Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/158 - Newsboys

by : $158$

 * Newsboys
 * A contest took place amongst some newspaper boys.
 * Tom Smith sold one paper more than a quarter of the whole lot they had secured;
 * Billy Jones disposed of one paper more than a quarter of the remainder;
 * Ned Smith sold one paper more than a quarter of what was left;
 * and Charlie Jones disposed of just one paper more than a quarter of the remainder.
 * At this stage it was found that the Smiths were exactly $100$ papers ahead,
 * but little Jimmy Jones, the youngest kid of the bunch, sold all that were left,
 * so that in this friendly encounter the Joneses won by how many papers do you think?