Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-28 | Page 25 | London Newsboy Makes Large Sum

LONDON NEWSBOY MAKES LARGE SUM By International Xews Service. LONllCiX, Dee. 27. (By tile AssieisteJ in London eon earn more than $."000 a' year," savs Alexander Maelnren, secretary' secre-tary' of the retail news agents and booksellers book-sellers "One 1'ov. a real plutocrat of tho putter put-ter with a 'pitch' outside a suburban rail -.-la'lioii is making Jcr.'W profit a year. I calculate that Ids wholesale accounts total 5000 weekly, or $'JO,000 a yea-: at a moderate estimate his profit Is 25 per cent nmkinK his yearly income $5500." Maclarcn protested at the amount of money lost to the community by these street corner salesmen, pointing out that if the trade teas carried on ln shops thero would be rates and taxes to be paid on tlie whole of 't.