The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-30
WARNING TO EL0PERS.
a Sad Romance in Real Life Which
Has Como to Light.
ADOLFO REY and HIS BRIDE
Pcnnilcss In Strange Land -. lie
Bravcd His Fathers Angor...Thcy
Ran Away from Buenos Ayrcs aud
Have Had Sad Experience in Now
Yorlt---A Friend In Need.

New YonH, Oct. 29.-Young people
without financial prospects who con.
template clipping should read this story
and ponder bciorethey take the step.
Adolfo Roy, young Spaniard, OF
Bcunos Ayres, fell in love with Anatildo
AIDE, pretty Spanish miss, and an.
nounced that ho would marry her. His
fathcr Leopold Roy, n rich wholesale
grocer, would not hear OF the match, for
Anatildc's parents were poor people.
But Adolfo would not heed his father,
and as his sweetheart and himself were
too young to we'd in the Argentine Re-
public, he being only nineteen years old,
they dared Adolfo's wrath and fled to
the City OF Mexico, whore they were
married.
Friends there told the young husband
that money was easy to get in New
York, and the bridal pair came here TO
see!: their fortune. They arrived little
more than n year ago, and went to 4
Spanish boarding house ut No. 1873 East
Fifteenth street. Neither spoke Eng
lish, and Adolio looked in vain for en-
pioymcnt. What little money thcy
had soon ran out, and they began to
experience tho pangs OF poverty.
Tho TACT that they were foreigners in
n strange land gained sympathy Tor
Adolfo and his bride. and they were
permitted to remain at the boarding
house long after they were without
means OF paving the landlady.
Charity does not last forever, and after
six months the Reys were turned into
the street, more helpless than when
they came TO New York. They fought
misery after misery for many weeks.
Nobody would give Adolfo work, and
finally Anatilde determined to 20 on the
stage rs q dancer The young wife had
had no experience OF the sort, but she
had seen her countrywomcn dance and
believed that she could please.
The effort caused her tears, but she
pluckily stuck 10 her task, aud finally
appeared in costume as n Spanish
dancer at Benefits Casino in East New
York. She acquitted herself creditably,
but the engagement was only Tor week
and the pay was small 1t led. however,
to her joining little band of Spanish
troubadours, and with them she went
last week to Washington, but the troupe
disbanded there for lack of patronage,
and all that Anatilde received for her
weeks work was SO.
With this small sum OF money the
unfortunate lovers again took up the
struggle lor existence in this city. They
hired small room at No. 4lS West
Nineteenth street. Work did not come
to the husband, and soon the money
was spent. For thirteen days they
nearly starved.
Villa Nadal, young Spanish clerk,
who had met the Reys in the Fifteenth
street boarding house, came to their
rescue. With his slender purse he
took them to o restaurant. The poor
wife had not tasted warm food for so
long time that she tainted in the
eating house.
Clerk Nadal, although he could i'll nj
ford it, took flat OF three rooms at No.
705 Ninth avenue that Adolio and Ana
ti!da might have home. He even
pawned his winter ovcrcoat to buy
cooking utensils for them.
\ reporter found the forlorn married
pair in Nadal's little flat yesterday alter
noon. Two beds, table and few
chairs were the extent OF the furniture
Adolio said in Spanish ho had tried
every possible means OF finding work,
but had failed. He had one letter, he
said, from his mother, who wrote him
to come home. She would send him
money, she said in her letter, but his
father had devned her purpose and
would give her none.
Mrs. Rey, the young wife, was sick in
bed. Her dancing costume. covered
with spanglcs, lay across the footboard,
and was the only bright object in the
dreary room.