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Show AUCTION OF UNEMPLOYED MEN IS CALLED OFF New York. March 8. The proposed "siile" of unemployed men at the Park-side Park-side Presbyterian church in the Flat-bush Flat-bush section of Brooklyn, was not held last night because of police interference. in-terference. It had been announced that twenty men with their faces covered cov-ered by masks to avoid the humiliation, humilia-tion, would be auctioned off from the pulpit to the highest bidder. A similar simi-lar sale had recently been held successfully suc-cessfully and the Rev. John D. Long Interested himself In the matter and decided to procure employment lor other destitute men in this way. The police stopped the sale by virtue vir-tue of a section of the penal codo which says that "an assemblage in public houses or other places of three or more persons disguised by having their faces painted, discolored, colored color-ed or concealed, Is unlawful." Although It was not absolutely necessary to have the men masked when tho church authorities saw the police on hand, they decided to call j ttw? auction off. |