The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-04-01
A Newsboy's Earnings.

A newsboy who had given his parents
$40 every week since the 9th of last
July, and besides accumulated $50 in
the Philadelphia Saving Fund, at Sew
enth and Walnut streets, was publicly
rewarded last evening in the hall of the
"Sunday Breakfast Association" on
Vine street
In the audience were lot Of bright.
faced lads, whose careful toilet and new
clothes would not indicate that they
belonged to the army Of news gamins.
They were from the Newsboys' Home
and members of the Newsboys League,
which was established last May in con-
nection with the Home, for the purpose
of promoting the moral and social i'm
provement of the two hundred lads who
belong to the League. An outgrowth
of the League is. a Dime Savings Bank,
established last Summer. The first de-
post was made on July Sth and there
are now sixty-seven depositors As
soon as a lads savings amount to one
dollar they are transferred from the
Dine Bank to the Philadelphia Savings
Fund.
J. S. Cummings, president of the
Newsboys' Association, is sketching the
history of the movement in Philadelphia
for the assistance of the newsboys,
pointed out the good results accom-
plished by following the advice of the
newsboys' greatest friend, George w,
Chllds, to commit the management of
charity to women. At this and subse-
quent mentioning of the name of Mr..
Childs the lads applauded heartily. Mr..
Cummings then spoke of the lad whose
savings exceeded those OF any Of the
young capitalists ~ am glad" said
the speaker, "to hear our honored
Mayor warn the boys against those vile
shows know at least one boy pres.
ent who says that he never attended one
of them-the lad to whom the prize is
to be awarded tonight. His nodesty
being equal to his industry, he begged
that his name should not be made pub
lie. At time when he could have no
idea of the nature or value of the prize,
he requested that it be given to the boy
whose bank account was next to his in
size. He is a healthy lad of fifteen
years. He rises at two o'clock eve;y
morning, rain orr was about to say
shine, but there's no shine then-and S
off Immediately to the newspaper Office.
He sells about 456 papers day-34l 4
the morning and lis Of the aeternoH
issues. He has made as much as SD
in day, On such occasions us elections
or great calamities. A daily earning i
$40 is not uncommon with him. ~
cry week he gives his mother $40, aH
she has received as much as SIS week
from him. The day is far gone whenhe
spent more than three cents for articles
outside the necessaries Of life. He is
member of Sunday schoo' in the north
western part of the city, ard attends it
regularly"
While Mr.. Cummings was speaking, a
bright, understanding, ir-haired boy,
with an unmistakable expression of can
dor and honesty upon his intelligent
face, sat alone on front bench, and to-
wald him every eye was directed when
he arose to receive from the speaker an
order from George w. Childs on John
Wanamaker for 6rst-cIass suit of
clothes. The general applause which
followed among the lads would indicate
that they were not envious of their for
tunate comrade. Supplementing this
gift the Mayor leaned over the platform
and jingled four duarter-dollars into the
boys hand, remarking, with q smile,
that it would answer as o little nest-egg
for another bank account
The lads parents are German. He
attends the Methodist Sunday school at
Twenty-eighth street and Girard avenue
1t is known that one reason why the
boy asked to have his name withheld
was that his mother, if she knew that he
kept back cent from her, would whip
him until he delivered up all.-Phila-
delphia Times.