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Show IBM OF BIG CP. SAYS CHIMMIE I M.FADDEN Chimmie McFadden, the king of j the newsboys of America, now In Ogden, has written about life in tbe j Dig cities. He says "You tee a lot in the papers nowa- I davs about the greenhorn from the i ,mw-u I odl stnrt off on a new , I topic as this article will be tbe green horn fro'm the city "Being a member and leader of one of tho most notorious gangs in the city of New York for the better part of my life has given me experience, and if I were to tell you that I believe be-lieve there are more greenhorns to the square mile in the city of New York, probably you would laugh. Tho reason I say that there are more Igreenhorns In the City of New 1 ork is for the following reasons "First New York has a population I of about four and one-half million, put Into an area of about one and a ball times as big as Ogden. It is a pret-j ty small pint of ground In hich to-pkir.t to-pkir.t fcur and one-half million souls j Second There are two and one , hair million people in the ci.y of New Fork earninc on the average of lz I per week, and the average rent' ot a s.ngle room is 50 per week with board at about $3 per week. 1 hen there Is cer fare of 70 cents a week then there is a lodge or soclet which Will cost you all the way from 5"t cents to $2 per month Then there are your clothes and entertainment. V. hen I say $15 a week on the aver age, 1 do not mean the million girls who are working for $8 and $7 a week in department stores and factories, and those are the ones w ho must suffer suf-fer , "In the days that I was on the West and East side of New York and out at Coney Island with my be6t girl igoili it was a great treat, espe , cially if I had 15 or 20 cents to spend ! And it U8ed to be a great treat tor five other bo s and myself to Bleep in one room which we could call our own. The average famlK of the East side is seven to a family in two rooms, the average In the city of Ogden. Og-den. I should imagine, about six or seven to six or seen rooms. "New York Is great In some things ! and I will not take away from that j fi-rfat metronolla of the L nited States -J any of its greatness, but still don't 'ou think with four and one-half mil iion population there ought to be something big and great? The man J' who can afford to live in New York jl and enjoy life la the man with the A big bank book, and that is why I say fj) New York has more green horns 1 They have Rectors. Delmonicos and Sherrys, yet but one tenth of the city I of New York has ever been (here H Those places are for the country peo- pie for the sightseer end people who have money, and the people of Nf I York do not have money Theri-J Theri-J fore they do not go there It Is a "Green Town." I To prove that New York is one ji of greenest towns In United States. I will cloBe with this argument New j York has more crooks than any city in the world, residing in Its bound ary: and it has morp pickpockets and 1 the best I know is from personal ex- j perience. It i6 not the fault of the 1 police that this goe6 on, it is the big ness of the city. Then, if New Yonc jj city has more crooks than any other I city in the world and also the best pickpockets and they live in New York, and they work in New York, therefore New York "must be the eas-J eas-J iest picking Keep away from New I York! There are more drunkards. more broken hearts more orphanp, less Jobs, le68 chances and less opportunities op-portunities to get anywhere than in any place In the world. Think it over and see if you can find the solution "For a fellow who has been arrested arrest-ed nearly a thousand times lacking one hundred and fifty, 1 have had quite an experience. I have seen New York in all of its sidelights and know it from A tp Z 1 see the sham hypocrisy; I shp its rottenness, it dirt, I see the thousands of kids g i ing to hed hungry everj night; I Bee mothers scrubbing and washing Clothes ior drunken fathers: I se? the boy that never has a chance; 1 sep tli 3 and 6000 men every nigh standing In three or lour bread line-waiting line-waiting for something lo eat a 1 o'clock in the morning. I see the cocaine, co-caine, morphine and opium fiends with sunken in faces; 1 feel the cold-ness cold-ness and the bitterness of the city. "Oh the n'.ghts I used to carry the banner through the streets of New-York New-York and look at (hose big. old gray buildmcs early in tne mornms. oec Chimmie McFadden. those great mansions on Filth avenue: ave-nue: see men of millions spend as much in one night for a dinner to him and his friends as would support a working man and family for one year "Give me the small town where everybody is your friend as you know everybody, and even sometimes where everybody knows your business, busi-ness, but still give me the small town It might not have the big buildings, it might not have the subways, sub-ways, the cabarets and dance halls, the styles and fashions of Paris, bur 'here is one thing, that the small town has it has cleanliness, the pure, fresh air that God gave to the world, sweet mothers and daughters who have faces untouched b the drug store complexion the sweetness and pureness of simple life has not left them. Think it over, young man. and young woman. If you are thinking think-ing of going to New York, think of what Chimmie" tells you. I h?.: e played the game in the city and I know what the city game is if you have money and have a chance you succeed; and if you have no money, mon-ey, you have the chances with tho other four hundred thousand men and women out of work every ear in Mw York City, who are looking for work all the time." |