The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-22
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
COPS AND SUAVE YOUNG MAN
TRYVAINLI'TO SOOTHE THEM.

third street yesterday blteIhOSu' 80 " 80
sidewalk In front Of $50 vide berth, All
day, there, at the door Of the Benedict
MoFarlane Blue Trading Stamp Company,
something Like 200 agitated women snoVeI
and pushed fought With one another ana
carried on what Baury, the COP said was
a scandalous TODD, One pedler' oeafueo
patriarch OF Rivington street, mad Deen
Knocked down during the morning ana MS
store Of fuzzy chicks and roosters thAI
squeaked was soattered and trampled under
foot. His revllings and lamentations drove
away other pedler folk.
The crowd was almost a. large as that
OF Thursday, when the action OF Judge
Holt Of the United States District Court
In appointing Frederick A. Burlingame
receiver for the company on the suits OF
three creditor concerns, the Ne" YORK
Desk and Dining Room Furniture Com
pany, the Hermann Furniture and Plumb
ers' Cabinet Works and Large West,
closed the doors Of the store at 4 o'clock.
The trading stamp tends, nineteen out OF
twenty women, gathered In force and
besieRed the door OF the shop. An arniAble
Young man with red hair and q honeyed
voice, who represented the receiver trted
10 soothe angry women, stu the cries
Of babes aud difuse a superior quality OF
warm cir.
He arrived at the store at O'Clock In
the morning, and when he got there he
found the sidewalk packed and Jammed
with women. Only few men we're about,
and these had a sort Of sheepish air as II
the whole matter was silly sort OF bust
ness and they had to be there just because
their wives ordered them The redhaired
Young man was swallowed up promptly
In A vortex Of clAmoring females. They
pushed trading stamp books In his face,
poked them in his stomach, grabbed hun
by the coat hustled him and rustled him
until the Young fellow bad 70 call on
policeman for assistance.
Really, ladies', said the, guavely, i am
here only as the representative OF R7osiver
Burlingame can't let you in / would
be only too happy to do so, but II lie against
the law. The matter must now pass through
the courts.
sDern tho courts" said Mrs. Mccain
of Fifth street, possessOT OF l3,OOO Dlue
stamps. Mrs. Mccain had planned to
of black walnut with brass hands and her
cup was overlooking with Wo. 10 make
her feelings worse the clock stood in the
show window, ticking heavily grand
clock OF Imposing a9pect' o.,
Young man. she went ON am OLD
enough 70 be your mother. I have spent
my substance collecting these staInps.
have pinched and scraped, and then plnched
and scraped again TO get hold OF these pesky
blue things. ! have gone without lots
things and made my man Mike dig up
every cent he could skim from his jeans,
and now 1 find the door shut In my face
and never a word TO tell me what I'm going
to get out of it. You look like nice young
man. Now aren't you going TO let me inf'
she finished, wheedlingly.
Really, madam said the fused young
man, 1T isn't possible. You must await
the action Of the receiver.
All right said Mrs, Mccain; When
my man Nike quits Work az O'CLOCK ne
viii be right around hare, and II you don't
let me in IN get Mike TO punch your nose,
receiver or no receiver;
haired representative Of the receiver retired
into the shop at precisely f5I O'CLOCK nut
Nike did not appear.
The glinpses that the angry women
caught Of the pretty things iuRlC0 kept them
boiling with wrath, and they told their
troubles holly one 70 the other. Many OF
them had been planning TO exchange their
stamps Tor some much desired piece Of furni-
tuIe or bric-a -brao. There was the chino
nier. 70 be bought for twelve books. Mira.
Fgallo had set her eye on that. cabinet
of birdseye maple was going for ten books.
l.aDOTlOuslN ATS oOuHa lAdA bCb AcbOAA'
those 10000 stamps. There were cut
gass dishes, chairs mirrors, pictures
little knickmacks that every woman llkes
20 get at a bargain, and every soul IN the
crowd had been scheming and saving, II
appeared, TO get one Of these things 70
decorate her home with. Every woman
in the crowd had at least two books, and
some OF them chad as many as twenty.
Somebody made a rough calculation that
there were 10000 trading stamps there:
l. aaf NJ
about So, the sum total was not insignui-
cant.
calming effect, because the angry folk were
Of the sort that have a wholesome respect
for brass buttons and blue coat, but every
now and then their rage would get the
better Of their prudence and they would
make a rush for the door and try to push
in past the rod haired young man. Then
the three cops would have 70 pull and
haul and drag them back, arguing and
entreating The policemen had lot OF
svTnpathy for tho unfoTt innate ones, and
their task was performed gently.
Not a few Of the women announced their
intention Of staying right there all night.
sI'm going to stick, / am. They're not
going 10 cart OF that sideboard I've been
wanting for these many months past II
Mary Ann MoCarty knows herself II
get my Irish up I'm liable to butt in that
I place anyway
Perbaps dozen spectators were about
In the crowd, offering Is oents apiece for
| the books Of stampe. During the after
noon there we're only three transactions
recorded. A small boy sold one book for
| a quarter and two women, one with two
| babies that were crying. accepted the
| v,Tice offered The others wouldn't sell.
Tbey thought that il spectators were
Wiling 20 buy IN the books there must be
something behind the offer.
! The Jam OF angry women furnished an
| interesting sight for fashionable shoppers
and many women CARRIED IN Faster raiment
! stopped 70 say q word or two OF sympathy.
| The rppresen tative OF the receiver said
] he thought there would be an auction sale
| shortly for the benefit Of the creditors.
] He thought maybe the holders Of stamps
would come In for whatever was left after
| the main creditors were satisfied. His
| oplnion was given privately.
| Deputv Sheriff Murray received yeFter
dav an execution for 800 against the New
York Trading Association Of iG West
! Twentv-third street IN favor Of the II. p.
| C1afin Company for goods sold between
| Oct. e. 1914 and Feb. II, 1905. Francis
| n. Maofariare who was president and
treasurer az this aRsociat ton. was the vice-
presidsnt Of the Benedict A Maofarlar q
! COMPANY. trading stamp operators, at the