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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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awaiting him his expressbundle, forwarded l)y himself, perhaps months before. Here he also gets hismail and disposes of the loot (postagestamp, etc.) that he ha,s accunnilated onhis trip. These places are all known tothe police and are usually licpior storeswith cheap lodging houses attached, inthese dens the yeggman, when he isflush, is indeed King of the Hobos.He spends his money freely and enjoys ageneral del)auch until lack of funds forceshim to set out on another campaignagainst society. The yegg outfit usually consists ofthree or four men and one to two boys,and, in some instances, a woman. Thereis the leader, usually known as the soup-man and two or three assistants. Hutthe greatest aid to the operations of thegang is the boy, known as the gay-cat. And right here is the great tragedy ofthe situation. The gay-cat is usuallysome i^oor little crippled chap, jHcked uparound a railroad town after he has lost aleg or an arm flipping cars. Or per-haps he is some hunch-backed or other-
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