The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-02-17
THE MODERN NEwsBOY.
He Seems to Be Growing More NM
More BukiucSSlilxe in His u1a..

He Seems to Be Growing Moro md
More Bustnesslilxe in His Ways.
New York Sun: With the great growth
OF the city and the constant passing Of
more and more people through long es-
tabl1shed channels, and the opening of
new channels through which new cur
rents flow steadily has come about
naturally enough. perhaps, some changes
IN the manner Of selling newspapers in
the streets by vendors who carry their
stock under their arm The great ave
nues OF trade have always been covered,
and there the neWsboys, in large num-
bers, are to be found just as before. But
there are now more and more newsboys
VINO station themselves at some spot.
and, instead of walking about, hold that
spot. A good Illustration of this Is seen
IN the City Hall Park in the selling Of
AFTERNOON papers to people going home to
Brooklyn over the bridge. or uptown in
Manhattan or the Bronx byway Of the
elevated railroad from the city hall sta
ton.
The entrance to the bridge and the ele-
waited station there makes a center to-
ward which many thousands Of people
are drawn daily; and at the focal point.
where many streams Of humanity con-
verge, there are many newsvenders,
Every one Of these converging streams
has been fished and fished again before
IL mas reached this point. At every path
IN the park, to meet these currents when
they first begin to concentrate, the news.
Noys station themselves The best fish
ing points have had the same occupants
for months, perhaps for years. OF
course, there has always been more or
less of this sort of fishing done, but it
was never so highly developed as it is
now.
There are newsboys to be found in
every busy street leading to an elevated
station; there Is more and more Of
tendency on their part to stay in one
spot, where customer knows where to
find him, for many of these newsdealers
have what are practically regular Gus
toners who buy papers of them daily
and to whom the vender hands out a pa
per as he comes along, and the right pa/
per. too, every time. The fishing of the
current where 1t first strikes the channel
IL seen here in the work of boys who
station themselves, say, on Broadway,
downtown, at the corners of streets lead
ing to an elevated station.
Perhaps the latest development of spe-
c1alization in selling newspapers in the
street is at the doors of big wholesale
houses downtown. This is not new. but
is done more now than before. The boy
takes his station outside the door, and.
II he succeeds, he comes to have regular
customers who buy as they leave on
their way home. The boy knows their
paper and whips it out as they come
along. and he may do better concentrate
ing his attention on this stream, so to
speak, than he would fishing for the
chance fish to be taken between corners
by vendors making it their
business to stand day after day on the
same spot. .... Il r. .--.-. -
There are plenty of newsboys still
plunging and tearing around the same
as before. for the general and floating
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than ever, and one constantly, growing.
Of newsvenders that so to speak, take
root somewhere, in the busiest CITY
places, and stick and cultivate a trade