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Cartmen Say This Is The Most Active
May-Day Ever Known in Buffalo Business Men Are Moving Into the
New Office Buildings By the Score Today. Buffalo Evening News "Say, what are youse fellows breakin' that hunk of furniture for? That will cost you your days' wages. See?" The speaker was a big, broad-shouldered, husky looking fellow who was in charge of a gang of professional movers, and two of the number had just permitted a big easy chair to slip out of their grasp and fall from the moving van to the ground below. The men muttered excuses, but the boss of the gang was "hot under the collar" and he threatened to discharge all hands if they didn't do better work. Such scenes are common all over Buffalo today. It is may 1. It is moving day. It is the day that everybody hates to think about and the day they will be glad to see pass away. ... It is said by the professional movers that this is by all odds the busiest moving day in the history of Buffalo. Ellicott Square is the moving magnet today. Trucks and vans will stand in front of the Main street entrance and in front of the Washington street doors a good share of the day. The workmen who are putting Ellicott Square into habitable condition were working all night getting the offices into shape so they could be occupied today. It was expected that the Western Union would move in today, as that corporation's lease goes into effect at once. But Manager Tillinghast and his assistant, Mr. Pferd, decided that there would be less interruption to their business if they moved in on Sunday and the thousands of wires of the company will nto be transferred over until the Sabbath. Over in the Real Estate Exchange on Pearl street everything is excitement. Many of the real estate agents announced that they would move into the new building if they had to carry their own furniture. It is estimated by the owners of moving vans that more families are changing residences today than ever before in the history of the town... E. Sleap is the name of a little business-like looking man who has an office on Erie near Main. He confessed this forenoon that he had not had a wink of sleep in 48 hours. "I never saw anything like this before," said he. "It is a sign that Buffalo is growing..."
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