Default Chapter - Prologue
It all began in the year 1900, one year after the infamous newsy strike in New York City led by Jack Kelly. The newsies of Lower Manhattan had been aroused by the great owner of the New York World newspaper, Joseph Pulitzer. Pulitzer gave a price increase on the newspapers by ten cents for ever hundred papers bought, with the hopes to get a lead in sales over his rival William Randolph Hearst, owner of the New York Sun. The Lower Manhattan newsies brought together all of the newsies of Greater New York in the hopes that the price would be brought back down. A "newsy rally" was held at Manhattan's Irving Hall by the strong-hearted youth and many protests were also staged. Finally Pulitzer gave into the newsys' demands and the price was brought back down. They, the newsies, had won and their wholesome lives went back to the some-what normal stage as it had existed before.