Nelson The Newsboy

Or, Afloat in New York

Written by Horatio Alger Jr. and Arthur M. Winfield, pseudonym of Edward Stratemeyer

(1901)

PREFACE:

"Nelson the Newsboy" relates the adventures of a wide-awake lad in the
great metropolis. The youth is of unknown parentage and is thrown out
upon his own resources at a tender age. He becomes at first a newsboy,
and from that gradually works up to something better. He is often
tempted to do wrong—the temptation becoming particularly hard on
account of his extreme poverty—but there is that in his make-up which
keeps him in the right path, and in the end he becomes a victor in more
ways than one.

So much for the seamy side of life in New York, which, alas! is by far
the greater side. On the other hand, there are those who are well-to-do
and aristocratic who are interested in learning what has become of the
boy, and these furnish a view of life in the upper society of the
metropolis. How the youthful hero fares in the end is told in the pages
which follow.

In its original form Mr. Alger intended this story of New York life for
a semi-juvenile drama. But it was not used in that shape, and when the
gifted author of so many interesting stories for young people had laid
aside his pen forever, this manuscript, with others, was placed in the
hands of the present writer, to be made over into such a volume as might
have met with the noted author's approval. The other books having proved
successful, my one wish is that this may follow in their footsteps.

Arthur M. Winfield.
June 15, 1901.

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