Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-09-10
ONE DAY OUT OF MANY.
THE WAY An ITALIAN NEWS6OY
SPENDS HIS BUSY LIFE.

After Ii sets-How His Time Is Oc-
eupied. His Earnings and His Halt
Holiday Each Week. with No Vacation.
This Is the story OF day in the life OF
Tony Brooklyn newsboy, and it Is not
unlike the story OF many other newsboys
and Of six days in the week OF course
Tony has another name, but what it is not
half a dozen boys of his acquaintance
could tell, and not one Of them cares. He
was born in Brooklyn fourteen years ago,
and he has never been anywhere else ex.
cspt In Park row, osswsen the bridge en-.
trance aud Ann street 70 never saw
Central park or the Battery, and he has
never been at Coney Island. Once he went
10 circus, and few times he has sat in
the gallery of theatre and watched very
thrilling plays, which were as real to him
Is could he
Tony's father and mother are Italians
His father owns two fruit stands, but he
cannot speak English. His mother speak 1
English, and 30 do his brother, the barber.
and his sister, who was married when she
was II years old When the mother gets
through with her Homework she sits and
knits Her fingers fly; you ought to see
her" says Tony, proudly,
And Tony himself-well, he is a brown
faced youngster, with big brown eyes and
q robust figure. He wears q No hat and
No. shoes, and is As good looking rs any
boy should be. and wholesome looking
withal. His clothes are pretty ragged, and
his face and hands pretty dirty, but IL that
were not so he would be- perhaps, unpleas-
antly conspicuous among the other boys
HIS EARLY MORNING VENTURE.
His life' 1t begins early in the day. Not
later than 4 o'clock every morning in the
week and every week in the year Tony's
father or mother wakes him up. Possibly
be 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
cup Of coffee and roll for cents Then as
quickly rs he can he comes over to New
York on bridge car. In pleasant weather
this turning out early, when the flush is in
the eastern sky and the shadows still linger
In dark places, Is not so bad, though il
makes Tony shiver bit when he comes
out into the cool air; but in winter it is
black night and miserable indeed
In New York Tony buys his papers. He
takes fifty-tive of these. On some of them
be makes half a cent, on one two-fifths of
cent. and on one he has profit of cent.
But he does not stop to think OF profits.
He runs To the bridge, rides over, jumps
on street car. sells IL he can, drops of
and jumps on another, and so works his
way up 10 Fulton street and Flatbust ave
nue.. That is his field, and there he stays
till he sells out. When his stout arms are
empty he Is 30 cents richer than when he
tumbled out OF bed less for thai break
fast.
But there is 8 real breakfast waiting at
home, and IL he does not run all the way
there to get it IL is because even his stout
legs are tired jumping on and OF street
cars. Selling newspapers isn't any fun,
and you, my boy, in your smart clothes,
with your books under your arm, unwill-
ingly on your way to school. don't know
how hard that little boy, with his face the
color OF q hit of new bronze. has been
working You have a vacation almost
within touch. while Tony-well. vacation
is word OF three syllables, but IL 1t had
one its meaning would he hey ond him
There are no vacations for newsboys.
HIS AFTERNOONS WORK
1t is past O'Clock when Tony gets home,
and when he has finished breakfast he goes
TO bed. Tony wears fewer clothes than the
boys in the avenues, but he regards I'M
dressing and dressing with as much dis
favor Ms they do, and he sleeps in his clothes
1t is noon when he is again called, and there
is dinner to he eaten.
And now there comes time concerning
. h. If II. l..
clear There must be fully an hour when
he has nothing TO do Maybe he sits around
the house watching the flying needles OF
the black eyed mother, who never calls him
caro- milo, and seldom kisses him-never
since he grew TO be such big boy. But
she loves him deeply and would cry and
moan in her passionate way II one Of those
street cars should run over him and he
were fetched home some day, as he is likely
to be. dead or manned.
In q little time Tony is out in the street,
and soon he Is one of a mob Of boys in
front OF The Eagle Office down in that part
of Fulton street which is coming 10 he for
gotten. Most Of the Brooklyn newsboys
get their afternoon papers there, and it is
a curious crowd Of future men. and wo-
men, too. Tony smokes n cigarette some
times, and he probably is not a. careful OF
his speech as he might be Most Of the
boys are not careful at all and smoke
good deal IL is a pitiful crowd in some
ways, but the boys play and fight and seem
to have fun Tony can fight He had his
first fight year ago, and few mornings
ago, just A. 1t was getting light. he and
negro boy OF his own age fought for half
an hour on the sidewalk in front Of the