The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
NEWsBOYS' PAPER.
They Will issue a Magazine For
Thanksgiving.

J. E. Nissley has thought of some
thing new for the newsboys of Topeka
to do this Thanksgiving. The boys will
publish a 12-page magazine, to be
known as 1.-THE Newsboys' Annual" All
the newsboys in town will sell tickets.
which will entitle the purchasers to a
copy of the magazine when printed The
maya zine. will be ready for distribution
a few days before Thanksgiving.
Charles M Sheldon has been invited
to write newsboy story for the maya
zine, and will likely comply with the
request. Tom McNeal has agreed to get
jokes. Joe Waters will contribute an
original poem There will be a lot OF
pictures, one of them picture of
group of Hawaiian newsboys, taken by
J. E. Nissley during his recent trip
around the world. Mr.. Nissley will also
write story about the newsboys OF
various countries Albert Reid will
contribute some drawings, and there
will be a column of news items con-
tributed by the newsboys.
Mr.. Nissley has arranged series Of
prizes for the boys who sell tickets for
the magazine. Every boy who sells 20
tickets will be entitled to suit of
clothes on Thanksgiving day The boy
who sells the most tickets will get
full outfit of clothing from top to toe.
Several other prizes for the second,
third, fourth and fifth highest will be
announced.
The money received by the sale of
tickets will be devoted by Mr.. Nissley
as far as it goes toward the expense of
publishing the ma ga zine, the cost of
the suits of clothes, and the cost of a
big free Thanksgiving dinner to be
served by Mr.. NisSley to the newsboys
at some place to be announced At the
last Thanksgiving dinner the boys sold
tickets of admission to the Auditorium,
where special exercises were held be-
fore dinner. The receipts from these
tickets went toward the expenses of the
day
1t is estimated that over 1000 copies
of the magazine will have to be sold 70
pay the expenses of the celebration.
This evening a meeting of the news
boys of Topeka is to be held at the old
court house for the purpose of discuss
ing the plans for the Thanksgiving day
celebration. At this meeting, Mr.. Mss
ley will fully explain to the boys the
plan of selling tickets for the magazine
and announce the prizes to be awarded
Mr. Nissley will also issue today a
prospectus of the new magazine which
will be used by the boys as an adver-
tisement and explanation of the scheme
when they get out to selling tickets.
In speaking of the newsboys organ
ization, and its future work, Mr.. Mss
ley said today: There is great prob
lem arising Tor our HeWSDoyS OrSdLi-
cation, and I have spent a good deal Of
time trying to decide on the best plan
of action. / find that the color line in
terferes somewhat with the work. I
have about come to the conclusion that
after Thanksgiving it will be best to
divide the newsboys association into
two branches, the white boys in one,
the colored boys in the other. There
is about the same race feeling among
newsboys as among other classes of the
population. The boys do not mix well.
The white boys are being gradually
crowded out of the newsboys associa-
ton. I sorry that it is happening,
for hoped to be able to make them all
get along tremendously. But I am con-
WINGED now that the best way will be to
divide the association into two branch
es, and let the white boys run one
branch and the colored boys run the
other.'