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BIBLIOGRAPHY

HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY OF WANDERLUST AND VAGRANCY

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THE LABOR MARKET AND INDUSTRIAL MOBILITY

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THE PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND VAGRANCY

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Eradication,” _Annals of the Amer. Acad. of Pol. and Soc.
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Massachusetts Association of Relief Officers, _Report on
Best Methods of Dealing with Tramps and Wayfarers_, 1901.

“The Men We Lodge,” _Report of the Advisory Social Service
Committee of the Municipal Lodging House_. New York City:
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NICHOLS, MALCOLM, “National Aspects of the Transient
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OSTWALD, HANS OTTO, _Die Bekämpfung der Landstreicherei_.
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_Report of the Commissioner of Public Affairs._ Portland,
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_Report of the Mayors Committee on Unemployment._ New York
City: 1917. Pp. 132.

WOLFE, ALBERT B., _The Lodging Problem in Boston_. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1906. Pp. 200.

THE I.W.W. AND THE CASUAL LABORER

BROOKS, JOHN GRAHAM, _American Syndicalism_. New York:
Macmillan, 1913. Pp. 264.

BRISSENDEN, PAUL F., _The I.W.W.: A Study of American
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_Preamble and Constitution of the I.W.W._ Chicago: General
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ST. JOHN, VINCENT, _The I.W.W., Its History, Structure and
Methods_. Chicago: The Equity Press.

TRIDON, ANDRÉ, _The New Unionism_. New York: Huebsch, 1913.
Pp. 198.

MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF THE HOBO AND THE TRAMP

BROWN, EDWIN A., _“Broke,” the Man without a Dime_. Chicago:
Brown & Howell, 1913. Pp. 370.

DAVIES, WILLIAM H., _Autobiography of a Super-Tramp_. New
York: A. A. Knopf, 1917. Pp. 345.

ELLIS, HAVELOCK, _Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sex
Inversion_. II, 391. Philadelphia: Davis, 1915.

FORBES, JAMES, “Jockers and the Schools They Keep,”
_Charities Survey_, XI (1903), 432.

FLYNT (WILLARD), JOSIAH, _My Life_. New York: Outing
Publishing Co., 1908.

FLYNT (WILLARD), JOSIAH, _Tramping with Tramps_. New York:
Century, 1899. Pp. 398.

HOWARD, OLIVER OTIS (Maj. Gen., U.S. Army), “The Menace of
Coxyism,” _North Amer. Rev._, CLVIII (1894), 687-96.

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Kennerley, 1914. Pp. 140.

KEMP, HARRY, _Tramping on Life_. New York: Boni &
Liveright, 1922. Pp. 438.

KNIBBS, H. H., _Songs of the Outlands_. New York: Houghton,
Mifflin Co., 1914. Pp. 73.

LINDSAY, VACHEL, _Handy Book for Beggars_. New York:
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224.

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_Forum_, XV, 753.

MCGREGOR, TRACY W., _Twenty Thousand Men_. Detroit:
McGregor Institute, 1922. Pp. 29.

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SERVICE, ROBERT W., _The Spell of the Yukons_. New York:
Barse & Hopkins, 1907. Pp. 99.

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Scribners, 1897. Pp. 270.

WYCKOFF, W. A., _The Workers: The West_. New York:
Scribners, 1898. Pp. 380.

STUDIES OF THE HOMELESS MAN IN CHICAGO

ANDERSON, NELS, “Cases Studies of Homeless Men in Chicago”
(typewritten manuscript in office of Chicago Council of
Social Agencies and Department of Sociology, University of
Chicago).

ANDERSON, NELS, “The Juvenile and the Tramp,” _Journal of
Criminal Law and Criminology_, Vol. XIV (1923-24).

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_Report and Handbook of the Department of Health of the
City of Chicago_ (1911-18), pp. 1076-81.

“Fifty Cheap Lodging Houses,” _First Semi-Annual Report of
the Department of Public Welfare of Chicago_ (March, 1915),
pp. 66-73.

FOLEY, R. W., “The Shifting Population of Homeless Men
and the Cheap Lodging House” (typewritten manuscript of
twenty-nine pages in Department of Sociology, University of
Chicago).

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Markets Commission on a Practical Program for Relieving
Destitution and Unemployment in the City of Chicago_,
December 28, 1914.

ROBINS, RAYMOND, “What Constitutes a Model Municipal
Lodging House,” _Proceedings of the National Conference of
Charities and Correction_ (1904), pp. 155-66.

SOLENBERGER, ALICE W., _One Thousand Homeless Men_. New
York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1911. Pp. 374.

STEAD, WILLIAM T., _If Christ Should Come to Chicago_[74]
Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1894. Pp. 463.

FOOTNOTES:

[74] The first chapter describes the homeless-man areas of 1893.

