157. _Chicago’s Hobo District_, Melville J. Herskovits, December, 1919. 159. Comparative statistics for the three wards in which Hobohemia is located, 1910-20. CHAPTER II. THE JUNGLES: THE HOMELESS MAN ABROAD 1. “A Day in the Jungles,” A. W. Dragstedt, a hobo who knows the jungles. 76. “Job Hunting via Box-Car in the Northwest,” _Hobo News_, Bill Quirke, September, 1921. CHAPTER III. THE LODGING HOUSE: THE HOMELESS MAN AT HOME 2-3. Recital of an evening spent by Nels Anderson in a flophouse, April, 1922. 70. Statistics: Bridewell population, lodging-house patrons, registered voters. 79. _Report of Visit to Ten Gambling Houses in Hobohemia_, Nels Anderson, January 1, 1923. 105. Casual worker, ex-soldier, twenty-eight, few days in town, lost money in gambling-house. 151. _A Dozen Hotels in the Loop_, George F. David, August, 1922. CHAPTER IV. “GETTING BY” IN HOBOHEMIA 4. Jewish hobo, parasitic philosophy, middle-aged, begs from Jewish agencies in all cities. 5. Transient dreamer, twenty-seven, known to many agencies in different cities. 6. Boy in teens, Jewish, moves with ease from agency to agency, good solicitor. 7. City bum, twenty-four, petty robber, works occasionally, jail experience. 8. “Fat,” a panhandler with a self-justifying philosophy, works on favorable jobs. 9. Englishman, forty-one, paralyzed arm, alcoholic, mendicant, was a bricklayer. 89. Faker, Bulgarian, forty-five, plays deaf and dumb, “works” restaurants. 90. Home-guard bum, sixty-nine, works at odd jobs, often mendicant, drinks some. 95. Ex-soldier, funds about gone, going East for work, clean, sober, “working” charities. 97. Boy tramp, eighteen, left home to avoid school, wants to be engineer, works. 98. Two young men temporarily without money and work, adjusted in a few days. 102. City bum, thirty-five, talkative, lazy and unkempt, mendicant much of time. 103. Away from family for work, gets money from wife, loafs, later returns home. 104. Jewish tramp, sells papers, tin worker, served time in jail for wife desertion. 111. Loafs, fat, unattractive, works some, not welcome home; his family sends him money. 112. Well-to-do sister ashamed of him, sends him money; he calls it “borrowing.” 113. Beggar with a philosophy, condemns peddlers who beg part of time, works occasionally. 123. Spanish war and world-war veteran, forty-six, compensation, tries to go to school. 131. Description of life with the “slum proletariat” by one of them. 152. _Mendicancy in Chicago_, Melvin L. Olsen, December, 1919. 155. _Case Studies of Beggars in Chicago_, Joseph Arnsdorff, December 16, 1919. 161. Statement from the secretary of the Mid-City Commercial Association on the hobo problem.