SURPRISE FOR HOBOES
STOPPAGE OF TRANSPORT NO MORE RAILWAY RIDES [from our own correspondent] VANCOUVER. Oct. 28 There is consternation among the tens ©f thousands of transient hoboes who have been, during the depression, travelling Ito _ and fro across Canada on freight trains. The Federal Government, anxious at the thought that this new habit of restless youth might produce a race of irresponsibles, has decreed that the police shall stop the practice. Ordinarily, there is a fairly large movement of "rod-riders." They leave Ontario and Quebec, and travel to the Prairie for the harvest, coming on to Vancouver for the mild winter climate. To them a • journey of 3000 miles is no effort, as they, drop off here and there at towns where "panhandling" is good, and relief officials are generous. They have their own language. They travel by "sidedoor Pullman." The brakeman is a "shack," the enginedriver a "hoghead." j A "punk" is a man who has seen better .days, the hobo himself is a "stiff," and the inexperienced, who fear the / police, suffer from the "bull horrors."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21344, 19 November 1932, Page 8
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