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Eugene Dalton: 1913
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/15/2007 - 3:20am.
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Eugene Dalton, November 1913, Fort Worth, Texas. Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this 16-year-old boy has been newsboy and messenger for drug stores and telegraph companies. He was recently brought before the Judge of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility at home. Is now out on parole, and was working again for drug company when he got a job carrying grips in the Union Depot. He is on the job from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. (17 hours a day) for seven days in the week. His mother and the judge think he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day. He told me "There ain't a house in 'The Acre' (red-light district) that I ain't been in. At the drug store, all my deliveries were down there." Says he makes $15 to $18 a week. View full size.
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Incorrigibility at home?
Submitted by Lord-Velveeta on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 11:31pm.
I would be very curious to know what "incorrigibility at home" was back in those days...
Was this kid send to juvi because he talked back to his mom at home or was he actually doing something bad? I also can't imagine him having too much energy left in him after a 17 hour day...
Family tree?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 10:04pm.
# Name: Eugene Trice DALTON
# Sex: M
# Birth: 15 SEP 1897 in Fort Worth, Texas
# Death: WFT Est. 1918-1987 in Denver, Colorado
Father: Wesley DALTON b: 13 JUL 1857 in Dayton, Ohio
Mother: Imogene Olive TRICE b: 30 AUG 1857 in Georgia
Marriage 1 Katherine BROWN b: WFT Est. 1893-1913
* Married: WFT Est. 1914-1947 in Telluride, Colorado
Children
1. Has No Children Living DALTON
2. Has No Children Living DALTON
Dalton
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 4:35pm.
He was bad? He worked 17+ hours a day to survive. He didn't take the shortcuts of knives and guns which take only seconds to settle debts-legal or otherwise. The punks in the streets should be sent back in time and see how long they'd survive.
Long hours
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 2:50pm.
When did he have time to be delinquent?
Poor Kid???
Submitted by Angry Old Guy on Sat, 06/16/2007 - 3:18pm.
He looks like a dope addict...all jazzed up on the dope...
Lazy?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 3:34pm.
If a world in which you don't have to work 17 hours a day to make ends meet is lazy, then I'm throwing in my lot with the lazy.
People were just different
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 2:03pm.
People were just different then, I'm sure they couldn't imagine the lazy world we live in today.
Cocaine?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 1:14pm.
"His mother and the judge think he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day."
Was cocaine illegal in those days? I seriously doubt this kid saw his 20th birthday.
I can't imagine...
Submitted by Jen on Wed, 04/18/2007 - 9:02pm.
I can't imagine a kid working those kind of hours, seven days a week, having any energy left over to be incorrigible. Seems like the only time his mom would see him he'd be asleep.
Tired
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 12:32am.
He looks so tired. The expression of a worn out soul and he's just a kid.
Or maybe not so poor.
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 03/22/2007 - 12:13am.
$15 a week was a lot of money back in those days, especially for a kid his age. Seems pretty industrious to me.
RJP3
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 03/21/2007 - 10:48pm.
Human beings were animals to allow all this so recently ... I am sure there are many who wish they could go back to this profit model.
Poor guy - I would have been doing lines too.
Good grief
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 02/23/2007 - 1:24am.
It's amazing (and maybe a little depressing) to think that a delinquent or "problem kid" in 1913 could be someone who worked 17 hours a day, seven days a week! What would that judge think of the kids today?!
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