Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-09-26

New York Journal.


I TIE advertisement q young Amer
can sthiete, Who desired 70 &C: .. escort
sod private secretary to o middle aged
Lsdy or widow, Appeared u ope Of the
SsS fsrk papers yesterday Il VS.
answered ey score Of single ladies Who
lad Doe ye< arrived az middle are and
| BY half hundred xIrsome xidox4
Many Of the letters Offering hin q
/ situation came from tie Sumner re=orts
/ bseh1ese Springs wanted hiu- sara
| toga and tie White Mountains entered
I into competition for hir Long Branch
and Fire Island Beach bid for nin. In
short, the single Advertisement procured
| places for half dsz-n members Of the
New York and Manhattan Athletic
Cabs. and excellent sita stions are vail
ing for other yoans men vno belong to
these popular organizations
1se dsmand for sthl-ies 10 serve as
escorts for widows and middle aged
ladies has become 80 great that al sth-
!ete employ ment bureau has been o,en d
In Nassau street. The Dew sureau nas
been overwhelmed With business from
the start and has promptly furnished
every variety and style Of athlete. IL IL
soon to extend its business, when il will
net only supply athletes to the home
IlatActs Jul
The General Manager of the Athlete
Intelligence Ofhee said that the de-
mana for athletic escorts Was something
unprecedented, while the supply vas
smaA. IL would taks him at least two
months u fill the orders from the
watering places which we're already on
file.
They are demanded by fashionable
vounR ladies' said ne. 'as an improve
meni on the dude. Handsome young
ladies of Fifth and Madison avenues
have been very much mortified at hsv
ing to walk in the park or along tie
sea shore With spider legged dude
grinnine like . monkey. They feel like
q person leading an ape
They hire the athlete as an escort
that they may promenade IN public
without humiliation. The athlete may
be a 'longshoreman or a bod hoistinR
engineer, but bis stal9art and manly
bearing commands respect, and for
aught any one IN society knews he is
foreign count, and az such she fire.
Quently refers to him among rival So
ciety ladies.
"Our second class of customers are
young ladies of fortune and refinement
vho, for some reason, have no beanx.
Ii may be that they are not handsome,
or that they are excessively difhdent
and have frightened eligible young men
by their shyness. Our A No. l athlete,
warranted for two years, affords them
an excellent beau, with whom they may
90 everywhere, and whom they NAV
Haunt With triumph in the faces of rivs
bellies. Homely Young ladies who have
tried this style Of escort have written
many testimonials to rs, in which they
say that within a few weeks after en-
GsRin2 our athletes they we're surround
ed by scores Of admirers.
MANY of our athletes 90 as pro-
tectors for nervous old maids. They
demand allowance for double time in
the payment of their wages, and it Is
hard to get one for the task. Old maids
With corkscrev curls, who make the
mirror change color when they leok
int it, are proverbially afraid of
Washers. and it is to protect them
against the impsrtinences of these PEG
pie that our athletes are engaged. The
old maids pay we'll, and we are always
glad TO have them en- our books.
THE only drawback to our business
IL the fact that many OF our athletes
marry their employers and cease to pay
60 per cent. of their incomes to the
agency. We are also annoyed by an
agency in the Bovery, vhicn gets up
counterfeit athletes and works of PIN
Phelan's toughs on the most exclusive
families in the city"