Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-09-19
NO PLACE
FOR WEARY Willie
Way Ticket" Method OF Hand
ling Tramp Problem Is Driv-
ing Them Out.

London. Special: The tramp prob
lem in the British Isles is i'm a fair
Way towards solution. The way tick
ct" method of dealing with vagrancy
is accomplishing a revolution. The
latest reports OF the working of the
system indicate that within a very few
years the ranks of the ragged medi-
cants on the highways of the united
kingdom will be reduced almost to
vanishing point.
The object of the way ticket" is to
give a better chance to the unennplov-
ed who really want work. and to make
the way of the professional tramp as
hard as possible. The man who wants
to work but is compelled to take to the
o d is taken into the %poorhouse at night
and released next morning instead OF
suffering the usual period of detention.
When leaving he is given u ticket
which entities him to a certain allow
ance OF bread and cheese along the
road he intends to take. He is also
put in touch with the local labor ex-
changes and everything possible is
done for him if he shows a genuine
desire to obtain work..
On the other hand. the habitual
tramp obtains short shrift. After
spending the night at the poorhouse
he susffers the usual period OF deten-
lIoI dIlO SctS lle dllOtIeQ TASK. F1n-
ally he is given the way ticket SO
that he has no Xcu for begging.
Very o the poorhouse masters be-
GIN to look askance at the man who
persfstently presents the ticket, and
his journey from village to village and
from p%oorhouse to %poorhouse in the
counties where the system prevails is
not made N too smooth. The tramp
finally seeks a county where this
method does not prevail. so these sane
tuaries are beginning to adopt the sys-
tenn as self-defense.
The system only becomes successful
when the h~ouseholders cooperate.
that, since all Migrants have access to
the bread tickets, there is no excuse for
giving o to beggars, and the tramps
who neglect to provide themselves with
the tickets are beginning to learn that
the circulars ave not fallen on barren
soil.
The difficulties of the clergymen and
social reforms of more enlightened
countries in their efforts to compel the
fair sex to put more cloth into their
skirts pale into insignificance beside
this troubles Of the local governor of
Inhambane, British Easts Africa, who
has almost cause q war by ordering
the native maidens to attire themselves
in European garb.
The order particularly insisted that
the native women should not appear In
public without skirts under pain Of
some grave penalty not specified.
Never was an apparently innocent
sumptuary law received with such an
outburst Of rebellion. The CONNER
cial council resigned in a body and the
Indian storekeepers who deal in the
ladies threatened to shut up shop in
protest. The native bellies took even
more drastic action by refusing to come
near lnhambane at all, with the result
that the town was soon in danger of a
famine in vegetables. eggs. poultry and
women who lived in town prepared to
leave.
The opposition became too hot for
the the governor, who withdrew the
obnoxious decree, and the bellies Of In
hambane again go about in their scant
native costumes.
The London Shakespeare league is
busy with a plan for erecting in ST.
Leonard's church, Shoreditch, a tablet
to the memory of the Elizabethan ac-
tors buried there. 1t is usual to think
Of Southwark Cathedral as the actors
church.. for 1T is there that Edmund,
the brother and fellow-actor of Shakes
peare. lies buried. But the first thea
tres were near Shoreditch, and it is
there that the early actors lie at rest.
All traces of the theatres have disap-
peared from the district; but, like many
places in London, one of the unlovely
streets perpetuates the Of de-
parted things by the name of Curtain
street.
The original actors church d:sap-
peared early in the 18th century, when
Dance designed the present structure
to take its place. The actors graves
have disappeared. but their names re-
main on the parish register. Among
them are those of Will Somers, who
delighted Henry VIII and his court.
and who is believed to nave been the
original Yorick. and James Burbage,
who built the first English theatre
and his brother Richard, friend of
Shakespeare. Still another name. re-
calling the Elizabethan thespains. liz
cut in gilt letters on the altar, that of
Nicholas Wilkinson. alias Tooley. an
actor whom Shakespeare knew. He left
$40 to be distributed each year to the
poor of HI parish. The poor get the
money to this day. so one actor at
least is not forgotten.
"eAcK TO AFRICA" HIS CRY.