SURPRISE FOR HOBOES
STOPPAGE OF TRANSPORT NO MORE RAILWAY RIDES VANCOUVER, Oct. 26. Thera is consternation among the tens of thousands of transient hoboes who have been, during the depression, travel Img to 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 hrakeman is a “shack,” the euginedriver a “linghead.” 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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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17944, 23 November 1932, Page 5
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