{"id":3547,"date":"2012-01-20T08:35:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T15:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2012-01-20T08:35:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T15:35:25","slug":"concerning-the-tramp-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/20\/concerning-the-tramp-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerning the Tramp Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>20 January 1899<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The committee appointed under the &#8220;tramp order,&#8221; introduced by <strong>Alderman Ruther<\/strong>, will meet with the overseers of the poor Tuesday evening to hold a conference in regard to the best manner in which to deal with that problem.   It is felt that some measures should be taken on humanitarian grounds, to say the least, and if possible, to incidentally make Holyoke less popular with the tramping fraternity.   As it is, the present tramp-room is entirely inadequate and should not accommodate more than six persons, though often it has a score or more.   The best method of solving the problem would be the establishment of a &#8220;wayfarers&#8217; lodge&#8221; at which work would be required of all those who stopped over night and had morning lunch.   Unfortunately this requires the expenditure of money &#8212; $2000 or $3000 &#8212; and the city is in no condition, it is thought, to expend money this year that is not absolutely necessary.   <strong>Almoner Cunningham<\/strong> does not think that they should be sent to the almshouse.   There will have to be built some building or addition for them if this is done.   &#8220;We had an experience with them recently,&#8221; he said last evening. &#8220;There were 12 or 15 a day until we got a big pile of rails by he almshouse and required them to saw a little for their &#8220;handouts.&#8221; Then their number was suddenly reduced to two or three a day.&#8221; It is possible that additional room may be provided the tramps in the basement of the city hall as a temporary measure.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Springfield Republican<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 January 1899 The committee appointed under the &#8220;tramp order,&#8221; introduced by Alderman Ruther, will meet with the overseers of the poor Tuesday evening to hold a conference in regard to the best manner in which to deal with that problem. It is felt that some measures should be taken on humanitarian grounds, to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[535,536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3552,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/3552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}