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Show APPLICANTS FOR WORK BLOCKED THE STREETS -f Xew York,, April 13. So great --- was the crowd of applicants tor -f positions in a new department store 011 Sixth avenue today that'--4" it became necessary to call out the police reserves to maintain I -f order. It was estimated that any- ! 4- where from 4.000 to 8.000 persons were in waiting at S o'clock, the --( hour named in '.advertisements for 4- receiving the s:jiplic:itions. Th- 4- Sixth avenue bio extending from 4- Thirteenth to Fotirteenth streets 4- and for several imindred feet c;is! 4- was literally jaijmed with nu n. 4-- 4-- women, boys and girls, chuiioririg 4- for a chance to get in tho build- 4-4- ing. and the struggle that ensued 4-4- to gain entrance taxed all the re- 4-4- sources of police ingenuity to pro- 4-4- vent accident. At IT o'clock, 4-, 4- within two hriurs of the time an- 4--4- nounced for ilosing the doors to 4-4- applicants, the crowd held fu!y 4-4- as great as early in the day, and 4-4- street car traffic through riisth 4-4- avenue and Fourteenth street was 4-4- almost at a standstill. 4- |