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Show RUSH AT SPECIAL SiLES The Way Merchants of New York Draw a Crowd of Enthusiastic Shoppers. A FAD AMONG NEW YOEKEES ' 1 i The Longevity of Birds-Patrons of Savings Banks Treatment of Stutterers. "BpeclAl Bales" are a feature of Kew York commercial life in the retail lino, fad thoy contribute more to woman' pleasure and caprice than any cttier one phase of shopping experience. ThoM Who have never lecn to one have mksed a heap of fun. In one of the large p-own p-own stores recently there was a "run" on gloves. They were of a superiot f uality, and sold for forty-five cents. The sale started at 9 in the morning, and directly there was a spirited scenf . around that counter. Women rudelj pushed one another away in their wild endeavor to get a pair of gloves. Oni gave a $5 bill and clamored for lief change. Another held a pair over th heads of the crowd and endeavored U give her money to one of the salesgirls This woman, after patiently waiting foi a time and seeing no chanoe of getting up to the girl, quietly put the gloves in her muff and sauntered off. She had I bargain. After a whilo the change from fo wai brought back. The salesgirl bad by thil lime become rattled with the confusion and rapidity with which the gloves wert being bought, and handed the money tr the wrong woman, who put it in heV purse and walked away. The lady to whom the money belonged, getting un-mt un-mt at the long delay, finally elbowed her way through the crowd, demanding her - change, and creating no littla excitement. The rush was so great that the girls behind the counter gre frantic, and began to cry. The floorwalker floor-walker ordered the sale closed fof three hours, announcing the time of reopening. Then a scene of wild confusion con-fusion was dispelled, and the glove pur chasers dispersed themselves over the tore and were soon busied with other purchases. Three hours later the glove sale began again, only to find even a greater crowd Clamoring for covering for their hands than in the morning. It continued only thirty minutes when it was again stopped because the clerks could not wait on the anxious customers. It was never reopened, re-opened, but the establishment, all the same, got a first class advertisement out of the attempt to sell dollar and a half gloves for forty-five cents. New York Star. ' |