New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-20
THE HALf.HOLIDAY ON SATURDAY.
GOOD PROGRESS FROM WEEK TO WEEK.
APPEALING TO WORKING MEN AND WOMEN TO
HELP THE REFORM,

| APPEALING TO WORKING MEN AND WOMEN TO
HELP on THE REFORM.
The beautiful weather yesterday, which drew
everybody who could away into the country aided
the progress OF the Saturday hslthoiay materially.
There noticeable increase in the number OF stores
that closed carly AMI ked decrease In tho number
OF shoppers the after o'clock. Country Gus
almost entirely stopped coming TO the city
Saturdays and people living In town have abandoned
the habit OF buying the last afternoon
OF the week Tho amount OF business that
Ia doLc in New YORK on Saturday
after small indeed and growing less each week
Mr.. Days grounds at Shady Side, which no has given
the OF free 10 those enjoying the bafhoday. were
parronized by many clerks and their families who pre-
erred quiet OF this place to the noser
and livelier seaside resorts
The principal and about tho only objection
which has been made TO the Saturday balf- holiday
movement Is that, so FAR, 1t has benefited those en-
pIoyes who need 1t least As is generally known. the
clerks the large Offices the wholesale houses and the
stores along Broadway. where tho reform has been
generally adopted have much shorter hours and easier
work than those I the Eighth-sve., Grand-st and
Bowery Establishments which have not as yet con-
sented TO close early Saturdays The af-HoIiday
Committee realizing the force OF this criticism has been
directing It's efforts toward these East and West side
places for tine and have just issued the following
circular the patrons OF these stores:
There can be question az to its desirability. The
mere fact tnat whoutit thousand or human beings,
mostly young girls and growing children are compelled.
after i've DAYS Of exhausng toll to remain for fourteen
Ing or thousands OF visitors heated and IA nted by gas
with the Thermometer standing often at 1902 Is an all
WHAT are the obstacles ASK the PROPRIETOR OF any OF
close ut noon on Saturday His answer 10 unhesita-
ngly
and equals that OF other two days In the
week could not Afford to throw such an amount OF
business away"
But many Of your competitors. in Broadway and
Sixth-ave close at noon on saturday
" True enough But they lose nothing by doing IT.
Their customers vst thon less on saturday than ON
or to the seaside to -peni SIM ,v ard even il they re-.
main IN town isn't fashionable 10 shop on Saturdoy
Gftraoon"
Then II your folio we'd the rule and
dd no shaping saturday afterooon. you would have
My good sir do you think keen my store open for
RD 10 da " OK fHy DS my
toners make and for no other reason IN the world
do II because cant help IT,"
sOui. The thousands OF employees OF our dry-goods
stores are kept weerne IN poisonous ar-are debarred
OF preparation for the SAbbatn-simpy, solely and
altogether brcaue their friends the people OF their
mans wife VINO cutters store after IL oc
day helps to forge the chain wnlch some day may
puts off her shopping I'LL saturday afternoon or
the burden OF life heavier and less endur ,ble to her
own friends. The employers arc not to blame; they
must accommodate their patrons or be driven into
bankruptcy by the keen competition OF our modern bust
ness life The real ta,kinasters OF the oyerwoIkrd
AMI children and who serve in our dry-Soods
stores are the Ople who come TO buy It's they who
fix hours or labor IL they VINO refuse the satur
day htnuliiy!
Working men and women! your sisters and your
brothers and yonr children appeal TO you! lt Is but
little that they ak but that ute IL amporiaut 10
Resolve that you Will buy nothing after IL O'Clock
saturd ~ ami within a month every store Will be
closet Saturday afternoon DO for the sake O prln-
cple that the rlcn and Idle do for the sake OF
pleasure and will give Irresistible Impulse to
social reform whose effects Will be widespread and last
Ing Will you dOitl
At meeting OF the Central Labor Union 1t
decided to pledge all the members and their families to
abstain from shopping Saturday after II O'cockThs
done aid the employees OF the Eighth ave. and
Grandt stores their efforts To secure the benefits OF
thu holiday reform.
sixty ont OF the xythree banks have signed papers
In or the half noday ami issued crcu
culars To their customers asking them To transact
their business before | D. m. saturdays Many prI-
vate BANKER have sent out similar notices, Including
Drexei, Morgan Il Co.. j. * W. >rliZndn Kuhn. Loeb *
Co.. Maitland. Phelps & Co.. Morton, Bliss & Co. anu
Brown Bros * Co.