Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1903 — Boston Newsboys. [ARTICLE]

Boston Newsboys.

A New Yorker went to Boston recently to apply his genius to the task of Increasing the circulation of a Boston daily newspaper, which was recently acquired by one of the endless chain New York publishers. The circulation manager has a new.and interesting experience to relate of his first encounter with Boston trades unionism. Spurred by kindly sentiment toward the newsboy army that acted as intermediary between his paper and the great public, and also having some designs in securing the sentimental attachment of the aforesaid army, the manager decided to “do something.” He selected one of the best plays running at a Boston theater, one he thought the newsboys would appreciate, and bought five hundred tickets fer one performance. These he gave to the leader of the host that appeared {tally at the counting room of the paper, and asked him to distribute them among his fellows. The boy accepted the tickets, but soon returned with solemn air. “We don’t want dese,” he said. “Why?" asked the circulation manager. “Why, de fellers can’t go dere. Dat’s a non-union theatre” The five hundred tickets were returned to the box office, and the New York man Is preparing a dinner for his particular newsboy friends where ndthing shall be opened unless it bears a union label.