The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-25
MAYORS OYF.C!,.

The warm weather seems to have had but little
effect on the parties who come within the pale OF
Marshal lockers Jurisdiction, and the past week,
when business at other places has been so dull, the
Marshal. with his ecIent assistants Hart and Hall,
have been kept at their posts, attending and listen
ing to the complaints and grievances OF some three
or four hundred persons. The Marshal's bureau has
become terror to evil doors Of all kinds. Some In
significant petfoggers, who nave heretofore shielded
themselves behind their knowledge Of the laws ana
have carried on their business in accordance with
system which In other paths OF life would be termed
swindling have found their practices cut short by
the Marshal, who in answer TO the complaints of
aggrieved parties. has succeeded In brin ging their
nefariOus doings to light. There other forms OF
swindling which the Marshal cannot efectually
check for the simple reason that those who become
the victims of the swindlers do not CANNOT or will,
not assist the Marshal in prosecuting the scoundres
who prey upon society in general and on unsophis-
tcated countrymen in particular The chief style Of
swindle Is that known as
THE ENVELOPE GAME.
The manner in which this business Is conducted
has frequently been described, and it Is matter Of
little surprise that there should still be found in
this country anybody who s SO exceedingly igno-
rant or so stupidity silly as to imagine that New
able for few cents. The thieves who
the most Tue repnsye AND sometimes
looking specimens OF humanity. Their very
appearance, It might be thought, would frghten
Yet, day after day, complaints are entered at the
Marshai's desk by intelligent looking men who have
Among the most notorious OF these Establishments
are those In til Easements OF 79 and 233 broadway,
street, two or three in Park row. as many more in
Chatham street and q lew IN south street During
n L..
Garfield, OF Middletown, N. Y, lost twcnty-seven
dollars at Ill Chatham street: Peter Elvers Of Ger
street; William Richards swlnded out OF q check
for s275 at 1888 Broadway; William Wolf, of Germany,
OF Orange, N. j., lost twenty dollars at l03 Chat
ham street. In each case, as above stated,
me Marshal succeeded BY the ala OF officers Mo
and the silly fools who had risked their money de-
parted happier and wiser men. The
SECOND HAND DEALERS
came in for q lecture from the Marshal, which may
have salutary effect. few days since two or
three young artists appeared at the Marshals dess,
and one OF them stated that while passing the estao-
llshment kept by dealer in second hand articles in
e he for G s ss
whose name was inscribed On the picture. Tne lat.
sent for the dealer, and examined ' him
Obtained the crayon. The dealer did not Know he
the window for three months. The Marshal was
satisfied from the good character OF the dealer and
from the fact that he had had the picture exposed
for sale so long that he did not know the picture
had been stolen The artists said that large mum.
Der OF valuable Photographic, paintings, crayons
&C.. h ID recently been stolen. The Marshal then
read the following selections from the revised ord
him lay the power, to hold the dealers TO strict
compliance with the statute:-
sEoAIoN 49, II any goods article nr thing shall be advertised
having been lost soch and il the said goods article or
:Hsa
aes rse %
she shall ioIshxh fye information thereof wrisns Al
whom the same was recsyed under the penalty of $3.50 for
SEQ so Every dealer hand articles keeper
Junk shop who shall receive or be m possession Of any
P or
on y Ss the same s
chief y Of oc Ct bs eu wS may be- in wn
demand under the peaay Of 25o for every nescC.
PASSENGER TICKET AGENCIES
seem to be doing fourishing trade, and so cleverly
do the managers of these concerns carry on their
operations that 1t is safe to say not more than one
third Of those who are leeced ever succeed
ering anything or even make known their losses
the KIND ifl brokers to exchange his money and
place it in his belt for him, on ndiDg that ne has
been robbed, win return to the city, even from
Europe, and apply at the Mayors Office for advice or
redress. Tie establishments at No. 14s Liberty
street. No. Hudson street and No. 200 West street
nave come uuueT TIC MaTenaIS Dl, ana uuTluR Tue
past week he has obliged the keeper OF one of these
places TO return $500 and another $3.50 that they had
levied from parties who had purchased tickets for
Europe.
Among the hundreds OF
MISCELLANEOUS CASES
which have come before the Marshal during the past
week were some narrowing tales by some thirty
seven washerwomen who alleged that they had been
cheated BY Solomon Leicnens,eiller, who keeps
laundry In Eighth street. near Sixth avenue.
Marshal Tooker. after listening to their tales gave
them note to the Justice a. the District Court in
Sixth avenue, asking him to issue 'pauper sum-
mons" ana dispose of the case Some two or three
hundred questions were answered and advice given
by the Marshal and assistants, while from the lower
regions OF the ONCE Marshal Daily reports that the
LICENSES ISSUED
during the week were 202 in number, distributed as
| foows:--Second hand dealers, 8; Junk shops. q
! Junk carts, Q; coaches, %; stage coaches SO.