The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 15, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1895. S FURTHER EVIDENCE OF “THE CALL'S” GREAT POPULARITY. Recent Editions Have Been Entirely Sold Out Before Noon—Why the Paper Is Winning Prestige Throughout the Entire City—-Twenty-Six Authorities Talk of “The Call’'s” Wonderful Selling Powers From the Wharf to Buchanan Street. ALBERT BRYANT. | { 3 't bring ‘ down enough papers to suppl The | ttwo or three days we have run outof | s, and you betcher sweet life Dutchy's a move on or there'll be the kids. Yesterday I sold d went back to get somé& more, I y was knocked clean silly, he hadn’t any more. Now ain't ead frost? When a guy’s makin’ goods gives out and they have wn the works. If the Sunday ort I’ll have to throw up the and try somethin’ else. Can’t he shock of bein’ disappointed.”” ) get T s at the Sacramento boat, uess than any other paper. as the best telegrams in it get news from all over | \ \ reading it. All the get the little bits of over Francisco. | is the best paper for | t fifteen every day ty-five. It took me many people to buy but the ones who have been eep on and I think I cangeta y befo ng.” JAMES PIERRON. ! about your steamship business. grip on all the passengers what i town for Los Angeles, Eureka 0. AllIhave todo is to go rf and show up. Before I nd g down {o the wha: nearly a hundred papers on that day. I am a little embarrassed about getting around, but I find that the people are will- ing to come to me for THE EALL.” CLARENCE PROBY. Clarence sells THE CALL in the Grill- room of the Palace Hotel and says: “1 sell about twelve there every day and those who are in the habit of buying it never take any other. A good many old gentlemen who eat there right along call for it the moment they get seated. Every day some new customer shows up and I am slowly building up a nice little busi- TN \ CLARENCE PROBY. ness for THE CALL. A great many strangers, men I never saw before, ask for THE CALL as if they had heard of it all their lifetime. One man takes the paper because he says it is fit to take home.” PUDDING BARRY. “I would rather sell THE Suxpay CALL than any other paper I ever sold. When people want that paper they come right up and get it without asking any questions. A great many people have been buying it lately who never bought papers of any kind of me before. I always know where to go as soon as the paper comes out, and A | Puddin = Barfp A IQ‘\\\ \\; \ \114 lots of young fellows who lay in bed Sun- | day morning have me bring THE CALL to | their room so they can look through it be- fore getting up. I average about forty | every Sunday, and I can’t sell as many as that'of the others. It must be good read- ing or it wouldn’t go steady.” ABE SHUBENER. “They ain’t no use talking, THE CALL has got to begin puttin’ up prizes for the champion newsboy. If Bhortridge goes down in his clothes and trows up a few plunks for a bicycle or a lot of new togs, why you'll see Abe gettin’ in and smashin’ the record. Dat’s what. Look here now, Ican get out and; sell twenty-five CALLS did it makes me tired. Why, say, any- body who can’t sell from twenty-five to thirty copies of THE CALL before lunch is no good and ought to quit the business. | Iv’s a regular picnic for me to get awa; | with that many, and I think if I rush ’em a little that I could make a better rec- HENRY PALMER ord than that even. I'll tell you one way to sell THE CaLL. You wantto stay around the big dry goods houses, and men who go shopping with their wives always take a copy of THE CALL home with them.” GEORGE MINER. “Come, now, all you mugs, move away while the gentleman makes my picture. Go on there. Don’t be pushin’.” This came from Mr. Miner, who wag posing for his portrait. ‘“‘Say, now, cullie, you wanj =, o gl A 1 Geo, Miner with anybody when they want a paper. I sell as many Cavrs there as I do any other paper printed in town.” GUY DAVIS, “I have been selling papers at the ele- vator door of the Palace Hotel for a long time and I get as many orders for THE Carvas I do for any other paper. A good many men have it sent up to their rooms and others get it when they come down in the morning. I sell about ten daily ard fifteen Sunday. The ladies like it very much and one woman gives me 10 Guy Davis. cents every morning for the one she gets. It is going very good mnow and I don’t think it will be long before it will be ahead if it keeps up. It has never fallen off and | that is saying a good deal.” CHARLES ADAMS. This boy is known as the “Owl Kid'’ and gets up at half past 1 in the morning when the first papers of the morning come off the press. By 