Bail Or Drown

A supervisor of Wcstchester couiity New York, proposed this novel tramp pen: a building on tho county farra, "to be so constructed that it can be flooded with water to the deptli of 6 feet, and so arranged with apartmenls that persons committed as tramps can be placed therein and when the water is tarned on be compelled to bail or be subnierged thereby." Tho author oí the resolutions is Joscph B. Seo of tho town of New Castle. A Sun reporter askcd him for au explanation of tho resolutions. "I claim to be a kind-hearted man," sald Mr. See, "but I think that tho i 'tramp' question is getting to be a very ' grave one for the people of Wostchestei-. Wo get all the vagrants who are driven out of Now York city, and : it seems as though we get all tho tramps in tho State of Connecticut Bincethe severe laws against the.m went ' into operatiou there. Wc pay about $100,000 ayear on account of tramps. You see, as it is now vagrants are sent to tho coonty jail, and tramps- that is, : non-resident vagrants - are sent to tho peniteutiary. Whenever one of these chaps is arrested he says that bc lires in the county, naming a distant towa, and so he goes to the county jail. Ha luis nothing to do there but cat and play cards all winter. We have tried to stop the nuisauce, but in vain. It costs moro to make a tramp work thnn h;s work is worth. Every effort that wo mako to stop it meets the determincd resistance of tho Sheriff's oflice, of the Justices of the Peacc, and of tho constables. The Sheriff gets S3Ja week for the board of each tramp, and his profit must be large. The fe.es of the other officials aro of conrse inereased by the arrest and committal of n largo number of tramps each year. My rosohitions wcro adoptci! by a vote of 14 to 8. A motion to : er this vote was lost, and go tho matter S settled so far as wo aro concerned. We will have to gat the Legislatura to sanction it, of coursc, and we have asked our representativos to urgo tha passage of such an a-t. Wo don't ; want to Orown any trampa, but if this plan goes i ato operation thoro won't be ; any trampa round here lo drown. ; They are uoi going to hang around a ' ieeding plaoj very long wliero thcy havo to lail -water tem hours a day.