Chapter XVII: Missions and Welfare Agencies

62. “Visit to Bible Rescue Mission,” Nels Anderson’s
experience, spring, 1922.

63. _Salvation Army Revival_, Sherman O. Cooper.

64. Case of “X” at the Bible Rescue Mission, bears public
testimony to former badness.

65. Ex-bum and wife deserter, graduate foreign university,
steady man now.

66. Mission worker, “saved” twenty years ago, was alcoholic
and a failure, in business now.

67. German, Madison Street bum, came into mission to get
warm, got religion, left old life.

68. Ex-drunkard, often thrown out of mission, finally got
converted and is a new man.

69. Young man, mission “stiff,” easily converted, became a
“backslider” next day.

71. Wife deserter, mission hanger-on, clean, erect, active
but avoids work.

99. Letter by Bill Quirke to _Hobo News_ on missions in Los
Angeles. He assails missions.

118. Ex-soldier in Legion headquarters, trying to get job
on strength of army experience.

143. _Study of Missions and Mission Characters_, L. G.
Brown, 1923.

156. _A Study of Missions_, H. D. Wolf, August, 1922.

APPENDIX A. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

128. Unpublished materials by Nels Anderson, covering his
study of 400 tramps, 230 typewritten pages.

144. _Study of 110 Runaway Boys in Chicago Detention Home_,
F. C. Frey and B. W. Bridgman, 1922.

148. “Outline of Program for the Prevention and Treatment
of Vagrancy,” prepared by the Committee on Relief of the
Chicago Council of Social Agencies, and submitted to the
Executive Committee of the Council, June 13, 1918.

154. Responses to requests for information on the homeless
man problem from social agencies in the larger American
cities.