Arizona republican., 1910-02-25
HosoEs DE LUXE.
Instead of Hitting the Ties They Ride
 in the Coaches.

Tn the army of the intentionally | unemployed there is a snondescript ' battalion at the edge of the Forests in | this northwestern country" says a
 writer in the St. Paul Pioneer. :'aRd in the wooded parts of Canada north of
 Lake Superior that prosecutes each
 year a unique campaign against hon | est toil
 "The maneuvers- are unlike those of ! the trampS who. as inclination ] prompts or luck permits. meander i hither and yon in box cars or on
 brake beams. trucks or cowcatchers. ] The members of this odd fraternity of
 the timbered lands. by a peculiar
 system which they work right craftily. have their generous appetites amply
 satisfied and ride about in cushioned
 day coaches or tourist sleepers and
 do not do a lick of work or pay one
 cent for all they get
 The approach of winter brings
 this peculiar type of tramp to the
 fore He appears ostensibly as an applicant for labor in the woods. The lumberjack has the long end of the
 bargain, would he bat take it. He is offered bigger wages than men of l
 patton in the winter, but an odd op- eration of his odd mind prevents him l eff he is one of the laggards in the
 army) from seeing it that way. Per ! haps it is mere vulgar desire to get something for nothing that directs him. Perhaps it is ambition to prove himself of surpassing astuteness. Whatever his motive his methods | r H.. better than the man catcher. Man
 catcher? No, there is no peonage in | the forests of the north. At least
 none has been disclosed. The man
 catcher. however. is an established in-
 stitution. He is not a kidnaper He
 is the legitimate right arm of the re- cruiting service of this army of the
 woods-the strong right arm. Bigger | by good deal than the bouncer in a barroom or d gaming house. his du 1 ties are far more arduous and diff
 cult to perform.
 "The man who kindly-it is. as
 matter of fact a sort of condescension offers to do his share toward the | satisfaction of the always big de- mand for men to reap the harvest of
 logs. makes declaration of his in- | tention to an employment agent in the Twin Cities or Duluth. Forth with he is on easy street-for him.
 He gets meal ticket one which he can eat until a gang is made up,
 and then he receives al ticket to the town nearest the point where the timber cutting Is to be done If he | is broke. he is likely to receive enough money for the simple incidentals he | requires.
 Tt is the man catcher's business to see to it that the laborer thus en- ! listed does not go astray. His task | is herculean, especially hard when ! the train or boat upon which, the gang of men have taken passage hears it's destination. There is q reasonable tendency among these rough men to do what. in this quar- ter is called 'yump the yOb.' Although the reasons are not always apparent and the actions sometimes are at tributable to whim or habit. it is usually the case that the 'yob' is
 yumped so that the 'yumper may avoid paying for his transportation. For it is the custom i'm the timber tracts to deduct from the first wage the amount it has cost the lumber company to get the laborer to the field of operation.
 If he is real hobo of the woods, one of the many who have no inten- ton of working, and is clever enough to elude the man catcher. he thus is l enabled to move about from place to | place under unusually favorable con- ditions for a tramp and at the ex- pense of the employment agencies and l employers. Tramps of criminal | bent also find this system a cheap | and easy means of moving about from l one profitable field to another"