The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-06-02
NEWSBOY GAME EXPLAINED.
Mr. Joe Roscnthal Brings Topic and
Riddle Into Maleflcial Notice.

Rr. Joe Roscnthal Brings Topic and
Riddle Into Maleflcial Notice.
Hello, fellers!" said Joe Rosen-
thai, president of the Downtown
Newsboys Club, as he swung into The
Sun office for his weekly visit last
night. Say, what do you think? A
Teller come up to me yesterday and
tells me that all the sheets has beer
taking notice of me letters. I looked
through them all and amt found
none of them has done it. Nix on
them kind of jokes. I guess I better
tell them what is interested in the
newsboys all about how they does the
game. I writ out a little letter tell
ing how It is done. Here 1t is."
The letter read:
I'VE gifts down to the bridge at
four or five o'clock in the afternoon
and buys out the kid what come on at
two o'clock what bought from the
kid what come on at eight O'Clock
and so on and then we quits when
the early morning ones come out.
The morning ones is sold by IN old
lady.
whenever a boy don't sell out his
papers it is very tough for him to
return his papers. He has to buy one
hundred papers to return just five
and by that a boy would loose most
of his dough. So the thing they
needed was a Spectator. So JACK
Sullivan, the King Of the Newsboys,
who started the Newsboys Home
Club, went to all the newspapers and
after much hard difficulty got per-
mission to put in a certain amount
Of returns. So when I told the boys
that they wouldn't have to loose all
they got stuck on they were tickled
to death like.
I'm a day each kid gets some six
hundred papers but don't sell all
them though. What they can't sell
of each edition he gives to the Spec
ulator and he sells them to the offices
for ten for six cents, you know. We
has two boys who has the Standard
Oil or them trusts beat to a fragile
for money making. This is Kiddie
and Topic, they deal in all kinds
of stocks. Topic, who only needs
about thirty cents more to buy an
other house, does all kinds Of seams
He brings his lunch from home,
which is sort of cheap, and when he
goes home he goes through the trains
and picks up all the seat papers and
brings. them down the next morning
and returns them. That way he saves
his car fare. I don't think any more
Of that way of making money that I
do of the Standard OH and that amt
much.
"Kiddie is another guy that makes
money. He is at the Bridge, and is
president of a corporation hisself.
He made it. He has other kids work.
Ing for him, too. He buys up early
morning editions at a cheap rate and
puts them in with the other papers
and makes some nice money that
way.
Business isn't about one-third as
good as a few years ago and so that's
what's wrong with the Bridge and
the subway. The tunnel which runs
through the East River keeps the
crowd from the Bridge. I wish the
people would buy their papers on
the streets and so give the poor news
boys a chance like. Some big con-
cern goes and runs the newsstands IN
the subway and on the elevated road
and they sure don't need money like
we does.
Here's a way that some, boys
make money. I don't think it is very
straight, but then it seems all right,
you know. When a Teller comes run
ming up to us at the Bridge and yells
out, Anything, in a hurry we gives
him a German or Yiddish paper and
he don't know the difference until he
gets on the car and then he needn't
know, you know. Most women Is
easy to fool cause they don't see
nothing, it seems. To them we give
any old edition that we have in our
hand, no matter how old it is, and
they never knows nothing to it. Some
dishonest kids does this, which amt
right. They gets hold Of the papers
what has cowpuns in them and cuts
them out and sells them right away.
when one of the fellers quits sell
ing papers and gets a good job they
don't go back on the gang. He will
always drop around to the club or at
the old stand where he used to stand
and then he chats with the fellers.
That's all I can tell you to-day
New York Sun.