Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-30
YOUNG GO-GE:TTERS
On WEEKEND
Evening Public Ledger Enter
tains Newsboys as Reward
for "Peppy" Work
zoo, THEATRE NJ EvTHINe

You've probably seen them by this
dmr
ID your own.
They've been cyerywhcre---or almost
everywhere---nnd IL there are anywheres
left they will be there. too. before 1t
IL oil over.
We refcr--and there's hardly me-
ccssity to point it QUITO those keen
eyed. pcp possessed little guys who
have, SO to speak. submerged the MIDI
die states map under the various edi-
tions of the EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER.
Swnrms Of thcm-from places as
close as Norristown. and as distant as
Harrisburg and Toms River. SO much
concentrated IIoratio Alger was never
before gathered together In single
place.
You could tell them. of course. from
their very step and their very voices.,
even il tlicy did not wear the embossed
badges with their names in little gilt
frames.
They arrived about 10 this morning
AT Market street wharf. ut Broad
Street Station and at the Reading Ter
mlnal-oh. ut almost as many places
a. they came from.
AIillionaires for Day
Hardly Ind the lads put foot on
the station platform when the EVENING
PrEIIC LEDGER man who was there
had them in tow and whisked away
toward til" Hotel Adelphin. there to be
Installed in five rooms with buttons to
push and bathtubs to ill like as if (oh.
don't mind the idiOm) they we're mil
liOnaires or something.
But this was swift like the sweep of
phnptoay In fpw minutes a ma n
from the Autocar Company had loaded
them into an autorar bus, and they
were driving down Chestnut street with
policemen saluting at every corner. See
what il means to sell more papers in
your town than anybody else?
Now the bus came TO n stop in front |
Of the Public Ledger Building at Sixth |
street. and our gang began to see what !
they hadn't seen before; the whole !
works of aa newspaper.
by the great Jimmy. they saw 80 !
much in that crowded half hour that !
II will take them II week to remember. |
They saw editors iand weren't i'm !
rrcsseGD. cartoonists. men banging on |
'ypcwritors that which would actually |
60 into tho paper, and mon at linotype !
machines putting il IN for them. men
pushing around great stacks of lead.
men taking pictures and tremendous |
presses that threw news on the paper.
On TO the Liberty BclI
Then tho rallying about of the grand !
marshol. Dr. Xcd lIctzcl Copp. of the
PUBLIC LEDGER Company. and on TO
Indpendcnr" Hall to learn why the
Liberty Bell has crack in it and why
thor" arc no kings in this country and
why "" should obscSvc tn" law.
n
square {" have his picture taken along
with t"mmo'lOr" John Barry and
couple of policemen.
The fellows wcr" ready by then for
a hit of lunch. So fcw blocks down
the street Thy motor. If you plcasc) to
Green's Hotel
After luncheon there was Il line oi
automobiles waiting in front of the
hotel. and the fellows were taken in
them tn Shbc Park. where the generous
John Shibc and Connie Mack had re-
served II section Of the grnndstand for
them.
Still wr are net yet in the middle or
II. After the game there will b" n BAN
qr"t think "i everything that could
possibly be good to cn, at such time
at the Hotel Adolphia.
And Then the Theatre
And then the theatre. The very best I
seats at Il cracking good vaudeville
.how Fought in a block by the EVENING
PrEI.IC LEDGER.
bedtime. of course. Is bedtime, and
must be observed in the city as we'll as
nj home. So to bed no later than II
D clock. Such beds. If you don't see !
,.hat YOU want tbut you will, ring 9
Tho bell. l
Up again at cight-yeS. sir, whether \
YOU want to stay in bed or nOt--and out c
,f your room for breakfast in the hotel
lining room at : 80. Thence an auto
ride: then to Fairmouni Park, resolving !
NJ length at the Zooogiral Gardens. I
rs the guests of the gardens manage 1
ncnt. ,
a ride then to Valley Forge. and the /
lnd of luncheon YOU see in the movies.
J hen a tour Of the historic Valley
Forge Park. ending with patriotic scrv- t
eos III the Valley Forge chapel.
AIS some one discovered very early in
II" history nf the world all good things :
'ayc Il pause somewhere, 50 ut length Il
'ack to Philadelphia and the train for F
lone. y