Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1912 — WALK LINE FOR A LODGING [ARTICLE]

WALK LINE FOR A LODGING

Cleveland Wayfarers’ Lodge Forces Application to Drastic Test in Proof of Their Bobrletv. Cleveland, Ohio. —Applicants for a; night’s lodging must hereafter be able to walk a literal chalk line—a white streak across an eighteen foot room —before there is any shelter for their at the Wayfarers’ lodge of the Asso elated Charities here. Superintendent Howell Wright of the Associated Chartles instituted the custom when he refused lodging to a tramp from Philadelphia because he wavered from the narrow path. Wright said that he believes the custom should become general and that applicants who are unable to negotiate the feat in proof of their sobriety will be turned out in the cold. t The more serious cases will be given to the police.