The sun., 1890-06-01
AyYBoDY SEEN THIS BOr?
Where IL the Little street Arab TINT Cap
tured the Managers Neartf

Where Ia the Little street Arab TINT Cap.
tured the Managers Heartf
Some months ago when :" The Still Alarm"
was running mt the Fourteenth Street Theatre.
business Manager Tom Mcguire was standing
| In the lobby OF the theatre one day when
wretched looking specimen OF the street Arab
| pushed door open and went in. He was not
| over yard high. and was ragged and cirty.
Taking it for granted that tho wel-fed looking
| individual inside was the man he wanted to
see, the little gamin went straight to business.
Say mister" Ne said. "haint yous got
| somethin' for me to doY
| Manager Maguire's natural impulse was TO
tell the boy to 90 away and lose no time about
It, but before he could do 50 tho littlo fellow
said, earnestly:
Il don't want to beg nothin'. mister! want
some money but l want to earn it,"
The eager and straightforward manner OF
the ragamuffin rather struck the manager.
We'll. what can you do ?" he asked.
Il kin do anythin' dat hant biggern am.
mster!" was the confident reply
This pleased the manager Sill more. and as
the theatre was Just then sending out boys 10
distribute dodgers. he gave this wretchel little
applicant bundle CT the paper and told him
to distribute them within certain district
and come back and he would be paid quarter
dodgers. and before the time was up in which
he was to distribute them he was back at the
theatre again.
said he. an I've cum back to git some more
to carry, SOS kin fill out me time
more work oT in e gKen time @ than than he E was hired
character q the guild that Manager Mcguire
was amazed. He said nothing nut gave the
boy another supply Of dodgers. In tax ing them
the Ramin made some suggestions about the
best places to distribute them that were
good that the manager told him to follow them
out. The little fellow Was back on time. The
manager handed him the promised quarter
Job. He was told to come around the next
morning @t 10 O'Clock: and they would
boy. as it was supposed that was the last that
would be, seen OF him. At 10 o'clock next
tho box office window. and looking down Man
9ger Mcguire saw the ragged urchin of the
Here am. mister he said. Wat a yous
goin to put me at dis imeT
he manager told him that he could distrib-
quantity. The boy look the paper, stood in an |
undecided manner moment and boldly said:
f@dy %fis5 fnGw KIN wat WXOrs IS SO t ~ f"voF"
Well, IN tell you, mister" said the boy. II |
been sen Dape5s DaT lately an sa'R qt dc
cents, an want to pay II. De twenty-five cents
besides-we mans got to eat. See ? Say.
kin y 'dvauce me fifty cents on me sarryT"
Ths eST gdsey of th almost
gazed at the miserable, mite OF humanity in
mute astonishment The boy met the gaze
knew what he was doing the manager Ind |
handed the boy the 80 cents and told the boy 10
get some more work. The little fellow thanked |
the manager and went put with his dodgers
Thatll be- tho end Of him. sure!" said
Mcguire. I'VE won't see him again"
But at 10 the next morning the Jap came at
the box office again.
Here | am, piped the voice of tho street
Arab Ar d ". ats Dc Somethin yous has got fer
The boy had now aroused Manager Ma
Rnires unqualified interest, and he was qmes
toned. IL was learned that the boys father
and mother were both dead; and had been re-
no home or relatives. and had become a walt
Traces Of his early training were abundant +
fuences Of the street had disilgured him. His
story became Known about tho theatre. and be-
aTy Lacey S Hur s
Mr.. ColviIle took an interest in him, v hen he
was transformed from the ragged and dirty
street Arab into clean, and weI-dressed boy
he was lonnd to be as handsome, briEht-eyed
a Lad a as 4 any one would have wished Q see He
wanted 10 TAKE hin at once 10 the messenger lmS
boy in The Ntil Alarm"
- The stage nor the profession is no pace Tor
this boy"
MaGuile took the boy 10 his own house and
sIie"i Tie boy continued 1i to live S,
with tho Mcguire family. but insisted on pay
board; lie also handed money 10 Manager
Magnire Nd every week TO keep Tor him, He be-
store, as he was with ali the thcatIe pe0rie'
ono Friday after he Ind been u low weeks
ht tie furniture stOle. he was sent
to ie'ch them their pail of dinner beer He had
tl.5O uuo him from the store tor his week S sal
airy, which would have been paid nest day lie
hah also roIhaps 81 which he had given Man
aSSr Mnsutro TO iaye for him. He took the all
rand: He never came back MGnngeIs Rosen-
quest ana Mcguire and Mrs. R0s inquest and |
MIS- tolNillo have made every effort TO find
some trace Of the missing boy hut without |
n tn4HGccess no has disappeared as completely as