Chapter IV: “getting By” in Hobohemia

4. Jewish hobo, parasitic philosophy, middle-aged, begs from
Jewish agencies in all cities.

5. Transient dreamer, twenty-seven, known to many agencies
in different cities.

6. Boy in teens, Jewish, moves with ease from agency to
agency, good solicitor.

7. City bum, twenty-four, petty robber, works occasionally,
jail experience.

8. “Fat,” a panhandler with a self-justifying philosophy,
works on favorable jobs.

9. Englishman, forty-one, paralyzed arm, alcoholic,
mendicant, was a bricklayer.

89. Faker, Bulgarian, forty-five, plays deaf and dumb,
“works” restaurants.

90. Home-guard bum, sixty-nine, works at odd jobs, often
mendicant, drinks some.

95. Ex-soldier, funds about gone, going East for work,
clean, sober, “working” charities.

97. Boy tramp, eighteen, left home to avoid school, wants
to be engineer, works.

98. Two young men temporarily without money and work,
adjusted in a few days.

102. City bum, thirty-five, talkative, lazy and unkempt,
mendicant much of time.

103. Away from family for work, gets money from wife, loafs,
later returns home.

104. Jewish tramp, sells papers, tin worker, served time in
jail for wife desertion.

111. Loafs, fat, unattractive, works some, not welcome home;
his family sends him money.

112. Well-to-do sister ashamed of him, sends him money; he
calls it “borrowing.”

113. Beggar with a philosophy, condemns peddlers who beg
part of time, works occasionally.

123. Spanish war and world-war veteran, forty-six,
compensation, tries to go to school.

131. Description of life with the “slum proletariat” by one
of them.

152. _Mendicancy in Chicago_, Melvin L. Olsen, December,
1919.

155. _Case Studies of Beggars in Chicago_, Joseph Arnsdorff,
December 16, 1919.

161. Statement from the secretary of the Mid-City Commercial
Association on the hobo problem.