Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-12-19

Noodles" Pagan, the worlds IA
nous newsboy, who is in Annapolis
as the guest of The Capital, made a
big hit with the local newsies last
night, shaking hands with the boys
and giving them some good advice.
His act at the Boyer formerly The
ColoniaD, was the hit of the show
last night. His songs and jokes are
all new and snappy.
The Capital will take all the news
boys to see him at The Boyer Friday
night. A newsboy carnival will be
held on the stage, and the local news
les will take part. The Capitals
free entertainment on Thursday after
noon at $50 o'clock. Everybody in
vited-free.
Read what Louis M. Thayer, city
editor of the Butte Inter- Mountain,
says Of Noodles" Pagan:
A tiny stream, trickling from a
mountain top, often becomes a roar
ing torrent. Noodles Pagan has
more chance to roar, in torrential
fashion, than any living American.
Get that? More chance than any liv-
ing American" An absurd statement,
you say. just a grownup newsboy
who paddles about the country cod
ding newsboys.
Noodles" is more than that. He
was a newboy; he is today a news
boys friend. But they err who
set the man down as a mere sensa-
tionalist, a mere notoriety hunter.
Noodles" Pagan is a rich man.
His income is greater than that of
any servant of the United States
except its president. He can write
his check for an astonishing figure.
He is vaudeville's monologue king,
Americas champion newspaper ped
dler, and the best singlehanded talker
in the hemisphere-or in both of
them. Noodles" is a study. He be-
gan life as a New York gamin, a type
that always has been bound to pro-
duce something. It has produced
something-a big something Moo
dies.
1t is difficult to conceive how any
living agency can have greater inf1u-
ence on a nation than a voice that
reaches half the children in it. "Noo-
dies" now bosts that he is addressing
5000, 900 children every year. He
hopes, in the not distant future to ad-
dress q vast majority of the children
of America every year. His field Is
ever expanding, and he occupies il
alone. He is unique. There is only
one Noodles. He is the only living
instance of a rich man who is devot-
ing every minute of his life to the
uplift of the rising generation.
1t may seem at first glance a trifing
thing-to address in alleys and on
street corners the gamin of America
that nobody attends, and a lower
moral scale throws the street boy into
ever-increasing temptation. Who,
in such a scale, attempts this work |
Nobdy. Noodles has the field to
himself. Hurrah for a gamin who |
could mass riches and then remember |
other gamins-hurrah for the Amer
lea who could produce man like this |
His personality and force, devoted to |
selfish ends. might make him one of |
Americas richest men, in money; he's |
bigger than that, he aims at other |
riches, the riches of achievement for
human advancement. No American
is giving so much to the nation-few
gi We anything like so much. And he |
makes no pretentions and assumes no
airs. Noodles" is incapable of |
twaddle, let it be said again. He does |
not ask cent of anybody anywhere. |
His vaudeville salary does not pay
his expenses. Hundreds of newsboys. |
working from his stands, supply him |
the sinews of war in his campaign for
the newsboys all over the land.
Thursday afternoon at $50 O'Clock |
the children of the city and their par
ents will be the guests of The Capital |
at the Boyer Theatre, where ''Noo-