Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-25 | Page 2 | Profiteer Curbed by Colonial Women

PROFITEER CURSED BY COLONIAL WOMEN UOSTo, Feb. 21. Females" of ye ! !' ' 'on. staging a "coffe party" " '.7", 7 which rivalled in n small way rfie famous tea party of 177.'?. person-alh person-alh chastised a profiteer boarder of foodstuffs and confiscated some of his slock, according to a letter from Aba-gall Aba-gall Adams to her distinguished hus band. lat.T second president of the t'nlted Statos. Writing at Boston, under dato of July Bl, 1777. Abagrall wrote to John then attending the continental con Si'ens at Philadelphia: "There is a groat scarcity of sugar and coffee, articles which the female part of the state Is very loath to give up. especially whilst they consider tho 1 great scarcity occasioned by the merchants mer-chants having secreted t largo quan tlty. It Is rumored that an eminent sting merchant, who is a bachelor. 1 had a hogshead of coffee in his store. ( which he refused to evil under 6 shillings shill-ings per pound. "A number of lemales. some say a' hundred, some say more, assembled , with a cart and trunk, marched down to the warehouse and demanded the keys. "Upon his finding no quarter, he delivered de-livered tho keys and they then opened the warehouse, hoisted out the coffee themselves, Pt It Into a mink and drove off. A large concourse of men I amazed, silent IpeclatOIt of the. whole transaction."