Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1911 — Big Farm for Tramps. [ARTICLE]

Big Farm for Tramps.

® Albany, N. Y.—The New York state board of charities in its annual report to the legislature recommends the es tablishment of a million-dollar farm colony for tramps and vagrants. It points out that these classes are now kept practically in idleness In the penitentiaries, jails and workhouses at an annual cost of $2,000,000. whereas, following the example of a number of countries of Europe, they couldT be humanely maintained and cared for in farm colonies which could be made self-supporting through their labor.