Wichita eagle., 1889-01-22
FIGARO IN BROOKLYN.
A Match Making Industry to be
Started in tho City Of Churches.
Husbands and Wives to BE Furnished to
Respectable Applicants = European
Titles a Stock in Trade-A Now
ell and Peculiar Scheme
brooklyn Eag.e.1


Had the match making barber Of Seville
piled his matchmaking craft in this city
he would learn to-day that he was about
TO be robbed of no inconsiderable portion
of the emoluments Of his occupation.
Match-makers are not born; they are made
made by circumstances. One OF them
has settled in this city and one who, though
he differs in many respects in his methods
from the versatile F figaro, and never
tweaked the noses of Spanish dons or
banged the hair of Spanish donnas for
living, has, at least, what will appear to the
perhaps prejudiced minds of the majority
Of mankind more legitimate occupation.
He can scarcely say, as did his prototype:
Without Figaro there's not girl in Sc
vile will marry; to me the little widows
have recourse for husband l. under ex-
cuse of my comb by day, and under favor
of my guitar by night endeavor to please
all in an honest way.n There is less of TO
nance about the circumstances which in
duced the great Brooklyn matchmaker to
embark in the business of bringing people
together; for the Spanish village must be
substituted New York; for the razor and
comb, the personal" columns of New York
dailies, and for the guitart the impecuniosity
of eligibles and the wealth Of otherwise in
eligibles.
The contriver of the sche me ;s lingusst
and man of good social standing, who
formerly taught languages at Hinsdale,
this State, and is now connected with
Brooklyn public school. He has travelled
extensively, and two things seen in his
travels seem to have made an indelible i'm
preston on his mind-the demand for titles
in certain classes of American society and
the need Of money among the titled no
bodies of Europe.
A brown stone front osnse has been
rented in fashionable netghborhood in
this city, the exact location Of which those
concerned propose to keep secret even
from the neighbors. The interior has been
furnished regardless of expense, the lower
portion being fitted up as offices and re-
ception rooms for applicants for wives and
male correspondence, and the upper stories
as reception rooms for applicants for hus-
bands and their correspondence. Down
stairs is in charge O. a male secretary and
the upstairs is under the supervision of
mature duenna.
The method of drawing customers to be
adopted will be to advertise the concern in
New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Washington
and Baltimore, all correspondence being
addressed to post-offlce boxes. Every letter
received will be referred to board Of di-
rectors before being acted upon. The let
tiers will then be handed to others, who will
make investigation into the standing and
condition of the applicants No fees are to
be demanded until the marriage between
the parties is actually consummated, so
that the bureau will not be open to the inn
putation of swindling In this connection,
since the company has been formed, the
original plans of the protector have been
changed When the original estimates
were drawn up they were about as follows:
Capital required, $4,000; fee of so cents
must accompany each letter; a minimum
fee of 50 for recording the property Of the
correspondent, to be increased above GER
tain limit; fee of 50 for supplying informa-
ton as to the physical condition of appli-
cants; applicants in the department OF
"Foreign Nobility" must deposit a mini
mum fee of $3.50 to be increased according
to the rank and the nationality desired; q
fee of 81 for furnishing copies of applica-
tions: wedding fee-the bride to pay ac-
cording to the rank of the husband and the
groom to pay 5 per cent. of the amount of
the dot received plus the bride; application
fee. S25s introduction, So; property guar
antee, IS.
The estimate allows for thirty thous and
customers yearly and concludes with the
following table of profits