New-York tribune., 1883-03-15
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
A JOKE WITH LITTLE FUN IN IT.

A JOKE WITH LITTLE F. oN iN -
a rpowp OF WOMEN AND GIRLS ANSWERING AN
ADVERTISEMENT PUBLISHED AS HOAX
An ad, ertisemsnt of which the following s
ANY WAS published yesterday morning:
w,xrrn.-Four lady copyists; wages $40 per week.
Apply TO Cornelius Morrison, 81 and 80 "stis''
similar advertisement with the additions, sar,r ln
sormation that any age from fourteen 10 ior.y
wonId anti. appeared IN u German newspaper. MI
Morrison is member OF the trm OF W sIs Ste.sn ~
ton Il Morrison. Soon after tne ., ooo "a v, no -
Vas onened IN the morning. young girls anu women
hegan Ia arrive in considerable numbers III snsWe,
20 tile advertisements. Many OF them We're Iressed d
in seal skin sscques wnile S'neaS ;rrs,opcs. Old
ladies came with their daughters IN some instances
10 see that all was proper. Inc once Oh she nrin
was filed in a short time. and great CROWD OF men
and toys began to gather near 1t. The police were
sent for and the firm made an enort 10 stop tne
women and girls at least block away iroim de sde
the subject of laughter by about l.Ouo men anu
bows who were gathered in the street. Many Oh thc
girls were without sufficient means res pay or nn
dollars in that way. number OF the mercn anus IN
the neigh borhood were very indignant AT tne So
called ioke" and offered 10 make lipera supscrip
t;ons toward nrusecuting the perpetrators oil II.
Mr. Morrison in company with MS c0nnsei, w, lie
Towniey called at the newspaper oihces ana So
enred a description of the person who ordered the
advertisement inserted. and also secured the
oricina copies Of it. The handwriting was appar,
emily that of clerk member OF tne ,rln sona so1u
no would have thought nothing OF It, but TO SUBJECT
sn ,nanr poor women to snch heartless Joke W as
something tnat ought TO be punished.
Later III the day MI. Morrison was apparently
more inclined TO consider the matter In the Ight OF
A Joke lie as found by TRIBUNE rcporter about
O'Clock IN the afternoon seated at his desk with
,tack of letters beforehim Ohyes; he SAID or course
il was hoax. He diun'G want any copyists. lie
was rather sorry he didn't because some very hasd-
some ladies' mad called. HIS parDer Slr Creighton
mad been very polite to them ali tine morning. lie
mad gone home now 1t began to grow monoto-
nous. MI. Creighton was a married man anu KheT
how TO receive them. didn't get dOw1 TIL 10
o'clock" SAID Mr.. Morrison, ana then l ionn1
poce Guarding the doors and a crowd lining the
sjdewalk / believe the ladies began TO arrive at
half past D in the morning. There have been aOout
n Thousand of them here. We stationed police ny
Pearl-st aud NO at our corner here OF Water ana
Wall sts to keep the crowd back anu to tell the
pool ladies that it was hoax. Such handsome
ones too! There were great many Germans
among them and when they found out II was
hoax they spoke sOme German. could not under-
stand and bolted out of the door. This Office is
forty feet square ana il was full of them.
Mr. Morrison then began to open the Letters be-
from bav Ridge, Jersey City and other places, all
applying for positions. Mr.. Morrison made running
comments on them. " Here is one from WIDOW
with three children. She doesn't want the sltua-
tion 40 much as q comfortable hume. Dear, dear!
If were a married man mgnt know what To do.
for early attention. Here saying she Will
call Tomorrow Good gracious! l Will tell
Creighton to come down early aud receive her,.
Presently Mr.. Morrison came across note written
in pretty handwriting and Containing the state
ment that the writer was blonde and had beautl-
fnI teeth and never no. never, drank behind bar.
Mr. Morrison sighed YEARLY ana handed III 10 MS
brothrr d" believe know who wrote that SAID
thai gentleman "and it is probably the same man
who put IN the Advertisement"