The evening world., 1906-04-23
Were Assigned o Get Evil
dence by Retail Clerks
Protective Union.
TEN ARRESTS ARE MADE.
Merchants Ready 10 Sell on
Sunday TO Young Wom-
EN- Detectives.
q, the ~as. side tners are tan

Down on the cas-. side there are tan
email shopkeepera. dealers IN dry goods.
notions and the like. whose confidence
in women has been e~ternally shaken
Every one Of them stands ready TO be
lieve hereafter that II was Eve who
tempted the poor. gulleless gentlemanly
serpent 10 his fall.
The ten Of them Just as good as said
20 in the Essex Marte; Police Court to-
DIV when they were arraigned on the
charge Of violating the Sunday closing
ordinance. AS the chief accusers came
three OF the prettiest shop girls on Man
haitian ~Island-shop girls on a weekday.
but turned sleuth OF a Sunday here O.
late. ana doing very well at the lob.
thank you.
For a good while tire Retail Clerks
Protective Union has been trying to
break up the habit; wlich a lot of the
small merchants have OF keeping open
for business on. Sunday. But e was
hard to get proof, because when a
plain clothes man walked in and asked
for a skein OF embroidery SILK or a bolt
OF baby ribbon the proprietor tumbled
light away n wouldn't sell him. SO
the union hit on the scheme o: send
tns out yourg women TO get evidence
that would stick. Did the scheme work?
ASK OF the ten in Essex Market Court
this Blue MonGly.
Assigned TO the Work.
The three young women. members OF
the union. assigned to the task vester-
day were Miss Ida Marcus. OF No. 9OS
East Seventh street; Miss Catharine
Burns. OF No. 1851 First avenue, and
Miss Mary o'Hare, OF No. 10 East one
Hundred and Twenty-seventh street.
Capt. Murtha. of the Eldridge street sta
ton, promised cooperation. in the un-
dertaking, an he detailed one OF his
men. q mere man detective as It hap
pened. but the bes; he had IN stock. TO
follow In the wake Of each OF the three
girl sleuths and make the arrests.
KISS MarCUs ted tur Il Shc went
nrst TO the store OF Samuel A. Bromo-
WITT. at Nos. 1912 Division street and
bought a pair OF opera length hose
whatever they are-at tie prevailing
Division street price OF . cents q pair.
Close behind her followed Miss Burns
and she invested In three yards OF light
pink ribbon. Even as Bromowitz
wrapped this purchase up Capt Murtha
and a precinct IIawkeye walked 1 nand
nailed him.
Ten Victims In All.
Al the store OF Fred Zlegler. No, 5ig
Grand street. a clerk waited on tho
sood-looking young woman. who asked
toE three yards OF blse ribbon. The
clerk wasn't certain about selling the
ubbon. and he called ,he boss.
Sure. sell her" Miss Marcus alleges
that zlegler said only because 1t IS
Sunday she u pay ten cents a yard
Instead OF seven ana a half"
And so on until ten merchants had
beer trapped and arres ca. in the court
all the cases. al the request OF counsel
for the defendants. were continued untl
EeAt Friday.
wen be back again next Friday
with our evidence. said Miss Marcus
10 an Evening World reporter. "Tae
union Is determined that the clerks Of
these small dealers s.a,! have at least
one daY o: rest a week. As 1t Is the
poor clerks work seven days out OF
seven because tde-r employers are
greedy for u few cents more each week.
We are not through yet. The union ls
going 70 keen on sending MS around get
Kim evidence until the sunday closing
Law IS ooeycd by the small dealers ana
the large dealers obey IT,