Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-11
A STAR wAGoNETTE.


taken by rapid wagon service, recently en-
larged by the introduction. for the first time in
this city, of handsome carts. built expressly for
The STAR by the Quincy cab company of Bos-
ton after a design furnished by 1HE STAR Com
pany. These little two -wheelers, neatly painted
and bearing The STARS name. are whirled
swiftly from The STAR Office to the depots and
the distributing stations that have lately been
established. These stations are located as fol-
lows: Bridge street. Georgetown; 18th and VI
streets northwest; 10th and Ii streets north
west; 22d and Pennsylvania avenue northwest:
l4th and ) streets northwest; 18th and streets
northwest. Thomas circle northwest; 5th and X
streets northwest; LIST and ii streets northwest:
9Th and III streets northeast: 10th and streets
southwest LIST and East Capitol streets; I'd and
Pennsylvania avenue southeast; 18th and Penn
sylvania avenue southeast; 9th and b streets
southeast
Two more of these wagonettes are now being
built, and there are, besides those now in use,
four larger wagons. two for the city service
and one each for Anacostia and the eth street
road. Thus The STAR reaches its regular
readers through the medium of eight swift
vehicles at present and this number will soon
be increased to ten.
IN THE Distributing ROOMS.
When the bundles of papers from the presses
come sliding down the chutes there is the
greatest activity in the delivery rooms in the
counted and sent out of the Office hundreds OF
them in wrappers, to catch the o'clock
trains. While the STARS are being dumped
through the chutes and hurried off in various
directions there is an interesting scene in the
main part of the delivery room in the front
building. In this long narrow room are fully
three hundred news boys, of all shades and
ages. There are many unique characters in
this gathering, huge amount of grit and
pluck. and more than ordinary quantity
of that American quality called ''cheek. -
They are hardy boys, most of them
thriving trade on the streets with
their ''Styah-yeahr' The are loosely or
ganized into a body polite by their own ne
cessities, forming in line every day and reach
ing the Office in professional order, checks
beng distributed for places in line, the univer-
sal rule being first come, first served" At 8
o'clock the motley throng comes trooping
across the avenue with whirlwind of sound
and pour down into the front basement, policed
by couple of The STARS assistants and by
half dozen strong fellows selected from the
ranks as leaders. The boys pass in front of a
high, wide counter, to the edge of which some
can scarcely reach, and hand the money over
to a clerk perched on high stool on the other
side in front ola money box and tray full of
cellulold checks Of various colors. Ten,
please" Twenty STARS here" Fifty
here" Zone hundred, please" they cry,
and, as they get their checks emitting them to
the number of papers they have paid for, pass
around the room and take seats astrde of long
benches that run up and down the room III the
order to which they are entitled by their
check above referred to.
Soon the papers are brought into the front
room and exchanged for the checks, the boys
making bee lines for their favorite routes
making the air resound with their cries. Many
young men in this city now occupying respon-
sible positions and rising to places of import
ance in the community started in life and re-
ceived their first insight into the ways of tho
world of business as STAR news boys.