The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-15
STORES ARE CROWDED
Simpson CrawfOrd's Has Air
of Busy Day at
Christmas.
DEPOSITORS' RIOT FEARED
Women Hysterical in 14th st.
Store, but Serious Trouble
Is Avcrtcd.

The doors OF the Simpson Crawford
Company and the Fourteenth Street Store
were closed at 6 o clock last night. Ex-
cept for three or four historical outbursts
by women depositors a few minutes before
the business was finally shut down and Q
general exchange OF farewells In both
establishments II might have been any
other Saturday night
No tears we're to be seen in either place
last night, no emotional outbursts from
employees who were going OF the pay
rolls While many had lost their savings
BY the failure OF the bank they had forgot
ten that In the good news that had come
to them since Friday night.
The cause was easily discernible In the
chatter among the animated groups.
"Oh, Mary, is it all right" inquired one
girl.
yes" was the triumphant answer. "f
go to Blanks"
Where DO you go. Sarah?''
81 go TO Dash's. and | get more money
than I did here"
How Is IT with you, old man."
start in Monday at -"
All OF which ended in the general re-
frain. isn't II splendid"
The merchants OF New York. the big de-
partment store men. were the magiclans
who cured the heartaches Of Friday ana
dried the tears. As IL by prearrange-
ment no sooner had they learned OF the
pligh, in which the 2.loo employees found
,A.,l- .<xtr
wands. The result Is that OF the 200
employees. men. women. boys and girls,
not more than 200 were without i'm
mediate prospects OF Jobs. Even these
know that II they weather the next few
weeks there will be work for them H.
the new store which Is to grow up or
Fourteenth street controlled by Leo A.
Price.
Wholesale Employ Bureaa.
The store superintendent of the big
concerns UP town and down town A.
scended upon Simpson Crawford's yester-
day morning like fairy podmothers. They
were there almost as soon as the doors
opened and they charged upon Charles V.
Williams. the superintendent 1t was not
nearly all cases, How many can We
get?"
Representatives OF Lord Taylor,
James McCreery Co and O'Neili-
Adams went through the store and found
the saleswomen and men hey wanted.
Names were given and arrangements con-
Guided with a few words and the custom
ers found brighter faces and dancing eyes
few minutes later.
Gimbel Bros had several representa-
tives there and * was not more than an
hour before II was known they mad hired
about IS per cent. OF the entire force.
Greenhut- Slegei Cooper Company men ar.
rived and later in the day IL was re-
ported that among several hundred EN-
ployees hired they had taken the entire
selling force OF the chinaware depart
ment
Oppenheim, Collins & Co. took over
about every sa!eswoman in the womens
cloak and suit department. Mays soon
had enough new employees on their Lists
to organize full military company. Saks
& Co enlisted another company and
Bloomingdale BROS, made Arrangements
to take several score. Stern Bros. and
James A. Hearn a 90. also hired many.
Report to work Monday morning" were
the orders until Mr.. Williams had 10 pro-
test He needed goo OF those young
women 10 aid in the inventory, which 10
TO be completed by the 18th, and he
could not let them all 20.
Like Christmas season.
The simpson Crawford store did one Of
It's biggest days business yesterday. It's
floors were more crowded than in the
Christmas season and the bargain hun
tsrs bought. The days work went on
with a laugh. and la,e in the afternoon
up on the music floor, just as the player
piano was giving forth a particularly fas-
cinat,ng rag, nourwalkcrs only wnked
when three or four pairs OF young women
did a onestep behind mock OF srand
pianos
There was a similar state of feeling at
the Fourteenth street Store so far as the
employees were concerned, but the atnos-
phere there seemed charged with cleo
trici,y. There vas the ever present danger
thai oyerwrought men and women from the
headauarters Of the depositors next door
would invade the place and start n riot.
Tn, store itself was jammed from pase-
ment to roof all day and the sllghtest
demonstration might have started panic.
The receivers of the stors had strong
force Of special men inside the store AL
day. while Police Captain Scobel had AL
his reserves, most OF them In clNlllhh
clothes. on the sidewalk.
There was no trouble until about ="
O'Clock. when a dozen women IRON next
door entered the stort, Their presence
became known when one OF them was
attacked with Mysteries on the sixth ave
nue. side and began pulling down green
baizp curtains.
81 want my NSoU she srlekeu'
"They have robbed mt"
She continued to pull down curtains and
I'd hur In