2o’clock heis doing busi- ness with the rounders. I get all the boys who come bome late | and sing ‘T'wo Little Girls in Blue.! You | know those kind of mugs that walk close to the walls and show-windows, talking to Igoin all the saloons and themselves. to throw yourself on that picture. Every- body knows me along this front. I sell about fifteen CALLs every day at the Stock- ton and Sacramento boat and I'm dead in it with the swell guys. If Jim Budd didn’t have a railroad pass he’d come down on the Sacramento boat and I'd nail him for a customer. Git off of my shoulder, Fatty, or I'll push your teeth out. That's the stuff. Lem’e see that picture.” BERNARD KNAUL. “] gell papersin front of the Examiner business office on Market street and of late 1 bave had to lay in'a stock of Carrs. I vsed to handle nothing but the Examiner. but it!didn’t pay to stick to one paper, so I have the CALL on sale now every day. I manage to sell about fifteen of the daily BERN R»’:DL/?,\ KNAuL v Ty have been on board half an hour I have sold about twenty-five CALLS and every- body is reading them on the deck. I have heard many a stranger say, ‘THE CALLisa good deal better than when I was here last time and T like to read it now.’ Yes, that’s the way. Honest. It don’t take the people long to get onto anything when it is get- ting better. Sunday the boats do not leave, so I go up town and dig.” MONK CUMMINGS. “Yes, I'm a good deal older than most of the boysaround Rere, and perhaps I have seen the upsand downs more often than most of them. When 1 first began to sell papers there was a good deal of very bad newspaper matter that could be sold on the street, but now the people want something better. I noticed in THE CALL g:e other day a great improvement 1n the Sunday edition, and 1 guess the people must have observed it, too, because I sell widout turnin’ a hair and wid a push I can do de town. Sunday—well say—they ain’t no chance for no one when I gits out and grafts. Here's my kid brother, he’ll tell ou whatkind ofa plunger Iam. Speak up, iid, and tell the gentleman I am a corker.” HARRY PALMER. “Bay, did T overhear some of those boys tell you that they got rid of about fifteen papers a day of the regular edition? IfI get trade around the sandwich wagons and at the tamale corners. On these trips I sell nothing but THE CALL and take out twenty-five copies. On Sunday morning I take out fifty. Sell ’em, too.” BILL TIURRAY. “Well, you see it’s just this way. Isells all the papers I have a demand for and of course THE CALL goes along with the rest. I never was able to understand THr Cavry anyhow. I been selling it for the.last five years and it never took a jump in its life until lately. Right along the Chronicle and the Examiner was a building up a ood business and Tue CALL was asleep. 5ee whiz! all of a sudden THE CALL gets in and whoops it up so I was surprised. | The rest of the kids began to buy TuE | Carr and the first thing I knows we was | dning a business with the rest of them. That's how it stands, oid man.” JAMES SMITH. T sell papers at the fountain, and when people don’t want to buy of me there is | plenty of other kids around who will sell to them, but all the same I knock out edition. do so well right er the Examiner’s nose, but I do it all Lots of ladies take it from me. se it is because it is cleaner than Ifit isn’t that it must and thirty of the Bnndl¥ I was eu?riued to find that unt the same. 1 supj the other papers. be for news. EDDIE ARNOLD. “I happened to be down here on Powell street to-day by a accident and don’t work here regular. My stand is out on the cor- ner of Eilis and Buchanan. I wouldn't work down here for anything. Too many kids. Out where 1 am I sell eighteen CavrLs before the 7 o’clock whistle blows and the workingmen who come in on the cars buy of me. Igot apuddin’, 1 have, and they have to buy of me or wait till they git down town. Of course if & man wants anything JaMES SMITH. about fifteen a day, and if the rest of the kids do as well they have got no kick com- ing, have the{lf Ican llvusl make a de sh&e out of TrE Sunpay ULy, and it is the best paper to sell to the working peo- le I ever saw. They seem to like to be’s going to have it and that’s the way e home, and a working man will buy one, fold it up and take it to his house. They all say it gives them the news and don’t get nasty every time it has a chance. PETE REILLY. “Yes, I am one of the boys who sells papers in front of the Examiner office, and 1 sell CaL1s there too. Why not? If the people want Carrs I am supposed to have them for sale, and I do. You bet I can make way with about twelve of the daily edition of Twe