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v A TYPICAL FISHER BOAT OF BRITTANY. ©r;e tc-i.h\s. t*i r.ty-one Cleigyinen and lucre tb.in ;i thousand soldiers ari<l sailors. rcea two a.iJ three hundred ia<is make '.♦■ r Immim In the Chatham Bquare !«• douse every night. As th. y die Into the ao ■etnbly hall, in the h.i!f boar before 6 o'ekx k. e;K it reports to the mperintendent If a '.•"' 1? w > ti.ir.fr, he hanJ.s l.">, Uo or 25 cent* to the i .!-■!!•] lit fur thr. c brass i !i. < ka and :i U- ] . 1 •••iks fur breakfast am! supper cost only a nickel apiece, and the bed cl ■ ■ 5 t« 15 cents. The mlnlmnm smount for a w - board and l '■■•■ gls $1 06. r the raperini ndent's desk, as if I i tentioo of every one that enl< low, black lux, the t. p < I which * rows of ilots, each labelled with :i Dumb r. As the lads pass by nearly every one goes down Into his pocket :!ii<l drops a few coins Into a certain slut. Whenever a lad wants bis In^-s, Mr. I' the I ink, '. i limps he t.-ik'-.s out ss much as •*•"". tn the last year 138 depositors saved 150074. Not Infrequentl) the mom y is tran f. rred t<> s nai Ings t. ink, and Mr H< i^ has ft:-- bankbook in ]iU !•■ :ion which has just reached t he thousand dollar ■Bark. Cleanliness is one of the first rales of the lodging home. After registering, the lads go to the washrooms, which have Just been •quipped with an elaborate new set of bowls, tul>s ami shower baths. At the supper tables the "Waldorf Clang" dines on a perfect equality with the "Five Cent Blokes." In every way the boys are made to understand that the lodging house la not an Institution of charity. They pay or work for all they get. If a lad comes in penniless he Is put to work cleaning windows or scrubbing floors. But his pride soon drives him to get employment The lads earning money rail him a "bum." and he ■Jumps at the first Job which Is offered to him. He seed) not wait long. Every day some one applies for a boy. There are many gifts of clothes to the lodg- Inp hfus.se, but the boys who want a new erat or pair of trousers must pay for them, ever though it Is a nominal price. The other day a frit nd of the Children's Aid Society sent In fifty suits from a Broadway clothier. They were of fered for ?1 a suit There was then a run on the savings banks, and the suits were soon dls trlhiit< <1, and on the following Sunday, as "Col lars," the Chesterfield of the "Waldorf Gang," expressed it: "Dere wus the sweliest bunch of guys as ever et lodgln* house grub." Several of the boys had been fascinated with summer suits of rather startling hues for the sombre days of early spring. One youth, for instance, appeared ' n » sult ° r "c nt straw color, with a bizarre check, and, costumed as if for the race track in midsummer, he sauntered up the Bow ery, totally oblivious to such catcalls from his aasodatM as: "Hello, dere, Regrle from I'aris!" "Can't chcr hear dose clothes?" "Say, is dat «u;t made of asbustus?" On rainy days, when the street crowds are too busy struggling with the storm to buy pa per*, the newsboy finds the lodging house a ■Mil sills haven. Here he may obtain a dry and sheltered corner, and In the evening when his legs ache from tramping the pavements he eaa pla> checkers or pool or listen to comrades as th«-> Fing to the accompaniment of the big, square piano. And if "Paddy the rug," the leader of the lodging house chorus, lifts his voice, as he can -when he wants to, till It sounds as clear and sweet as that of a vested chorister, and sings that favorite of all newsboy songs, "Tttt Man Behind." he will Join in the refrain. MfiW-YOKK TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT. Thfn hr forgets all about the Bghl he had In a hack street an hour ago, and the blow that made bis t< mple bleed. He knows the wmils of "The Man hind," and he loves the song, not so inu< h for its mel ody as the worldly truthfulness of its lines. The lav; stanza ii, parti, ul;ir appeals to him: There** the man behind tin cl '.'. behind the uni form in blu< , |!>')iir,(i him are thl warda* !: and '(:• wisp old roundsmen, too. Th. .-.tit. un Ibej report to i- behind the lanu>s of !■•• ■ n, But Ibe man who y,' Is the monej Is tl.e man be hind (hi gn en. And be Joins the refrain by ainglng: The man behind the ..... 11. ■ ih< v ■ «l in. ii It al you will <\<-i Sad. At r. tin in. r* ■■ h.ts la ii ed Hi '• it. man hli .1 th* graft, Bo tlwaya tr\ to 1., the man behind. At the lodging bouse til* "newirte" is safe from gambling resorts, which have ■< particular charm f<r him. In Broome-St., llenry-st., at Sixth-a\<*. and Twi ntj >ighth-s1 . Forty-second st. and Third-aye.. Fifty-ninth-st and Tl.ir.i ave., and many oth«r plai •■- near the besi news paper routes, then are places where the news boy may buy polk*) tickets, shool craps or play poker. There are pool tables at a cent a me, where the lads Del live cents or more on each game, and where in a few hours a hoy who has earned $1 In the daj nay lose everything he has. And when su< h a laid ')■ es not Bad a pool* room convenient he uses the sidewalk for a gambling place He rail all the necessary paraphernalia for a crap game in his pocket, arid it takes only a minute to summon the "bunch" around the corner into a less fre quented street, where the dice are soon rattling over the asphalt. There is a certain pmfr sskMiol pride in the newsboy of this city. He realizes that he lives In the bsggCSt and wealthiest community of the New World, and that he must use his brains to get ahead. "De New-York newsboy," said one of them. VIEW OF CONCAENEAU, A TYPICAL FISHING TOWN OF BRITTANY. "is the keenest ever, but he ain't got t'e edica tlon fat the Boston kils lias. I wuz up t*>r fe Hub not long n.