San Francisco vindicator., 1889-02-16
A HELPING HAND.
How the New>boys Lend 1t 60 Their Blind
Comrades

Down among the little gamins OF
Newspaper row, says the New York
Times, exists a charity as sweet ana
springing from As pure motives as Is
any carried GA BY the great incOrpor-
ated institutions and societies which
grace that city. Ii the busy throng
which crowd that thOrOughfare had
time to notice anything they would see
several times each day some poor bind
unfortunate being led through the in
tricacies Of the crowd By one Of those
orotesaue, ragged urchins. whose cry
1f "las terdishunn is heard there from
sunrise until long after darkness set
Ties down.
Rv fcEaorng pair Of this sort the
otner day tie reporter became con-
yinced that the street gamins. who,
some mOraIists SAY, are the bursting
SEED whence criminals grow. have gem
tfe, noble impulses, which would II
properly nurtured bring them 70 better
things. The boy was the regulation
gamin ragged, dirty, with plnched
features, but withal as merry as
cricket. The blind man looked ike
what he was-a poor Outcast, perhaps
made 50 by bis intirmity. Through
tie crowd the boy led him down INTO
I delivery room Of one Of the daily
papers and after placing him in po-
sitlOn in the line Of "neWsies" waiting
for lhe next edition TO come OF tie
Dress lie ran out AT the door he was
stopped, aud under the potent Influence
Of L bit Of silver stepped into door
way anu submitted to q little question:
ing
"Who's de blind felIerp Why, OATS
Blind Charlie. Is he me farderF Nav.
He's a Door bIoke wot lives down here
| on Park row. So's'e kin de coin ter
live On he has to sell papers. Wot
| WIS leadin' i'm for2 Does yer tlnk
be could git tro' de crowd hisseIf Wild
out any eycs? Does | tink I'm good
to lead him? Nav. Why any newsy
'ud HELP Charlie or any Of der blind
fellers wot's ID der bisness. Is dere
udders like Charlie? Der"'s tree or
four Of EN- wot lives down ERE on
Park row and gifts UP early likes we
do. Den dey comes out Onter de
street. and any newsy wot sees EN- IL
lead en, To de office fer papers. When
dev gets STOCK 'nnthev newsy who
has i stand near where DC blind Teller
locates III lead i'm deere. When he
seIls Jul 'nnther newsy who sees i'm
Hi lead i'm hark. and sr dry grapes
al nv. We v, ali Milin' te, e p EN-
EXCEPT det Aa-os, amt dcy's too mean
ter hplp anybndy.
lnqisiry ot the delivery clerks prov
cd tne JOYS statements ~ be true
There are hait-dnzen bind news
hoya. or rather neWSmpu, in that city
WHO owe tile tact that they are moi
sent to the wnrkhouge simply to the
Kindness Of thein iif3-a. coNRnrkers. As
the boy said. the nowsie." all know
them, and whenever they sec one oi
The unfOrtnnates wanting " get to the
newspaper offices for h stock or want
inc to ret ia favOrite corner some
.einbryunic criminal always volun
tcers ia a guide.
Another incident showing The gener
Gus impulses III these Outdoor waits
1t occurred lust in front ~ the TIME
building the other evening.
Hello. Stnmpy.N said one gHmIn a.
he met another. ''haye YET fed YETI"
"Naw," replied Stunpy. II CUES
di- IL de 1--WE don't eat"
..Nn coin?" a~kc,l the other.
.NiAny red" was the response. %
owed Gimney IA cents anti paid hin
sos " could git some shoes"
J "How's yer appetizer was the mex
t query.
: ION. dere's nerer any trouble on da
! line" was the laconic response.
, ..Well, Stump" said the lettle fellow
III tell year. got 70 cents and | wa
] going to have scrnmptious feed. bu
8 | recNin II have 10 lot Del's slide to
7 night Lets adjourn ter De beanery.
He took Stumpy's arm and the tw
2 walked off. The beauty Of the act
I that it was done without the least COT
) descension. but With 4 frank. l-may
be-there myself-some-day air that Wa
8 delightful