The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
GIVEN A NEEDED REST.
SUCCESS OF THE EARLY CLOSING
MOVEMENT IN SAVANNAH.


The Stores Doing a Rushing Business
IN the MorninR-No White Shoppers
in the stores After O'Clock
Shorter Time and More Rest for the
Weary Sales People = The Reform
Being Agitsted IN Macon.
The early closing movement. inaugurated
this week, has proved that the reform is
popular with the shopping classes. Society
has stamped late shopping as breach Of
etiquette, and at 6 o'clock last night and
night before last, when the dry goods and
millinery stores were ready to close up,
there was not white person in the stores as
a shopper.
The early closing season will last from
June to and including Oct. l, and none of
the merchants, with the two days. expert
ence Of early closing, have any desire to re-
turn to the long hours of the discarded sys-
TEN.
BIG RUSH ON MONDAY.
Mondays business in the dry goods and
millinery stores is said to have been the
largest ever known at this season of the
year for the first Monday in a month. and
the reason assigned for this is that the
ladies wanted to stamp their approval Of
the early closing reform by shopping in
force and leaving early. The same was
true Of yesterdays shopping. The bulk of
the business was transacted before 8 O'Clock
p. m.
It was noticeable feature of yesterday
and the day before In the dry goods stores
that the only shoppers in the stores at
| O'Clock were the more ignorant of the coiored
people, who had neither heard the colored
ministers advocate the reform, nor read the
daily papers, to learn that it wonld 20 into
effect on Monday.
| LOST THEIR CAR FARE.
Many amusing stories are told by the
ladies themselves of their forgstfulness
| Two ladies came down town after O'Clock,
and when they reached Broughton street
the placards on the stores, This store will
| close at O'Clock p. m, etc." reminded
them of the early closing movement. SAID
one:
sit is too near o'clock to go to the store
now; let's 60 back"
apiece"
"Yes. know that, but I wouldn't be
caught shopping at o'clock for that many
dollars. Don't you know we've signed an
agreement to that effectP'
WORK OF THE LADIES.
Overhearing this conversation led to an
inquiry as to an agreement of such charac-
ter, and it was learned that ], 200 ladies had
signed an agreement not to do late shop
ping, but to discourage it. The ladies who
volunteered to circulate this petition were
Mrs. Geo. j. Baldwin, Mrs. r. NJ. Butler,
Mrs. c. l.. Gilbert, Mrs. B. B. Henderson,
and Miss Julia Feeley, Miss Ruthie Stewart
aud Miss Swoll.
The individual work of the ladies was
strengthened by the support Of such socie-
ties as the Kings Daughters. the Ladies'
Hebrew Benevolent Association, the Ladies'
Auxiliary of the Young Mems Christian
Association.
THEY ALL GOT OFF EARLY.
The popular favor with which the early
closing movement was received was
especially noticeable in the time that the
tired lady and gentleman sales people got
their stock arranged, their several depart
ments in order and were relieved for the
day. The following closely approximates
the time the sales people in the princiDal re-
tail houses got off duty Monday and yester-
day:
Altmayer, 6:So o'clock p m. Monday and
yesterday.
G. Eckstein & Co., Cos O'Clock p. m. Mon
day and 6 o'clock yesterday.
Morrison, Foye & Co., 645 o'clock p. m.
Monday and 6:15 o'clock yesterday.
Crohan & Dooner, 6: Is O'Clock p. N. each
day.
Christopher Gray & Son, Clio O'Clock p.
N. Monday, Cos o'clock yesterday.
Daniel Hogan, Cos p. M each day.
jackson, Metzger Sc Co., Cos p m. Mon
day and yesterday.
Milius & Co., 6:l5 2. m. Monday; yester-
day at 6:05 p. IN.
s. Krouskoff, Cos p. m. each day.
+. Gutman, Clio p. m. Monday and Tues
day.
| ENJOYING THE EVENING HOURS.
The early closing delighted the sales
people. Some of the male clerks went to
, the swimming pool, and. after bath, were
at home earlier than they usually get home
when going direct from the stores Many
OF the salesladies took promenade in the
park for breath of fresh air, and were at
home earlier than they used to get out of
the store.
Several of the clerks will arrange to
board and lodge at Tybee during the season,
and the salesladies promise themselves an
occasional evening at Tybee during the
season.
''This concession to the sales people, said
one of the statesmen to a MORNING News
, reporter last night, 'means more to us than
even the good people, who have helped
bring 1t about, have an idea of. 1t means
thirty-nine hours month or thirteen work
ing days in the four months, and it is
needed
A CONSERVATIVE LEADER.
, To no one of their number are the sales
people SO much indebted as to Mr. s. G..
. Sutherland, president of their association,
and this is a fact they realize and are talk
ing about as he labored industriously and
! intelligently to bring it about One promi-
nent merchant who read an interview
with Mr.. Sutherland published in the
: MORNING NEWS when the early closing
movement was being agitated, remarked
that sales people who were directed by such
a conservative leader ought to succeed, and
the house was the first to advertise that IL
} would close at o'clock.
The early closing movement is being
agitated In Macon, and the Macon Tele-
graph of yesterday Endorses the movement
: and says: 1.-The clerks are going to petit
tion the merchants to close up at G o'clock
r every evening, so that they may have some
1 rest and recreation
: POLICE COURT CALENDAR.