0047 [P&P], Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print. 6. "New-York Tribune Illustrated Supplement Sunday", July 30, 1899" in "chroniclingamerica.loc.gov" (Accessed: May 14, 2017) This website explained about how the newsboys stopped traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge to halt paper deliveries. It came in very handily when the GERANIUM tried to cut the price XXXX when we attacked their franchise, and it seems to me better to scare them to death and make it over again; but perhaps it will go to pieces. Both James and Joseph supposedly have 15 farm animals. However, a fragment can be seen here (Kid Blink is the second line): Most of the information in this document is things we already knew, but it does confirm a lot of things, such as that this trial did happen, that Kid Blink was 24 in June of 1905, and also that the “Kid Blink” mentioned in the papers was the same Louis Balletti who we know lived at 1 Roosevelt St. Last night I encountered the following bit of information about the man who edited the Evening World during the time of the strike: In 1898 Pulitzer hired Charles E. Chapin to run the Evening World. AND IT IS FURTHER MUTUALLY AND SPECIFICALLY AGREED that the said Joseph Pulitzer and the The Press Publishing Company, parties of the first part, shall pay to William R. Hearst, and the Star Company and the NEW YORK EVENING JOURNAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, parties of the second part, the sum of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.) . I don't believe in dumping the carts same as was done last night. Provided how much $100,000 and other monetary amounts important to the strike, would be worth today. We could accomplish a great many things in the point of economy if we would only do this”. And the said parties of the first part in the instance of the said parties of the second part applying for an Associated Press franchise for the paper known as the NEW YORK EVENING JOURNAL shall give their (the parties of the first part) consent to the NEW YORK EVENING JOURNAL having the said Associated Press franchise. Practically all the boys in New York and in many of the adjacent towns have quit selling. The boys gathered in the school room at the Duane Street Lodging House, and were than brought in 200 at a time in to the dining room. In 1918, however, fate caught up with Chapin, when, facing financial insolvency and mental instability, he murdered his wife. They enjoyed a [sic] amazing amount of public support and the long and interesting articles in various newspapers encouraged them. This year the musical Newsies got nominated for eight Tony Awards . Title: Waiting For The Signal. New York Tribune. A telegram from the New York World’s business manager Don Carlos Seitz to Joseph Pulitzer, dated July 26, 1899, concerning the newsboy strike. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-nclc-03201 (color digital file from b&w original print), Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. At the turn of the century, newsboys were essential to newspaper distribution. The the retail or face price of the papers know as the NEW YORK WORLD, Evening Edition, and the NEW YORK EVENING JOURNAL be one (1) cent, and that the price to newsdealers and newsboys both City and Country shall be six tenths (6/10) of one (1) cent; the understanding being that the prices to both City and Country dealers are subject to change by mutual consent of the parties to this agreement. We could not but see, however, that the accommodations assigned to each of us for the night consisted of a nice little bed with warm comforters and clean sheets ; and glad enough were we to end our day's work in such a rest as was now promised us. This website provided many images (including the site header) and quotes, used throughout the site, as well as information about the newsies from the July 28, 1899 edition of the New York Journal. The scene was described in an article in the New York Tribune Dec. 26, 1905 and discussed in Stephen Nissenbaum’s The Battle for Christmas. John Morrow When I got your telegram last evening, relative to making a statement, I prepared the enclosed, but upon second thought will not use it, my notion being that public sympathy is such a volatile factor that it would not be good policy to engender a further assault by the combined press of the town: When the boys get back to their familiar posts, their customers will go with them and the thing will be over. Liz Stern. Several of the papers, notably the COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER in the Publishers’ Association have been printing aspersions on THE WORLD and THE JOURNAL growing out of the strike. He said “This is very serious. Ordinarily, they would reach 15 or 16 percent. In 1899, the streets of New York City were filled with the voices of the Newsboys. I find the Telegram has been helping the boys and feeing some of the leaders, THE DAILY NEWS, MAIL & EXPRESS, and TRIBUNE also made many contributions, small, but encouraging, quite forgetting their obligations to the Publishers’ Association. Again, I have no idea what that means. I have used the spellings on their gravestone in this analysis since supposedly somebody in the family would have spellchecked those. Only once, after the September 1901 assassination of President William McKinley, did the World take a solemn tone, and this was near the beginning of Chapin’s tenure. 