The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-13

now when the dressmakers. miners and
other shopheepers. as we'll as those who have
been travelling for pleasure, are arriving
from Europe in larger numbers than at any
| other season of the year.
The women inspectors do their work as
quietly as possible. In the hustle and con-
fusion on the pier just after the ship has
been tied up the little scenes in which they
play leading part pass almost unnoticed, but
without this work the revenue from GUS
10 $ would be less every year by many
thousands of dollars
Uncle Sam has seven women insnect ors
| at the port of New York to make things
! diSagreeable for women who would smuggle
! Whenever Passenger ship arrives here is
! a woman inspector at the gangplank If
! the vessel Is one of the big, popular liners,
i there are two or three.
! Many women would smuggle if they
| dared, remarked one of them in the course
, OF chat about her work A friend of
/ fnlne who was coming over recently heard
two women discussing the question of
| getting goods III without paying duty.
III ought To be easy to hide things in
| your clot hes said one
1T ought TO be, but il isn't answered the
! other, who probably knew from experience.
! on must remember that You must pass
I those terrible wome:! on the pier. who seem
] TO be able To tell by looking at you whet her
| your" trying TO hid" anything ornot.
But even though they know we're here
and waiting for them, there are women
who don [ seem to be- able to resist the temp
tation TO try 10 smuggle. They have tn"
gambling spirit, | guess, and that causes
them to enjoy taking chances. There ar.
women, usually dressmakers and miIlinrrs.
whom We have caught so often that we We
acquired the habit of searching them, on
general principles every time they return
from trip abroad.
One day when ! was new to this work
was directed 10 search "A certain New YORK.
dreSsmalier who stood very high in her pro
ie'sion knew this. and thought tina, il
was pec" Of very bad Judgment on the
part OF my superiors to give orders that
such an emnentlv respectable women
should he subjected TO the humiliation OF a
search
when ! approached her there were tears
OF mort Iiical ION in my eyes.
Why, my dear child, what = the mat
teri sh. asked
I'm ashamed to tell yon, Mrs II
answered They yr told me- ! must search
you
"She laughed
Is that alt; ~" said Why. don't
mind that. IN I!sed to it. And just be-
tween you and me, my dear, il they didn't
do II would -lnuggI" IN thousands of dol
lars' worth Of stuff every season ! don't
regard 1t as sin al all BI hav" nothing
This time. you 7ee. Now you come down
and call on me and II hay" made for you
~" pref lest gown YOU y" ever worn, and
III see TINT II doesn't cost You a cent more
than you Usually pay
"lilh, Of course. WAS IN the nature Of
bribery. | am asked often by The woman
who has been caught II she can't max. II
right WITH me. once woman offered me
hnlf Of s. 800 worth Of ostrich Their, !
found ON her J would have looked nice
walking along that dock with IN" inner
side Of my skil lined with ostrich f"arhnrs,
wouldn't -
THAT Mas where thls smuggling milliner
had them There were $50 Of them all
fine oner, worth SO apiece. From my
place al the gapgpIank where ! always