“A Big Parade in Yonkers”

(New York Daily Tribune, July 31, 1899).

The newsboy strike of Westchester County, representing Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New-Rochelle and Mamaroneck, paraded through Yonkers last night. . . . The boys were accompanied by a brass band and a fife and drum corps. There was fully a thousand in line. . . . At Getty Square about two thousand citizens greeted them. Red lights flared and the sky rockets shot high in the air. The boys cheered and yelled themselves hoarse all along the line of march.

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