Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1877 — Begging Reduced to a Science. [ARTICLE]

Begging Reduced to a Science.

An investigation into professional mendicancy in London has developed the existence of a club numbering forty persons, supplied with an assortment of directories and plates for printing visiting cards. This horde forms the Beg-ging-Letter-Writers’ Society, and their average receipts are $25 per man a week. The cards are used to borrow money from credulous bankers and merchants, the beggar representing himself as a relative of the man whose pasteboard he bears. The establishment of a Society for the Organization of Charity has brought these facts to light, and great progress has already been made iu rid* ding the metropolis of these social pests.