The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-19
FORGE TFUL
NEW WORKERS
Men of Affairs Complain of
Fact That the Average
New Yorker is the Most
Annoyingly Forgetful of
Mortals, and That the Fair
Sex is, in That Respect, the
Worst of All the Annoying
Gotharnites.
Special to The journal.

Special to The journal.
New York, Jan. 18.-At the close OF
a department store concert the other
morning three women walked out, each
leaving a fur collar behind her. AL
| three collars were rescued BY an ush
er, who sent them TO the lost prop
erty desk, where eventually they Were
found by the anxious owners
The season for leaving NUTS and
fur neckpieces, handbags and pocket
books all around the store as well as
in the concert room has come, and
from the way it starts in / guess we
shall be kept buster than ever" said
an employee.
mo, it's not question of hurry with
the concert crowd. At least it doesn't
look like that to me. Persons who
stay to the end and generally stroll
out leisurely and have no appearance
of wanting to catch a train or boat
or to get anywhere in particular. It's
just case OF forgetfulness with most
women, and with men, too; but, OF
course, for every man who leaves
goods on a seat, on the floor or on a
counter, there are fifty women, I sup
pose. ~
From what l see here every day
forgetfuIness is getting to be disease
for which there seems to be no cure.
And New York women have 1t more
than most others, / think.
No, l don't think forgetfulness can
he cured in an adult, but am sure 1t
can be prevented if children are taken
in hand in time. The public schools
RI ND
watch out that the youngsters with a
habit of forgetting to hold on to their
own property study it,
When the dry goods mans remarks
were repeated TO a railroad man who
lives in New York, he listened without
surprise.
Railroad Testimony.
Il have noticed the same thing N.Y.
self. said he, referring to the growing
forgetfulness of the New York woman
The reason?"
We'll some persons put 1t down to
the step lively atmosphere in which
they live and which is less noticeable
in smaller cities than here. But that
hardly explains it, / think Forgetful-
ness is one of the besetting sins of
New Workers, and in my opinion two
reasons for 1t are Indifference to small
losses and lack of the power to con-
centrate. AS a class women living in
small towns attach value to every bit
of personal property. They are careful
about their private belongings. If
woman loses glove in a certain town
where have relatives living she does
not rest until that glove is found. To
throw away its mate and think no
more about the lost glove would seem
almost wicked to her The New York
woman is not at all like that. 1t does
not distress her in the least to lose
small articles of ordinary value As a
rule, she doesn't even take the trouble
to hunt them up.
Where did you lose your boa?, I
asked my sister. Why don't you go
after it?'
4 was In at least six or eight
shops she answered and how on
earth can l tel where | droDDed it.
For all I know I may have lost it in
the subway. No, I'm not going to
bother
That, I believe, is the attitude Of
the AVERAGE New York woman-the
poor as wei as the rich--toward lost
property. except in the case of sum
Of mcney.Mnre than half the articles
sent to the lost nronertv office of the
Rapid Transit COM
pany's lines are not claimed. am
told. although a large percentage be-
long to poor persons evidently"
Lost Property Rooms.
The statement was proved to be
quite trSe by visit to the last prop
erty office mentioned. 1t was learned
that in the last six months ended Dec,
/, 12-365 lost articles had been turned
In. only half of which has been claim
ed. The other ha'f will be sold at auc-
ton. At this place lost goods are held
subject to the owners call for six
consequently the office Is al
wavs overtlowing with articles collect
ed from the subway and the elevated
roads.
The property clerk himself is puz-
z'ed quite as much over the indiffer-
ence of New Workers over lost prop
ertv as over the number of things
lost
Take women's aprons now" said
be. Dozens of them come in every
week. They head, in fact. the list OF
things women lose. and nearly every
aDron be'ones. I IMAGINE. to 4 work
Ing girl who left in the cars on her
way home from work Anrons cost
money!. and the owners must know
Lhat tnev were lost in q subway or
an l. train and that by spending
cents extra car fare she can get the
anron hack. And vet here the APRONS
sfav As for men being less fo~oatfuI
han women. 7 am not 81 sure. Look
ut those umhrellas''-the umbrellas
we're stacked IN the ceiline--.an4 it's
sasv To see that most of them are
mems umbrellas. In the last, twelve
months about 4.ono uribre,ias hove
,een turned in and only 1000 were
claimed. The others 20 to auction.
Left IN Cars.
Waters white coats and d,clxies-
10 end of them-are left In the cars.
md scarcely one Of them is CLAIMED. |
md We have several folding music |
fands such as musicians. uye, which |
lavs not been called for d Hp4ts % |
he fact that the cost OF q good one
s several dollars at least and IN at mn, |