Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1901 — War Upon Migratory Hoboes. [ARTICLE]

War Upon Migratory Hoboes.

Chief Detective Rank of the Lake Shore & Michigan railroad secret service has begun a systematic warfare on the swarms of hoboes who infest the trains of the comnany. On the Eflkhart-Chicago end ot the system detectives ride part of the way on every freight train and wholesale arrests are being made. The effect is being noticed in the drift of the green line sleeper patrons to other roads. The chief detective states that the force of secret service men on the line will be increased during the Pan-Amer-ican Exposition this summer. ,