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“Newsboys’ Home to Reopen”

18 Sunday Dec 2016

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From the December 18, 1903 edition of the New York Sun:

Newsboys’ Home to Reopen.

The Lodging House Has Been Refitted and the Entrance Moved.

The Newsboys’ Lodging House, at New Chambers and Duane streets, which has been closed since August, is to open again on Saturday night. The building has been improved, the main entrance being now at 14 New Chambers street, instead of on the Duane street side.
The Christmas dinner will be given by William Flies of West Fifty-seventh street, who has given the newsboys a Christmas spread and eaten with them for many years. On account of ill health he will not be able to attend the dinner this year.

“Newsboys Who Wouldn’t Sing”

27 Sunday Nov 2016

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From the November 27, 1899 edition of the New York Sun:

Newsboys Who Wouldn’t Sing

Because the Lodging House Would not Let Them in Before Evening.

There was a small insurrection yesterday outside of the Newsboys’ Lodging House in Duane street, caused, as it appears, by fresh paint. Robert Gibson, 15 years old, called at The Sun office last night and gave out this official statement on behalf of the insurgents:
“Every Sunday they open the doors at 1 o’clock in the afternoon and let us in so that we can use the gymnasium and get out of the cold. To-day we were froze out. They didn’t open the door at 1 o’clock but kept us out ll day. The dudes that pay 10 cents a night got in. We only pay five cents. There’s only a few dudes. We got bunk to-night. Every Sunday night they have a meeting and ladies come to hear us sing. To-night we all stayed out and wouldn’t come in when they opened the doors and there was only about six of the dudes at meeting. There were sixty of us who stayed out.”
Supt. Heig said last night that the boys were kept out of the lodging house during the day because the walls of the stairways had been freshly painted and a number of the boys when they left the place yesterday morning had amused themselves by rubbing their hands on the new paint and then making figures with the paint on the windows and doors.
“There were only about twenty of those who revolted,” said Mr. Heig. “The boys will receive all their former privileges as soon as the paint dries.”

“Won Fine New Homes.”

25 Friday Nov 2016

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From the November 25, 1903 edition of the The Sun:

Won Fine New Homes.

How the Penns. R. R. Tunnel Project Helped a Worthy Institution for Boys.

When the Pennsylvania Railroad bought the land for its immense new station it took over among other property the West Side Lodging House and School for Homeless Boys in West Thirty-second street, near Seventh avenue, which the Children’s  Aid Society received in 1885 from John Jacob Astor. The railroad had to have the site of the home, and to get it willingly paid the charitable institution so generous a sum that the society has been able to erect with the proceeds two fine buildings, thus more than doubling the value of Mr. Astor’s original benefaction. The West Side Lodging House, at 225 West Thirty-fifth street, is one of the buildings. The other is the West Side Industrial School, at 419 West Thirty-eighth street.
The story of this notable gain by one of New York’s foremost charities s an incidental result of the carrying out of the Pennsylvania’s great improvement was made public at the annual meeting of the Children’s Aid Society yesterday. Because of the increased facilities afforded by the new buildings and of substantial gifts from trustees, Secretary C. Loring Brace said, the society would ge [sic] able to develop its manual training work greatly.
Nearly 16,000 poor children attended the society’s industrial schools this year. The society is making a special effort to attract truant children. Among other things a newsboys’ industrial school, which Mr. Brace said would be the first in the country, will soon be opened in the downtown Newsboys’ Lodging House.
Mr. Brace said that 4,302 boys and girls had been sheltered in the society’s lodging houses during the year, against 13,717 in 1883. “This enormous falling off in homeless, wandering boys is a striking fact,” said he, “and is due to the effectiveness of the life saving agencies.”
There are still many boys idling about low resorts, he asserted, and to reach these the society is making its homes more attractive.
More children were placed in good homes during the year than ever before, the total being 869. The society also returned 350 runaways to their parents. Since 1853, when the society was founded, it has placed in family homes 23,061 children, obtained places for 25,200 and restored to their parents 5,551 runaways. Treasurer A. B. Hepburn reported the years receipts as $696,057 and expenditures as $695,628. The officers and trustees were reelected.

“Newsboys Eat Their Fill”

14 Thursday Apr 2016

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From the April 14, 1902 edition of the New York Sun:

Newsboys Eat Their Fill.

Twelve Hundred of Them Dined by Randolph Guggenheimer.

Twelve hundred newsboys from this borough and Brooklyn had a dinner at the expense of the Hon. Randolph Guggenheimer in the Newsboys’ Lodging house last night. Mr. Guggenheimer’s Brooklyn guests to the number of 500 came over in five special trolley cars. There was a car from Greenpoint, one from East New York, one from Fifth avenue and two from Borough Hall in Brooklyn.

