Closed The Bridge

Smce its organization last suminer the Anti-Tramp society has applied the "labor test" in the fonn of a saw-buck to several hundred tramps. At least four out of five, however, prefer to live by begging, and are looking for work only to avoid it. Although the fact that many people still persist in feeding tramps, instead of sending them to the engine house on Huron street, hinders the society's usefulness, yet the offlcers believe that nauch good has been done. Mr. Clark, superintendent of the hospital, and others who reoeive many applications from tramps, think that their number hereabouts is sensibly diminishing. Nothing is lacking to make the work a complete snccess except the co-operation of oitizens in refusing to feed beggars at their doors. Benevolent people will do -well to remember that they harm and not help a man in giving him something for nothing. They teach him the bad lesson that he can live without work. Another thing to remember is that if y ou feed one tramp he tells the rest, and your house is marked as good for a free meal.