The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 11, 1895, Page 8

‘THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1895. NEWSBOYS OF SAN FRANCISCO SAY “THE CALL” SELLS WELL. Strong Testimony of thé Growing Popularity of the Paper-—All the People Like It-—Increasing Sales of the Sunday Edition in Every Part of the Town and Country-—In Demand by All Classes of Citizens. THOMAS McCANN. “How many Carrs do I sell every day? | Well, if I said about eighty I might be | lying, because to-morrow I might sell | ninety or a hundred. Ever since THE CaLL took a boom on I have had to order | more every week. That's the way it seems to go. and as long as the demand keeps up y to do the supplying. Last Sunday we had sold out Jong before noon ad to lay in a fresh supply. On the all'the kids who work for me on that issue, and people ht it before ask for it now. WLo never bot I never saw a San Francisco vaper take such a spurt. That's straight.” FLORENCE CROWLEY. “Dey’s nutin’ de matter wid De CaLr. I sells'em in de mornin’ for a few hours and in de afternoon I works up in de town in a mattress factory. See?”’ “How many CarLs do you sell while you are at it?"’ “’Bout twenty. Dat’s as many as most Florence G rowlé}'.' of de utter kids sells of de morning papers. Tree monts ago dey wasn't anybody calling forit, but now a mug can get out and make a good ting of it widout rustlin’. Dat’s what I do. You see, McCann stays here all day and scoops in de dough wid a steady pull. You can bet on DE CaLL.” EDDIE HIGGINS. “So you are the youngster who sells nothing but Tre CALL on Sunday. How many can you carry 2"’ “What'er you givin’us? I don’t take the whole bundle out at onct. When I sell one armful I come back and get more. Don’t I, Tap? Ican’t get away from the school in the weekdays, so I only work on Sunday. Saturday I have fan. When eople go out of town Sunday they take ‘BE CALL with them and read the stories. My mother reads them to me sometimes. Last Sunday I sold over eighty CaLis, and this coming Sunday I am going to take out a hundred.” WILLIE BROWN. “Me and two other fellows have gota dead cinch on the trade of the men-of-war 40 the harbor now, and every morning we get on. the ships’ tugs and go aboard. All the officers like THE CaLL, and say it gets all there isa-going. I sold 150 in one week and the other two kids sold almost as many. Why, say, when I first began to go out fo the warships I didn’t take THE CALL with me, but since I heard everybody nal!- ing for it I lays in a stock, and now I don’t sell nothing else. When I gets my hands on a good thing I am a great stayer. I read THE CALL myseif.” HERMAN PIFFERO, ALIAS “THE ACE.” “I'm one of the fellows who goes out to the ships in the morning and gets my work in on the sailors. Me and Brown is pals, and the sailors and otficers we don’t know ain’t worth knowin’. I'll tell you how we does it. As soon asa new ship comes in we get aboard of her, and the cap’n says. ‘Boys, give me the paper with the news.’ Well, we hands him Tue Cary, and the next day when we gets on board again he says, ‘Give me THE CarL.’ That’s the way we works it. and the man is always satis- fied. I get rid of about thirty papers every day, and that’s wages for a kid."”” TAP WILLIAMS. “Well, you see, it’sust thisway. I'ma kind of a boss here, and don’t have much time to sell papers. I have too many kids to look after. I do a little workduring the day, and sell about twenty CaLisof the daily edition, but when Sunday comes I hop in and knock out about 125 or 130. Yilliams #) The demand for the daily CArr has in- creased about double, and of the Sunday paper I sell almost three times as many. I'd sell more if I had time, but a fellow can’t be a boss and a laboring man too. I have one kid who sells nothing but THE CaLnon Sunday. Here he is.”” ALBERT BLASS. *I've been selling papers right here on the corner of Montgomery and Market streets for the pastfew years, and as the cable-cars go by I jumpon and go through. 