CarL and on Sunday T knock the spots offe’n the other boys. %id ou ever see me standin’ there dishin’ out 'ALLS at the rate of twenty-five or thirty a Sunday? Well say, I know what I'm doin’, " I sell most of them to the workin’ people, but lately the sports is beginnin’ to buy lotz of 'em. THE CaLv’s liable to beat ‘em all yet.” EDDY McCARTHY. ““Here, sport, what’s de matter wid me. I sells de CarL. Dat’s what. I cango in places where dese udder guys can't git,” exclaimed a freckled-faced youngster, rush- ing up to THE CALL representative, “Where are these places and how many do you sell ?” “In de leadin’ restaurants, sport, and in de best saloons, where swell geasers goes. On de dead, I does 'em all at dat sort of raftin’. Why, say, sport, I takes out thirty-five CaLrs every dlg’, but on Sun- day I bums like any udder gent. See? ‘What's de use plugging mor'n six days a week, anyhow? Nothin'."” TOM FARRELL. “T thought you had overlooked me when 1 picked up Thursday’s Carrand found that you had been interviewing the other kids about the paper. I can givethem allcards and spades on THE DarLy CaLn and beat them out, For the last three years I have been selling papers at Fifth and Market streets, THE CALL along with the rest, but within the last few months, or since Mr. Shortridge took hold of it, there has been a much heavier demand. 1 now sell fifty of the daily and from seventy to ninety of the Bunday number. Six months ago I was glad when I sold twenty.” HAPPY JACK. “Dat's what to call me. If you was to trow any udder name at me, why, de yaps wouldn’t know me, Straight. Dey ain’t a man what passes de fountain who don’t tip me de nod, and about twenty-five of dem takes de CALL at cash rates. See? Here, you chumps, slide off my feet while de artist trows his pencil at me mug. Go on or I'll swat de two of you. What’s de good of dallyin’ wid a loosin’ game when everybody’'s reachin’ for de CALL. I'd lose me respect if I overlooked a soft anng, and when anyting's goin’ up in de market dat's de ting you wants to handle.” HARRY HARRIS. Young Harris is something of a philoso- pher. 4 “0f course THE CALL is picking ups good many new subscribers and we are selling a great many more papers. Why not? It is better now thanit ever was, .| able, and my mother and me goes to and everybody says so. That man Short- ridge ain't proud, and he spends his money where he makes it and don’t go off to some foreign country and forget where he lived. He belongs here, and I heard a man say, not long ago. ‘Charley Short- ridge is “giving us the news, and smashin’ the Su;nrvism'ui and he ain’t a millionaire either.” You bet, mister, THE CALL is all right and I sell twenty-five a day.” DICK COLLINSJ “Dick, they say you are the best in sight when you once start in. How many Cavis did you sell to-day ?” “Eighteen this morning. Idon’t bother much about working after I pass fifteen | because I don’t need much money any- other papers. Here on Poweil and Market I can get the streetcar travel coming in from all over the City and Idon’t have to work to get away with about fifteen pasera on the morning of the daily edition and twice as many of the Sunday. Look here! Itis now only half-past 8and I've fct one left. This mom‘uag I took out ourteen. There ain’t any flies on that, is thle]y g x pon | beingkinfurmed that there were none visible, Richard concluded by say- ing that THE CaLL was ““dead easy” to sell. JOE McCANN. “I'm Chic McCann’s brother and sell THE CALL to the wharf hands. They all know me and I know them. When they see me coming they yell what paper they want and I hear just as many yelling for TrE CALL as for any other paper printed in San Franciseo. You know, a good many of the newsboys when they geta aper that sells pretty well they stay by rhat aper and try to build up a trade on it. ell, there is a great many men who Joe MCANN how. Life’s too short to break your neck when you don’t have to. When I need dough” I make a little spurt and rush things. Lots of the boys are that way. If they get enough to eat and plenty to sleep nothing else bothers them, and that's right. Sunday I stack up about thirty and then have a good time. Am Iright?” CHARLES SULLIVAN. “I'm something like Tap Williams. I| keep my eye peeled on the other fellows. I have been selling papers down here on the water-front for three years and I know all the people who buy. I do more work than Tap because Tap makes me. Every day I selFabo\\t twenty and on Sun- day fifty. It don’t take much work if you know the people. I didn’t use tothink the Carr was worth handling, but when the gang began to yell for it I caught right on and got 1n the swim. Now 