The cars all got together at the Borough Hall plaza and came over in line, their occupants relieving the monotony of the trip by catcalls and such suggestive songs as “All I Want is Dat Chicken.” According to those who gathered in the boys for the feast, some of them from the more remote sections of Brooklyn had not been over the Bridge before in their lives. Traffic at the loops was tied up for some minutes while the boys scrambled out of the cars and formed into twos to march to the lodging house.

When the visitors reached the lodging house they were taken upstairs to the library, where the Manhattan boys were waiting. A few dark glances were exchanged. The Brooklyn boys wore white silk badges supplied by a Brooklyn newspaper. The Manhattan boys didn’t have any badges. Some of them looked as though the Brooklyn boys wouldn’t have badges if they were outside.

The Brooklyn boys were kept in one end of the room and the Manhattan boys in another and between them was a detail of policemen so there was “nothin’ doin’.”

Mr. Guggenheimer made a speech before they were allowed to go into the feast. To avoid any chance of trouble, the Brooklyn boys ate first. The managers said it was because the special cars were waiting for them, but the Manhattan boys took the other explanation. The Manhattan boys had to remain in the library and listen to other speeches from Edward McKay Whiting and other friends of Mr. Guggenheimer until the Brooklyn boys were fed.

After the Brooklyn boys were through they were taken upstairs and thanked Mr. Guggenheimer, who made another little speech and invited them over the Bridge again next year, an invitation they received with a shout that made the roof rattle. Then they marched to the cars and went singing and yelling back to Brooklyn.

There was plenty to go around and the Manhattan boys had their fill as well. Manhattan and Brooklyn together ate up 700 pounds of turkey, four barrels of potatoes, four barrels of turnips, 300 loaves of bread and fifty quarts of ice cream.

“Sammy Walked Sidewise.”

11 Friday Mar 2016

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From the March 11, 1902 edition of The Sun:

Sammy Walked Sidewise.

Joke for the Youngsters in the Newsboys’ Home, but Not for Sammy.

Sixteen-year-old Sammy Broom, who lives at the newsboys’ lodging house in East Forty-fourth street, was taken to Bellevue Hospital last night suffering from a stiffened knee, the result of inflammation of the glands between the joints, caused by a fall. The boy’s right leg was drawn backward, so that he was compelled to hobble along sidewise, like a crab. The two newsboys who took him to the hospital dragged him into the office.

“Hello, Doc,” said one of them, “we brought around Broome, de human crab. He walked backward all de way to de hospital. Hey, Broome, give de doctor a exhibition.”

“‘Taint on no funny bone,” said Broome, “it’s on my kneecap, and dat’s no joke. De bunch up in de newsboys’ says if I don’t git it hammered straight I could die in er night.”

“All right,” said the doctor, “we’ll take care of you.”

He had to chase the other boys away. They wanted to see the “human crab” walk again, they said.

“Master Fred Fox, Newsboy and Banker”

13 Sunday Dec 2015

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From the December 13, 1888 edition of The Sun:

Master Fred Fox, Newsboy and Banker

Little Freddy Fox is a veritable banker newsboy. He lives at the Newsboys’ Lodging House, and piles up the shekels as the days go by. He is only 14 years old, but he can draw his check for $200, and the superintendent of the lodging house says that Freddy has about $50 in the bank here. Besides this, he carries wealth about with him. Freddy began business when he was younger by selling newspapers as a common vendor. Every cent he could keep he put away in the bank at the Newsboys’ Lodging House, and when he had enough he started in business as a newspaper merchant and commission broker. He buys up a lot of papers and distributes them among the boys that sell for him on commission. When a newsboy in the house goes “broke” Freddy usually advances him enough to tide him over, and he has never been beaten out of anything. He lives pretty cheaply at the house, paying about 20 cents a day for his board and lodging, and no week passes that does not see the bank account of the embryo Wiman swell perceptibly. Freddy dresses in style on Sunday, and he does not pinch himself in the matter of creature comforts.

“Newsy Hadn’t Heard of Hell”

19 Friday Jun 2015

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From the June 19, 1898 edition of The Sun:

Newsy Hadn’t Heard of Hell.

Told Justice Nevin He Didn’t Know What Became of Boys Who Tell Lies.

William C. Koutnik, the real estate agent in West Hoboken, who is charged with having forged a check for $114 and sent Leo Luke, a newsboy, to the Hudson County National Bank in Jersey City to have it cashed, was examined before Police Justice Nevin yesterday morning. The boy got the money, but, being unable to find the man who had sent him to the bank, he gave it to his mother. She took it to the bank and received a reward of $10 for her son’s honesty.

