The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-10-23
GOING, GOING, GOMEZ.
ARE FAKE AUCTIONS
AFTER BIG RAID
City Officials Swoop Down
on Many Places and Sum-
o. mon Twenty-Eight.

"scHrLLIBER"-A fake autcion-
GERS confederate.
"SCHIId;-A "Capper' or single
confederate.
"RUMMY"-A prospective sure
buyer Of anything.
SUCkER"-A bidder who Is not
In the employ OF the fake auctioneer.
"LOOKOUT'-Man or woman who
watches for detectives or likely
buyers and "tipon" auctioneer
"SrALL"-Man or woman who
augments the crowd, but does not
d. bid
These are part OF the vocabulary or
secret code in vogue among fake
5ouctioneers in this city, against whom
- lively crusade has been organized by
commissioners of Accounts Mahoney
Ind Rice.
a Mayor Gaynor was to-day appraised
ply the Commissioners that upward Of
|bne hundred fake auctioneers are do
1ng d night and day business in some
pr the most important thorougnfares
IN the city and robbing gulllble GUS
oners rigth and left. who are induced
20 bid on cheap and fictitious articles.
Represented as valuable and genuine.
III To-day the first attack on the sharp
Eters was made by the Secret Service
men of the Office of the Commi. sonei
III. Accounts, VINO served subpoenas
s4ipon twenty-eight persons. Including
- uctioncers. so-called, and their stalls
of "cappers" and "shillibers." In adj
Vance, and as a result Of thorough Sc
eret investigation, the Comm' sloner
learned intimately OF the fake methods
employed, including the peculiar lingo
and terms used by the takers, ana
were accordingly enabled to procure
before them the appearance OF tho
twenty-eight men and women, who adj
united their fraudulent associations
when confronted with the evidence.
The names OF these have been sent to
the Observation-Disclosures.
In the meantime the licenses of-nine
auotioneers who were taken in the
round up will be cancelled.
Mayor Gaynor recently received COM
plants through the mails of the opera
lions In this city of mock auction
houses He directed the Commissioners
Of Accounts to investigate and report.
In their report to the Mayor to-day,
the Comm sioners specify among 9TH
ers: the places of Jacob IL. Spandau. OF
No. 1857 Broadway, near Twenty-sev-
Broadway. near Thirtieth street. and
Marcus Markowitz( at No. 62b sixth
avenue. near Thirty-second street.
The report to the Mayor In descrip-
ing the mock operations adds:
For instance the place at No. llb'
Broadway Is ostensibly store for the
sale OF b-!c-a-brac and objects Of art.
Il is conducted under the name of
Robert X. Gregory. which we we're In
formed Is tire registered name OF the
proprietor, Jacob ii. Spandau. The
method OF operation was that the con-
federates gathered about the doorway
OF the store, and when a passer-by on
tered he was edged into the circle and
then the auctioncer offered an article
for sale. Ths bidding was started by
secret code which the auctioneer prac-
ticed with his confederates Thus, II
lie offered an article for sale, and a
confederate bid 81 and he wanted an
other confederate to raise this bid. he
simply said line two" and another
confederate would raise the bid 81. Ar
ucles wehen not bid high enough by
outsiders weer knocked down to these
confederites"