[hispanarepublicana]

no wonder the indigents got kicked out of mahon, or so i heard....they beg for money down by the pioneer hotel n0w a friend told me.

[Army Air Corps]

When I lived in San Antonio, the downtown branch (on the banks of the SA river)had a bad problem with vagrants for a while. At one point, many vagrants would sleep on the reading tables. The head honcho of the library was permissive in that he didn't want to hassle the bums because they were part of the "public." Eventually, enough people complained to the city that SAPD began patrolling the library to kick-out folks trying to sleep there or "take-up residence" there.