Part 4 — INDEX
Reading edition
“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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