The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-15

cipal customers are pupils in girls schools
or colleges in the metropolis or near it.
They are coming to New York shopping CT
to attend the theatre. The bureau is mott
fed, and woman from its list of eligibles,
meets the girls at the depot or wherever
else is convenient. anc pilots them about
the city. Three dollars day is the usual
charge for such service, to which must be
added small compensation to the bureau.
Sometimes an anxious mother in a subur
ban town wants to be sure that her daugh-
ter doesn't meet that Mr.. Whatever his
name maybe, who pursues her with his at
tenuons, and persists in remaining poor,
and quite out of the list OF possible hus
bands. The mother cannot come to the
city herself. So she appeals to the bureau,
which provides lynx-eyed incorruptible
matron.
Sometimes, the wonen's clubs have
guests from out of town, the bureau fur
nishes the proper persons to show the sights,
and guard against mishaps. Queer re-
quests are often made of the bureau, in
volving much discretion in the choice of q
women competent to meet the require
meuts. A day or two ago man who is
separated from his wife called to obtain the
services of a 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. The task was
promptly assigned to a clever woman, VINO
will be GLAD to add the small resultant rev.
enue 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 thor
oughly reliable people ready to do its work
is a first rate indication of the necessities
to which cultivated women are reduced.
Il don't know what's to become of the
| lady," said the manager of the bureau to
NE. Following the law of the survival of
the tittest, she'll soon be an extinct species,
except in state CT matrimony If you
knew the innumerable applications which
| receive from educated and refined women.
who are ready to do any sort of work for q
living, ii would shock you. There was q
woman here this morning cultured, &C
complished. able to speak and write half
a dozen languages, and she wanted work Of
| any kind. Perhaps you wonder that
Wouldn't rather die, she said so [ would,
! out as l believe my life and death are no,
in my own hands, She is typical of a
large class"
Besides offering to furnish chaperones
the bureau agrees to perform "any legiti
mate service" An incident which l know
to have actually occurred, illustrates how
| literally such an offer can be construed
in a city full of all sorts of people.
A woman about forty years old, whose
face had been beautiful and was still at
tractive, called to request a private CONVEX
sation with the manager of the bureau. She
had previously had business dealings with
the firm, and was well if not favorably
known.
Can you get me a lawyer to draw up
| will!'' she asked.
Certainly" replied the manager
''Whose will is it?"
| my brothers,
isn't he able to get lawyer to draw VI
his own Will:" was the next question, and
for a moment it seemed to discomfort tht
visitor. She finally replied that what she
wanted was will which should seem to bt
his. She added'tha her brother possessed
d large fortune which would furnish tht
means to richly reward those who contrib
uted to its proper disposition.
"Well, 'said the manager; suppose I ge
you a lawyer, what then!"
Il wish you also to get me q servant tx
90 into my brothers. house. | shall not re
Do you understands"
The manager did understand, but SHIT
pretended that she didn't.
Suppose that get you such servant
what then!n
MY brother might die, and if he did, 70,
would receive enough to make you indie
pendent for life.'
do you mean UIldU L all W nlTS a man u
murder your brother!n asked the manager
aghast.
THAT is just what I mean,n was the coo
response.
Here was woman who classed the hr
ing of murderers under the head of ''legiti
mate service" 1t is, perhaps, needless tt
to say that she did not obtain the desired
assassin. That she escaped the police wa
due onlyto circumstances which made thei
/ he
to show that he who attempts to cater t.
the manifold wants of the metropolitan pub
lie will not lead monotonous existence.
DAVID WECHsLBR