The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man

by Nels Anderson

• “A No. 1,” [100]
• Adler, Herman M., [73]
• Agencies, conflicting policies of, [15]
• Alcoholism, [66], [67], [134-35]
• American Express, [166]
• American Legion, [260]
• Ashleigh, Charles, [205]
• Association of hobo with women, [138]
• Associations: I.B.W.A., [230], [235-40];
• I.W.W., [230-35];
• J.P.A., [ix];
• M.W.U., [230]
• Atkins, Brigadier J. E., [171], [180-81]
• Attitude of perverts, [148]
• Ball, Charles B., [260]
• Ballot, hobo regard for, [153]
• Barber colleges, [37-38]
• Barrel-house, [27]
• Begging, [47], [49], [50]
• Bills of fare on “stem,” [34]
• Bloch, Iwan, [144]
• Boarding companies, [130-31]
• Bookstore, [38]
• Borrowing, [49]
• Boy tramp, and perversion, [145];
• and wanderlust, [83]
• Boyd, Charles J., [120]
• Boys and tramp life, [85]
• Bread lines, [258]
• Brennan, Pat, [208]
• “Bughouse Square,” [9-10]
• Bum, the, [98]
• “Carrying the banner,” [53]
• Catholic charities, [259]
• Christian Industrial League, [27-28], [260]
• Chicago, a winter shelter, [12-13]
• Chicago labor exchange, [12], [110]
• Chicago plan for homeless men, [271-79]
• Chicago Urban League, [259]
• Civil authorities and tramp, [163-64]
• Clearing house for homeless men, [122], [136]
• Clothing stores, [35-36]
• “Coffee-an’” level, [40]
• Cooking in jungles, [22-23]
• College,” “Hobo, [172], [173], [174], [175], [177], [227], [237]
• Construction work, [107]
• Court experience of hobo, [165-66]
• Criminal, hobos not, [164-65]
• Crises in life of person, [77-79]
• Crop moving, [107]
• Cubicles or “cages,” [30]
• Dawes, General C. G., [28]
• Day in the jungles, [21-25]
• Dragstedt, A. W., [25] n., [171], [177-78], [212]
• Drug addicts, [67-68];
• not hobos, [69]
• Educating the proletariat, [219]
• Egocentricity, [74-76]
• Ellis, Havelock, [144]
• Employment agencies, comparison of, [115-17];
• private, [111-12];
• public, [114-16]
• Employment service, need of, [122]
• Evangelists and soap-boxers, [217]
• Faking, street, [43]
• Farmer-Labor Party, [152]
• Flops, co-operative, [238-39]
• Flynt, Josiah, [94], [146]
• Fortune-tellers, [39]
• “Free-lance” speakers, [216], [218]
• Free-union marriages, [141-42]
• “Getting by,” a game, [57];
• meaning of, [40-41]
• Giovannitti, Arturo, [201]
• Grafts, old and new, [44]
• Grant Park, in summer, [11]
• Greenstein, “Mother” [139], [171], [183-84]
• Handicapped men, [125-28]
• Harvey-Dammarell hotels, [28-29]
• Harvey-McGuire hotels, [28]
• “Hat trick,” the, [45-46]
• Hazards of casual work, [129]
• Health Department, [131], [132], [133]
• Healy, William, [70]
• Hill, Joe, [208], [209]
• Hobo, definition of, [87-89];
• and drink, [135];
• and exposure, [136];
• health in town, [131-33];
• hostility to in small town, [26];
• names for, [93];
• nativity of, [150-51];
• origin of, [88];
• pioneer, and frontiersman, [92];
• poor beggar, [49];
• and religion, [262];
• status of, [167];
• voting, [151-52];
• what he reads, [187-89];
• worker, [91]
• Hobohemia, defined, [3]
• “Hogan’s Flop,” [31-33]
• Home, why men leave, [61] ff.
• Home guard, [96-97];
• types of, [100-101]
