The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-02


Zee and making statement of their grievances.
A remedy may be applied, or it may not be-
most probably the latter; but still the attempt
ought to be made. II the Mayor or the police
authorities want any information in the premises,
we might be induced to hand them over the
batch Of communications which we have received,
as we presume the writer's would have no objec-
lection to that STEP II is very clear to our miud
that these Institutions are mostly all of sample,
and that 1t would be an act of public justice to
root them out, or at least to revoke the licenses
OF all against whom any such charge as we have
alluded to can be satisfactorily established.
A Staten Islander writes to us Of description
OF harpy who preys upon the unwary by answer
ing advertisements Of young men looking for
situations as bookkeeper, entry clerk, &C., di.
recting them to call at certain office in Broad
way; but they invariably call just too late, after
the vacancy is filled, and be can only promise 70
interest himself in forwarding their wishes on re-
ceipt Of a small gratuity.
Several correspondents mention their being
victim;zed in the mode described in the HERALD
few days since-that is, by collision between
the keeper of the Office and the desirable Pro-
testant English or German woman. The latter
is as much fixture Of the Office as the bookkeper
lie, and invariably comes back Eext day from the
house of her wouid-be employer, who has paid
game is extensively practiced.
Still another institution, of the same general
character, is described as boarding agency,
where boarding house keepers pay two dollars
for the procurement of boarders who never come.
Having thus disposed of the intelligence
offices, we find among our correspondence on that
subject letter, written in an elegant style Of
caligraphy, good diction and unexceptionable
photography, and purporting to come from 'an
English girl, who works hard for a living" She
likes fair play, stands up for her much abused
class, declares that American homes are not the
happy, well regulated ones that she has served
in in England, and sneers at the aristocratic
| family in which che now lives because the head
Of it made his money retailing rum, and the mis-
| tIess cannot write line of correct English. We
| sympathise with our disguised English woman,
but fear that there are many arstocratic families
| up town where she would find similar conditions
| existing.
Finally, we come down to the mock auction
shops These establishments are allowed to re-
main open in face Of the fact that the fraudu-
lent nature of their operations is as we'll known
to the authorities as is the character of any
other class of business, and that the rogues who
conduct and infest them are brought up day
after day on charges of swindling and dishonest
practices. Surely no great public necessity re-
quires the perpetuation Of mock auction shops.
In relation to them, remonstrance has been
presented to the Mayor bearing the signatures
Of numerous commercial firms, and asking the
suppression Of such nuisances
Public attention being now thoroughly d.
rected to the character Of all these licensed
swindliDg Institutions, we leave it to the au-
thorities to take the necessary means to rid the
community of such pests. We have done our
duty in exposing their plans of operations
Those who now allow themselves to be imposed
upon by intelligence offices will have them.
selves to blame.