Wm. Gross, 516 Tatnall St. Newsboy, 15 years of age. Selling papers 5 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Father, carpenter, $18 week. Selling newspapers own choice, to get money to go to moving picture shows. Visits saloons. Smokes sometimes. Serves" papers to prostitutes. On May 25 William gave to investigator a list of houses of prostitution written in his own handwriting for which he re

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William Gross, a 15-year-old newsboy from 516 Tatnall Street in Wilmington, Delaware, stands at the center of this 1910 record, which lists his own account of his work. By his account, he had sold papers for five years and averaged about 50 cents a week, while his father, a carpenter, earned $18 a week. He chose to sell papers mainly to earn money for moving picture shows. The notes also describe his visits to saloons and his delivery of papers to brothels, and they mention a list of such houses he wrote out by hand for an investigator. Investigators for the National Child Labor Committee documented street trades like this to press for limits on children's work.

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