• Homeless men, and the law, [154];
• mostly unmarried, [137]
• Horsley, Dan, [171], [175-77]
• Housing problem, [39]
• How, James Eads, [88], [172], [174], [175], [239]
• I.B.W.A., [230], [235-40];
• Holding Committee, [237-38];
• origin of, [235-36];
• program of, [236-37]
• Industrial attractions, [62];
• fishing, [107];
• ice harvesting, [108];
• lumbering, [108];
• sheep-shearing, [107-8]
• Industrially inadequate, [65]
• Industry, changes in, [62-63];
• hazards of, [65-66]
• I.W.W., [230-35];
• literature list, [187-88];
• methods and appeal, [232-34];
• origin of, [230];
• periodicals, [191];
• program, [231];
• treatment in Chicago, [235];
• treatment by Ku Klux Klan, [191]
• “Jack rolling,” [5], [51-52]
• Jewish Social Service Bureau, [259]
• Job hunting, [109]
• Jobs sold, estimate of, [111]
• Jockers, [103]
• Johnson, Glenn R., [72]
• Jungle, buzzard, [103];
• a day in, [21-25];
• democracy in, [19];
• laws of, [20-21];
• location and types of, [16-17];
• on lake front, [10];
• trial in, [24-25];
• womanless, [18]
• Juvenile Protective Association, [ix]
• Kelihor, T. T., [160]
• Kelly, John X., [171], [173-74], [242], [243-46]
• Kemp, Harry, [196], [199]
• “Killing time,” [215-16]
• Klein, Nicholas, [88]
• Knibbs, H. H., [198]
• Lady barbers, [38]
• Langsman, Charles W., [171], [178-79]
• Laubach, F. C., [126]
• Leadership in Hobohemia, [184]
• Lescohier, Don D., [119]
• Library privileges, [185]
• Life, loss of, [161-62]
• Light work, [129]
• Living, cheap in city, [13]
• Lodging-houses, municipal, [127], [134], [260-61];
• quasi-charitable, [27-28];
• sanitary conditions of, [131-32];
• types of, [27]
• Medical attention, free, [13];
• on the job, [130]
• Melis, Lewis, [206]
• Mental tests, [71-73]
• Migratory Workers’ Union, [230], [240-41];
• aims and objects, [241], [247]
• Miller, H. A., [82] n.
• Missions, [250-58];
• converts of, [253-54];
• competition between, [250];
• migratory national, [252];
• permanent local, [251];
• soliciting funds, [252];
• “wild cat,” [253]
• Mission stiffs, [98], [103]
• Mobility, complicates problem, [15];
• effects of, [120], [248-49];
• of handicapped men, [128]
• “Mooching,” [50]
• Movies and burlesque, [37]
• Mullenbach, James, [260]
• Municipal Lodging House (Chicago), [260-61];
• (New York), [127], [134]
• Mushfaker, [99]
• Myers, Dr. Johnston, [171], [181-83]
• National program, [270]
• Negro hobos, [8]
• New York Central Railroad, [166]
• News, Hobo, [177], [185], [186], [187], [192]
• Odd jobs, in city, [41]
• Old men, [69]
• “One Big Union,” [231]
• Open forums, [226-28]
• Organizations among hobos, [230];
• failure of, [247-49]
• “Panhandling,” [50]
• Park, R. E., [82] n.
• Partnerships among hobos, [147]
• Passing the hat, [223]
• Patriotism, [151]
• Pawn shops, [36]
• Peddling on street, [42]
• Personal degradation, [57], [65]
• Personality, defects of, [72-76]
• Perversion among tramps, [144-47]
• Pintner and Toops, [71], [72] n.
• Poems and ballads, [194-214];
• “Away from Town,” [199-200];
• “Beaten Men,” [205];
• Bum,” “The, [201-2];
• Bum on the Rods and the Bum on the Plush,” “The, [202];
• Dishwasher,” “The, [201-2];
