The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-29

The Salt Lake newsboy was very
much in evidence yesterday. In the
earlier part of the morning he was not
about so promiscuously on the streets
as usual, but this was because they
We're all out to the football game,
either playing or cheering those OF
their number who did play against the
High school second eleven. They came
back covered with glory and mud.
They went to the sanitarium and left
the mud there. This is the third time
that they have been the guests of the
sanitarium management on Thanksgiv-
ing Day. A merry rousing time they
had of it, splashing and frolicking in
the water and occasionally giving three
cheers for the Sanitarium people.
By l o'clock, about all the boys were
on hand to eat the Thanksgiving din
ner furnished by the Tribune. This
was given at Gallagher's restaurant.
and the genial proprietor himself
superintended the serving of the
guests. EightysiX newsboys sat down
to the table. Afterward during the day
Others struggled in, saying they were
neWsboys, and had missed the dinner,
and Gallagher took them in and fed
them.
With the boys there sat down Mr.
P. H. Lannan, Ex-Governor Thomas,
Colonel Isaac Trumbo, G. G. Goodwin,
Will Lett and Mrs. Will Lett
The president of the Newsboys'
union, John Simpson, said grace,
after which Mr.. Lannan pre-
sided. The dinner was good
enough for anybody. On the bill of
fare was mock turtle soup, boiled trout,
roast beef, mutton, stuffed turkey,
cranberry sauce, celery, fruits and
cranberry pies, English plum pudding,
tea, coffee and milk.
P. H. Lannan made a short address,
starting out with the assertion that he
was the latest newsboy present. He
related Renaissance of a visit to
Washington. He was accosted by a,
newsboy who said. Mister, L am
stuck, will you buy my last paper L
purchased the paper" said Lannan
land the youngster said, Mister, are
you rich?' No. l said, I am a newsboy
out west The boy gave a credulous
look as much as to say you are the
biggest I've heard this season. But
1 went on to explain that l had cor
ner on paper out in Salt Lake and
sold 10000 every day. The boy said:
Mister. you must have a pretty big
corner
Lannan never fails to boom his cir
culation.
Colonel Trumbo.
Colonel Isaac Trumbo then appeared
on the scene and was greeted with ire
mendouS applause, his Cyclone Foot
ball team shouting themselves hoarse.
He said: Boys, you have a life before
you; you have already selected an oc-
cupatlon to engage the spare hours
Of your little lives that you may earn
an honest fraction of a nickel by the
sale of paper, but remember, no mat
ter how humble your vocation, you
can bring honor to your calling and
reflect credit upon yourselves, by being
courteous, honest and energetic.
never see the little urchins upon the
streets in early morning that l do not
recall my boyhood days in Corinne,
Utah, when I, too, was a newsboy
carrying the morning news, through
sunshine and stormy weather, to the
homes of the favored few. The lesson
L then learned was to strive, to aspire,
to endeavor to rise that 1 might enjoy
the comforts of the well-to-do, and
above all, gain station in life which
might afford me many opportunities
to do good, by word and by deed, for
the struggling, earnest, busy little
manhood of this, my early home.
The busy world quite often forgets
you, boys. You appear to the great
throngs that daily elbow by you as
you call out the papers teeming with
the topics of the hour, to be miniature
machines, worthy only of unkind words
and rough usage, but l dare say that
under your tiny Jackets beat hearts as
warm as are found in the mansions of
the rich, and that at home, when the
shades of night have fallen and your
days duty ceases, there awaits each
of you a mother as kind, as gentle, as
eager in her solicitude for your well
fare, as a noble mother can be.
And though you are jostled and
tainted by many, bear in mind you
have friends, of which L am one, ever
ready to bid you work on, work dill
gently, that you may never falter in
aspiring to the noblest rank in Amer
lean citizenship. Never fear to aim
high but above all things be honest,
truthful, upright"
When the colonel concluded another
outburst of terrific applause ensued.
Judge c. c. Goodwin gave few
words of greeting, introducing his re-
marks by saying he was glad IT, see
the boys were larger around the waists
than when they sat down, and hoped
they were feeling as we'll as he was.
He congratulated them upon the fact
that congressman were made from such
boys, and that it always was an honor
to be a newsboy.
Ex-Governor Thomas gave the boys
some good advice.
Will H. Lett, son of Colonel Lett,
said his father had commenced his
career as a newsboy and was glad to
offer words of encouragement to the
hearty little youngsters gathered
around the dinner tables.
The boys spirits rose as their appe-
tites diminished. They cheered and
cheered. Now and then some one of
them would abruptly inquire what was
the matter with Lannan, and the re-
ply would be in effect that Lannan
was o. K They cheered for Goodwin
and for Lett. They cheered several
times for Mrs. Lett. They shouted
their appreciation of Trumbo, Thomas
and turkey. They said Thanksgiving
was all right; that Gallagher was the
stuff, and they said 1t with both vigor
and unanimity.
After dinner they took drive about
the city in the big Raymond coach as