The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-11
NEW YORK In THB TWENTIES
WHEN THEY HANGED Pr
RATES ON GIBBET ISLAND.
ReeOIIeettona % John %. Prote, who's
Nearing N and who sold Papers On
the did Days when Hester street
Mas the Centre OG . Quaker COIOHy.

bile and " itty young chap who on the 18th
of next December IN going to celebrate
his ninety second birthday probably
by coming down to Manhattan. This
mentally alert Young gentleman il John
u Prote. who was born in Albany IN ISIS.
but who came down the river to Man
haitian when he was a baby and with his
family went To live in Norfolk street be-
tween Hester and Division Streets. Climb
ing mp into the garrett Of his home before
he was old enough tn wear whatever was
the equivalent of knickerbOckers IOo
wears ago. ne fell ten oT fiftesa feet and
landed on his head on a block at the foot
% the steep staircase When his parents
discoye cred that he was not much injured
his father prophesied then and there
. that n baby who could climb 20 well and
fall with 40 little injury would probably
become fireman
/ Curiously enough to become a fireman
was the intense ambition Of Master Pro,e
and at II he began running with the
Live Oak No. - fire apparatus, Of which
he became regular member when he
was n and continued in that or some other
New York volunteer fire company until
1854: but he has never ceAsed his active
| connection with exempt hremen's associa-
lions and only q few years ago he made
q trip to California with one.
But Young Prote did not wait until he
was old enough 20 he . fireman to enter
actively into the business affairs 81 young
New York city He said ~ a SrS re-
porter who called on him at his residence.
8 Ashburton place in Yonkers recently
that u might have been as late A. ls2S
Anyway he was not more than or 7
years old when he began earning money
hv getting up at O'Clock in the morn
ing and going 20 the once Of the CovTi'T
and Inquirer or tho Com msreinI and acting
a. hyboy To- take away the unfolded sheets
81 the morning newspapers AZ they clat-
tered down on the flying frame from the
old hand presses Then at o'clock
he would buy a bundle Of papers and race
down to the dock whence a packet sailed
at q O'Clock for Amboy Those early
morning boats took by water TO Amboy
passengers who continued nv stage
~ the Delaware River and thence 10y
water to Philadelphia. and the passengers
we're good customers for the newsboys
4 remember one morning said Mr..
Prote. that a gentleman bought q paper
from me and sat on the deck 81 the boat
=" Na' u. P'o' h7' - ~ ~"
side and appeared to he much Interested
In the newspaper and the gentleman
asked him II he would like a copy. The
I.,.h,..,, ,h,.,,L.I -, 81 81 h. w,,,Id
and the gentleman bought another copy
from me and gave II to his travelling
companion. In those DAYS all the sdver-
,isene,ts NJ IN. .ailings Of .hina were
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=,
iu' sail Nv" ,'tS"'"' "'N "~ '"i"
of the paper and began looking a. ~ IN
tently. hut ! noticed that he held u upside
down Pr-,,v soon he exclaimed Re
alvin. ,h., r,,,., have hes, n ,,rea,
"orrum'
great storm exclaimed the gentle-
man. I haven't seen any account % it,
No acr,,n,' exclaimed PAT, SURE
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She every sn,p " 'he "ee'.
Also even before he was old enough 10
volunteer IN the fire service young Prote
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4 U,.n, 10 work he aid -when | was
H,,Ie ,nors than a Lad for Peter Comeru
- ,.,n.J - viltc., .,age. Thsr.
Were no fyanchis.. ar charter. for stage.
m those dSys. and any one Who own~d A
s,.gn cs,,,id ga, ir n , raS,,Iar 1850 In
an5 40 he L.s-i n. couJ drove ne
s,asa Na,cpna I made INV start from
Ten0b and II down the
sy.n,,o 60 uo,,s,on frou, ,bsrs .lonS
Colunhi. and Is,Si. 20 Grand styee, 20 The
Rowsry 10 Cha,ham Souare and down
Chs,hsm s,ree, ,hsy call !, ParL row
No. hal;e,a 20 'Rro.dway 10 wau
through wall 20 pasyI and siorg pesri
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ST., 1917 y l,l -,