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It does not differ appreciably from the problem of human
laziness in any other shape or age. We got some light on that, which
ought to convince anybody, when under Mayor Strong's administration
we tried to deal intelligently with vagrancy. One-half of the
homeless applicants for night shelter were fat, well-nourished
young loafers who wouldn't work. That is not my statement, but
the report of the doctor who saw them stripped, taking their bath.
The bath and the investigation presently decreased their numbers,
until in a week scarcely anything was left of the "problem" that
had bothered us so.
Four days I was on the way to Philadelphia, living on apples and
an occasional meal earned by doing odd jobs. At night I slept in
lonely barns that nearly always had a board ripped out--the tramps'
door. I tried to avoid the gang, but I was not always successful.
I remember still with a shudder an instance of that kind. I was
burrowing in a haymow, thinking myself alone. In the night a big
storm came up. The thunder shook the old barn, and I sat up wondering
if it would be blown away.


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