CHAPTER V. WHY DO MEN LEAVE HOME? 10. Pioneer hobo and tramp, “played all the games,” fifty-six, blames self for misspent life. 11. Belgian, fifty-eight, coal miner, lumber jack, Chicago in winter, single, seldom penniless. 12. Pioneer hobo, fifty-one, perhaps dying, miner’s “con,” away from home (Ohio) thirty years. 13. Migratory worker, single, fifty-six, ever restless, mines, sea, harvest, sheep shearer. 14. Anemic man, lung trouble, textile worker, light work only, hopes open air will help. 15. Beggar, peddler, one leg, industrial accident, justifies begging and drink. 16. Migrant, would settle down, drinks, loses jobs, single, getting old, health failing. 17. “Dope” user, weak, anemic, poorly clad, dirty, beat way from Boston. 18. Old man, seventy-eight, poor-farm and hospital experience, mendicant, lives on fifty or sixty cents a day. 19. Restless young man, twenty-four, no permanent desires, carpenter, capable, sober, congenial. 20. Restless young worker, easily bored by the monotony of a job. 26. Irish, ex-soldier, ex-sailor, twenty-seven, sings, wants to study music, ex-secretary of “Hobo College.” 27. Feeble-minded, left home in war time, odd jobs, in town often, often in missions. 28. Pessimistic, imaginative, unstable, about forty-five, fair worker. 29. Periodical drinker, quarrelsome when drunk, otherwise good worker. 30. College man, twenty-seven, ex-salesman, left wife, homosexual experience, avoids work. 31. Chronic drinker, stockyards worker, seldom migrates, many arrests, away from wife twelve years. 32. Boy tramp, sixteen, on way to Texas, from Ohio, parents dead, only brother a soldier. 33. Left home when jilted by girl, too sensitive to return, very transient. 34. Returned home after jail experience, humiliated, left home, away for several years. 35. Ex-soldier, as small-town boy left home in crisis, stayed away to make bluff good, twenty-two. 36. Boy left home in fear of punishment from father, returns occasionally. 37. Migrant because of trouble over woman, about thirty, dare not return, radical. 38. Became migratory to avoid paying alimony, dare not return, about forty. 39. Boy tramp, nineteen, egotist, traveled much, works little, gambles, jail record. 40. Oldest boy becomes runaway, twenty, other boys in family follow, dislikes father. CHAPTER VI. THE HOBO AND THE TRAMP 41. Scotchman, thirty-two, single, ex-soldier, sailor, nurse in winters, casual in summer. 42. Deck hand summers, migrant to South in winter, single, generally sober. 43. Carpenter, casual, often discharged, would settle but losing efficiency by drink. 44. Old man, fifty-eight, plasterer, fair worker but casual, has ceased migrating, sober.