“Yes, but I intended to return the money for them, or make it all right with the old woman.”
“Come,” he continued addressing Willie, “I’ll go with you and we’ll make it all right.”
Out the three boys went and they were soon talking with the old woman. Shortly, Sunny Willie returned to the office.
“If I hadn’t a put sand on his track he would have slipped way back,” he said to the president, “Everything’s all right. He will never steal papers again.”
Another little seller, a favorite on the street among business men, one of whom the president often purchases a paper to please the newsboy, came running into the office one evening and throwing his bundle upon the lap of the president said:
“Here, pres., hold these papers until I go into the hotel to get a drink of water.”
The act was done so quickly the president found the big bundle on his lap before he really understood the wishes of the newsie, but he quickly returned, took the papers, and said, as he hastened out:
“Thank you, Mr. President.”
The confidence this boy had in the president was appreciated, not only by him but by those who witnessed the act.
It has always been a source of great pleasure, to the president and his associates, to see how deeply interested the officers of the association become, as the following will show.