The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-11-03
GLOON AMONG THE MISFITS.
EVERY DAT THERE rs a REPLETLN
RACE INTO THE COHEN COLONY

IT'S Overeen aaeuce. Harris Cohen Says. That
M.kes All the Trouble-They viii Sell
Te.-aenar Overeoats FOR Five Dollars.
There were twelve OF them. four creditors.
four lawyers clerks. and four bearers OF writs
OF repleyin on which the name OF Jacob Cohen
was written and rewritten. They stood in line
in the corridor outside the sherifrs Office.
A big deputy sheriff surveyed them. and
then said "Gol" very quickly and very unex-
pectedly. The champion 1O0-yard dash man
would have surrendered his championship II
he had seen them cover the distance from the
door Of the sherifrs ONCE to the street.
Out into the street they went opening the
wire fences in the park and then they headed
M Park row. They kept abreast to the Sadts-
Ziettno building and then one shot out from
the line and led by several feet He was
stubby little fellow with curly hair. He didn't
look as II he was built for speed. but the way
his legs few was q caution; at one time he at
tanned stroke Of SIS to tho minute.
He held aloft paper which he had seized
from one OF the writ bearers. and he waved 1t
back and forth and shouted to the people to
clear the track They dd wnsy %%PSs ss out
their hands in establishment
The worthy owner Of 2 misft clothing narlor
6e had fsfn sepIsy yn6 races
a no~ und Meestsr fsaacs. lnd Mssster
Chakobs Mein Gotti yich i2n is i ~, nov GSi r
fss Isl Hh ss rSsEs asnt
to the end. No 1872 is Cohen's misft parlor.
hen. Very early yesterday morning DEPUTY
Sheriff Heimburger and several assistants
ssd ts Ss and claim sne y h held Sy
William F. Clemmons of Lispenard street. They
had closed the store and put big sheets Of
lind. md lad md
barred ed Il TIE doors the stufrS little man took
in the situation In moment and was about to
anG hsa sn him nus np sso sGs
and swors IN in. seven different languages and
By ana by the stuy little man walked timidy
to the door and Knocked on the glass. A man
asRe shansa his mHp
YoY fellows are Ease Esssetts You Unit in it
Twelve groans came from the racers. "Ill
tel you how i s ths zig . man c9 frd
Clemmons. and didn't pay for them when the
time came for doing 1t. SO Clemmons repevined
times. The big man shut the door. The
slowly back to the Court House. They. talked
about the affair in Baxter street Yesterday:
s sn1 Mi EHe Of t2e nss
street. IVY didn't he sell gloding below COST
like We do here. Harris Cohen unit me hat got
rich selling gloding below COST.
Harris Cohen disowned this opinion when he
was asked why so many clothing merchants in
the Baxter street quarter were failing. He
You can sum 1t all up in the word over
confidence By this mean to say that there
has not been Q clothing merchant in Baxter
street who has not been selling $40 overcoats
So and expecting some day or hot other sp, tH
ind out that's the straight truth, Every
clothing merchant has been doing this. and.
what's more. would have been doing 1t to-day
II the Wholesale clothing dealers had not
stepped in and put stop to 1t. ASK Gold
stein. Isaacs. Cohen. Kupple. Levy. all the
others and tel You that il it had not been
up things they would have kent up business
selling $40 overcoats for So to-day Lawyer
Josephs, who has closed up all the clothing
stores. will tell you that he is satst fled that the
failures in every instance were due to steady
and continuous losses extending over many
merchants found out they were losing money.
instead OF going slower they increased their
| pace. Every shop. instead of being kept open
| from A. n. To 8 p. n. remained open 10th
day and night. the proprietors and the clerks
sleeping upon their chairs b at pightn oro.t
deal OF truth in the statement
Cohen is q nephew OF Jacob Cohen. the king
Of Baxter street and has been in business
since April. 1897. He denounced the affair as
an outrage, and said his stock was worth
5000. It had been seized for Sl.35O The
evening. II was proposed to pay ctf the first
two replevins in full and give all other credit
ors IS cents on the dollar and most Of the
creditors expressed o willingness to accept 80