| Show smuggling by tourists the commissioner of customs has rice received ived today to day an official report of a an n import important alit ailt capture of a large quantity of dutiable goods attempt S ed idd tobe to be passed through the custom house at now york as ae personal rhonal bag gage taga gago A few days ngo ago a gentleman and family wife and two sons ar rived from liverpool by the steam 1 ship java in the list prepared b by y il lothe lathe person per pei and which purported to be a correct statement twelve trunks and four jour packages were r given the tho suspicions of the cus tom torm house officers waa was aroused by one of the trunks which bore bom the name of a merc mero merchant hanton banton on broadway icil ding ori madison avenue the P i person pelson was asked whether he claimed that khat trunk he ilg replied i that he did the trunk was watch I 1 od bd to its destination the party f unaware of the real character of the persons delivering it was greatly rejoiced at the sa safe fe arrival of his goods after answering conr some questions which left no doubt 0 of an a attempt to smuggle the contents were examined and the trunk seized it was found that the person who brought the goods from europe WAS a gentleman of jarge t rn menns means enns eans ilk lik living ing in philadelphia the omm off meers officers nt once proceeded to that elty eity city elty an ara t seized the other trunks upon arrival they were found to contain silks and other articles of II 11 ladie ladles sand and wear weara a fine get fet of silver plated harness horse blan blankets ketA and many other articles the line of wearing apparel 1 the dut dutiable lable labie articles were valued at 2836 75 which is admitted to bo be considerably below the true value the duties in gold are exclusive of the trunk captured annew in new york yorka the party claiming the smuggled goods has I 1 therefore been required to pay upwards of for their recovery in default of which they will be seized orders have been issued to I 1 all custom house omm off meers officers to exercise unusual diligence in detecting this increasing system of smuggling it is proposed to urge the f adoption by congress of some bome more definite measures in in regard to the baggage of tourists and to define what and how imrich much shall constitute personal baggage the bureau of statistic leg in its report shows that ibo Hn ino oless less than forty seven thousand citizens of the united states returned from abroad last year of whom ut nt least seventy five per centi were persons persona of means ashington washington lV Xe cember december 2 correspondent N Y world |
