The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-11
IS HoMElIKE HERE
NEWSBOYS OF BUTTE SET A
PLEASING PACE.
CHICAGO MAN PRAISES THEM
Drummer Declares the Young Sales
men il This City Have the
Metropolitan Plan of Do
ing Business.

Here in Butte the newsboys always
make me feel at h1-ne, observed james
Foster. Chicago drummer. at the Butte
this morning
What have the boys to do with maxi
ing things seem nomeiike:" repeated the
speaker after friend who sat near him.
What, they have Il whole lot to Go with
mani1is a fellow appreciate that he IS
in q live. metropolitan place.
In large city the neWsboys always
use their lungs. and tney use them early
in the morning ana late al night. ,rha !,
is the way it is here.
When 'wahen IN the morning the
first thing l hea. is ,le e.dr.oA voice %
d newsaoy. trying to tel the people thar
he has something "a sell. : ,.
In the evening, almost The last soua 4
I hear before retiring is The newsSey.
shouting out something that is prin, a
in the paper that h is S ding. i h,,t is
what | cali enterprise. - p
Great Difference Noted. a
Just take Il run out into soalc sleepy
town and notice the difference. lou
will find that the newSto:. ger up Ia e
ana that they make very little noise
after they do get to work.
They keep pace with the peop'e
around them. That is natural TEE.
give their customers what they are loo.s-
ing for, and never think about ge ii!ls
any swift: motion.
II can give you an illustra ton of live
rewsboys in a dead town. Some ysars
ago was in city in tie middle west
a place absut as large as this, bat VII re-
the slower plan of things prevailed.
Owing to some trouble that arcs .
witch reference to the local newsbogs s,
the manager of one of the papers ii;,-
ported lot OF youngsters from Chi
casO.
The lads went out The first mornin g
after their arrival and began to shout
out the fact that they We're selling
papers, just as they had been in tis,.
habit of shouting in Chicago. and Just
as the boys now yell in Butte
Husti-ng Not Appreciated.
What DO you think was tie effect Of
the innovation? Did the people hustle
! out of bed and go down on the street to
! buy papers OF the youngsters from Chi
| cago: Well. hardly.
Instead CT approaching that they had
some young lads who We're trying to put
| some life into the town, they scampered
| off to the police station and secured war
! rants for the arrest OF the neuFsboys.
THE little fellows were charged with
| disturbing the peace. They were very
| much surprised. and at first were III
clned to laugh at the situation in which
| they found themselves, but the citizens
soon convinced them that their offense
| If such it may be called, was no laughing
| matter.
| THE youngsters had disturbed tbs
| peace of the town by trying to sci
| papers. 1t was, as it seemed. a ser.ou;
| matter to Waken resident of that place
early in the morning.
Violation of Law.
ut was, in fact viola ton of some
of the city laws that had been frame!
to insure the peace and quiet of thoss
who wanted to remain in bed after news
| boys began to do business.
1.-The manager of the paper secured thu
release of his young statesmen on bond:
and admonished them not to make 81
much noise in the future.
Il understand that nothing like wha
I have related could happen in Butte
and the reason is that this town is no
spending its time in setting brakes OF
the wheels of progress.
Il might say, too, that the newsboy Il
not an inconsequential part of thos'
same wheels"