Don't Feed Tramps

The Anti-Tramp Society of Ann Arbor has been in operation now for about our months, and is doing much both to help deserving workmen who are out of employment and to discourage profesional tramps. The aim of the Society s to separate these two classes by offerng a meal or night's lodging, or both, o all who are willing to earn it upon a awbuck. The professional tramp hastens on when conf ronted with this instrument; the man who is really seeking work is glad to secure a hot meal or a clean bed by its aid. Marshall Sipley, who has immediate charg-e of the Society's work, has given out 92 meal or lodging tickets, each standing lor at least an hour's hard work. These represent about 60 different men, nine-tenths of whom, in the marshal's opinión, were deserving workmen seeking employment. The real tramps will not work and are rapidly learning to avoid Ann Arbor as a barren field for their operations. The Society earnestly requests citizens to give neither food nor ckithing at their doors, but to send all applicants to the engine house of tho corner of Fifth and Huron streets. Only in this way can the deserving be separated from the undeserving and the city made uncomfortable for professional idlers. All statements by tramps that they could not get work at the engine-houso are f;ils.-.