"HE CAUGHT SIGHT OF THE BULLY NEWSBOY WHO HAD ROBBED
HIM."—Frontispiece.
Nelson the Newsboy.
NELSON THE
NEWSBOY
Or, Afloat in New York
BY
HORATIO ALGER, JR.
AUTHOR OF "ADRIFT IN NEW YORK," "CHESTER RAND,"
"PAUL THE PEDDLER," ETC.
COMPLETED BY
ARTHUR M. WINFIELD
AUTHOR OF "THE ROVER BOYS AT SCHOOL," "THE
ROVER BOYS ON THE OCEAN," ETC.
NEW YORK
STITT PUBLISHING COMPANY
1905
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE YOUNG BOOK AGENT;
Or, Frank Hardy's Road to Success.FROM FARM TO FORTUNE;
Or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience.LOST AT SEA;
Or, Robert Roscoe's Strange Cruise.JERRY, THE BACKWOODS BOY;
Or, The Parkhurst Treasure.NELSON, THE NEWSBOY;
Or, Afloat in New York.YOUNG CAPTAIN JACK;
Or, The Son of a Soldier.OUT FOR BUSINESS;
Or, Robert Frost's Strange Career.FALLING IN WITH FORTUNE;
Or, The Experiences of a Young Secretary.
12mo, finely illustrated and bound. Price, per volume, 60 cents.
NEW YORK
STITT PUBLISHING COMPANY
1905
Copyright, 1901, by
THE MERSHON COMPANY
All rights reserved
PREFACE.
"Nelson the Newsboy" relates the adventures of a wide-awake lad in thegreat metropolis. The youth is of unknown parentage and is thrown outupon his own resources at a tender age. He becomes at first a newsboy,and from that gradually works up to something better. He is oftentempted to do wrong—the temptation becoming particularly hard onaccount of his extreme poverty—but there is that in his make-up whichkeeps him in the right path, and in the end he becomes a victor in moreways than one.
So much for the seamy side of life in New York, which, alas! is by farthe greater side. On the other hand, there are those who are well-to-doand aristocratic who are interested in learning what has become of theboy, and these furnish a view of life in the upper society of themetropolis. How the youthful hero fares in the end is told in the pageswhich follow.
In its original form Mr. Alger intended this story of New York life fora semi-juvenile[Pg iv] drama. But it was not used in that shape, and when thegifted author of so many interesting stories for young people had laidaside his pen forever, this manuscript, with others, was placed in thehands of the present writer, to be made over into such a volume as mighthave met with the noted author's approval. The other books having proved