The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-16
MISSING MISS WAS
At PROCTORS BUT
NOT IN THAT BOX
She Escapes Capture, Although
the Entire Audience Was
on lookout.
WILL Go SHOPPING
in THE STORES TODAY
Once More She Will Don the
Hat with Roses Worn on
First Day OF Chase.
BY THE MISSING MISS.

Before L relate my adventures Oh
yesterday, which came near culmi-
mating in a fierce commotion" in Proc
tors Theatre in the evening, L want
to state that this afternoon 1 I'm going
to visit all the big stores dow town,
where l lost a lot of orders on THE
EVENING STAR cashier for cash
awards. So, those that saw me there
yesterday will see me again To-day, and
have a better opportunity of winning
the $50 in gold for the proper identi-
flcation, and today 1 am wearing that
hat with the roses, like the picture,
which I wore the first day of the con-
test.
l expect to have as much excitement
tomorrow as 1 did last night. When
the hundreds of young women and
! young men clerks quit work in the
Prudential buildings at 4 o'clock l viii
be in Bank street, or at the corner of
Bank and BROAD, where they can all
detect me If they have the skill of a
Sherlock Holmes. Then l must hurry
up to the Clark Thread Works, where
] will gave the same opportunity to the
several thousand young women en-
ployed there. providing / am not
caught before. ] will be at the Clark
Thread Works when the employees
leave their work in the evening, and
will remain in the vicinity until they
have all left or until some careful and
skilful young woman detective makes
the proper Identification.
/ said l was going to the Oranges
yesterday. ] am sorry. The Oranges
are all right on a bright day, but ex-
cuse me when 1t is raining cats and
dogs. l alighted at Cone street from a
Main street car and walked down to
the railroad depot, then back to Main
street and down Main street to East
Orange, where 1 was so thoroughly wet
with rain tina l boarded a car and
came back, went to my room, changed
my clothes and started out on my
''money-losing' expedition.
Left orders In Bambergcr's.
In Bamberger's 1 saw a very busy,
black-eyed girl behind the umbrella
counter in the main aisle on the first
floor. She will recall that when some
one asked to nave an umbrella opened
she could not do it and a loorwalker
at the end of the counter opened it for
her. Well, it was just then that ]
slipped a money order under a row OF
umbrellas on the corner. l. hope she
found it.
Their | went into Goerke's, and while
/ was talking to a girl who wore a
white waist with a pin-check pattern
at the lace counter, 1 slipped an order
for money into a tray on the counter
holding laces with a placard that 1t
was a special sale. AS / was going out
the Broad street door an elderly
woman ran up to me and very excited
ly asked: Are you the Missing Miss?
l want the $50" She had a o of
THE EVENING STAR in her hand,
but she had the words wrong.
l went down to l.. S. Plaut & Co.'S
store. and while l vas talking TO a
young girl with light fluffy hair behind
the notion counter, just opposite the
transfer desk, l slipped a money order
into a tray holding packages of shoe
polish.
Then going into the store of w. V.
Snyder & Co. l found a pretty girl at
the burnt-wood counter, opposite the
elevators, who had a ~bandage around
her wrist, as though she had hurt her
self. 1 wanted to slip the money order
into a place where she would find 1t,
but down at the end of the aisle a
foorwa1ker had his eagle eye on me-
as IL I was a shoplifter, and / moved
; awav. I went over to an aisle In the