The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-28
POLICE GET UPPER
 HAND TN RUN ON
 FURNITURE HOUSE
Manager of Grand Rapids Faces Hostile Audience As He
 Offers Terms.

Following the congestion and dis graceful scenes which characterized last nights rush upon the Grand Rapids Furniture and Supply Cor poration on Fairfield avenue in which the police lost control of the crowd, as well as many buttons on their. -una- forms, order was brought from chaos today by order of Superintendent Eugene Birmingham, who detailed Sergeant Walker and a large squad of men to keep the lines of waiting women in order.
 numbers from Greenwich, Tofrington. Danbury, and as far as Hartford, ar rived in this city by each incoming train.
 They were lined up before the store, with breaks in their ranks wherever a business house entrance abutted the street. They were allowed in the store in patches of six, being guided through the second story entrance and thence allowed to come to the ground floor where the offices of the com pany are located.
 A reporter for the Farmer, gained admission to the building today. with the result thai the firms sideSof the question as well as that of the club members was made plain for the first time.
 Manager Weinick, in an address to the assembled patrons said: Ladies, you are here as members of this club to secure your furniture. You have agreed to pay $17.50, and we are here to live up to that agreement. If you do not wish to break your contract you will live up to that agreement and with our large storage ware houses filled with furniture equal to the stock of any two merchants in l this city we will fulfill every obIiga- | ton we have made. We have now sustained a run of nearly two weeks and we are still here. We did not have any articles that sold for less i than SIT 5O but have agreed to settle
 these accounts at their face value. We will try to do so as best we can, | though not having agreed to do this
 originally, you will have to take what you can get for your money.
 ''If you will step right this way to l the elevator you can be given any l above. On this floor there are a few 1 articles which you can get for less. l There is nothing less than $17.50 up- stairs
 Two score of persons on the main I floor greeted these remarks with de 'ihoId-up'' and other satisfied that
 they would be given something for various amounts paid in, from $6 to l SIP.
 l An Inspection of the main floor of l the building disclosed there but three | or four articles listed at less than I $16.50 and in consequence the lower l floor was congested with persons who
 sought to argue with the salesnen I and either finally decided to pay the I $17.50 and were shown above or still cluttered the floor until they were l given an article of minor value and
 went away disgusted-
 an. I nent, in which none is refused arti- I c1es approximating the face value of
 contracts, but left to fret and fume I the situation as seen by reporter ! for the Farmer today seems to be one
 of unique yet profitable procrastina- I ton. It is simply a question of values
 and one which could be promptly
 and satisfactorily settled with profit
 to the concern by the purchase from
 any local house of quantity of fur
 niture selling at prices from $5 to $17.00, with a big percentage of profit