Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-10-20
" BACK-NU MBER BUDD'
THE PROSPEROUS BUSINESS ne Az
eNTEEP6iSlNG COLoREO MAN
liver u Mil IA Copies Of old Newspaper
Collected 81 AN Ori sIBal Cap. tai
oI sS-ReIic. Of Old
New York.
New York World. !

NEW 1NTh NNHNH.
Robert VI. Pudd {" Back Number Rudd
he Is ca led Is co'ored man and was born
in " ashIngton thirIy-two years ago. 4 i've
Years ago he came to New lOrkwilh s 10
his pocket and opened boot backing stand
where Wallack theatre now is Shrewd,
enterpris lDg and industrious, he got along
and soon branched out into the newspaper
business. like other Uewsdealers he some
times found himself with unsold copies of
the daily papers ON his hands. The fire
Quent inquiry for old papers suggested an
idea to Mr.. budd. AID his present bust
ness is the carrying out 1T the idea the
keeping of complete files Of all New York
papers 50 as to be able 10 furnish back
numbers u, any time
In the basement of 1879 Rrnadway,
on the east side Of the street, a few do rs
above Thirty second, Budd has his place
lie still does business rs booth ack, but
numer us signs inform the pub &c that
here they may subscribe for any publira
lion desired At one side Of the entrance
to the dark basement is this noI,ce Back
numbers Of all daily papers for every day
in the year, while OF pUste is another
sign. " cots BACKED . cents still
another informs the public that the D ace
is open every day in the ynr from ,'
a. m. 10 10 y. M, and that while seven
boot backing tickets may be bought for
= cents, the proprietor Is not willing 10
labor OIL the urds da for nothing. aud
therefore charges 10 cents for backing
bOOls after d i. III on Sunday.
rApEI,S uN
When reporter visited the pace il was
very dark uvpt at the loot of the stars.
aud dun ct of gas u the tack part OF
the room on y seemed 10 add To the gen
em Dom All about the room. on
shelves tables and counters, were piles of
newspapers. he proprietor, a TAI, good
nalurcd young fellow, was busy writing
in a BOOK. stopping now and then 10 sort
Out me particular pa er from 10 sc
pile behind him.
~ es, " he said, "lm Back Number
Budd That nickname helps lo advertise
my business. so don mind. We been
here since eb 20 lS~2. tegan with les.
than wagon.load of old papers, and nov
] have !, 10000
What do charge for these old pc
prrsy That depends on how old they are
and how mu. h they are wanted My
pr Ces run from cents up SUmetim =,
these lawyers want pal or to use IN
court, aud they have Ia lay for IL The
most ] ever char. ed for a single paper
was ~. \ lawyer paid me %4O or two
copies of The sun published in ISL.
Newspaper men often borrow papers.
look them over here in the shop and pay
me 81 cents or 81 \ large part Of my
Trade is in the country, but | never send
pa ers out uutil they are paid Tor. zen,
Grant has bought papers from NE. In
June, l>o4, lie came and got month {
file Of the pa crs containing an n count OF
the Grant Ward failure, aud the ne
day his wife got The World and Tribune
for the same time
How do ! keep Track III. that easy
enough, The Iapers are arranged b,
dates and tied In bundles of one month.
then each paper has its own articu.al
shelves. and the bundles are stored in reE
ular order and each bundle is tagged
Here, for instance, pointing To pile of
papers. is The World lou see. they
are arranged n double rows of SIX; that
gives Twelve bundles, one year, on each
shelf You ask for The World Of uly 4.
lSS3. Here's the 81 shelf; July is the
end bundle IN the second row seventh
month. you know, aud the pa. er you
want is the fourth from the Top of the
bundle. The only trouble is that I'm
getting crowded and will soon need more
room This p ace is .7Xi5, and its ful
already. keep files Of lwcnty five
dailies, two unay papers and eight week
lies.
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