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Identifier: strikerscommunis00pink (find matches)
Title: Strikers, communists, tramps and detectives
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884 Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 Tramps
Publisher: New York, G. W. Carleton & Co.
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y become, to keep postedon the current events of the day ; and tlierefore, whencommingling with other tramps, holds something of tlieposition of an oracle. The box-car, the hay-rick, thehedge, the arches of the road or railway bridge, the hen-roosts, are all familiar to him just as they are to all othertramps. Probably one of the greatest night rendezvous for tramp-printers in this country is at the Batterj^, in New York cityjin the summer. These careless fellows will hang about theprinting-offices, hide about for printers in luck to borrow a half-case (a half-dollar) from them, and sun themselvesin City Hall Square upon tlie benches until night. Thenthe police will drive them out, and, in company with thepan-jerkers—all that large class of loafers who subsistby rendering some slight service about restaurants—theybegin moving on. By eight oclock, down every approachto the lower part of the island, will be seen these squads oftramps straggling along to the Battery ; and by midnight
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TRAMP PRINTERS AJVB TRAMP ENCAMPMENTS. 57 Iiundreds will be asleep upon the benches, leaning againstlainp-ponts, stretched npon the ground, and even lying uponthe vvliari: with their ragged legs hanging over. The policepermit this, because they must go somewhere. There isnobody to be molested at the Battery at night. Nothingcan be stolen, for there is nothing to steal. And sothrongh the warm summer nights these outcasts have aplace that is secure from intrusion, and remain in undis-turbed possession until daylight, wlien the awakening lifeof the gi-eat city is the signal for the police to rouse them,and roughly move them on again, when they straggle awaynortli, past Trinity, to repeat their previous days strangeexperiences. Many statements are made as to the Freemasonry oftramping. I have been told by old knights of the road thatthese signs and pass-words were in use, but almost whollyamong those who have been born and bred tramps, andwhose fathers and mothers liave followed begging a

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