“A Newsboys’ Meetin”

(New York Daily Tribune, July 24, 1899).

 

 

The striking newsboys will hold a meeting at 8 o’clock to-night in Irving Hall, Nos. 214 and 216 Broome Street, to discuss their grievances. . . . The boys expect to have a great time at the meeting, at which they say they hope “ter do” the newspapers with which they are at war. . . . Four newsboys were arraigned . . . in the Centre Street police court yesterday morning, charged . . . with parading without the proper license. . . . Saturday afternoon they decided that the proper thing was a parade.

 

They accordingly got about a hundred newsboys together, had some banners made, and started a parade up Park Row, past the offices of the offending papers, and down Frankfort Street. The police of the Oak Street station were informed of the parade, which made up in noise what it lacked in numbers, and told the leaders that it would have to disband. This they promised to do, and while the police were in sight, did so.

 

The minute they thought the officers back in the station house the line was again formed, the leaders issuing orders that if the police move in sight to “scatter.” Just as they were about to start the three officers ran around the corner and placed the four leaders under arrest.

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