0Of course I see all kinds of people and sell Alpert to everybody. I used to take out only the papers which were called for the most. There was two of them, but since THE CALL began to print the news from all over the earth I find that people who never paid any attention to it in the past take it regu- larly now. I bave a regular run of certain Seonle and I am adding to the list every ay. There’s money in it, too.” TOM SIITH. “When I want to sell THE CALLIgeta big batch and climb on board the cable- cars and yell, ‘CaLL, CALL, MorNING CALL,’ a few times, and by the time I have passed through the car they are gone. I have sold as high as eighteen and twenty copies in a few hours that way. The working fieop]e who come into town in the morning om the outside parts of the City ask for TaE CALL more than they do for any other paper. You know what kind of people I mean. Them fellows who dresses pretty decent and has to work_for a living to pay for the togs they wear. Isell lots to them.”” DAVID BARREN. “How long have you been selling papers, young man?”’ “‘About five years, ever since I was able to take care of myself. I know what I'm doing when it comes down to selling papers.” “How does THE Cann go among the newsboys?" “Sav. Now y'er talking. All the kids handle THE CALL now. They used to take )N out three or four, and after they had sold them they thought it was about time to quit buying for that day. Now, we get in early in the morning and grab more. You bet when the newspapers get in and try to beat each other the newsboys make money A JIMMIE McGUNNIGAN. “Spud, how many Caris do you sell every day?” Spud was rather reluctant about giving off and on the cars here and I know most all of them. All I have to do is toshove a CaLL at them and get the cash. Sunday is the boss day, though. Everybody buys THE CALL, and a fellow can make enough money in the morning to have lots of fun the rest of the day. Forty or fifty is noth- S and if the boys wasn’t laz; ing, they could sefi a hundred. Last Sunday I sold sixty- five by 3 o’clock.”” JOE SMITH. “I'm onto de boss snap wid DE CArL. Dis is de way I does it. In de mornin’ about 10 o’cleck I gets me twenty papers, ye see, and sneaks off down to Front street and Battery street and Sansome street, and slides into de merchants’ offices wid de paper. Well, dey buys it, ye see, and keeps on a-buyin’ it, ye see, until de first ting I knows de bookkeepers and de clerks all over de shop is buyin’ it, ana conse- kenuly I does a whackin® business among de merchants. Now, dat’s what I call a great graft, one showin’ a lot of sense. De first ting de boys know I'll be havin’ de cream trade of de City.” JOE McCARTHY. “I haven’t sold papers very long, butsince I have been in the business I have seen TrE CALL go up like the dickens. I sell papers out in the Western Addition in the morning and have to come downtown to get them. When I get back the people are getting up and poke their heads out of the MGt xjazx\'v up any information at first, but finally drawled: “On weekdays, mister, I sell about fif- teen in the morning, and then I go home. I know lots of ladies who take ThHE CaLL every morning at the ferry, and many old men sit down 1n the cable-cars and read it while they go uptown. If they wasn’t so many =old on the trains I would sell more, but the ladies and old men who buy from me always wait until they get in the City.” S JIMMY BROWN. “Lemme tell you something about TrE CaLL, mister. One day last week I went up in the Mills building and walked into the lawyers’ offices and uround among them men who sit down all day and don’t do nothin’. Them fellers who smoke good cigars and spits on the floor. In one office they was three men. One feller says THE CaLL wasn’t sensational enough, but the two other fellers says, ‘Give us THE CALL then, and we’ll take it home.” Now I sells about twenty papers among the lawyers to take home with ’em. I made $8 last week selling THE CarL. That ain’t bad, is it mister?” JOHNNIE REY. ““How many CALLs have you this morn- ing, Johnnie?”” “Thirteen. Ialways sell right here by the fountain where I am sure to meet the same people every day. Lots of men get windows to tell me that they want a CALL. 1 sell more Cavr1Ls to families than I do any other paper, so I will keep on selling it. Nobody ever stops THE BALL when they once start in to take it. A great mnns Ple have stopped the other papers an or THE CALL from me.” peo- buy CHARLES MULLEN. “You see I have got a sort of separate business all by myself and sell papersalong the seawall, above Broadway. All the workingmen along the wharves and the mugs who work in the storehouses buy THE CALL