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who were not hoboes and who were not seasonal workers. Many of the hoboes were seasonal workers. They followed the crop or they followed a calling. They came into New York in the winter and huddled into a lodging house if they had money.

This year they came in in droves and they didn't have any money. There were always people who had never been in that group before. They were what we would now call the truly unemployed - that is, the persons who worked regularly and now couldn't find employment. The hoboes were the homeless men. They were the people who never had a home and were always going from one place to another picking up a job. But then there were these others who were in this who wore honest workmen looking for a job. When I say honest. I moan regular workmen - skilled or semi-skilled - really looking for a job and not having illusions about the vagrant life or anything of that sort. There were a great many of those.

Anyhow, between them all and Henry's imagination they decided that they would have to have a place for them to go. So they took this old loft building which was empty, heated it a little and warmed the water and called it the Hotel de Gink. The men called it that because they referred to themselves as the ginks. They were very pleased about that. Nothing ever made more of a hit with that group of men. God knows where that kind of people are now. They were the most delightful