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#strike timeline: 12.1.1899

musicalcuriosity · 6 years

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Friday, December 1st, 1899- The Buffalo Enquirer

People:

Mrs. C.A. Allen, president of the board of managers

Carvers:

Dewitt C. Baker, Frederick K. Howard, Howard Winship, W.A. Joyce, M.S. Burns

Places:

Newsboys’ [and Bootblacks’] Home

#article: 1890s #article: 19th century #buffalo newsboys' and bootblacks' home #buffalo newsboys #strike timeline: 12.1.1899 #19th century #ref: newsies

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December 1st, 1899

Summary

“Fifty Boys Partook of Thanksgiving Dinner” (Buffalo Enquirer, Buffalo, New York)

“400 Boys Eat Turkey” (The World, New York, New York)

“Newsboys Feast” (Buffalo Evening News, Buffalo, New York)

“At Newsboys’ Home” (Buffalo Courier, Buffalo, New York)

“Mrs. F.W. Vanderbilt’s Dinner to Newsboys” (The Sun, New York, New York)

“Annual Feast of the Newsboys” (The Sun, New York, New York)

“Oprhan Newsboys Dine” (New York Times, New York, New York)

“Boys Enjoy a Big Dinner” (New York Times, New York, New York)

“The Newsboys’ Feast” (New York Times, New York, New York)

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Friday, December 1st, 1899- The New York Times

A few details on the dinner at the Tompkins Square Lodging House. About 200 boys attended.

People:

Mr. D. Willis James, provided the dinner (one of the founders of Phelps, Dodge, & Co.)

Places:

Newsboys’ Lodging House in Tompkins Square

#tompkins square lodging house #article: 1890s #article: 19th century #ref: newsies #strike timeline: 12.1.1899 #19th century

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Friday, December 1st, 1899- The Buffalo Courier

The dinner at the Buffalo home was provided by the board of managers and the board of trustees. Compared to some of the other dinners in other parts of New York that I’ve shared about, the one in Buffalo was smaller in comparison, with thousands of boys reportedly showing up in New York City (where several lodging houses held dinners) and in Rochester (where the dinner was held at a department store, rather than the lodging house).

Moxie and some other newsboys, those who are not residents at the Home, also attended. I’ll post more on Moxie later, but he lived at home with his father, and being older than some of the other boys, had already established a lucrative corner for himself, and had several younger boys who worked for him in turn, hence his following.

People:

Moxie

Mrs. C. A. Allen

Carvers:

Dewitt C. Baker, W.A. Joyce, Frederick K. Howard, Howard Winship, M.S. Burns

Places:

Newsboys’ and Bootblacks’ Home

#article: 1890s #article: 19th century #buffalo newsboys' and bootblacks' home #moxie #buffalo newsboys #19th century #strike timeline: 12.1.1899 #ref: newsies

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Friday, December 1st, 1899- The Sun

The boys gathered in the school room at the Duane Street Lodging House, and were than brought in 200 at a time in to the dining room. I’ll include a transcription under the cut. The dinner was paid for by William Waldorf Astor. Dinners were also held at all the city’s prisons.

“The ‘strikers’ and the ‘scabs’ of recent memory sat down together in peace and harmony and all, with a common impulse, reached way over their plates loaded with turkey and vegetables and grabbed their pumpkin pies.

‘That’s a regular trick of the newsies,’ explained the superintendent. ‘They always eat pie first.’“

People:

Superintendent [Heig]

William Waldorf Astor

Places:

Park Row

City Hall Park

Newsboys’ Lodging House [Duane Street]

44th Street Lodging House

Tompkins Square Lodging House

West Side Boys’ Lodging House

Fogg Lodging House for Girls

Institutions on Blackwell’s, Randalls, and Ward’s Islands

“By 6 o’clock last night Park Row, City Hall Park, and the Bridge entrance were bare of newsboys. They had gone to the Newsboys’ Lodging House in Duane street. A thousand of them were corralled in the big school room, and then at a signal from the dining room were allowed to leak out, 200 at a time, and rush to their annual feast of turkey. The ‘strikers’ and the ‘scabs’ of recent memory sat down together in peace and harmony and all, with a common impulse, reached way over their plates loaded with turkey and vegetables and grabbed their pumpkin pies. Not a wishbone was touched so long as any pie was left in sight.

‘That’s a regular trick of the newsies,’ explained the superintendent. ‘They always eat pie first.’

Toward the middle of the meal, when the initial fierceness was somewhat abated, the boys picked up sprigs of celery and stuck them in their buttonholes. It didn’t seem to occur to any of them to eat the celery. As soon as a boy finished his dinner he was sent to the gymnasium with permission to use the apparatus.

William Waldorf Astor, through his agent, furnished the money for the dinner.

Thanksgiving dinners were also provided at the Boys’ Lodging House in Forty-fourth street; at the Boys’ Lodging House, Tompkins Square; at the West Side Boys’ Lodging House and at the Fogg Lodging House for Girls, 552 West Forty-second street. Turkey dinners were served in all the city prisons and at the institutions on Blackwell’s, Randall’s and Ward’s Islands.”

#article: 1890s #article: 19th century #strike timeline: 12.1.1899 #rudolph heig #william waldorf astor #Duane Street Lodging House #44th street lodging house #tompkins square lodging house #west side lodging house #fogg lodging house #19th century #ref: newsies

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