The evening world., 1893-09-12
NAY Revoke. HIS LICENSE.
EnglehArd Will Report To-Day
on Hitchcook's Agency"
llops Of the Msnagsr'a Victims
Report At City Hall.

. Marshal Engiehard will this afternoon
FORWARD to Mayor Gilroy his report upon
the complaints made against the Indus
trial Exchange Company and Employ
ment Agency, 1435 Broadway. lie Will
recommend that the license granted to
Frank Hitchcock, the manager be
taken way
Many additional victims called at the
City Hall this morning. They had read
the story published exclusively In The
Evening World' of yesterday. and were
anxious to help in prosecuting the man.
whom they. charged with taking their
last few dollars on the pretensc of pro-
curing them employment.
given up his search for Hitchcock. He
is believed to have fled, in order to avoid
a brushing at the hands of his victims.
70 an Evening World" reporter the
Marshal said a good deal of tina kim
Of swindling is carried on daily, bat that
I u was next to impossible TO punish the
4 offenders.
F"What is needed he said. ''is a radi.
\ cal change in the laws governing EN-.
ployment agencies. 1t should he made
a felony to rob people in this way. but,
as 1t stands now, there seems to be nc
way whatever to reach them. All We
can do is to take their license away
when charges have been made and sub
only a few weeks ago a man came
here looking for a license. He had a
letter from a. well-known eX-Mayor OF
Brooklyn. The letter said the man wa.
Eonest and trustworthy, when, as a
matter Of fact, l knew him TO be the re,
verse.
He had been concerned In a similar
agency, which ! had broken up myself
l investigated the matter. md found
That the ex-Mayor never saw the man in
MS life. A sister. cousin or friend had
worked for a relative of the ex-Mayor
VINO, IN turn. nrnrurpi the letter for
him.
III these poor people who pay out
money to procure employment only un'
derstood the law" went on Mr.. I;ngle.
hard, they could never be swindled. ]
had the law changed myself with that
very object in view.
position for a man within twenty-foui
hours he must refund all the money
deposited with him.
AT one time / insisted that the pro.
prietor of each agency on getting out q
license should deposit 5000 or 80 to pay
claims against him If he turned out to
be a Bwtndler.
cases We're brought, and the courts de
cided that the Corporation counsel
should prosecute them. This the Cor
that 1t was not the city's money that
HE insisted that it was for the differ;
nj individuals who had been victimized
to bring suit. Since hat time a deposit
has rarely been ASKED for"
The following letter. received to-day,
Us from one of the many victims:
10 the Editor:
1 took the last 81 from my wife to give to
the employment agency at 1i3J broadway.
In four weeks they sunt me- to several places.
IL none of which WAS = vacancy. When j saw
their method Of business ! asked TO have my
money returned, nnl WAS given various stories
~ to the whereaBo ITS Of the boss and told
10 come gatn-anyfhing to make me weary uf
calling Then the. place was closed. and the
money is gone aud l have no work.
much needed money IS an oncnsc that should
not lie allowed to go unpublished.
The LICENSE OF such Il place is good for moth
ing when there Is no security for the money.
There u no bond needed. and any on" can got
q license. J. ii. -, Stapletvn, 5. /.