The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-05
HABORAYPUT OUT OF BUSINESS
STIR AMONG EAST SIDE sol iLLED
EMPLOY HENT AGENCIES.
This One Had Been Hunnlng Fourteen
Years and Had Big Trade License re
N0ked BecnuSe Immigrant Girls We're
sent as Servants ia Dgorderly Places


Years and Had Big Trade License re
NGked HecnuSe Immigrant Girls We're
sent as Servants 10 Dls0rderly Places.
Tho so-cal'ed employment agencies on
the lower East Side which make business
Of supplying inmates and servants to dis
orderly houses and Ranes law hotels were
all stirred up yesterday over the revocation
Of the license OF George Haborny Of 2ii
East Third street. HaboraX had been in
business for more than fourteen years, and
all efforts heretofore 10 break him had
proved futile, because Of the strength Of
his pull One Of the arguments put last
year before the Legislature in favor Of the
law regulating the business Of keeping
intelligence Offices was based on the case
of young girl who was said to have been
sent from Haboray's place TO Mountain
dale y. y as a servant. When she got
there il was alleged, she was locked IN
a room and assaulted by several men. She
managed to escape and made her way back
to this city, where sho told her story to the
police of the Fast Fifty-first street station.
They sent her 20 Bellevue Hospital. where
she went mad and died.
In spite of the horrors of this case it
was impossible under the old law 20 drive
Haboray out Of business. His business
was enormous and his books show that his
income from supplying servants alons
avera ged over $500 day.
When the new law went into effect
Haboray took out license but apparently
he did not change his methods, The eyl-
dence on which his license was revoked
by Commissioner F t. c, Heating was Sc
cured by Inspectors Whean. Hollis. SIM
mons and O'SulliVan II was shown that
on Nov II last Haboray sent young inn
migrant girl named Dachola as servant
to the Hotel Regent, a Raines law resort
at Twenty eighth street and Sixth avenue,
and that he sent other women there even
after the Dachoa girl came back TO HIM
CRYING and told him the true character
of the place. A policeman OF the Tenderloin
precinct testified that the hotel had been
iaided and that il was carried on the books
Of the station house IA a disorderly resort
In addition TO this Inspectors O'Sullivan
and Simmons told how they had got EVIL
dence tina, left no doubt "a TO the character
of the hotel.
The girl had promised to testify against
the agent but she did not appear. The
inapectnrs found that she had been sent
20 fangford, Pa. by Haboray. The woman
with whom she lived al 256 East Fourth
street told them that Haboray had promised
her $50 IL she would not tell where the girl
was hiding
II was also proved that Haboray had
sent Amalia Lissack. another immigrant
girl To work at the Academy Hotel irving
place. which was recently raidod a. a DIS
orderly house and that he had sent Mary
Fischunda, woman of Ill repute, 10 WORK
in five different private families. recon-
mending her as woman Of good character.
Haboray dealt almost entirely with imnli-
grant girls fresh from Ellis Island. lie
was accounted to be the only man in the
sd. VXbp had
agents working for him in Europe. Through
them hundreds Of immigrant girls were
directed TO apply to him for work as soon
AZ they got 10 New York and ne made
business OF sending them around to resorts
" hoh could not get any one but Preenhorns
TO work for them. II was his custom 80
1t Is alleged, to take their baggage from
the girls under tine preteSt OF storing It
until they got work, and IN this way he
secured an additional hold On the immi-
grants consigned to his care
Commissioner keating caused the arrest
on Friday of George PrevCh OF 80 GTeen-
wich street on the charge OF running an
employment agency without license.
He was held for trial in Special Sessions
by Magistrate Pool Of the Tumbs police
court and IL j. likely that more HeTOus
charge viii lie made against him Ac-
cordiug to the evidence gathered by Com
missioner heating. Prevcki promised! 20
get Polish girl. II years old, q place a.
servant in a private family in New Jersey
He put her aboard tugboat. telling her
hat was the only way she could reach her
destination On the boat. IL is alleged
the captain. who had paid the agent 81
for getting the girl locked her IN the cabin
and assaulted her The next raouing he
landed her on pier in Jersey, just where
she could not tel. put her aboard train
and gave her a piece Of paper on which
waS written
fake train 10 Jersey City and Liberty
street ferry and 60 TO No. "a Greenwich
street.
Commissioner Heating has this paper
The girl las told her story TO him and the
matter will he called to the attention VI the
District Attorney