St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-05
William Wallace. Alias King,
Is q Seeker After NotO-
riety,
But SWears He Will Marry,
Though the Woman Be
Black.
His Unique Correspondence
With the Manager Of the
Museum.
He Wants to Be Made Famous,
After the Manner Of
ChaSka.

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miliar to amatory poets and certain
school of philosophers. to the effect that
love is prickly pleasure. and marriage,
at best. lottery in which the chances
are deucedly against both parties. Or.
| to put it bluntly, as young William
Wallace did. off-hand the other day. ''a
| man never knows what he's getting
when he gets woman, anyway"
1t is unnecessary to state that William
is unmarried, or lie would never have
| put the thought in that blunt wayne
wouldn't have dared to. There is, how
ever, long, interesting, and very
! strange story told, that hinges on that
self-same statement, part of which
has been already told in the papers.
! Young Will; M Wallace, who is a
| farmer by circumstance, stonecutter
| by profession and a cynIc by disposition,
made that rash remark unfortunately a
| few weeks since, and under penalty OF
| losing all he has in the world he's got to
| prove it now in public. The story was
| half-told in the GLOBE yesterday morn
| ing. Substitute the name of Wallace
for King and you have it in part. Yes
| terday afternoon. however, Wallace put
! himself under bonds and contract with
| the dime museum to appear there as
| freak, 1.-THE man in search of Wife,"
| This is how it all happened.
| Last Saturday morning Manager Nc
| gladden. received among his mornings
| mail the following rather unique epistie:
New PoRT, Nov. 26, 80,
Dear Sir:
| You viii pleas read the enclose letter and
| let me know what you think about it the
scheme and what you will give me TO let tue
| drawing take place in your museum.
| The letter enclosed is a copy, Of the cor. con
| tract between my Brother and /. Address
| william King, st. Paul Park; Mimi.
| Dear Sir: My Brother and l werefalking
| some time ago of an Old Eastern Gentleman
! who had advertised through the press fol, a
| wife. My Brother who had been through the
| coartship Mill for his wife thought the Old
| gent very foolish. But l who always Be
| lie aved marriage to be But a lottry at Best
| could not agree with my Brother and among
| other things my Brother said was would you
marry a woman whom you did not know
| only by corresponding with Her. Oh yes
! said [ Ii 1 were ready to marie would
make it More OF lottry then did the Old
Gent for would get q box ana make One
| Hundred ticket numbering them from One
| to One Hundred Having them all Blanks But
| One then l would stand on some public
| troughfair and their give the ladies who
were wanting Husband a fair and equli
| chance to draw the one. Drawing the
prize ticket that one would L make
| nv Wife then and there. My Brother now
| getting excited says | will bet you five Hun
| bred dollars YOU daIr not choose a wife in
| the way you have here said you Would
| What little of this World good Have Have
! invested in a little farm worth about SIX
Hundred dollars. 1 bet that little farm
against my Brother five Hundred on these
| conditions namely that was to 60 not less.
| than three nor more than five; Hundred miles
| from Home. then l am to make One Hun
| bred tickets numbering them from One to
flnr1N oil RIIINE
| One. athen am to put them Enyelops place
| the Env into Box then / am to let the
| public know where the drawing is TO take
! place giving each and every lady fair and
! Euuil Chance regardless of age Color or
| natalaty. OH the day of the drawing Some
| rerson is to be chosen from the Show
| House the party chosen is to be Blindtoided
| and the ticket in the Hat we'll shaken. then
| the Blindfolded party is to draw ticket from
| the hat, the party Holding the Corresponding
| ticket to the one drawn by the Blindfolded
| party that party VIII Make my Wife in the
WILLIAM c. KING.
| Manager McCadden Immediately re-
| piled that Mr.. William King must come
| to the museum if he wished to do busI-
| ness with him. So, sure enough, Mon
day William King presented himself
| with his brother at the museum, and the
| following conversation ensued:
II came to see you about that letter l
| wrote in regard to the man who wanted
to choose his wife by lot"
swell, what do you propose to doT'
Il came to see you. L thought it
| would be better TO have the drawing
| take place in some amusement building.
The bets made and the money is up
| and my brother won't let me off.
| thought if you were willing to pay the
| expenses and fair salary | might stay
a whole week instead of one day."
| AT this point the brother VINO accom-
panied him began to grow very red in
| the face, and broke in with: William,
/ you're a fool You'll disgrace the fam
| iIy. You don't know who you'll have
to marry Maybe you'll have to marry
| a colOred woman. or some old washer
woman. You don't know who'll draw
that ballot"
/ Don't make any difference. It's
| nOth'n but a lottery anyway. I'm going
to take the chances"
IF you are willing to give this up.
! William. think brother will take 500
| and call it off,"
| 81 won't give him 800. Pm going to
| make $500. I've made foolish bet and
now Pm going to carry 1T out. Ii the
| woman draws the ticket and is willing
| to marry me I'll do it, don't care who
| she is. If she wants to I'm ready to
marry her in the museum just at the
| time she draws the ticket"
| All the time this little comedy was in
progress Manager McCadden had list
| ened, very much amused and consid-
| erably puzzled to know whether this
was Just some little play to make him
| think it was genuine case of crank or
| not.
| "What assurance have that you are
| telling me the truth, and even If it is
| true. how am to convince the public"'
| ..WeII, what do you want me to do?
| It's gospel truth, just what Pm telling
| you, and gave you copy of the con-
| tract I'm willing to give you bond
that everything is just as told YOU"
| II don't want any bonds. You put
| up 500 as a guarantee of good faith.
| Let it be placed in escrow, if you know
what that means, and then I'll talk to
| you and pay you good salary"
We'll, I'll do that. You're the man
that started Chaska. The paper says
you paid them $1,000 for ten weeks.
| You made them famous all over the
country, ana they made money for you
for ten weeks. Now you can make
me famous. and then after I'm married,
| if my wife will travel with me, why
| then | can get bigger salary, and after
| we've got tuTOuSn Ill 81 dui, why
| everybody will want to see the man
that had nerve enough to get his
wife in lottery, and then we can go to
other Museums"
'sWell, I'm willing to take hold of
you and let you select your wife in the
way you say, and I'm willing to pay
YOU a salary, but | don't want you to
weaken after Eve advertised you big in
all the papers,"
"Uh, | won't weaken"
"All this time the brother, who it was
evident was not the brother with whom
the bet had been made, was greatly dis
turbed, and was continually talking
about the disgrace to the family.
1t was this brother who afterwards
went to the papers and told the story OF
his brothers. folly, hoping to shame him
out Of it. But the next afternoon after
the article was published Manager
MeCadden signed the contract with him.
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