Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-06
What a Newsboy Can Do.

Everybody who has frequently passed
up Montgomery street in the latter part
of the afternoon, just after the evening
papers are out, has observed among the
swarms Of vociferating newsboys one
particular lad of striking appearance
He is rather taller than his associates,
angular, spare and active. His youthful
frame is bent like that of an old man,
partly owing to sickness and partly to
pernicious habit of bending over his
books, for he is an assiduous student
This fourteen-years-old boy, lean and
delicate, has the grave and meditative
| countenance of man of forty-dceu
lines, sharp eyes and high cheeks being
the prominent characteristics. His gar.
ments are of coarse, durable material and
rather shabby.
This lad, James Handley, has been
selling the BuLLetin-he confines himself
exclusively to this journal and stock
list--for four years, and has property,
monetary and real estate, valued at near.
ly $4,000. Every day, fair or foul, finds
him on the street, diving into streetcars,
making his shrill voice distinguishable
above the cries of his comrades, darting
to and fro among the passers-by like the
will o. the-wisp, everywhere at once. He
pursues beaten track, daily routine
or system, and never deviates therefrom.
When the evening papers are out he may
be seen restlessly oscillating up and
down California street near Montgomery
AS the great resort of speculation
grows deserted he gradually moves up
Montgomery street, always keeping in
the heart of the daily tide of black-clad
humanity going home to dinner. An
hour is generally consumed in reaching
Market street. Here, on the great cor.
ner, where three busy streets pour con-
tinual stream of pedestrians into the
crowded thoroughfares, the lad stops,
fry, takes his stand for the day He sells
so many papers that he employs small,
er boy to carry great bundle up to the
corner of Market and Montgomery streets
as reserve supply, while he himself has
one hundred or more on his arm. His
profits amount to from fifteen to twenty.
five dollars week, andif he fails to clear
two dollars and half any afternoon he
goes home dissatisfied. But to earn and
hoard money is not his sole ambition
He aspires to a profession, and attends
the Lincoln School, where he is an or.
derly, industrious pupil, and ranks high
in his class. He recently built house
on Telegraph Hill for 81, 800, and sold il
to his brother (also newsboy, and two
years his senior) for $4,000, the brother
shortly afterward selling the property tC
a capitalist for So, 100. He has an eye
to the value of possessing real estate
and owns several lots and two houses on
Telegraph Hill, where he resides with
his parents.
Little Jimmy's fertility of invention is
illustrated by the following instance
When the famous lightning train, bear
ing Jarrett & Palmer's theatrical company
was nearing San Francisco, the city news
boys made great preparations to secure
and sell the several thousand copies OF
the New York Herald known to be on the
train, as well as the extra editions of the
San Francisco papers. Far-seeing Jimmy
engaged several hundred copies of the
Herald, deliverable on the arrival of thC
train at Oakland wharf, and when The
train rambled up to the ferry. boat thu
lad was there waiting for his HerGlds
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the first local train to Oakland, and re-
tailed his papers at twenty-five cents 4
copy. He enjoyed a monopoly, as the
other newsboys had engaged the remain
der of the HerGLds for the San Francisco
trade" For hours he was the only
Herald gender in Oakland, and before
sunset on that well-remembered Sunday
had sold out at a profit of forty eigh
dollars, and returned home music-bo
of jingling silver coins.
Various are the enterprises engaged il
by jimmy. Until lately he has had thC
privilege of printing and selling the pro
grammes for the races at the Bay View
track, and has realized several handsom,
remunerations thereby. He has keeI
eye for business, and bids fair to becom
a California street capitalist at no dis
tant day.-SGn FrGneiscO Bulletin.