Evening star., 1897-01-16

He did not appreciate his luck, and fell
into dangerous practices. He Is now as
sorting the soiled clothing Of convicts in
the laundry of Joliet. This is not to say
that all of the newsboys of Chicago are a
bad lot. But they are all exceedingly i'm
pudent, and a good many of them derive
a peculiar satisfaction in selling a clean
looking paper of June to a much hur-
ried man on November 23 Whereby they
cut their own throats, for no citizen is ever
fooled twice in this way.
A Ravenous Crowd.
The new boys of San Francisco are a
ravenous crowd. although they make more
money than the newsboys of any other
American city, for there are no pennies on
the Pacific coast and newspapers bought
by the boys at about the same rates the
papers are sold to them in eastern Cities
all cost 3 cents. For all this. the San
Francisco newSboy will follow q man who
appears to be stranger in the city a dis
tance of blocks In order to compel him to
purchase paper, talking all the time, and
giving purely fictitious accounts of the
amazing things the papers contain.
The newsboy thus on the strangers trail
will pay no attention whatever to his de-
1;ials. good-natured or angry. and makes
himself such positive nuisance that in
nine cases out of ten the pursued man will
dig into his pockets for a nickel to throw
at the boy, often without taking a paper in
exchange. The farmer from the interior of
California suffers at the hands of the San
Francisco newsboy. They form a ring
around him on the most prominent thor
oughfares, especially Market. Kearney
and Sacramento streets. and practically
hold him up. He has either got to buy one
or more newspapers or suffer merciless
guying for squares. The San Francisco po-
hceman stands and watches this kind of
thing with a grin.
The newsboys of New Orleans are pic
turesque lot of brown boys not unlike those
washington. n
ress in their handling of the difficult word
Pick yoon' that is pleasant to hear. They
are all eminent as crap shooters, and most
of them as sprinters, for combination Of
the two accomplishments is as necessary
in New Orleans as it is in Washington.
Musical Call.
The newsboys of St.Paul and Minneapolis
are bright lot of distinctively American
boys, who have an odd habit of travelling
in pairs. and of singing, soprano and alto,
or tenor and baritone, the names of their
papers in sweet, musicianly style that is
really pleasant to the ear. "Pi-o-ne-e-er-
Preh-eh-es" is sung as kind of anthem by
the boys, thus working in pairs. slow and
gradual descent being made on the word
Press" They make five or six bars of
sounding music out of the call, 'Min-ne-ap-
oils Tri-ih-by-yoon." They do not lose any
thing by thus purveying in company, for
their calls attract attention, and the paired
boys take turns in dsposing of their pa
perS.
The newsgirls of New York and Chicago,
who have only made their appearance with
in the past three years, are a merry-eyed
set of young women of great assumed
Occurrences much addicted to the wearing
of gretesque costumes of the poster and
Yvette Guilbert order, in order to attract
attention to themselves. They make good
incomes. Two girls, sisters and twins,
about nineteen years old, both dressed ex-
actly alike with enormous black ostrich
plumed hats as the chief article in their
makeup, stand at the uptown and down.
town elevated stairs at 23d street and 9Th
avenue, in New York, and take in handsful
of money every day. The pretty young
Spanish woman who stands at the corner of
State and Madison streets, in Chicago.
dressed in an outfit that makes her look
like petite Carmencita, is said to own a
block of dwelling houses on the west side
Of Chicago.