Re: The Snippet - Past News of the Silver Trade
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2022 5:32 am
ONCE THE LARGEST SINGLE PIECE OF PLATE GLASS IN NEW YORK
New York
Early last Sunday morning an ordinary building brick was hurled through the large plate glass window in the store of the International Silver Co., 9-13 Maiden Lane. Nothing was taken from the window. It is the belief of the police that the rock was thrown by some intoxicated person or by one of a crowd of youths bent on doing damage. The stone was hurled against the upper part of the window which leads the police to believe that robbery was not the motive, as the hole in the glass was too high for anyone to reach into the show window. The brick was thrown with such force that it broke the large plate glass window, went through another glass in the back and finally crashed through a showcase. The window, it is believed was smashed shortly after 6 o'clock, Sunday morning. After the broken window was discovered, L. B. Hall, vice-president and general manager of the store, was called from his home in Brooklyn. He took a hurried survey and found that nothing had been stolen. He then had the window barracked and guarded. The space in front of the store has been roped off until the broken show window is replaced to prevent possible injury from falling glass. When the window. was installed more than 20 years ago, it was the largest single piece of plate glass put in any store in New York.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 23rd December 1925
Trev.
New York
Early last Sunday morning an ordinary building brick was hurled through the large plate glass window in the store of the International Silver Co., 9-13 Maiden Lane. Nothing was taken from the window. It is the belief of the police that the rock was thrown by some intoxicated person or by one of a crowd of youths bent on doing damage. The stone was hurled against the upper part of the window which leads the police to believe that robbery was not the motive, as the hole in the glass was too high for anyone to reach into the show window. The brick was thrown with such force that it broke the large plate glass window, went through another glass in the back and finally crashed through a showcase. The window, it is believed was smashed shortly after 6 o'clock, Sunday morning. After the broken window was discovered, L. B. Hall, vice-president and general manager of the store, was called from his home in Brooklyn. He took a hurried survey and found that nothing had been stolen. He then had the window barracked and guarded. The space in front of the store has been roped off until the broken show window is replaced to prevent possible injury from falling glass. When the window. was installed more than 20 years ago, it was the largest single piece of plate glass put in any store in New York.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 23rd December 1925
Trev.