and read it at noon. I generally take out about thirty in the morning and they are gone by noon. newsbov who goes up that far and 1 find 1t pays. All the time the demand is in- creasing and in a few weeks I will have one of the best routes in the City. If THE CALL increases as it has donein the last three months it will be ahead of them all.” BUCK CROWLEY. “T don’t know how it is that people talk hard times so much in this town. I am making plenty of money to suit me and it only takes a few hours in the morning. I go down to the wharf and stand at the Oakland mole with a dozen papers and sell ‘| low is crippled. Now, I can always make about the occupation of selling THE Mogx- 1xG CALL to any and all comers, but finall 4 admitted, at the solicitation of the “boss, that he was surprising his folks by the re- turns he brought home nightly. “T sell more papers now than I ever sold before. Lots of ladies stop me and ask me for THE CaLL, and two little girls, who live in Alameda, come and get one from me every morning. They read it and then take it home with them in the afternoon. I see them every day. They call me the Midget, but I make as much money as the others.” WILLIE TACK. William was not inclined to talk at length or enter into details about THE Cavr, but when asked whether or not he sold it, hereplied: “Cert. IfIdidn’t make money at it though I wouldn’t beseen dead them all. T used to take about five CALLs, but it wasn’t enough and I took more every day, until now I sell twelve or fifteena day. That may not sound bif' but it is as food a record as any other kid as young as am. One day last week 1 sold twenty- seven copies of THE CALL during the mid- dle of the week. That's good enough for one day, isn’t it?"’ HARRY WEINBERG. “Thirty CALLs daily is about the regular thing for me. It used to be ten, but the | people kept caliing for it and I had to lay | in a new stock. All the boys are surprised | at the way it is climbing up. No other ’;’nper ever did that in this City before. hree to one ahead of itself compared to a month or two ago. I know what I'm talk- ing about. Why, say, mister, I've been sell- ing papers on the water front ever since horse-racing started and I say that I saw THE CALL at its worst, but now I see it at its best and still climbing. Ask any kid here and he’ll tell the'same as I tell you.”” JEAN FITZGERALD. “It doesn’t make any difference if a fel- a good living by selling papers. A good | many men who are injured lessthanIam sit around on beer kegs and talk about mis- fortune and hard luck. Makes me tired. Jean 'fllggerald That’s what. You want to know how THE CarLL selis? Well, I'm about as well posted on that guestion as_the next man, and I tell you it’s going fine. If it wasn’t you can bet we wouldn’t handle it. Just think, six months ago we used to geta copy of THE CALL only where it was asked of us, but now we have calls from all hands, and we keep a good supply with us.” FRANK HANLEY. The smallest newsboy on the water alongside de paper-selling business. You bet when dere is money in anyting I'm right around lookin’ fer a chance to get in, and you can putup on it DE CALLis & money-makin’ concern. I'm onto dat. Didn't use to 'monnt to much, but she’s a nailer now and we're pullin’ in de dough all along de street. 1 can sell dat paper anywhere now, but dere was a time when you couldn’t give it away as a gift.” ALBERT GREEN. This youngster sells papers around the vicinity of Powell street, and was born in Georgia. *‘I been sellin’ DE Mor~IN’ CALL now foa mity nhear foa monts, and you hear me I done make heap o’ money some dese days. Iain’t no common stock what don’t know R nuffin. Ise dead on, Iis. T done sold forty-eight papers dis mornin’, and I done reach fifty to-morrow. ’Deed I will.” Mr. Green wandered on at great length about the beauties of a business sense. and when asked what class of people seemed to pre- telr ’Tuz CaLy, answered, ““De white peo- ple.” DIPLOMAS FOR- DOCTORS, Thirty Graduates of the Cali- fornia College Re- ceive Degrees. Metropolitan Temple Fllled With Listeners to the Commence-~ ment Exercises. The seventeenth annual commencement exercises of the California Medical College were held as Metropolitan Temple last night. Thirty of the industrious students of the colleze were about to have conferred upon them