Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 148, 12 July 1908 — Page 7

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CUSTOMS INSPECTORS CLAIM WOMEN. ARE THE WORST SMUGGLERS THEY ENCOUNTER Feminine Corps of Inspectors Find That Most Women Love the Excitement Attached to Cheating the Government Out of a Few Dollars on a Bit of Old Lace from Europe Interesting Anecdotes From the Collection Bureau.

New York. July 11. The government has eight women customs inspectors on duty in Nov York to catch feminine smugglers, but despite all that these eight women can do the smuggling is not growing any less. The cuBtoms inspectresses say that they believe more than half the women passengers who arrive from foreign countries have dutiable goods concealed about their persons somewhere. Smuggling seems to have a peculiar fascination for women, judging from the pride nearly every woman who arrives from a trip abroad takes in bragging to her women friends how she managed to get such an such an article by, passing under the very noses of the inspectors without their ever once suspecting. One has only to overhear these confessions of the average feminine steamer arrival to realize how widespread the practice is and how shamelessly woman who are otherwise honorable and truth-telling will lie, evade the truth and go to most absurd length in order to get some bit of finery or gewgaw in duty free. It probably appeals to the feminine Instinct for a bargain for getting something for nothing. No class is xempt from it. Women of wealth, who are abundantly able to pay duties and would never miss the money, are as eager to rob the government as Is the immigrant's wife, who hopes to save a dollar or two by a bit of deception. As a matter of fact, the customs inspectresses are not slow in saying that of the two clashes the wealthy woman is the worst. She goes to most lengths In evading duty, resorts to the most ludicrous subterfuges and preserves the mo6t brazen front. Hundreds or tnousanas oi aouars worth of dutiable silks, laces, jewelry end various sorts of feminine finery are smuggled in every jcar. The gov ernment Is well awaro of the extent of this practice, but It can hope to do little more - than limit It and keep it down as far as possible. It is to this end that the government maintains its 'New York staff of women Inspectors. The corps was created thirty-odd years ago. In former times there were twenty-one of the inspectresses and it was their duty to inspect the baggage of arriving passengers as well as search, suspect 3. In tnose days the dean of the corps was Mrs. Genevieve Ferris, universally known as "Jennie," who was one of the best known women In New York, had hosts of friends among public officials and was personally knon to all regular ocean travelers from this port. Sao was in the service thirty-six years. At present the inspectresses are eight in number: Miss Ellis, Mrs. Clark, Miss Walsh, lI!ss Ellsworth, " lirs. Darragh, Miss McQueenle, Miss Allen and Miss Mooney. The dean or "deaness" of the corps is M103 jullis, who is In the service by right of birth, her mother having been an inspectress before her. She has served twenty-seven years at this port, Mrs. Clark comes next with twenty-one years In the service, having been appointed in vice taper down to Misses Mooney and Ellsworth, who are both young women la their early twenties. Miss Walsh, a cousin of Blanche Walsh, the actress, is given credit for being the prettiest inspectress In the corps. These ladies do not have to go down the bay to meet incoming vessels, as the immigrant inspectresses do, nor do they have to keep office hours and report to the surveyor, as the men inspectors do. By an arrangement of the customs office with the Western Union Telegraph company they are informed- by messenger at their homes the sighting of an incoming steamer at Fire Island, and thus they have ample time to get down and meet the vessel at her dock. They always go In pairs, and have divided the different steamship lines up among themselves so that each has vessels wnich she regularly meets. Their pay is $3 a day. This is not too low when it it considered that their duties Beldom require more than two or three hours' work a day, and even then they do not have a steamer every day. The work is light and so interesting that the days on which she does not have to meet a vessel are rather monotonous. Each in-

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that they have had them more than a year, or that they were made on this side, and that they are now wearing them back again, when of course it is plain to us that the furs are brand new are in the latest style and are really liable to heavy duty. But what can we do when an expensively dressed woman swears that her furs are a year old? "I will never forget the laugh we had over two young ladies whom we caught with the goods on some time ago. They were well dressed and at parently above suspicion, but we no ticed that they walked with extraordi nary discomfort. The poor things were suffering so that we asked them to step into a stateroom while we relieved them. We found that each had put her feet through ermine muffs which she had pulled up around her knees. It was a very clever scheme, but unfortunately the muffs had worked loose and slipped down around their ankles. And there they were trying to walk around with a heavy fur bracelet around each ankle no won der they found progress slow! "There was another very handsomely dressed woman whom we searched and found her clothes full of smuggled silk and lace. As soon as she was told she was liable to a heavy fine 6he indignantly exclaimed: 'Why, I am a member of the church r I recognized her as a woman very prominent in the work of the church I attended and I knew her pastor well. She was greatly outraged when she heard herself referred to as a smuggler and thought it perfectly unspeakable that a church member should be subjected to such indignities. She was very prominently connected and in some way she got off merely with the payment of the full duty. "Babies and children are often used for smuggling purposes. We halted a mother once whose baby had twentyfive watches sewn in its clothing, and sometimes a child's body Is swatched in yards of filmy lace that is very hard to detect. We once caught a man whose two young daughters, about 10 and 12 years old, had frocks on that were simply lined with rare ermine. The children were perfectly self-possessed when we took them in; were not in the least frightened, and had evidently been well drilled. "Yes, I really believe women are worse at smuggling than men. Men go into it for gain, but women seem actually to enjoy it. They all do it more or less. We've found poor Italian women in the steerage who had wound themselves with yards and yards of canton flannel in the hottest weather. They were hoping to smuggle It in, not knowing that it is not dutiable anyhow. We find lots of cheap jewelry and gaudy scarfs and shawls among the immigrants, and they are dreadfully disappointed and frightened when we catch them. But the rich women are the worst at the game. If all the women who are perfectly able to pay diKy would quit their smuggling there would be very little for us to do. "Never a steamer arrives that we do not know that some of the women have goods concealed aoout them. We are absolutely certain of it in our own minds, but still we can't get tangible evidence against them. You see we have to be extremely careful before we order a woman to be searched, because there would be all sorts of trouble if we got hold of a prominent woman whoproved to be entirely innocent. We must be extremely cautious and be absolutely certain of the facts before we dare detain her. So It happens that a great many women get by us every year who we are certain are beating the customs, but whom we can't catch with the goods on." The marks on playing cards are said to have their origin in a symbolic representation of four different classes of society. Hearts represent the clergy, spades the nobility (derived from the Italian word "spads," meaning sword), clubs the serfs and diamonds the citizens.

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