The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-13
A BAKER.
The Cnivalrous Boycotters Find They Can't
Ruin q Plucky Woman.

Ruin a Plucky Woman.
New York Times.
Plucky little Mrs. Gray did more business at
her bakery. at No. sos Hudson street. Yesterday,
than she has ever done in one day since the
bakery was established. The store was flied
with strangers throughout the day and we'll up
to l1:30 O'clock last night, when the place was
closed for the week. BoycotLing had brought
her this unusual trade. 1t was a complete sur
prise to her, but il was more of a surprise to the
dozen delegates Of Bakers Union No. ], who
roamed up and down Hudson street in front of
the place, and distributed their hand-bills asking
people co boycott the bakery. A stout little
German stood near the entrance of the bakery
for five hours yesterday afternoon with $40 In
his hand. lie was Emil Muller. foreman of the
bakeshop He had offered TO give the money to
any one who would come forward and prove that
any baker had ever had to work from seventeen
to nineteen hours a day in Mrs. Gray's bakery,
as the bakers union had claimed No one had
offered to take the money away from him
when he left his station at Z o'clock last
evening. He laughed at the boycotters. who
frequently visited a neighboring beer saloon and
com pared notes over glasses of lager. Neither
he nor the Ave bakers working with him had
been induced by the ooycotting dozen to leave
Mrs. Gray's employ; nor could they be induced
to join the union. which had issued its edics that
they must leave plucky little Mrs. Gray's en-
ploy or else be parties to helping ruin the bust
ness of their employer. At least that's what the
union men said they would do
Police Officer David Barclay, who was on duty
In front of the bakery yesterday afternoon. was
much surprised at the class of customers that
came TO the little shop. They came in private
teams, and the richly dressed women who bought
| CAKES and pies told him they did il simply to en-
| courage go plucky a little body as Mrs. Gray had
shown. herself to be. After they bought the
pastry many of them gave it away to the chill
dPen who were running about hudson street.
The youngsters never had so many meals be-
tween meals as they had yesterday. People
came down from Fifth avenue and from Harlem;
| they came from Brooklyn and from Jersey CITY;
they looked at the little body who had dared
defy The bakers union, and they bought her
I bread. cakes and pies.
Two young men went into the place, yester-
day afternoon. and ordered Mrs.. Gray to send
100 loaves of bread to the Howard Mission on
Monday morning. They represented a party of
gentlemen down town who sympathized with
Mrs. Gray, and wanted to show in a practical
way that their sympathy meant something, and
promised to make purchases for charitable pur-
| poses in the city. Mrs. GRAY received in all
about $50. up to 6 O'clock last evening for pnr-
| chases of bread, cake. etc, for poor people or for
| charitable Institutions. A letter from Kingston,
N. Y, with So inclosed. was one of the first
notes Mrs. Gray received yesterday morning,
the money to be used in purchasing bread for
the deserving poor. A little afterward a letter
carrier brought in this letter from one of the
best-known brokers down town:
John S. BARNES, Nc. 10 WALL STREET.
NEW YORK, 10th April. 1886.
"Madame-Your course toward the coward.y
creatures who are prosecuting you wins the re-
specr Of every lover of liberty ard order. / beg
to hand you here with the sum OF $40, and if the
idea of receiving this as a gift is disagreeable to
! you, when your business again runs smoothly,
! as it must. if you are firm in the stand you have
| taken against such oppression, you can, at your
convenience, send the value in bread or other
articles made by you to any charitable institu-
ton or needy deserving poor that you may know.
Very respectfully yours. JOHN S. BARNES.
Mrs. Gray"
The money Mr.. Barnes sent will furnish bak-
ers Injuries to the inmates of some charitable
institution. just before 6 o'clock, Irving Fisher,
of the firm OF Nathaniel Fisher 81 Son. sent So
to Mrs. Gray, to De used in the same way. A
half hour previous a gentleman, who refused to
give his name, dropped into the store and left So
for the same purpose. He also bought a lot of
| the best cakes he could find. and when he left
the store he presented the lot to police officer
Barclay, to DO given to his children.
Say, officer" said a well-dressed man who
came to the store shortly after 4 o'clock, tlet
me send So worth of stuff up to your house"
"Im not an object of charity" said the officer,
.sbut st. Luke's Home is Send the stuff down
there if you want to buy it,"
"I1l do it" said the gentleman. who stepped
into the store, and depositing $40, told Mrs.
Gray to send 81 worth of goods to the home every
day until the boycott was raised. He said IL the
money wasn't enough to last he would come
around when it was exhausted and deposit some
more.
"Do you keep a delivery wagoni' asked one
man who came into the store Just before 6
o'clock. 'If you do, tell your driver to stop at
my house on Eighty-sixth street, and I'll take all
| the bread, pies and cakes we use from you"
! The LITTLE woman had 10 tell him, ~ she did