The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-10-14
All About
the NeWsbou
Newsboys Need Encouragement, the
Same as Other Business Peo-
pie and Appreciate It.

Paper Read Before the Chaatauqtta Circle.
There are many people insall walks
OF life who have an entirely wrong con-
ception of what real newsboy is.
Newsboys are divided into several
classes. Butchers on trains who handle
reading material, including newspa-
pers, cannot be called newsboys, in the
broad sense of the word. Then we
have the boys who after school hours
carry q route, some for themselves and
others for the papers that hire them.
Then there Is the real article. BY this
mean one who is on his corner eight
or nine hours day, year in and year
out, regardless of the weather condi-
tions. It is of this real article write.
No doubt it seems strange to most peo-
pie why we see so many grown up
young men on street corners selling pa
pers, and wonder why they don't seek
some other means of gaining livell-
hood. 1 will tell you why most of them
do not These young men have not al
ways had those corners and perhaps it
has cost them many years of work to
acquire the trade they have when we
first see them. And it is evident that
if any inducements are offered them,
they are not satisfactory to warrant
their giving up what has taken years
to build up. But they would surely
grasp an opportunity if in taeir esti-
nation it looked tempting enough. To
boom up corner is indeed hard
proposition for any youngster to un-
dertake. 1 have had eight years. ex-
perience as newsboy and know what
it means to boom up corner. A per-
son would naturally think all that is re-
quired of boy is to go to the office,
get his papers and stop on the first cor
ner where traffic is quite heavy and
sell them, but they harbor false delu-
sion. If there is boy on this corner
he is undoubtedly going to buck his
competitor, and if that won't do, in
most cases he is going to force him off.
as a body of intelligent men: tWhat
would you do under similar circum-
stances? You have been on this cor
ner long time, aud it has cost you
many days and months of hardship to
lay claim to this corner and you have
a perfect right to profit by your years
of trials and tribulations, without hav.
ing as competitor a mere novice, for
no newsboy who has had any experience
at all will buck another who has his
own corner.
During the first few years of my ca.
reer as newsboy l had more trouble
than most boys, simply because was
not of fighting ealiber, and fell an
easy victim to nearly all of my antago
nists. After receiving an A No.
beating, would 60 home fit subject
for doctor, only to be laughed at b.
my bigger brothers. But instead o.
being discouraged by my homecoming
reception, it only made me more de
termined and as soon as my soreness
was over l was up and doing. Afte
many, many such trimmings was get
ting somewhat hardened and learned
little from each encounter until wa
pretty good myself. 1t seemed a
though I was in fair way to becom
what was then the height of my ambi
tion-a real newsboy with my own col
ner. / hustled faithfully for a fey
years and doomed up good trade an
if my profits did not net me $3.50 o
$500 day it was because had specu
lated in crap game. There are man
things required of newsboy in orde
to be successful. He must deal square
ly with all, be courteous to the lahore
as we'll as the business man, willing a
all times to trust person and man
others, too numerous to iment1on. H
has many advantages over his brother
who work in shops, Offices or depart
ment stores. He is his own boss an