The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-15

depot or wherever else is conven.
lent, and pilots them about the city,
inree dollars a day is the usual
enarge Tor such service 70 which must be
added q small compensation 30 the bureau.
sometimes an anxious mother in n st-
Duroan town wants to be sure that her
daughter doesn't meet that Mr.. Whatever
hls-Same- Maybe, who pursues her with
MS attentions and persists in remaining
poor, and quite out OF the list of possible
husbands. The mother cannot come 10
the CITY herself She hasn't any relatives
VINO are wiling and trustworthy. So she
appeals to the bureau. which provides a
lynx-eyed. incorruptiple matron
sonetimes, when women's clubs have
guests from out of town, the bureau fur
nlsnes the proper persons to show the
sights, and guard against mishaps. Queer
requests are often made of the bureau, in
volving much discretion in the choice of a
woman competent TO meet the require
ments. A day or two ago a man who il
separated from his wife called to obtain
the services OF woman who would take
his children TO visit their mother once a
week, and would keep sharp eye out to
see that they were not spirited away. Tho
task was promptly assigned to clever
woman, who will be glad to add the small
resultant revenue to her slender income
But there isn't much money in it for the
chaperones, and the existence of the
bureau-the fact that it can find plenty Of
reliable people ready TO do its works q
first rate indication of the necessities u
which cultivated women are reduced.
II don't know what's to become of the
lady, said the manager OF the bureau to
me. Following the law of the survival Of
the fittest, she'll soon be an extinct
species, except in state of matrimony.
II you knew the innumerable applications
which receive from educated and refined
women, who are ready to do any
it would shock you. There was
woman here this morning-cultured, ac-
compiished, able TO speak and write half
dozen languages, and she wanted work OF
any kind. Perhaps you wonder that I
wouldn't rather die she said; so I would,
but, as believe, my life and death are not
in my own hands, She is typical OF a
large class
Besides offering to furnish chaperones,
the bureau agrees 10 perform "any legiti-
mate service" An incident which know
to have actually occurred, illustrates how
literally such an offer can be construed in
city full of all sorts OF people.
woman about 30 years old, whose face
had been beautiful and was still attractive,
called to requests q private conversation
with the manager of the bureau. She had
previously had business dealings with the
nrm, and was we'll if not fayorably known.
Can you get me a lawyer to draw up
will?" she asked.
Certainly" replied the manager.
Whose will is it?
Ny brothers."
Isn't he able TO get lawyer to draw
up his own wiil?" was the next question,
and for moment it seemed to discomfort
the visitor. She finally replied that what
she wanted was will which should seem
TO be his. She added that her brother pos
sessed large fortune which would fur
nish the means To richly reward those who
contributed to its proper disposition.
WELL" said the manager. suppose
get You lawyer, what then ?''
Il wish you ;dso to get me a servant to
go into my brothers. house. / shall not
require certificate OF good moral charac-
ter. Do you understand ?'
The manager did understand, but she
pretended that she didn't
Suppose that got you such servant,
what them"
my brother might die, and if he did
you would receive enough to make you in
pendent for life.''
do you mean that am to hire man
to murder your brother?" asked the man.
ager, aghast.
THAT is just what I mean," was the
cool response.
Here was woman who classed the hir-
ing of murderers under the head of s'legit-
innate service" tits, perhaps, needless to
say that she did not obtain the desired
assassin. That she escaped the police was
due only to circumstances which made
their services unnecessary. The incident
serves to show that he who attempts to
cater to the manifold wants Of the metro
poiitan public will not lead q monotOnous
existence. DAVID WEcHsLER-