Walter McGimpsey, another little newsboy, was called to identify Koutnik. He was so young and small that his eligibility as a witness was questioned.

“Do you go to Sunday school?” asked Police Justice Nevin.

“Yes, sir.”

“What becomes of boys who do not tell the truth?”

“I dunno, I ain’t high enough in school for that.”

As the boy said that he knew the difference between the truth and a lie, he was allowed to testify. He identified the prisoner as the man who had given Leo Luke the letter. Koutnik was committed to await the action of the Grand Jury.

Night School of the Newsboys’ Lodging House

16 Saturday Nov 2013

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Originally published in The Sun on October 13, 1859:

The night school of the Newsboys’ Lodging House will open on Tuesday evening next. All poor boys desirous of improving themselves have an opportunity to attend. Books, papers, slates, &c., are provided without charge. The following statistics afford pleasurable proof of the good it is doing for this class.

Number of destitute boys sheltered by this charity for the quarter ending on the 15th of September, 4,198. Of these, 2,281 had meals. Of truant and lost boys from various parts of the Union, and even from the Canadas, 47 have been restored. A considerable number of boys from this Institution have been sent to homes in the West by the Children’s Aid Society. During the period above mentioned there have been only four cases of illness. Sick boys are not sent to the Hospital, except where the complaint is contagious. They have good medical advice, and are provided with medicines gratuitously.

A spirit of thrift and prospective economy is developing among the newsboys, owing to the establishment of the Bank of the Newsboys Lodging House. In this, within the above period, 52 boys deposited $216.62 of their earnings.

The Bank is opened on the 1st of every month, and the depositors receive from the institution 5 per cent. interest (per month) on their savings. Since the introduction of the Sunday dinners at the Lodging House on the 12th of June last, 869 have been saved from the necessity of working on the Sabbath at the comparatively trifling cost of about $49.00.

The mention of the inclement season will remind the humane reader at the same time, that donations of apparel and bed cloths will be very acceptable at the Lodging House, Sun Building, to which address they may be sent. Presents of stationery and of books for their library and night school will also be gratefully received.

“Miss Horace Greeley Perry,” The Sun, 28 July 1898

28 Wednesday Aug 2013

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Miss Horace Greeley Perry.

A Bright Newspaper Woman Who Began Her Career Selling Papers.

Minneapolis dispatch in The Portland Oregonian.

“I have been a newspaper ‘man’ all my life,” said Miss Horace Greeley Perry to the writer recently, “and my connection with the press of the country dates from my christening. My father was a warm admirer of Horace Greeley, and he insisted upon my bearing the name of the greatest American editor. I supposed I am the only girl in the world who is named for the late Editor of The New-York Tribune.”

Miss Horace Greeley Perry is young and pretty, and the proprietor and editor of “The St. James Journal,” of St. Peter, Minn. She is the only woman in the state who edits a paper and she is also the youngest member of her profession in Minnesota.

Miss Perry is a bright sample of what young womanhood can do in business, and her career as editor and publisher has been marked by wonderful success. Editorial blood flows in her veins, as for some generations back her ancestors have been newspaper men. She says that she has risen from the ranks, having started as a newsgirl selling papers on the street. At twelve years of age she began setting type, later doing job work, until, in 1891, she took charge of the paper she now owns.

Although in appearance a mere schoolgirl, she is quite worthy of all the honors her Christian name implies.

Under her able administration “The Journal” secured the county printing contract after a contemporary’s monopoly for twenty-one years. Politically this gifted young woman is a Democrat.

Miss Perry at present is in a hospital, having lately undergone an operation for appendicitis. One of her friends, chatting of her successful career, said: “Twice within its history has St. Peter come near having greatness thrust upon it. Years ago the town was accepted as a capital site by the State, but after the bills passed both houses some wicked man stole the required documents, and St. Peter lots the capital.”
Miss Perry is intensely interested in prison reform work, and is a member of the State Prisoners’ Association. She visits the prisons, and is a friend of the Youngers, the famous outlaws, regularly paying them a visit every month.

Cole C. Younger edits “The Prison Mirror,” and in a late number he paid the following tribute to his friend: “The State Editorial Association may well feel proud of its noble little daughter, who has so bravely assumed the responsibilities of a newspaper career, and who, we fain believe, is destined to inscribe in letters of gold upon our country’s history the honored name of Horace Greeley Perry.”

Originally published in The Sun on July 28, 1898.