hoteldegink

Mulligan

From a source quoted on Wikipedia, here is a contemporary description of Mulligan Stew: "Another traveler present described the operation of making a 'mulligan.' Five or six hobos join in this. One builds a fire and rustles a can. Another has to procure meat; another potatoes; one fellow pledges himself to obtain bread, and still another has to furnish onions, salt and pepper. If a chicken can be stolen, so much the better. The whole outfit is placed in the can and boiled until it is done. If one of the men is successful in procuring 'Java,' an oyster can is used for a coffee tank, and this is also put on the fire to boil. Incidentally, it may be mentioned that California hobos always put a 'snipe' in their coffee, to give it that delicate amber color and to add to the aroma. 'Snipe' is hobo for the butt end of a cigar that smokers throw down in the streets. All hobos have large quantities of snipes in their pockets, for both chewing and smoking purposes. A 'beggar stew' is a 'mulligan,' without any meat."

Thanks bior for the tantalizing description of this delicacy. And thank you cwalter54 for noting the spelling error. We will correct the spelling in the record the next time we update.

Oh, one more thing. Does anyone know the origin of "Hotel de Gink"? One of the hobos has a handmade sign on his cap that says "....Gink" Is it a hobo term as well?

i think gink is another term for hobo-- from historylink.org: "Unemployed and homeless men, known variously as hoboes and "ginks," responded to their condition by organizing work gangs, small businesses, and self-managed hostels in major cities." www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&...

"King of the Hoboes" See notes under:

So the car is a "Gramm?" The license might be from 1915. Did you notice the ghostly figures in the background?

If you download the high-resolution tiff file at the persistent URL link above, a lot of the details are viewable. It is a 1915 New York license plate, and the Gramm is a truck once made in Lima, Ohio. Here's an ad for the 1912 model: www.scientificamerican.com/media/gallery/9B656E87-DB84-3B... There are two fellows behind Davis on the right, and one on the left.

Same truck in this picture:

this was taken exactly 77 years before I was born

I love these old pictures where everybody wears a hat.

Same truck here:

www.historylink.org/_content/printer_friendly/pf_output.c... Hotel de Gink was a self-administered rooming house in Seattle. Davis was its founder.

Thanks lazygardens for your interest in this photo. I think this is an image of the Gink Hotel located in New York City. The description for this related image has more information about ithe building added by Flickr users: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005018735/