INDEX

INDEX

“A No. 1,” 100

Adler, Herman M., 73

Agencies, conflicting policies of, 15

Alcoholism, 66, 67, 134-35

American Express, 166

American Legion, 260

Ashleigh, Charles, 205

Association of hobo with women, 138

Associations: I.B.W.A., 230, 235-40;
I.W.W., 230-35;
J.P.A., ix;
M.W.U., 230

Atkins, Brigadier J. E., 171, 180-81

Attitude of perverts, 148

Ball, Charles B., 260

Ballot, hobo regard for, 153

Barber colleges, 37-38

Barrel-house, 27

Begging, 47, 49, 50

Bills of fare on “stem,” 34

Bloch, Iwan, 144

Boarding companies, 130-31

Bookstore, 38

Borrowing, 49

Boy tramp, and perversion, 145;
and wanderlust, 83

Boyd, Charles J., 120

Boys and tramp life, 85

Bread lines, 258

Brennan, Pat, 208

“Bughouse Square,” 9-10

Bum, the, 98

“Carrying the banner,” 53

Catholic charities, 259

Christian Industrial League, 27-28, 260

Chicago, a winter shelter, 12-13

Chicago labor exchange, 12, 110

Chicago plan for homeless men, 271-79

Chicago Urban League, 259

Civil authorities and tramp, 163-64

Clearing house for homeless men, 122, 136

Clothing stores, 35-36

“Coffee-an’” level, 40

Cooking in jungles, 22-23

College,” “Hobo, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177, 227, 237

Construction work, 107

Court experience of hobo, 165-66

Criminal, hobos not, 164-65

Crises in life of person, 77-79

Crop moving, 107

Cubicles or “cages,” 30

Dawes, General C. G., 28

Day in the jungles, 21-25

Dragstedt, A. W., 25 n., 171, 177-78, 212

Drug addicts, 67-68;
not hobos, 69

Educating the proletariat, 219

Egocentricity, 74-76

Ellis, Havelock, 144

Employment agencies, comparison of, 115-17;
private, 111-12;
public, 114-16

Employment service, need of, 122

Evangelists and soap-boxers, 217

Faking, street, 43

Farmer-Labor Party, 152

Flops, co-operative, 238-39

Flynt, Josiah, 94, 146

Fortune-tellers, 39

“Free-lance” speakers, 216, 218

Free-union marriages, 141-42

“Getting by,” a game, 57;
meaning of, 40-41

Giovannitti, Arturo, 201

Grafts, old and new, 44

Grant Park, in summer, 11

Greenstein, “Mother” 139, 171, 183-84

Handicapped men, 125-28

Harvey-Dammarell hotels, 28-29

Harvey-McGuire hotels, 28

“Hat trick,” the, 45-46

Hazards of casual work, 129

Health Department, 131, 132, 133

Healy, William, 70

Hill, Joe, 208, 209

Hobo, definition of, 87-89;
and drink, 135;
and exposure, 136;
health in town, 131-33;
hostility to in small town, 26;
names for, 93;
nativity of, 150-51;
origin of, 88;
pioneer, and frontiersman, 92;
poor beggar, 49;
and religion, 262;
status of, 167;
voting, 151-52;
what he reads, 187-89;
worker, 91

Hobohemia, defined, 3

“Hogan’s Flop,” 31-33

Home, why men leave, 61 ff.

Home guard, 96-97;
types of, 100-101

Homeless men, and the law, 154;
mostly unmarried, 137

Horsley, Dan, 171, 175-77

Housing problem, 39

How, James Eads, 88, 172, 174, 175, 239

I.B.W.A., 230, 235-40;
Holding Committee, 237-38;
origin of, 235-36;
program of, 236-37

Industrial attractions, 62;
fishing, 107;
ice harvesting, 108;
lumbering, 108;
sheep-shearing, 107-8

Industrially inadequate, 65

Industry, changes in, 62-63;
hazards of, 65-66

I.W.W., 230-35;
literature list, 187-88;
methods and appeal, 232-34;
origin of, 230;
periodicals, 191;
program, 231;
treatment in Chicago, 235;
treatment by Ku Klux Klan, 191

“Jack rolling,” 5, 51-52

Jewish Social Service Bureau, 259

Job hunting, 109

Jobs sold, estimate of, 111

Jockers, 103

Johnson, Glenn R., 72

Jungle, buzzard, 103;
a day in, 21-25;
democracy in, 19;
laws of, 20-21;
location and types of, 16-17;
on lake front, 10;
trial in, 24-25;
womanless, 18

Juvenile Protective Association, ix

Kelihor, T. T., 160

Kelly, John X., 171, 173-74, 242, 243-46

Kemp, Harry, 196, 199

“Killing time,” 215-16

Klein, Nicholas, 88

Knibbs, H. H., 198

Lady barbers, 38

Langsman, Charles W., 171, 178-79

Laubach, F. C., 126

Leadership in Hobohemia, 184

Lescohier, Don D., 119

Library privileges, 185

Life, loss of, 161-62

Light work, 129

Living, cheap in city, 13

Lodging-houses, municipal, 127, 134, 260-61;
quasi-charitable, 27-28;
sanitary conditions of, 131-32;
types of, 27

Medical attention, free, 13;
on the job, 130

Melis, Lewis, 206

Mental tests, 71-73

Migratory Workers’ Union, 230, 240-41;
aims and objects, 241, 247

Miller, H. A., 82 n.

