VAGRANCY

in law, is wandering various abroad without visible means of subs is tence, and has been a criminal offense in the from Henry VIII.’s time. Many re line pre ive and penal measures have beer house. pa ed against v., but no remedia attaching legislation has been enacted. Remedia: measures have been left to philanthropic agencies. While the dislocation of trade widely and other economic changes are respon: longsible for much v., there are always certain persons of nomadic instinct tc whom the life appeals. cenRu ia, in Arctic Ocean, between main Fleming land and Novaya Zemlya. emisVAIL, THEODORE NEWTON (1845. profited 1920) an American capitalist, b. in Carrol Edison county, Ohio. He was educated ai Morris town, N.J. Academy and late studied medicine for two years. In 1873 he became a t. supt. of railway mail service at Washington and in 1875 general supt. same. From 1878 until 1887 he was engaged in the telephone busine , then after extensive travels took up farming in Vermont in 1893. In 1896 he became interested in various electrical enterprises in Argentina and was thus engaged until 1907 when he became president of American Telegraph and Telephone Company, in which position he remained until he died in 1920.