3. Most of the newsboys came from poor immigrant families and sold papers in the afternoons and evenings, after their school finished. Excerpts from the only known surviving copy of the code book used for communications between Joseph Pulitzer and his staff at the New York World. 1. Damage to circulation $80,000. . I resolved to carry out a plan of which I had been thinking for some time, and accordingly found my way, withWillie, to the "Newsboys' Lodging-House." His direct propositionto [sic] have a treaty and his evident willingness to go to two cents. These primary sources helped show the opinions of the newsboys, a little about the message the newsboys gave to the public, and why they believed that their argument was just. Am I right? This information was on microfilm, so unfortunately a picture of the full document is not available. I advised a number of the large advertisers not to advertise in the Evening paper during the trouble, but to use the Morning and hold back. This seemed to be a menace also and I agreed that it would be better to spend largely for a few days and break the thing up than to let it drag along and lose from $500 to $1000. As I wired you this afternoon, the strike broke completely so far as the downtown district is concerned at three o’clock. A memo from the New York World’s business manager Don Carlos Seitz to Joseph Pulitzer, dated July 27, 1899, concerning the newsboy strike. The strike started in Long Island City were a dishonest Journal driver stuffed sample copies in his bundles and sold his surplus, then refused to pay back the boys when they complained. newsboysof1899 Blog, Events, Newsboy Strike of 1899, Primary Sources, Sources 1 Comment December 7, 2018 4 Minutes Memo from Seitz to Pulitzer, July 27, 1899 A memo from the New York World’s business manager Don Carlos Seitz to Joseph Pulitzer, dated July 27, 1899, concerning the newsboy strike I had consulted with them this morning and found that none of the Business Offices’ people knew anything about the editorial fellows’ doings – something not unusual – and they will take steps to repress their reporters and editors. In addition, a few decades later, there was an introduction of an urban child-welfare practice that led to the improvement of the Newsboys' quality of life. Photo by Lewis Hine, A Voice from the Newsboys Call Number: LOT 7480, v. 1, no. IT IS FURTHER MUTUALLY AND SPECIFICALLY AGREED, owing to the possibilities of minor violations of certain clauses of this contract which the parties to said contract may not be able to avoid, that the said parties or their representatives shall confer after any violation, when the parties in fault shall give good and reasonable explanation to said other parties; but that the contract shall not be declared void for said violation unless it be shown that it is or was the intention of the offending parties by said violation or violations to bring about an abrogation of this contract. 69B GS JY 45PaidNew-York, July 24, 1899Joseph Pulitzer. He said“that [sic] is true”. I shall collect the evidence and have an extremely bad afternoon with the gentlemen. The book is held at the Columbia University Rare Books Library. Published in 1860, https://archive.org/details/avoicefromnewsb00morrgoog. In 1905, Louis “Kid Blink” Balletti was arrested on suspicion of murder. The newsboys surely would have gotten a kick out of the fact they are the inspiration for a major Broadway play. He reveled, for example, in accounts of the 1904 General Slocum steamboat fire on the East River, which cost 1,000 lives, and, six years later, rejoiced at getting an exclusive photograph of the assassination attempt on Mayor William Jay Gaynor. Kid Blink’s birthday is listed as July 1881, meaning he would have turned 18 either during or just before the strike of 1899, Agostina and Bartolomeo (Kid Blink’s parents) immigrated to America from Italy in 1880, only one year before Kid Blink was born, Agostina had 10 children, but only 4 were still alive in 1900, Neither Agostina nor Bartolomeo were citizens, Kid Blink’s occupation is listed as “driver”, and he and all his working-age family had been consistently employed all year, All four Balletti children could read and write, but neither of their parents could. From then on, the editor took a no-holds-barred approach to the news. Much rioting. I did not commit myself except to agree with him as to the economic outcome of such an arrangement, but said that it was almost impossible to secure the keeping of any contract with his Mr. Brisbanes and our several gentlemen “going off” without consulting anybody. While morning editions of the paper were often delivered directly to subscribers, the afternoon editions relied almost exclusively on newsboys to sell. 7. You ask how many newspapers are handled by the newsboys, I should think 60%, 50% of them quit selling.
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