The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-19
ONE D ERRAND BOY,
AND SOME RoFs WERE M NO
MEIN1 UP TO THE MARK.

tend vvith-A H'rtee Bxperience with n Lac
or Powerful Observation-Disclosures ana Eiis
Mether-A hos vshe seeras Tee Good to Last
You ladies arc always complaining about
your troubles In getting satisfactory cooks and
housemaids," said tho manager of a little
glove store in Fifth avenue to two laxative
customers. "why, you don't know what trou-
BILE in until you try 10 hire q satisfactory GRAND
boy. Firstolass cooks and woll.trainod maids
arc easy to find compared with an errand boz
who 10 quick, willing. and bright"
"Been having troublei' asked ono OF the Gus.
toners alphabetically.
DO you sec how I've fallen OFT" answered
the manager. 'But I'll begin to pick up now,
/ think. for I've struck q Klondike In the shape
Of an GRAND boy. Why. that little chap will
deserve to be taken into partnership by this
timo noxt year II no keeps up the pace hos set
for himself. But I'm afraid he won't last"
with a sigh. Some people say that earnest
hopes arc prayers. II that's true tho boy will
turn out o. K, for I hope shout three times In
every ten minutes that he won't prove a liar.
o thief. and. most OF all, q dude"
why q dudei" asked the other customer.
Shows how precious little you know about
GRAND boys." retorted Mr., Manager. "when
the holiday trade began to grow SO heavy I
found that IL was absolutely necessary for me to
have an errand boy. so { put an advertisement
in o morning paper, and the very next day q
bright-looking lad answered It. Ho was about
10. but very small for his ago. His references
were satisfactory, 30 I concluded to try him.
After two or three days everybody In the shop
was Of the opinion that I'd made a great find.
II anything. the boy-we'n call him Harry
Schmidt-was TOO willing. After he'd been
hero three or four days he began to tell the girls
how i'll his mother was; said she had consump-
tion. and gave.the most: heartrending accounts
Of her fearful cough, and 90 on. He kept tho
girls sympathies on the rack, I can toll you.
Next he lot out on his stepfathcr. saying how
| mean no was to his mother, and how no not
only neglected her. but took everything that
Harry made when he could get It.
After being here o week Harry camo one
morning and said his aunt, who lived in New
s6h; had % 8 s.R RShl i On m sSRs h sss1s is saer s, sna wsS
that poor Mrs. Schmidt, as they called her. was
* Sas Could have s't sRs. t day ID to F FsFf his n mother II
ready. and. of courso. We were willing. The next
s HiSn %olha ho r t1sn lSeat s1 s sSd SoS H0E SaS Spsp IL ieiE
over It That Wss on Thur1day; The next
s dRu Si / never We saw saw. He HES safd fhl e'd received es'i q
teiesram early that morning saying, his mother
take p place o. on tuesday. The shop rI girls . w eUsi in
and SO on. Ho promised TO be at his post on
wednesday morning; but even when Friday
IN name need DO 81 h q by a that f I %eote to his w "dds &c % sny,
ing that II he did not come back the next morn
Ing would hire some zee. enc else,
bust, woman, tall, stout and had very red
TIN Harry's mother she said.
"'Harry's motheri' shrieked the girls with
:" .Harry's mother 10 dead,' explained one.
Yes, and buried added another.
"'she died In a hospital in Newark volun-
1T amt dead said tho woman. I'm Mrs.
sschmidt' and I Amt even been siek; As for
"'Your sister who lives there didn't get you
into e hospital through q pull she hadf gasped
81 ain't got no sister to have no pull nowhere
answered the woman. emphatically, and I
ten yop ! never set foot in Newark, much less
s ssaa j S%e' 50 ' ! ~oa dldaH': sP Se SS D oSsssa to 3 ! fss r
place here 1 bought him an ss suit, and made
liz liz TfGdpiSs ed m' on my ~ t Ssa. SssS: P %sis s9 1n. i10f
get hold OF that boy and she flung herself out
of ! IN do neEt ~ day h se t isaln ssti from . man who
knew Harry well that our ex-errand boy was
what p known az . poser. He liked to dress
a place any, longer than It took him to buy
from this store and gave her 81, eaying he
s sas been and E0s sSss S %o '3 fep. o s.s our wages sssds BACK IL tho &c
WAY Was ever made, and Harry RI, U was a tspf iiner actor Sc or
actually looked pinched when he told u, Of his
mother'e death. That was the last of Harry.
soon along eame a boy. His name was Vim.
cent something, or other. He talked in a very
s s1Tsasht10r asked II Tfy coS STf s sss b he h motb Rs rs sSS
he said that she lived in Brooklyn, but that he
t TI0Sidt ~ fetch Sat her %n Eight tn over; i Before oh he had had
third street ferry he was back with her. She
was q rather dashing looking creature, and said
81 understand you want an errand boy
'YeS.. I answered, and then she had a lot Of
or not. but that If he was 30 anxious to work
Nov. what kind of customers do you have
though. Are they nice peopieT
":And are your Satesladies nioei' she asked.
Very. 1 repeated. and this time they all
to. She nSa questioned est me aboSt my personal biz
VIZ iaSo SnG l. , soa li iS5f hi%1 1 70 su ssS S YOU. ' saa try rw IL:
IN iet you, knoT 81 postal card Z, I need
About a dozen other hoys applied that day and
good. one. After awhile along came Wiiio.
That's the boy I've got now.
Have you got any referenoesf' I asked,
.o" ".No, but can yet en- he answered. 'You
for a long time. but l quit Saturday night. He
made me carry two dozen beers in q case for
much, for ne. My, mother told me the next
time he made me do this to leave. and I told
him what she said. Saturday he ordered me to
take a case of beer and left; but he'll give me
go and get IT, 1 said, I'm afraid rather
curly: Tn DO. bounded out Of the store and
from the grocer. / set him to work the next
Monday, morning and the first week no was
here he brought back three OF my old customers
and found me q new one.
How uid he do 1T" asked one of tho custom
ers. IL can't be moro than IL or Ia"
well. Fifth, avenue was torn up in front OF
the shop then," said the manager, and Willie
was standing on the pavement Watching the
men at work. A handsome. elegantly dressed
man stopped and stood behind him. Pres
emily ] heard him say to the boy:
here.'
,Imagine my. Amusement when I heard
Willie reply; Yes. sir, and It's very rough on
us that's In business on the avenue