“He was hard to bring down to our way of doin’ things. It was natural for him to steal as to eat, and he wanted to give the wrong change two or three times. We licked him three times. He was game. Give him his badge, he’s all right.”
Six months later this boy was given a position in a wholesale house. He began on the top floor to work his way up in the business.
His eagerness to learn, his willingness to do things not exactly as part of his duties caused his employers to notice him and he was advanced, in less than two years, to shipping clerk in one of the departments.
Here was a boy whose home life was degrading. His neighbors paying no attention to him or his family, except to say: “That boy ought to be turned over to the police.” The newsboys, the boys we often look upon as being bad and useless, changed the life of this young man.
He is now slowly becoming one of the reliable business men of the future.
CHAPTER XVIII.
The president was about to board a street-car for home one evening, when a dozen newsboys came running towards him, calling him to “come here.”
“Bundle found fifty-six dollars,” was heard from a bunch of sellers. The president, of course had to return to his office.