^r>, study In* t'e organization dere. Df-y's got a bans up union in Boaosst; an', say, de grammar dose bloats use j u-..u1il put out yer lamps. W'y, dey can spiel otf srards as crooked as Pearl-st. an' as lont; a.-« Broadway, an* w'en yer «et ter t'e < i.'i ol 'ess yow'rs Wowed to know were yer started in :tt." In order to succeed the newsboy must be a PERILS OF BRETON FISHERFOLK. Amid the Fogs and Iccfltjcs on Newfoundland Brinks Maun Lives Have Been Lost. Three fishers went Falling out into th«» West. Out into the West as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him th«? best: And the children stood watching th. m out of the town; For men must work. Bad women must wrep. Anil there's little to earn and man> t-> ke'P. Though the harbor t»:r be moaning. The conclusion of the Anglo-flench treaty, which, among other things changes th«» status of Fr. h fishermen on the coast of Newfound land that has prevailed for nearly two centuries, serves to draw attention to the perils which the pursuit of this Industry Involves. For more than two centuries the hardy, primitive and superstitious Inhabitants of the austere province of Brittany have annually sent fleets •cross th.. stormy North Atlantic into the thick fogs and among the Icefloes and Icebergs of the New foundland Bank 3 to lake fish. Fraught with WATCHING THE FISHEI FLEET OF BRITTAM DEPAstI It* NEW FOUNDLAND. peril, these voyares have fitted the Celtic Bre tons for service In tines c.f peace on the French merchantmen and in Usaes of war on the pri vateers, arid to become the chief resource of the French navy in secwrtnsj sailors to man Its fleets. These simple Breton homes in the cen turies have been robbed many times of their breadwinners by the insatiable Jaws of the sea. Within a twelvemonth the perils of the anmsa] fishing trip have been illustrated. A year ago, on March 2S, a group of women. boys, young and old men stood on the rock at St. Malo, Brittany. There were young women with sturdy necks and full, rounded cheeks. fighter. lie must gnard the particular pl*r» of sidewalk where he sells his "pape?" against itl comers. "An' dare's only orie way t«r do it," a# a Park Row "newsie" expressed it. "Tou'se got ter scrap fer It. If a kid tries t< r butt Inter your route, you'se got ter hnod 'im out, or hell knock yer out. Only de womens we don't bother. Dere'3 a bur., h of womens 'round t'e bridg* dats been dere since it wuz built; an' d* y can stay, too. We'se got nothin" oosbbW agiri them.* middle aged women with anxious fa< ** and old women with fa< » s v. rinHed and Inroad ton light chocolate brown hj the 800 lof many years. All WOTS the dainty. gtajefcad. r< ; I that add so much quaintntss to th- dress of the women of Brittany. Tii fMßgatm •-rorted about the wharf in the bright morning s ;n-hJne; while the youths looked owl over the ! , with tagerness in their eyes, and th- <'.'.: a with the languid glani of those v\h"s. -n : ■-• have been dullcl ly time an 1 hard work. What tit old men lacked in en;< Hag v.as rr..uie \:p t y the women, in the corners «fl the ejrea ff ffaat of whom a tear giTltrili J in th.- >Un !,.. They were coirseiy cloth- il. Hal em h had a hssacaai a s .n cr a sweetheart on the i -.- 1.. • - in the little circular harbor 1 IMi B 8t Hal I I Servan, the creukir.^ cf whose blotkd came drifting In over the water unnaturaK> ftMi D> the morning air. The brig was th* Baas S«<uci. On N.r! *«*• ?>>venty-one men of all apes, limited only tj their physical ability to handle .i fishing line or pull on a sheet. The v«sscl was Just making sail, bound for the fishing banks off the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador. In company with many other French sailing vessels, til* Sons Soucl was to spend the summer th^re tak ing lobsters and nth. Qsh. In the hold was • cargo of salt in which to lay them. So :'•■■>■ me* sailed away on the flood tide out p.ist the light house and beyond the islets in the mouth of th» bay Into the open sea, not altogether from choice, but because -here were mouths' to fin and bodies to cover. Two weeks later twenty six other Breton fishermen bade their wives, children and sweethearts poodby and sailed away from the same bay for the same foggy Newfoundland banks or, the brig lie «ie Terr* Xeuve. All went well with Tx.th vessels until a day 13 the last week of April, By this time the Sana Soucl had reached the icy waters of the fishing ground. A fog so thi. k and damp that it con densed on the hat brims and dripped from them obscured the water. The pray white surf -of a wi<lt spreading Icefloe gradually crystallized in the fog. The Sans Souci sheered oft Following along the ragged edge, the master sought a fis sure through which his vessel might pass. Ths floe seemed Interminable. Through the long day the Sans Soucl railed, but no shimmering" water veined the great drifting field of Ice. •» the order to tack was given, and the brig pi* out to sea again. Two days and nights passed, and the danger ous field of Ice had been left far behind. Then the silver line In the tube of the barometer grew shorter. A storm, which this presaged. tro*» furiously. Great seas rolled over the bulwark* upon the deck. The masts threatened to fO overboard at any moment, and at last the threat was realized. The aged hull sprang a leak, and the seas poured into the compartment where the provisions were stored. These were spoiled. »nd tha drinking water waa turned to brine by th» sea. The men were put at the pomps, as 4•■