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Last year 73 volumes were missing from the reading-room shelves at the end of the year--such books as Story's "Commentaries," 2 volumes; Adams's "Life of John Adams"; Thayer's "Cases on Constitutional Law"; Drake's "Landmarks of Boston"; Dowden's "Studies in Literature"; Abbott's "Shakespearean...
Tramps may be divided into three classes,--those looking for employment; those pretending to look for employment; and "innocents," or criminals who disguise themselves in the manners and appearance of ignorant vagrants.
In order that cases might be investigated before becoming too flagrant, bodies of state officers should be instituted, who should know the names and records of offenders. Furthermore, if fewer peddling licenses were issued, if police stations were closed to tramps who might better be confined in places where work...
The Social Service Committee will hold its first conference of the year at 7.30 o'clock this evening in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, when Mr. B. C. Marsh will speak on "The Tramp, a Luxury." Mr. Marsh has lived for years among tramps in both Europe and America, studying...
Several men are acting in the industrial and religious work at the Boston Industrial Home, an institution at which tramps are given food and shelter in return for work. About twelve men are teaching in the Chinese Sunday School on Beacon Hill. Chinamen come there at first to learn the...