The Indianapolis journal., 1886-04-16
THE BoYCoTTED BAKERY.

Amusing scenes In ana AROUND MIS- Ofby B
Place of Business.
New York Tribune.
Many amusing scenes occur, of course. each
day in and about the bakery A tall, dyspeptic-
looking man walked into the store yesterday
morning and herocally ate ten cream cakes, one
after the other, from the counter. Then he put
down dollar, would accept no change and
strolled out with the proud consciousness of
having done his duty as an American citizen to
suppress the un-Amercan boycott Another en-
thusast rushed in in the afternoon and at
tempted to shake hands with both the young
women behind the counter at once
Where is Mrs. Gray2" he inquired. 81 walked
two miles to congratulate her on this thing. The
idea of a lot of loafers like these sandwich men
trying to boycott an industrious, hard working
woman! Call themselves Knights of Labor, do
they2 They had better look up the word knight
in the dictionary" He carried his stock of pro-
visions away to make the boycotters feel ba dy.
ive dollars worth of bread for the poor, chatted
away for ten minutes with the head of the
bakery 'If this thing keeps up," he said.
you'll have to get branch uptown, or the
to Barnum's with Take this car for the Gray
Boycott" DR.. VIM. A. Hammond drove down
about o'clock. and after congratulating Mrs.
Gray on her stand. ordered five dollars worth of
Uredu 10 Do QeilVer6Q At OL NluC0uI 3 uCSpltai.
Mrs. Gray herself is short, plump, pleasant
looking woman of from thirty to thirty-fve
years. She comes from Whateley, Mass, where
she got common school education, and has
been in the bakery business at No. 508 Hudson
street for seven or eight years. Being both
modest and good looking, she has naturally ob-
jected to becoming the victim of the newspaper
''artist" and is disposed to lament with the
economist Holman and others that publicity has
still it's personal pangs. Her one consolation is
q hat fbo 2,, nd have for <ho
two smiling assistants behind the counter.
Otherwise" she said yesterday to Tribune
reporter, "the papers have treated us very kind
y / think advertisement the boycott has
been worth 81, 900 to me. never did anything
like so much business before. My men are all
satisfied, and intend to stick out to the end.
At first lost little trade among the very poor
est class in the neighborhood but the majority of
my Third-ward customers still buy and many
Others are kept away temporarily through fear.
have no doubt that when the furore dies out a
little. even if my present up town trade vapishes,
ALL or nearly all. will come back again AS for
the boycotters, simply ignore them. There is
no truth in the story that went out this morn
ing to see my lawyer, and that shall have war
rants procured for the arrest of the boycotters,
apply for an Injunction against the sandwich
men. There is one thing should like to have
corrected. My husband has nothing to do with
the bakery or it's management built the whole
concern up before / married him, and have car
ried it along ever since without any aid from
him. The talk about boycotting in his plumbing
business is all nonsense. No effort has been
made to do it. He is active member of the
plumbers union"
The headquarters Of the boycotters are in a
beer-saloon two doors above Mrs. Grays bakery.
There the sandwich men and bill handlers
get inspiration and confidence, and there Chair
man Schmidt, of the bakers union, fig
ures up the ever-increasine bill Of dues
against Mrs. Gray. The rude boycotters,
for some reason, have changed the sex of the
plucky baker. They refer to her as Baker
Boss Gray" q ''fellow" who ruins his workmen
mentally and bodily by overwork," ''diesen roben
patron "who must be brought back to his
Senses A return to reason at first meant fine
of $25. now it means one of about $3.50. But al
though the operation may cost 81. 900 Mr.
Schmidt is confident that the patient will be re-
stored to a healthy and respectful view of the
rights of trades unions. Meanwhile the block
ade is to be kept up, though the police have in
structions to keep the procession moving None
of the boycotters venture into the store, and no
annoyances is offered to customers. The heavy
rain yesterday afternoon kept the sidewalk clear,
and by 6 o'clock, which is generally the busiest
hour of the day, the excitement of yesterdays
siege was over. The sandwich" men and their
allies withdrew at o'clock, and the store, which
usually closes at 8. had run of an hour or two
much like that it enjoyed in the days before it
had grown famous in sketches, and before the
honest bakers of the Ninth ward had learned
what great thing it was to be Knight of La