PAGE I. THE CRIMINAL IN THE OPEN 1 II. THE CHILDREN OF THE ROAD 28 III. CLUB LIFE AMONG OUTCASTS 67 IV. THE AMERICAN TRAMP CONSIDERED GEOGRAPHICALLY 91 V. THE CITY TRAMP 113 VI. WHAT THE TRAMP EATS AND WEARS 137
I. LIFE AMONG GERMAN TRAMPS 169 II. WITH THE RUSSIAN GORIOUNS 200 III. TWO TRAMPS IN ENGLAND 229 IV. THE TRAMP AT HOME 267 V. THE TRAMP AND THE RAILROADS 291
I. OLD BOSTON MARY 317 II. JAMIE THE KID 336 III. ONE NIGHT ON THE "Q" 355 IV. A PULQUE DREAM 366 V. A HOBO PRECEDENT 372
JOSIAH FLYNT, ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, AUGUST 8, 1897 _Frontispiece_ DISCOURAGED CRIMINALS 15 THE MODE OF TRAVEL THAT ATTRACTS BOYS 35 YOUTHFUL TRESPASSERS 51 TELLING "GHOST-STORIES" 59 A GATHERING OF "OLD BUCKS" 73 MIDNIGHT 87 A "TIMBER LESSON" 101 TOMATO-CAN TRAMPS 115 A CITY TRAMP AT WORK 125 A WESTERN ROADSTER 149 AN AUCTION 157 THE FOURTH-CLASS CAR 173 HUNTING FOR HIS PASS 179 ON THE ROAD 187 DANCING AROUND A BONFIRE 193 SLEEPING IN A BARN 209 A LODGING-HOUSE 223 AN ENGLISH TYPE 235 A MOOCHER 245 A REST BY THE WAYSIDE 257 A DIVISION 275 ASLEEP IN A FREIGHT-CAR 283 RIDING ON THE BUMPERS 295 A BRAKEMAN OF A FREIGHT-TRAIN COLLECTING FARES 305 A TRAMPS' DEPOT 311 OLD BOSTON MARY'S SHANTY 327 OLD BOSTON MARY 335 BEATING A PASSENGER-TRAIN 343 A RIDE ON A TRUCK 357
PAGE I. THE CRIMINAL IN THE OPEN 1 II. THE CHILDREN OF THE ROAD 28 III. CLUB LIFE AMONG OUTCASTS 67 IV. THE AMERICAN TRAMP CONSIDERED GEOGRAPHICALLY 91 V. THE CITY TRAMP 113 VI. WHAT THE TRAMP EATS AND WEARS 137
Up to the present time the criminal has been studied exclusively behind prison-bars, after he has been caught, tried, and convicted. Out of durance he is his own master, and is naturally averse to being measured and experimented upon by scientists; hence the criminologist has been forced to await the almost certain vicissitudes which bring him once more inside a prison-cell. Here he has been subjected to the most minute examinations; and there exists a bulky literature on the results which these examinations have brought to light. We have volumes, for instance, about the criminal's body, skull, and face, his whimsical and obscene writings on prison-walls, the effect of various kinds of diet on his deportment, the workings of delicate instruments, placed on his wrists, to test the beat of his pulse under various conditions, the stories he has been persuaded to tell about his life, his maunderings when under the influence of hypnotism, and numerous things, anthropological and psychological, which have been noted down, compared, and classified.