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Show ; . : , 1 1 i 4 . - - . : "Noodles" Clint Fagan, oi: i Second :Trip Around orK Will Give Vise and Usefrf Hints to Street Merchants. . " ' , : c BIG MEETING TO BE HELD SUNDAY. S ' --.Wr '- A "..I ' "Noodles" Clint Fagan, who. Ul BetUn j the .nwslf a good example & - of the method"! of metropolitan newaboya by 'aelllnf . Telegrama by the htuvdreda thla aifterpoon. will address a.'publlc meeting of newsboj-s and ) other boya, as Deli as men, women and children, either tomorrow after- 5) noon-Vr tomorrow nlgiiL Union men and theh" wive are Invited, aa are 0 l the general public? to attend thi meeting, at. whlch4"Noodles" will g've i some good adTice to the. boys.- The time and lace of this meeting w il be announced In the morning papers. ; i ; i , (. ' 0e "'' I; 1.; t " ; t : S ' f '! 'I' ; ' X ' ! I : Q - eLsilM- -y-ti lean ,J t friij ism si, nun - ' t 1 ; "NOODLES" CLINT, TAQAJST. rtfrYslys?YBTye)Y?rtVeYljTe "Noodles" Clint Fagan, president of the .Chicago Newsboys' association and of the New York .Newsboys' union, champion newsboy of the world, who has sold 680 papers in sixty minutes in the streets of New York City, and 618 papers In San Francisco In -the same time, will sell The Telegram, exclusively, exclusive-ly, tonight on the streets, and will give the Salt Lake "newsies" an Idea of the 'life and methods ot a metropolitan news merchant. , ' Tomorrow- morning he will sell Tribunes, Trib-unes, exclusively.' and all of his profits (Will go to the local "newsies." Tomorrow - afternoon "Noodles" will speak on ' "A Newsboy Trip Around the World, and the Life of a Newsboy in the Slums of New York." . - . The talk will be one that will be memorable mem-orable to those who 'hear him. and an Immense - crowd is - expected to attend the meeting. . , Wants All Boys to Attend. "Noodles' wants every hoy In Salt Lake newsboys, schoolboys, working boys arid all classes of boys to attend this meeting and hear what he has to say. While the meeting is for 'hoys, union men are also invited to attend. He wants not only the boys, but their mothers and sisters to attend as well. - "Noodles" promises a talk that will do them good, and it won't cost a penny, either. In Chicago he spoke to 1000 newsboys in one meeting. In San Fran. Cisco his talk wae heard by 4500 persons, and in Sacramento his audience numbered num-bered 3700. He delivered eighteen speeches In four days on the coast, where he was received by the newsboys like a conquering hero., After his lecture lec-ture in Sacramento the boys, hundreds of them, stormed him. carrying him on their shoulders through the principal streets of the city.: ; . "Noodles" 04a out onto the streets . . . . 4 - . . j r . . . . . . - ' : . r , - today to sell this Issue of The Telegram. He has been around-the world onoe for the New York American, and is now on ' . his second trip around the globe.' - He is a New York boy, and was raised -. x In the streets; selling papers from -his early boyhood. Though living and work- -' ing in, the slums, he has never contract- - ed the liquor nor tobacco habits, . and ' ' uses no bad language. At. his meeting ' tomorrow he, will give the Salt Lake?: -newsboys some good pointers in the way of booming business on their routes and at their stands. . . : "Noodles" as c Hostler.. .. Wherever "Noodles" Clint Fagan goes he receives columns of newspaper space because of his achievements and . because be-cause of his exemplary life. , Sometimes this unique character ' Is called "Skyscraper," because of s 'hi ability to sell a newspaper to a man on the fifteenth story of a. skyscraper ss easily as t one across the street, by reason of his powerful voice. He recently re-cently won thi r.lrhard K. Fox cham- , plonship belt !;r New. York. This belt . was offered to the newsboy who shoutf. loud enough to bo l.eard above th roar of Broadway at the Flatiron- build:-p.. "Noodles"- was the only one of r.. re , than 18.000 newsboja whose voice rir, out above the- nole of the busy thnr-. oughfare and reached the top cr tV.e building. Some idea' of thl.- atKieve- -ment can be gained when It Is eTrlaine'. that twenty-seven cable and troi.oy r -pass that -point every minute, te? the great volume of other traffic In t content Fagan. was the representative v the New York Journal. His Methods of Selling. In Toledo. O., "NoodlfV .and ' brother Ed, who is now dead, compie: changed the news-selling methods of t boys on those street. "Noodles,- ty bis cv; ! teacheti the to r;' r a business and not a pastime . His fame as a vendor extends from, one end of the country to the other, and his coming com-ing to any city injects new life into the veins of the newsboys, who see in him w hat can be accomplished by business methods. - Some of His ?'Spiel." Noodles" in ordinary ' conversation rises polished English, but In speaking of The Telegram this afternoon he lapsed for a moment into the vernacu- lar. He said: "You bet I'm goin'. to sell The Tele-erram Tele-erram tonight. Say, ain't she a peach! Just look at itl It does me peepers a woild o good to let 'em rest fer a minute min-ute on a paper wid glt-up-an'-gii. Oh, " I knows a newspoiper when I sees it, an' The Telegram is one o the kind that gets there. It's the only koiad I like to sell." " . From Salt Lake this young prodigy will go to St. Louis, where he has a contract con-tract to sell papers during the life of the World's fair. - - |