Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-06-17
LOST MONEY!.
Ihs Pennies and Nicksls Picked
Up in tho Streets.
How the Industrious Small Boy I'm.
proves tn Shining Hours-Around
the Market and in the
Street Cars.

Street Cars.
.sWhat have you LOST asked SUNDAY
REGISTER reporter, yesterday. OF couple
of street gamins who with bare feet ana
rolled up sleeves and TROUSERS, were indus
triously searching in TIA, gutter on Main
street, just north of Twelfth.
1--WE amt lost nothing; b ut we're indin'
good DEAL" responded one OF the boys
putting one grimy and muddy hand into
his jacket pocket, and displaying before the
reporters eyes a dozen pennies, big and
little, two or thre nickles, dime, and .
battered silver quarter. We've found alb
these
IN LESS THAN AN HOUR,
and sometimes we get more'n that. | got
a little gold doll ar once, and Jim he found
a silver dollar one day last week"
Where does the money come from
said the news man, fumbling nickle in
his pocket, and feasting his eyes on the
treasures displayed by the young pocket
miners" before him.
II dunno; guess folks sweep 1t outer
banks and stores" said the boy. ANY.
W.
here and up on Market and Twelfth street,
nesrly every day"
The boys moved slowly on, and the re.
porter, observing an insurance man VINO
had been gazing curiously at the trio, ap.
preached him and revived the subjec. OF
his talk with the dogs.
II have no doupt there is
GOOD DEAL or MONEY,
especially small change, lying about the
streets and cutters" said the taker OF risks
ut frequently happens that ladies and
Others out shopping, especially in the
evening, drop small change on the side
walk and as the pavement slopes to the
curb they naturally roll into the gutter
and cannot be found. Then, too, sup.
pose, some pennies and uickles are swept
out of these stores which are cleaned at
night after business hours, and being un-
observed, go to swell the lost treasure
which finally finds its way into the lynx.
eyed urchin's pockets. About the market
houses, too, a considerable amount OF
ch ange must be dropped, and occasionally
street car drivers loose coin overheard in
in the evenings, when 1t is
NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE
to find it. | saw bank messen-
ger drop silver dollar into
hole in a crossing the other day
and although he hunted for it a long time,
he was unable to find it and had to replace
it out of his own pocket. Now,as like as not
some street Arab has gobbled that dollar
long ago and many another one beside
IL suppose folks often loose bills OF con-
siderable size, too, suggested the reporter.
mo, not so often, unless the owner hap.
pens to be drunk. You see, bill is gener.
ally of more value than n coin, and conse.
N cd Saarph N
be made and then they are not apt to roll
away. and can thus be
MORE READILY PICKED TT
when dropped
Musing over these remarks the reporter
asCended Main street hill and crossed over
to the market house, where two or three
men were engaged in sweeping up and
washing off the pavement with a hose at.
taChed to a fire plug. Accostng one OF
them, a pleasant faced son OF the Emerald
Isle, the reporter asked him If he ever sped
any loose change during his semi.weekly
house cleaning
And yez want to know if liver foind
any change" said our Iiibernian friend.
tits right We are. It's ofthen foind a
few cints beyant the benches, dye moind;
niokles and doimes and quarther or two
once in month or so, but | niver found
any Of the owners, and so put it by with
me wages
"Do outsiders find any
Now yer comm at il. Some OF the
nagur hyes and white ones, too,
rICK UrA LOT.
Ye see, after the butchers go home they
run along beyant the benches and look in
the money drawers, and its often they get
a little something the butchers miss when
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Leaving our Miesian friend to his labors,
the reporter hailed passing street car, and
after dropping a well-worn ticket in the
box, passed out on the front platform and
acCosted the chief engineer Of the horse
power with
Say, Jack do you ever see any loose
change lying around the street as you go
over your route?'
Now look here. What are you id
sCribblers up to now"
sob, this is
STRAIGHT STIFF.
Nothing of that kind so sing out.
WELL. yes" replied the treasured
driver, occasionally | have picked up
small stuff flying in the track, but gen.
orally have got enough to do looking af-
ter my team and the passengers, let alone
spying around for money, barrin' pay day,
oil course. but some Vi tue DOy5 on the
street used to have sly way. They would
put rock or piece OF brick on the track
at night, and then lay for car, and il it
would hit the obstruction and jolt heavily
they would look carfully to see il any
change falls out OF the money box. Bat as
the drivers have their own money there,
they soon got on to the racket and the kids
had to let up"
How about
NTcKLEs LOST IN The STRAW
in the cars in winter
"0h, there's nothing in that. 1t might
be an object to car cleaner in large city,
but it's no good here"
Thanking our informant for his good
natured answers to our queries, the re.
porter alighted and, approaching popu-
lar and wideawake officer, preached the
subject OF his inquiries.
Now, I'll tell you who catches on to
good deal OF stray cash. The rag pickers
are the folks l mean. They are always
poking around alleys, back yards, market
houses, and cellars, and along the sidewalks
and cutters Of the principal business streets,
and I'll bet they gather in nything that's
lying around loose, and they're the last
ones to say anything about it, too"
liThe reporter jotted down the public
guardians views, and vending his way 10
the office, proceeded 10 put his investiga.
ton into writing, with the above result.