Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-08-14
ONE DAY OUT OF MANY.
THE WAY AN ITALIAN NeWSSoY
SPENDS HIS BUSY LIFE.

.upied, His Earnings and His Half
Holiday Each Week, with No Vacation.
This is the story of day in the life Of .
Tony, Brooklyn newsboy, aud II Is not
unlike the story OF many other newsboys /
and of six days in the week, OF course .
Tony has another name, but what I j not |
half dozen boys Of his acquaintance /
could tell, and not one of them cares He
was poya in Brooklyn fourteen years ago,
and he has newer been anywhere else eX-
cept in Park row, between the bridge en-
trance and Ann street. 70 never saw
Central park or the Battery, and he has
never been at Coney Island. Once he went
TO a circus, and a few times he has sat IN
the gallery OF theatre and watched very
thrtit,,,- Mays, which were ms real TO him
as could he.
TonY,s father and mother are Italians.
His father owns two fruit stands, but he
-cannet speak English. His mother speaks
English. and SO do his brother, the barber,
and his sister, who was married when she
WAS II wears old When the mother gets
through with her homework she sits and
knits. Her fingers fly; You ought 10 see
her." says Tony, proudly.
And Tony himself-well, he is brown
faced youngster, with big brown eyes ana
a robust figure. He wears No : hat and
No. 6 shoes. and is as good looking as any
boy should be. and wholesome looking
withal. His clothes are pretty ragged, ana
his face and hands pretty dirty, but II that
were not 80 he would be, perhaps, unpleas-
antly conspicuous among the other boys.
HIS EARLY MORNING VENTURE.
His lifes 1t begins early in the day. Not
later than O'Clock every morning IN the
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father or mother wakes him up, Possibly
he had rather sleep, but business Is bust
ness, and a hey cannot sell papers lying in
bed. There is no breakfast waiting for
him, but down the street near the bridge
there Is a little eating house where he buys
acupo of coffee and roll for cents. Then az
quickly a. he can he comes over 10 New
York on a bridge car. In pleasant weather
this turning out early. when the tush Is IN
the eastern SKY and the shadows still hngcr
in dark places, Is not so bad, though II
makes Tony SILVER bit when he comes
oct into the cool air: but in winter it Is
black night and miserable indeed.
In New York Tony buy, his papers. He
takes fifty-flve Of these. On soue Of them
ne makes half a cent. on one two-tifths OF
% cent, and on one be has profit OF cent
But he does not stop to think OF profits
lie runs to ,ne bridge, rides over, jumps
on stzeet ear. sells If he can, drops OF
and jumps on another, and so works hh
Wv up to Fulton street and Flatbust ave
me. That is his field. and there he stay
tilI he sells ont when his stout arms ar,
empty he is 90 cents richer than when h
tumbled out of bed, less for tina, break
fast.
But there is real breakfast waiting a
home. and if he does not run all the wa.
there to get it it is because even his >tou
legs are tired jumping on and of stree
cans. Selling newspapers isn't any tuu
and you. my boy, in your smart clothes
with your books under your arm. unwil
ingly on your way to school, don't know
how hard that little boy, with his face tn
color OF a bit of new bronze, has bee
working. You have a vacation almos
within touch. while Tuny-weli, vacatio
Is word Of three syllahcs, but If il Ia
one its meaning would be beyond hin
There are no vacations for news0oys.
HIS Afternoons WORK.
Il is past o'clock when Tony gets hom
and when he ha, finished breakfast he go'
no bed. Tony wears fewer clothes than Il
bows in the avenues, but be re-ards III
dressing and dressing with us much di
favoras they do. and Le sleeps i'm his clothu
Il is noon when bee is again called, and the
iSadinuer O. ba eaten.
And now There comes % time cou-gruiI
the disposition 1t which Tony is NOT Vel
clear. There must be fully en- hour ssh.
he has uothuefodo. Maybe Dee sits 1rouI
the house watching the dying needles
the black eyed mother who never calls hi
caro- milo. and seldom kisses him-uev
since he grew ro be such @ big boy. =
she loves liw deeply and would cry ri
moan in her passionate way if one ut tho
street cars should ran over him and
were fetched horne some dry. rs he is like
20 be. dead or manned.
In little time Tony is out in the sire
and soon he i. one Of mob Of boys
front OF The EAGLE Office down in that p;
If Fulton street which Is coming 60 be +
gotten. Most OF the Brooklyn newsbC
get their afternoon papers there, and it
curious crowd Of future men. and v
men, too Tony smokes a cigarette sor
times. and be probably is not a. careful
his speech as Ne might be. Most Of
boys are not careful at all, and smok
good deal. Il is pitiful crowd in so
ways, but the boys play and fight and Sc
to have fun Tony can fight. He had
first fight year ago. and few mornil
ago, Just As il was getting light, he ant
negro hoy OF his own age fought for !
an hour on the sidewalk IN 'front.' OF
Office Of the Brooklyn News company
truly reprehensible but not unenjoya
manner.
THIS boy MAKES MAN.
Tony buys 81 evening papers, for WI
he pays "a cents, and sells them for 81
Later he buys enough extras to give
an additional profit Of 81 cents. lie RAJ
has any papers left, and If he sells al
buys each day he makes in all SlO9.
safe to say that be earns from 90 cent
81 a day, though there are only morn
papers Sunday. He can read very lii
but he gets around that by shouting n
ing but Extra II he thinks that SO
thing important is in the papers he
some boy who can read to tell him VIII
is, and then crys it. He has been TO SC
little, but one day he had some tro
with another boy, and the principal of
school to which he was going told him
to come any more. He does not like
school very well. He says there is tea
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