The sun., 1905-09-10
COPS TO CHECK BARGAIN RUSH.

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NEVER SUCH AN OPENING AS AT
WOLFSON'S 10 CENT STORE.
Al Avenue b Was WAITING to buy Umbrellas
and Lace Trimmed Corset Covers for
q Dlme-Police Lot Them In Few at
Tine. but Not without Much Damage.
It pays to advertise. It sure docs. II
you don't believe It, ask Myer Wolfson,
the young Napoleon Of the and 10 cent
store.
Myer Wolfson. looking for locations.
spotted the corner OF Avenue B and Third
street. This Is tho "smelting pot OF the races
on the East Side. Here the Russian quarter,
The Polish quarter and the Yiddish quarter
meet, and there Is a sprinkling Of Scan
dinavian, Runanian. Montenegrin and
plain Dutch.
Myer advertised first and fitted out his
store afterward. For weeks he advertised
In six different tongues that on Saturday.
Sept. Q, the greatest S and 10 cent store In
the universe would Be opened by him,
WoKson. A bargain every hour. Sale
to start at 8 A. M. with 300 expensive UNI
brellas worth 45 cents wholesale, going at
10 cents, tho highest price charged for any
ono object in the greatest emporium OF
bargains In the world. First come. first
served-the frst 300 people In the store got
The fret 800 umbrellas.
At 0 O'Clock be would put on sale 300
cuspidors and 200 parlor lambrequins.
worth every cent OF so cents. And 80 on.
crescendo, to the greatest bargai OF the
>day, which would be offered at P. M.
Four hundred corset covers edged with
genuine imported lace, sell for Is cents on
Fifth avenue. your choice for 10 cents
Myer went around to the East Fifth
street station on Friday night and asked
hunbly for a policeman. He said that
he expected q rush and thought q cop
might save trouble. The sergeant left an
assignment for Policeman Harry Baxter
to be ut Wolfson's store at Z 80.
At 9 o'clock Baxter called up on the
telephone.
.Send the reserves down. he said. 'and
ssnd 'em quick
whats the matter, can't you handle the
crush'" asked the sergeant.
1t amt q crush" said Baxter. It's
. riot. Would you listen to that2' The
sergeant heard family the crash Of broken
glass and the howls Of a female multitude.
Tho reserves hotfooted to Avenue B.
At Fifth street they were stopped short.
All the women In the world and half the
babies seemed to be compressed into Ave-
nue b. They made solid pack between
Third street and Fifth street. They over
flowed on the fire escapes. The East Broad
way cars. which run along Avenue B, were
piled up for block each way. The motor
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cursing. Nothing doing.
AfAr OF there was sort OF eddy and
bubble In the crowd. 1t was Baxter, fight
Wolfson's store.
hvs reserve patrolmen soraped way along
tho sidewalk for two blocks and gained
tho beleaguered Barry. They made q
right wheel, pressed standing room out
of the crowd and reviewed it. Women
stretched away Is far as eye could reach.
All Of them carried an unfumigated pocket
book In one hand and most OF them an
unlaundered baby in the other. Every
one had savage bargain counter CLEAN
In her eye and one fixed idea in her head,
The cops tried to shove out more room.
They cleared space about twenty feet
wide to the edge Of tho sidewalk. There
they were stopped by dead weight, while
from the edges women oyerfowed and
rushed to Wolfson's front door and clung
hysterically to the knob.
Barry was four years at the Brooklyn
Bridge. but this was new one on him.
You couldn't club 'em," he explained
Aiterward. 'aud you couldn't talk sense
to,sem.s
AT length his eye hit on q milk wagon,
piled up with the street cars on the edge Of
the crowd. With one patrolman he wriggled
70 the wagon and pressed it into service;
The driver, against all municipal regula-
slowg forward. the police showing in front:
It did the business. for the edge Of the crowd
rolled into Third street and the pack les
sened . little. The milk wagon turned,
fen in ahead Of the street cars. and made
lane for them, so that the jam was broken.
Finally, the wagon was used to clear breath
inG space In front Of Wolfson's store.
Then at last Wolfson ventured to open
the front door, and the police opened the
cork . little and let about ten gallons Of
% the eaves they stopped the rush as .
falling down in front Of it. The crowd Of
women piled up and stopped on this bar.
Roundsmsn Pary's uniform trousers and
ceved In Policeman Cahill's helmet. but
they were, stopped.
The umbrellas melted like the SHOWS Of
yeetesyear and the purchasers remained
to buy beautiful Dresden china ornaments
and genuine rolled gold chains and near
diamonds-experts fooled-all for ten cents.
AZ the morning wore away traffic was
resumed on the street and the east side
walk. but never on the west sidewalk where
Wolfson has his store. Every few minutes
the cops would let in a spurt Of women.
Eaxter wilted his collar and ripped one
slesve out OF his uniform coat keeping
IN exit ct one corner Of the mob
About II O'Clock three or four babies
got squeezed and the oops gave orders
that no more women with babies should
be admitted. It was Baxter's job to chase
all such to the other edge Of the, mob:
out . little. and Yiddish woman with a
haby In arms pleaded so piteously that
Baxter made hole for her and let her in
eheed Of the spurt. That led other women
70 demand the came privilege, and Baxter
let them all through. It was amazing
how many women Brought babies in the
iiext hour.
AT about I O'Clock Baxter noticed that q
certain baby had come out three times.
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