The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-03
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From early morning until late in the
evening the passerby at the corner Of
Second avenue and Nineteenth street,
whether on business or pleasure bent
hears this familiar cry. 1t is matin
greeting to the early bird, it is a cry
of farewell to the midnight reveler. In
fact. the World-Doma News company,
which transacts a large and enterpris-
ing business in its tiny habitation, has
become a part and parcel of the great
city of Birmingham, adding a metropoll-
tan touch which is incidental with the
progress and push of the south's great
center.
The manager, Mr.. Hiram R. Delay, and
his clever assistant, Mr. f. G. O'Mara,
both always oblging and polite, have
built up an appreciative patronage, which
bespeaks Birmingham's welcome to any
new business enterprise. and many in
teresting stories can they relate In con-
nection with supplying a mind-hungry,
and sometimes a heart-hungry populace
with its daily portion of the world news.
For, as we all know, many a man and
woman regards the home newspaper as
his or her only link with the dear old
piest associations of ones life are con-
nected
How did you come to happen to come
to Birmingham" I queried as the af-
fable purveyor of news handed me my
change for a couple of papers.
Because I wanted to grow up with
the greatest city in the SOUTH came the
quick response. "There's no place Ike
Birmingham, is the way 7 boost it, when
a buy asks me what 7 think about this
town"
And did you install the news wagon
all by your self-somebody must have
helped" I remarked, quizzically, as I
noted what neat, systematic housekeep-
ers these people were, with the rows and
rows of newspapers arranged so deity,
| each on its particular little place. The
Age-Herald greeting me from the fore
most ranks.
Through the courtesy OF Mr. Walter
Moore. Mr.. r. D. Burnett Mr.. Copeland
and the City Council. thanks to them. we
| brought the news wagon to your city,
was the reply, land we have built up a
! fine business, too"
! Can you always tell when a body
wants to buy a paper? uueried.
| 81 can tell It block away by the
| expression of the face" came the quick
reply. "rhat is. if a fellow is thinking
about buying a newspaper at all. You
| see I've been educated to the business
] started as a news boy and 7 know II
! from A to T. You have no idea the
| impression the wagon makes on a COM
munity when we first open up
| How is that?" I asked.
why. the people crowd around 1t like
| circus has come to town but soon they
/ get used to seeing IT at the same old
stand. and IT seems as If the public has
confidence in a fellow on the wagon. be-
cause they come to us with al sorts OF
| troubles and sorrows and tell us their
real names and the story of their lives
Some are all in thev tell what they've
! once had now thew hate 10 be wealthy.
| and all that sort of thing and 90 they
] come and go. with their tale of woe
| and we think no more Of It."
| you heay of real tragedies as well MS
comedies. 7 suppose" asked greatly
| interested
"Yes neople from Arizona 70 Florida.
| from Maine to Mexico confide In us