• Gila Monster Route,” “The, [194-96];
• “Harvest War Song,” [208];
• Hobo Knows,” “The, [203];
• Hobo’s Last Lament,” “The, [212];
• “Men That Don’t Fit In,” [204];
• “No Matter Where You Go,” [213-14];
• “Nothing to Do But Go,” [198-99];
• “One Day; Some Way,” [205];
• “Optimism,” [213];
• “Portland County Jail,” [211];
• Preacher and the Slave,” “The, [210];
• Slave Market,” “The, [206-7];
• Tramp,” “The, [209];
• Tramp Confession,” “The, [196-98];
• Wanderer,” “The, [206]
• Police, encounters with hobos, [156-58];
• methods of, [155], [160], [164];
• private, [155];
• types of, [154-55]
• Poorhouse, aversion of hobo to, [56];
• Population, turnover in Hobohemia, [13-14]
• Program for future action, [279]
• “Proletariat,” [176]
• Property, destruction of, [161]
• Prostitutes, “second raters,” [143]
• Prostitution, [142-43]
• Punk, [99], [103]
• Queen, Stuart A., [26] n.
• Racial discrimination, [81]
• Radical press, [186]
• Raid on jungles, [23-24]
• Railroad yards, [8]
• Reitman, Ben L., [87], [102], [134] n., [143], [171], [172-73]
• Religion, practical, [182];
• and love, [179];
• and work, [180]
• Restaurants and lunchrooms, [33-35];
• sanitary conditions of, [35]
• Robins, Raymond, [260]
• Rountree, B. Seebohm, [64] n.
• Sabotage, [121]
• Saloons, [38-39]
• Salvation Army, [27-28], [250], [260]
• Scissor Bill, [99]
• Seasonal fluctuations, [63]
• Seasonal workers, [89-90]
• Second-hand clothing, [35-36]
• Service, Robert W., [203]
• Sex isolation of hobo, [144], [149]
• Seymour, James, [200]
• Short jobs, [118-19]
• Sickness and disease, [133]
• Soap-boxers, ethics and tactics of, [222-24];
• and opinion, [228-29];
• his rôle on stand, [229];
• versatility of, [224-26]
• Social center for hobos, [11];
• in the jungles, [16], [26]
• Solenberger, Alice W., [9] n., [71], [87], [125-26]
• Solidarity, the Industrial, [190-91]
• State farm colony, [277]
• Stealing, petty, [51]
• Street speaking, [216-20];
• lectures, [220]
• Strike jobs, [120-21]
• Summary and findings, [265-79]
• Terman, L. M., [71] n.
• Testimonies of converts, [256]
• Thornburn, Charles, [205]
• Tramp, the, [93-95]
• Tramping, a man’s game, [137]
• Tucker, St. John, [87]
• Tugwell, Rexford, [82]
• Types, rendezvous of, [5], [7], [9];
• of homeless men, [105];
• numbers of each in Chicago, [105-6];
• of peddlers, [42-43]
• Unemployables, [104]
• Unemployment, [64-65]
• United Charities, [259]
• Vagrancy, explanation of, [85-86];
• in small towns, [163]
• Van de Water, John, [171], [179-80]
• Vaudeville, [37]
• Venereal disease, [133-34]
• Walsh, Michael C., [171], [174-75], [242]
• Wanderlust, [82-83]
• Welfare organizations, [259-60]
• Westbrook, Warden Wesley, [165]
• White, Henry A., [203]
• Winter, “getting by” in, [52-53]
• Women and homeless men, [138-42]
• Work, a national problem, [121-22]
• “Working the folks,” [46-47]
• Writings of hobos, [188-90]
• Younger hobos, [140-41]

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.

Pg [20]: ‘jungles; “buzzing,” or’ replaced by ‘jungles; (3) “buzzing” or’.

Pg [101]: ‘carried bedding’ replaced by ‘Carried bedding’.

Pg [130]: ‘are often let to’ replaced by ‘are often left to’.