as many as
three kegs of beer, and should they
be able to steal chicken or two, the
hnl"e eve has been punctured.
A visit 10 the junction recently cor
roborates the officials story. Durinl
one night, the authorities took as
many as fifteen tramps from the vari
GUS cars passing through the city
These had on that occasion attempted
to make Norfolk a stopping place fo
the night, but they were sent on thei
way, A visit to the hobo camps
found number of empty beer kegs
empty preserved meat cans an,
whisky bottles, remains of some nigh
debauches Chief Marquardt says /
is impossible to guard the railroad
yards and South Norfolk at the sam
time, while it keeps one man yer,
busy in the business section of MOI
folk.
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