Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-01
WHY CO :
rt Is Easy Enough, Says the PhiIoso-
pber, TO Make Living.

| if is Easy Enougli, Says the Phloso-
| pber, TO Make a Living.
mo man has any license to be
broke in New York" The speaker
was well dressed, keen eyed youth
Of eighteen.
You can earn the undying graft
tude of thousands in this city alcne
if you will tell them how to escape
the discomforts, not of simple power
ty, but of downright want. said a
bystander.
~ hat is your recipe2" inquired
another listener.
You viii all grant me, said the
young man, that even the poorest
bum or most incorrigible gamin
that runs the streets can get a
stake, say twenty-five cents, with
out much trouble. All right. On
that foundation any boy of six or
man of sixty can earn enough to
house and keep him comfortably
HOWE Let him invest that sum in
morning or evening newspapers, and
keep turning over a fair percentage
of his profits every day.
Even the largest of Park row
newsboys seldom earn less than fifty
cents day on a smaller original in
vestment than the one have used
for the sake of argument. know
what / am talking about, because
five years ago ] was hustling around
in bare feet the same as the rest of
them are now, and could make my
living expenses and have little to
spare at the end of every week.
Show me man, woman or child in
this city who is beggar and will
show you an individual who is too
lazy to do even the lightest kind of
work"
After these sententious remarks
the youth turned and walked up
Newspaper row. There is young
ster who will be worth big fortune
in time, said a bystander. Il knew
him well several years ago when he
was regarded by the other newsboys
as hustler. His clothes were near
ly as ragged and his face and hands
as dirty as the street gamin's usually
are. Five years ago he conceived an
idea. He knew that there were sew
eral of his companions in the street
who would rather stand behind
newsstand for small daily remuner-
alton than hustle around the streets
and take chances of getting stuck
on their papers, as they express it.
He picked out two honest boys and
entered into a contract with them.
He agreed to pay them forty cents a
day to take care of small corner
stands. The young man bought all
the newspapers and stocked the
stands himself, and the boys were
held to strict accounting. From
those two stands and what he earned
himself on the streets he put $11. so
away clear at the end of the first
week.
"That money was put into two
other stands that he established in
the uptown district. All of them
succeeded, and the number was grad
ually increased until a year ago he
had thirteen boys at stands and
eleven around the ferry entrances
working for him, Today his staff is
fifty strong at least. He owns two
big stands under elevated stations
where traffic is heaviest. The boy
must be worth at least E12, 900 today
if he is worth a cent. Last Christ
mas he bought house in Jersey for
his widowed mother, and l under
stand he owns some property in
Yonllers that has greatly increased
in value lately.
He is the pioneer of his business
in New York, and he isn't a very
old one at that, is he2" interrogated |
the boys historian. York Ad.
vertiser.
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