Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1908 — WANTS NEW YORK TO START TRAMP FARM [ARTICLE]

WANTS NEW YORK TO START TRAMP FARM

Governor Hughes Asked to Recommend the Project. Albany, N. Y.. Dec. 22.—Governor Hughes has been requested by Commissioner R. W. Hebberd, of the New York City Charities Department, to include in his message to the legislature a recommendation fog the establishment of state farm colonies for tramps. The object is to detain, reform and instruct vagrants, habitual drunkards and those guilty of stealing rides on trains Commissioner Hebberd said: “Magistrates are unwilling to commit t¥amps to the workhouse, partly because the workhouses are overcrowded. Hence the importance of instituting farm colonies to which it will bo a blessing rather than a disgrace to be committed The inmates of the tolony are to be instructed In agriculture. horticulture’ and ether things. The bill ror.teniplates taking all tramps off the streets, accustoming them to work and reforming their character by a system of rewards, rather than of punishment. This system has bben tried in Belgium, Holland. Germany, Sw-itzerland and lately at Hollesly Bay in England It has never failed.”