Word: wilhelmsdorf
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...houseless beggars, drunkards, and discharged prison convicts, - though there are men of all classes to be found. Certainly there has been a great decrease of tramps in Germany since they were founded. There are various excellent characteristics to these institutions. In the the first place they are small, - Wilhelmsdorf, the largest, having room for but two hundred colonists. The system must be limited and personal to be effective. Then they are friendly and unofficial and endeavor to be domestic. Again, most of the tramps stay but a short time and leave for some fixed occupation, though sometimes they come back...
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