Missions, 250-58;
converts of, 253-54;
competition between, 250;
migratory national, 252;
permanent local, 251;
soliciting funds, 252;
“wild cat,” 253

Mission stiffs, 98, 103

Mobility, complicates problem, 15;
effects of, 120, 248-49;
of handicapped men, 128

“Mooching,” 50

Movies and burlesque, 37

Mullenbach, James, 260

Municipal Lodging House (Chicago), 260-61;
(New York), 127, 134

Mushfaker, 99

Myers, Dr. Johnston, 171, 181-83

National program, 270

Negro hobos, 8

New York Central Railroad, 166

_News, Hobo_, 177, 185, 186, 187, 192

Odd jobs, in city, 41

Old men, 69

“One Big Union,” 231

Open forums, 226-28

Organizations among hobos, 230;
failure of, 247-49

“Panhandling,” 50

Park, R. E., 82 n.

Partnerships among hobos, 147

Passing the hat, 223

Patriotism, 151

Pawn shops, 36

Peddling on street, 42

Personal degradation, 57, 65

Personality, defects of, 72-76

Perversion among tramps, 144-47

Pintner and Toops, 71, 72 n.

Poems and ballads, 194-214;
“Away from Town,” 199-200;
“Beaten Men,” 205;
Bum,” “The, 201-2;
Bum on the Rods and the Bum on the Plush,” “The, 202;
Dishwasher,” “The, 201-2;
Gila Monster Route,” “The, 194-96;
“Harvest War Song,” 208;
Hobo Knows,” “The, 203;
Hobo’s Last Lament,” “The, 212;
“Men That Don’t Fit In,” 204;
“No Matter Where You Go,” 213-14;
“Nothing to Do But Go,” 198-99;
“One Day; Some Way,” 205;
“Optimism,” 213;
“Portland County Jail,” 211;
Preacher and the Slave,” “The, 210;
Slave Market,” “The, 206-7;
Tramp,” “The, 209;
Tramp Confession,” “The, 196-98;
Wanderer,” “The, 206

Police, encounters with hobos, 156-58;
methods of, 155, 160, 164;
private, 155;
types of, 154-55

Poorhouse, aversion of hobo to, 56;

Population, turnover in Hobohemia, 13-14

Program for future action, 279

“Proletariat,” 176

Property, destruction of, 161

Prostitutes, “second raters,” 143

Prostitution, 142-43

Punk, 99, 103

Queen, Stuart A., 26 n.

Racial discrimination, 81

Radical press, 186

Raid on jungles, 23-24

Railroad yards, 8

Reitman, Ben L., 87, 102, 134 n., 143, 171, 172-73

Religion, practical, 182;
and love, 179;
and work, 180

Restaurants and lunchrooms, 33-35;
sanitary conditions of, 35

Robins, Raymond, 260

Rountree, B. Seebohm, 64 n.

Sabotage, 121

Saloons, 38-39

Salvation Army, 27-28, 250, 260

Scissor Bill, 99

Seasonal fluctuations, 63

Seasonal workers, 89-90

Second-hand clothing, 35-36

Service, Robert W., 203

Sex isolation of hobo, 144, 149

Seymour, James, 200

Short jobs, 118-19

Sickness and disease, 133

Soap-boxers, ethics and tactics of, 222-24;
and opinion, 228-29;
his rôle on stand, 229;
versatility of, 224-26

Social center for hobos, 11;
in the jungles, 16, 26

Solenberger, Alice W., 9 n., 71, 87, 125-26

_Solidarity_, the _Industrial_, 190-91

State farm colony, 277

Stealing, petty, 51

Street speaking, 216-20;
lectures, 220

Strike jobs, 120-21

Summary and findings, 265-79

Terman, L. M., 71 n.

Testimonies of converts, 256

Thornburn, Charles, 205

Tramp, the, 93-95

Tramping, a man’s game, 137

Tucker, St. John, 87

Tugwell, Rexford, 82

Types, rendezvous of, 5, 7, 9;
of homeless men, 105;
numbers of each in Chicago, 105-6;
of peddlers, 42-43

Unemployables, 104

Unemployment, 64-65

United Charities, 259

Vagrancy, explanation of, 85-86;
in small towns, 163

Van de Water, John, 171, 179-80

Vaudeville, 37

Venereal disease, 133-34

Walsh, Michael C., 171, 174-75, 242

Wanderlust, 82-83

Welfare organizations, 259-60

Westbrook, Warden Wesley, 165

White, Henry A., 203

Winter, “getting by” in, 52-53

Women and homeless men, 138-42

Work, a national problem, 121-22

“Working the folks,” 46-47

Writings of hobos, 188-90

Younger hobos, 140-41

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