1 am in the fight for all there is in it. Me and Tap is the two stars of the business and where we can't sell, they don’t buy.” JAMES McCARTHY. “I'm no skate mewsboy. I'm respecte church. On week days I work like the dickens, and when Sunday comes I go to Sunday-school and put 25 cents on the plate for the preacher who can’t get down on the wharf and rustle. I can sell twenty papers to regular customers, and that's'enough to keep a boy good-natured., ‘When I work I work, and that_settles it. I am here to make money and nothing else. Ii the other fellows want to sit around and talk, all right. I don’t, and you can bet I'm no skate. I'm a rustler.” RICHARD NEWMAN, “You can bet all you have in your jeans that I sell as many Carus as Ido of the|40; want to read different papers, so I carry them all and I know how they all- go. When I say THE CaLnis doing as well as ag_v of ,them I know what I am talking about.” MARSH RILEY. Marsh is called ““the Patti of the News- boys,” owing to his frequent breaking out inco a pepular song pitched in some high nasal key. “Yes, I sell TeE Carr,” he said, “and make money at it. 1.0 up intoall the buildings around here and i > men in the offices take }):éaers of me. Tu reisalsoa good maug ing-houses on I and Mason and Eddy streets where I poes in the morning and gets a nickel for every paper I sell.” SBometimes I sell as many as twenty papers a day, and on Sunday I'am good for about thirty-five.” SHOT AT SHELL MOUND Mocker Defeats Utschig for One of the Medals by One Ring. Stiff Breezes All the Afternoon Interfered Somewhat With the Shooting. Marksmen were out in pretty fair forca at the rifle-ranges at Shell Mound Park yesterday afternoon. The scores were not quite so strong as usual, owing in large part to the capers of the wind, but the sport proved interesting, as it always does. The closest work and the most exciting was done at the targets of the San Fran- cisco Schuetzen Verein in the champion medal shoot. John Utschig, whose prowess at the butts has passed into an axiom, did some exceptionally fine work, finishing with a clean center. The medal seemed to be his beyond peradventure, when A. Mocker began banging away at the target. He knocked the bullseye any number of times, and stili no one believed that he would pass the score of 432 rings made by Uts- chig. He did, however, just one ring, and carried away the medal in triumph. John Peters, with a score of 387, was in the lead in the first class. The second-class prize was not won. N. Abrens took the third class with a score of 416, and John Tiede- mann took the fourth class with a score of 374. H, Hellberg made the best first shot with 23 rings, and John Utschig the best last shot with 25. A great deal of interest was manifested, too, in the bullseye shoot of the Nord Deutsche® Schuetzen Club’s big bullseye shoot. J. Gifken carried off the honors, with J. Thode a close second. The score was: J. Gifken 599, J. Thode 623, H. Huber 724, H. Peters 792, 8. Schenkel 860, H, Stell- ing 874, W. Garmes 981, O. Lemcke 1093, H. Burfriend 1097, H, Hellberg 1099, G. Schulz 1364. In the Germania Club’s montly medal shoot Dr. L. Rodgers won the champion class, with 418; H. Huber the first class, with 419. The second and fourth classes were not won, N. Ahrens took the third- class prize with a score of 426. A. Mocker made the best first shot with 25, and N. Ahrens the best last shot with 24. The Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club pulled off three events. In the first, the rifle medal shoot, the score was as follow: Champion class, Dr. L. Rodgers, 84; firsi class, A. Gehret, 76; second class, A. B. Dorrell, 74. For the Kuhne medal, Dr. odgers scored 84 and D. Mch;:‘fwn 83. In the pistol shoot, fifty yards, the fol- lowing scores were made: C! nmplon class, Efi' MD afiu 92; fisrgt class.d J. ’E. G(!’:l%m 3. D rs, 85; second class, L. Ba 5: Dorrell, 8; Roos, rere, 84; A. H. R. Cran 69; W. Untred, 66; A. 55; L. Zim* merman, 56. In the open toall pistol shoot, fifty yards, Dr. Rodgers made 94, C. M. Daiss, 5'4; J B Gorman, 93; A. B. Do 86. The members of Battery C, Second Regi« ment, made the following scores in their rifle shoot: Lieutenant H. Huber, 43; Charles Vreibrock, 43; G. Sheehan, 42; Kmne& 43; 8. Jones, 38; C. Meyer, 38; C. Peters, 36; f.MeCnt;y,h ; W. Corcoran, 44; W.-Golly, 40; A. K, Mann, 44. The N&fl]ll‘ monthly shootof Companies C and G of the Nationals resulted as follows: C. F. Waltham, 45; H. J. Mus- rave 45; E. C, Sutliffe, 44; W. L. Fenn,43; . Barrere, 44; A. E. Anderson, 43; P. Bohr, 42; C. Meyer, B. Kelly, 41; F.J. Pov;y, 10; J. Ritter, 40; Captain Dumbrell, . J. Newman, 39,