the degree of doctor of medi- cine and the big building was crowded with their friends, ready to applaud their success and to make as hearty a response as possible to their first public bow. The interior was a dream of summer dress and millinery, flowers and bunting when the hour for the opening of the ex- ercises arrived. All around the galiery the class colors, yellow and white, were gracefully intertwined and festooned in folds, caught up ‘here and there with the stars and stripes enfolding the shield. Large banks of flowers were visible on stands near the stage, placed there by {riends of the graduates as tokens of their o graduates fled e graduates filed in at 8 o’cl took the seats provided for thgl?xc‘;n.tg: right of the stace and were received with prolonged applause. A few moments later the faculty followed, and the exercises were opened with a selecticn on the organ. The Rev. W. W. Case, pastor of the Howard - street Methodist Episcopal Church, delivered the invocation, and Dr, M. E. Van Meter, whe acted as master of the ceremonies, introduced Mrs. Genevieve Faro, who rendered the solo, ‘But Yester- da; in splendid style, for which she re- ceived an encore. - Little Mildred, the child actress, sang “I'm a Little Too Young to Know,” and was forced by the continued applause to respond to two en- cores. Mrs. Mary Mann Brown was on the programme for two solos, but, so well were her efforts received that she was compel'led to respond with another. Dr. Van Meter, addressing the dean of the faculty, D. D. McLean, on behalf of the graduates, who were standing by this time, stated that there were thirty young ladies and gentlemen who asked to be enrolled in th-e. medical profession. The;‘g,hue been earnest students of the college,” he said, “for the past three years. They have been weighed in the balance and found not wanting. I take great pleasure in presenting tgem to you now.” 1t is unnecessary for me,” said Dr. Mo- I am the only | front was not altogether communicative | Lean, “to make a ong ceremony of this matter. You would rather receive these parchments than any word I might say to ou. 24 “I must say tothe audience that it is less than a year since we met here before on a similar occasion, but that is made neces- sary by the fact that we have changed our terms. 1 make this explanation so you will not think we are graduating too often. Beginning in October next the terms at our college will be four years. I recollect when 1 came to the State that the term was of two years and those only of twenty weeks. Then we advanced it to three years, and not satisfied with that we have still advanced to a four years’ term, eight months in the year. “Now. I will say thatthe people of Cali- fornia have advanced medical learning more than any other part of the country. There are a great many of the Eastern col- leges to-day that have only two-year terms, while we, on the shores of the western ocean, try to keep pace with the procession. In creating this four-year term we have been filled with the idea that we shall be able to produce the very best class of physicians that can be turned out in the country. “It now becomes my privilege, underthe authority in me vested as president of the Catifornia Medical College,” said he, ad- dressing the graduates, “to confer upon each and every one of you the degree of doctor of medicine, with all the rights, privileges and immunities thereunto be- longing.” The eraduates ?assed from their places, received their diplomas from the president, bowed to the audience and were applauded as they resumed their places. Those upon whom the degree was conferred are: Ella Richardson Baker, Edward C. Love, Ed- ward Bennett, W. F. Millhone, Beecher B. Bol- ton, John A.Moffitt, Albert E. Byron, Flora Morrison, Benjamin N. Childs, John B. Mitch- ell, Fred A.Childs, George K. Osborn, James E. Daley, F. Clayton Peirsol, George H. Derrick, David Brandley Plymire, John A. Fritz, Marie Spiess, Benjamin T. Freshman, Winfield Scott S , William S. Groves, Alice M.Swayze, am T. Hicks, Fransiscus A, i liam R. Jamison, Charles E. Taylor, Morne Sophie Johnson, Lucas L. Van Loenen, Thomas Francis Kellegan, Frank D. Walsh. Schumann’s ‘‘Novelette in F’’ was given on the piano by James Hamilton Howe, after which S. Homer Henley and Miss Maud Chapelle rendered vocal