| Show STEAL COUNTER CIGARS I Mean Class of lof Thieves Who Cost Many Dealers More Than Per Year Y ear t A Park Row Bow cl ldar ar dc dealer ler who keeps tho time top o of his counter covered with open boxes of cigars of or the time cheaper chaper Sla grades es for the ben benefit mo of customers who to come come comeIn In grab g ab their theil cigars cl throw their mone money on the counter and then dart out again says SUS that this system of oC selling cigars clEars costs him upward up up- ward vard of or OO a a. year ear You have no Idea the number of cigar ciar thieves there are In this city elt he said The They come conic In here grab brab two I 6 5 cent cigars throw a nickel on the counter coun coun- tel ter and then theil dash out a again aln With the quarter a brand they c some ome times grab six and I have known men mento mento mento to take as man many as ns eight Early In my experience In these petty petty pet pet- t ty peculations I ordered ordered- salesmen to hold up the first man he caught In Inthe Inthe inthe the act of stealing ste counter cigars He held up a man one ono afternoon but before before before be be- fore he could do 10 anything an the time man had the cigars In his pocket and amid declared that lint two of or the tour four were there thele when he hc bought the other two You couldn't argue against that could you ou The same thing happened once when hen henn M n man took six cigars of or a brand that sells four fout for tor a quarter Wo We held him hini up and he made a fearful tearful fuss He declined to produce the tho ho cigars he had taken declared that we would ouid have to search him i If we wc wanted them and hinted at a damage suit stilt It If we searched him During the proceedings a dozen other customers stood around listening and while the they didn't sa say anything It was easy to see that some of them then thought that an Injustice was being done to the manWell manWell man Well Yell of course we wc had to stop that sort of oC thing Now ow we ye Just suffer In silence savo In the case cas o of oC the habitual thief Wo We watch him closely and make It so 50 obvious ob to him that he lIe 11 is being watched that he only gets sets a chance to take more than he pa pays s 's for Cor when all the salesmen are at the other oilier end of the counter und and too busy to lo watch himlie him lie He gets In on us every In a n awhile while though and enough other oilier business bust busi ness ne of oC this kind Is done by b occasional visitors to bring our losses up to about a year Jal To ro be exact m my loss In this way vay last year Cal was ju Just t and 50 sonic some odd cents cents Nev New ew York Sun I |
