Everybody walked in those days. And because they didn’t have enclosed interiors in those days, autos were stored in the wintertime
If they had a greater distance to travel, they took a streetcar, subway or el.
A phenomenon I saw more in UK movies from the era, but occasionally in this film is guys walking like they have no heels on their shoes. While Chaplin’s hobo exaggerates it, it might not have been so much an exaggeration back then.