solos, which were Joudly encored. In the absence of General W. H. L. Barnes. who was announced for the ad- dress, Rev. W. W. Case was called upon to speak to the students and their friends. e responded, and his remarks were so humorous and so full of keen point at the | same time that the audience was convulsed and convinced at once. “T belong to that great trinity in every city,” began the reverend gentleman, “that trinity so necessary to all—the doctor, the preacher and the undertaker— no single member of which is called in till absolutely needed.” The speaker then stated that he took it | upon himself to say that he, too, wasa member of the faculty of the col- lege. He was professor of the the- ory of human nature, without which he claimed no person, especially no medical person, could get along in the world. e gave numerous instances of the application of the insight into human nature, fairly taking his hearers by storm. He wanted to stop, but they made him go on and he talked in the same strain for fifteen minutes. When he had concluded all present sang the National hymn ““America.”’ Rev. W. W. Case pronounced the benediction and the commencement exercises were at an end. LEARNING TO USE ARMS, Workingmen Form the *“Na- tional Labor Army” for a Strange Purpose. Propose to Have Drills and Ac= quaint Themselves With Mill- tary Tactics. There has been organized in this City what the members of it call the “National Labor Army,” and a_meeting will be held to-night at 1159 Mission street. Ttis pro- posed tc meet every week and do some- thing else than discuss social problems. The members are to fail into line and learn the tactics of war. _Thev have adopted a preamble, constitu- tion and by-laws, enrolled a long list of members, elected officers, and are ready for the rudiments of a martial training. In their preamble adopted at the last meeting they recited a list of instances wherein property rights have seemingly been placed above the considerations sup-~ posed to he due to human life in the con- flicts between labor and capital, particu- larly during the Homestead and Pullman strikes, and they also charge that the money power has tampered with the bal- lot so_ much in this country and the free exercise of the suffrage, as to cause the great mass of the people to lose confidence in the efficacy of the elective system of government. Ed Marlett, the president of the A. R. U., has been chosen for its president and Walter Joyce, the president of.the Wage- workers’ Union, its secretary. Any man who is a wage-workeror a sym- pathizer with labor can be admitted to membership whether he belongs to a union or not, or whether he is actually a work- ingman. doctor connected with one of the local medical colleges has already enlisted in the army as a regimental surgeon and he promises to supply a complete hospital corps for the first regiment, and besides to give $500 for the purchase of guns when the need of guns for drilling purposes be- comes apparent. The army is not organ- 1zed in connection with any labor union or system of affiliated or amaigamated labor organizations, the president ex- plains, andj the fact that Harry A. Knox of the A. R. U. drew up the preamble, he says, is not to be taken asindicating any connection between it and that organiza= tion. e GHOST-LIKE BALL PLAYERS. They Ran Bases So Swiftly That the Umpire Couldn’t See Them. “Never heard of the old Hot Feets?” queried the baseball crank, as he laid down the sporting paper and prepared for a reminiscence. “No-0, don’t remember that I have,” replied the man who is down on baseball idiocy. * “Well, they disbanded. Played at Swishville. Great ball they put up, too.” “But why did they disband ?”” “Couldn’t get fair treatment from um- pires.” “Why, what was the reason?”’ asked the man who hates baseball idiocy. “Tell you how it was. Every manin the team was a sprinter, and they Tan around the bases so infernally fast that the um- pire had to have ’em whitewashed every second inning so he could see ’em.” “Do you expect me to believe, sir,"’ asked the man who hates baseball idiocy, sternly, ‘‘that the umpires could not see reat, strapping fellows going around that ittle diamond ?” “‘Oh, occasionally, refflied the crank. “When one of them would slide the um- ire could see the smoke?”—Cleveland lain Dealer.