The Cairo bulletin., 1911-05-27
STATE.
PL ANS ON FOOT TO RID NEW
YORK OF $4,000 HOBO
ARMY
Costs S1o,ooo,ooo Yearly to Maintain
Them in ldIentss and Crime
Clcth Makers Object to
aHobbIe Skirt

New York May 2G-There is gloom
among the members OF the ancielt
if not royal order OF tgamps, for
plans are now under way to make
New York the first trampless state
in the country and 10 change it from
the paradise of panhanders, which it
now is, to a territory to be summed
by every professional hobo. Of the
100000 tramps in the whole country
figures show that about $4,000 Of
tnis army Of social parasites are
always to be found in this state
alone. More than $2,0oo,o 900 year
| is spent in this state for the mann
tenance or this army in jails and
other institutions, while the cost OF
the damage to property and crimes
| committed together with general
| contributions brings the total up to
$10,000,000. While the plan by
| which it is proposed to wipe out
| this wasteful expenditure and at the
same time eliminate the tramp prob
lem has never been tried In this
| country it has proven SO successful
abroad that there is no doubt as TO
| it's efficiency here. 1t proposes to
| establish somewhere in the state a
tramp farm colony to which vagrancs
| can be sent and where the produces
of their labor will be used towar's
| their maintenance. The professional
hobo for whom work has no attrac-
lions will doubtless give the state a
wide berth while those sent to the
farm will be given an opportunity to
| become useful citizens. The most
| successful of these colonies abroad
actually makes money, and 1t Is be-
| lieved that a similar result could be
accomplished here. The matter is
now before the Legislature In the
form of bill providing for the ac-
quirement of the necessary land and
within about one minute after It's
| passage there is certain to occur the
greatest tramp exodus which this
state has ever known
Cloth Makes Protest.
That the hand that shapes feminine
fashion rules large part of the I'm
dustrial world and gives to a woman a
mighty power even though she has
not achieved the ballot, is the sor-
rowful complaint which is now being
made here by manufacturers of all
sorts of dress fabrics who assert
| hat women do NOT wear enoHgh
clothes mondays, to which fact they
attribute the decrease OF their bust
ness. The charges however, is not
against the number Of dresses since
that is undoubtedly greater than be-
| fore. but rather against their size
AMI whatever the fashion makers OF
the feminine world in general may
feel concerning the hobble skirt
and the harelk skirt, the dress goods
producers are bitter in their denun
| citation as the chief cause of Their
| present situation. The denunciation
however has nothing to do with
moral grounds, but simply with the
amount of goods necessary to make
one Of these garments as compared
to the amount needed for a gown oil
the style Of a few years ago. This
decrease amounts to about forty per
cent say the producers, resulting
| in business shrinkage of abuot
$200,000,000 u year Tn addition
| they cite the tendency toward fewer
| petticoals as another cause Of gloom
However, feminine dictates, and no,
| protestations of manufacturers, are
| likely TO settle this controversy in
spite of the amount Of money in
solved. 4 wWE