INDEX
- “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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