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Show SCALES ARE ' ALLFIXP And the Operators at Coney Island Are Pickpockets New York, Aug. 19. The New York commissioner of weights and measures meas-ures has turned his attention to tho Industrious persons who "guess our weight" at Coney Island and the other shore resorts about the city. The commissioner made a personal person-al Inspection of a number of the scales at Coney Island last night and found them faulty. "The scales arc practically all 'fixed,' ." he said, afterward. "I weigh t"6 pounds, but when I was weighed on the Conpy Island scales, mr weight ranged anywhere from 150 to 150 pounds; in fact Just tho weight the operator had guessed." The commissioner said that the ma chines would have to go. Their inaccuracy in-accuracy Is not the main reason, however. There have been many complaints from people who have bad their pocket? picked while be Ing weighed, and tho commissioner declares that the operator always runs his hands over a peion. ostensibly to estimate their weight, but really to locate their pockctbook or their bankroll, then either "lifts" It himself him-self or signals to a confederate to do so. |