Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-22
Stands Are Everywhere.

upon the newsdealers for the bulk of their
sales
Stands Are Everywhere.
There is scarcely a business corner in
New York where the edges of four blocks
converge upon the square that has not
newsstand at each end thereof, and there
are frequently numerous newsstands in the
middle of the blocks. AT the elevated sta
tons there is invariably newsstand at the
foot of each flight of stairs. and, of course
there are stands on the l. platforms as
well All OF the stands are perpetually
piled high with newspapers. and one won
ders how all of the persons who depend
upon the stands for livelihOods contrive to
earn their bread and butter. But they
all do. and there are many of them, pre-
siding over the best stands, who actually
grow rich at the business. There are nu-
merous stands far down town from which
the proprietOrS derive incomes ranging as
high as $50 day from the sale of news
papers alone, and this doesn't include the
profits they make from the sales of maya
zines, weeklieS, current fiction and periOdi-
Gals in general.
Nineteen out of every twenty New York
men have a regular stand at which they
get their morning newspapers, the stand
being generally around the corner from
where they reside When the huge pro-
cession of men bound for work down town
begins about 8 o'clock in the morning, the
newsdealers have their stands all stacked
up and waiting, and the men pick off their
papers as they run for cars scarcely stop
ping in their flight as they do so. The
sale of morning newspapers uptown Is
largely done on credit basis. Men rush.
ing for cars haven't the time to dig into
their pockets for pennies, and so they grab
their regular papers and square up with
the newsdeaer, as a general thing, on Sat
urday evenings. Along toward g o'clock on
Saturday evening you will see men stand
ing in line at the larger newsstandS in the
uptown district, waiting to get up to the
dealer in order to pay him out Of their
wages. The newsdealers say that they lose
scarcely any money by giving credit. They
attribute this to the fact that even the
New York man, who cannot be said to be
renowned for his scrupulousness In paying
his bills. can't quite muster up sufficient
face" to pass by the stand of a news
dealer a couple of times a day to whom he
money.
Know Their Customers.
These newsdealers are so alert and have
their regular customers down so pat that.
by keeping their eyes twisted about In all
directions during the busiest hours Of the
morning. they can see their customers bear
ing down upon them, and have the latter's
papers all ready and extended when their
patrons pass the stands at any gait between
a swift walk and dead lope. There Is one
ncwsdealer who has large stand at the
foot OF important downtown elevated
station in Harlem who sells average Of
1900 newspapers. chiefly to regular patrons
every morning 1t Is interesting to watch
this man dish out the papers to his custom
ers. He knows and remembers the exact
sheet that each patron regularly buys and
he has II held out to the customer by the
time the latter is within ten feet of the
stand. He did this for two hours the other