The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-29

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nS stories y The best editorial,
LITTLE JoKkR.
Cat.ettshurg NY
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HALT, ArTRSrioS. EDiroRs
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&c. very cheap.
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by Jesse llealy Bound In III pages price, postage
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And these, clipped at random from a number OF
amateur journals, are even worse:--
General agents wanted For honorable PAS business
transacted entirely via mail. Samples. 20 cents.
Lovers csske, ar. oflove, eour,ship handker
flowers Mailed receipt of 10 cents
n For sa ssP 70, mSyns with,
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refund the money Price. iocents
AMATEUR PERSONALITIES.
Even more Offensive and dcetcrious than the ANA
teur journals are the socallcd "amaeur personali.
ties. published in the ''procssona papers intended
for circulation among boys and girls. The following
urc taken bodily from paper published In Beekman
street,
tlsD
Of Kissing s a6er being engaged IN the sale Of seesc
accounts for that.
days i al h1t ana tie snt the greatest victory be has
saproSras Sppsasoa big ssi SCISSOR . '0'A -
leo. the pusxer. when imbibny the Teutonc bever.
thing boy Out 'VasS drs. some
Inc IL ds al %
s7 il thinks more Of esonomy When he INVITES purity
&c he Sn a,s4S s. to as cent
Mr. wassernan. Of the Xeyssoae. will on March
10 70 ~ Broadway New York Ills homo Is in Bal
with little children.
The sehnackenbsrg Brothers q the Iyo,m look
long name for short body.
association, interested in the ascaton OF his
than In the perusal Of lecture letter. by
full work En-. Fay:
teen old and tho corpulent IAN" Of Brooklyn
AMATEUR PREss ASSOCIATION
The mysterious N.YAPA. Indicated in some OF
the foregoing personalities is the New York Amateur
Press Association, now happily dciunct This society
came into existence some time ago. and comprised
some sixty members, lads ranging from sixteen
to nineteen years OF age They IN an upper room
In building In Canal street, known as Pythagoras
Hall, evory first and third Wednesday OF tho month,
and # their own accounts OF tho proceedings 70
DO trusted tho meetings were most demon
alizing In their ELECTS. immense quaint
evening, and the room was usually dense with smoke
before tho association was scaled order" Initiation
lees and dues were collected in considerable sums and
is very broadly limited that tho greater part OF this
fund was invested in lager beer Tor the authors and
shining lghts" The meetings were disorderly IN
the extreme but the proceedings tho meeting hch
took place April Is, and at which tho association
Is .,, IT'S dea.hblow, were even more
occasion sixty members responded to their names.
An election OF officers TO take place.
and party spirit high. Scarcely had tho proceed.
ings began until signs Of INSTRUMENTATION and revolu
ton became apparent Before the election OF officers
could be reached in the regular order OF busincss u
number OF tho leading spirits seeded from the asso
citation, but did not retire from the hall young
gentleman named Hoscy endeavorod to stay the
was speaking "Feramorz,' which IL tho nom
de plume OF Master Benjamin, of The .shning
placed himself IN a pugiIistc attitude before tho
speaker Aceorssng = Inc reports Hoscy did not
gard puppy, and the champion Of the N. A. r. A.
finally carried his point to the disappointment OF tho
George II. waIkyns M. J. Licntenbcrg, 81. W. Donja.
min, Jesse Healey, Ira Rinaldo, Rlchard'W. Corner
and John f. Gavin. The following officers
we're elected in the place Of those who
had resigned President John Hosey Second Vice
President, Isaac chtenstein; Treasurer, Walter w.
Reid; Sergeant-at- Arms, Samuel Hon. The meeting
did not adjourn til hafpast eleven 7, NJ rather late
hour Tor children to pc getting home and TO bod And
often happens, II turned out In the end that the VIC
had only defeat, for the New YORK Amateur
Press Association has since fallen pieces whilc tho
have organized new society," 10 be known as
the Empire City Amateur Press Association.
AMATEUR. REPLEcTIo.s.
Although the facts will prove to most oil the
readers OF the HERALD II must not DO forgotten that
this amateur journalism has become something like
real business, with qualifications all parts Of the
country In this and other cities many houses deal
largely presses and other material by amateur
publishers. whlo some printers make work
for amateurs n speciality. Some OF the boys even
print amateur papers for other amateurs Henry Kahrs
oil East Thirty second street. being one OF the most
successful OF these. They become 'agents" for all
kinds OF things, and only acquire the money max.
ing spirit but make the money making effort before
they are OF school, They '.punn and abuse each
other after the most reckless fashion and are
Sarcastic TO a degree that makes sober men
stand aghnst In the 'bovs' papers," with the 'pro.
iessionai'' stamp about them, every encouragement
Is gwen to amateur Journalism, OF these has
been Publishing Biographies OF Prominent
Amateurs" Tho whole subject Is Of singular in
tercs but II is ut the same mc suggestive Of faulty
civilization that needs immediate attention TO preserve
tho next generation from overrcaching ITSELF