Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-23
HEARTS FOR A TITLE.
HUNDREDS or WOMEN WANT TO
MARRY SIR GEORGE.
10 Was q Chicago Nail Clerk and Became
Baronel-Eow Ho Is
10 Demand.

Mercenary women, greedy for gold
and titles, have been writing love let
tors 10 Sir George Washington North
edge, telling that titled gentleman Of
their many accomplishments and sug-
costing, some boldly and others mod
estly, that wife would DO a good thing
10 have In the family gll tho rest OF his
life.
Each writer has her own way OF con-
yeying TO Sir George the fact that she
IL the helpmate needed. Some send
photographs with the message, "My
likeness speaks for itselin Many OF
his correspondents arc not SO shy
about telling of their assorted dcsirn-
bilities, describing carefully all their
features OF beauty, which is followed in
some cases by the sentence, II paint
divlnely,n or "Music finds in me an apt
student
Another said "Tho sweetness Of my
voice when employed 10 song challenges
tho music Of herds In their welcome
morning song, heard as the god Of day
litea up the east
Some, too, told Of hearts won, dlsap-
pointed lovers wandering from place to
place broken hearted and ambitlOnless,
and others toward whom the much
courtcd female had that "brotherly
feeling These are some OF tho mis-
siyes that Cupid has directed at g.
Washington, but 30 far they are in
cifcctual.
all came about In peculiar way,
says the Chicago Herald. George
Washington Northedge formerly
worked In the Chicago postoilice and
lived at No. $500 State street, At the
postonioe his principal duty was wrcst-
ling with mail bags. About two
months ago story appeared in ono OF
the Chicago newspapers telling OF the
sudden Transformation OF George w.
Northedgo from a mall clork to mil
lionaire with title.
The story related 10 an old English
family with plenty Of gold and high
social standing, which, through tho
death OF its only survivor In that
country some time ago, had come, as
was believed, to DO extinct. After
long search IL was discovered that the
Chicago man was hoir-at-lnw and next
Of kin TO the dead man. and was law
fully and rightiully entitled to all the
money and valuable things and above
all, the title, loft in this world by the
family that had passed away.
So IL was that George became Sir
George, aud that Northodgo, tho mail
clerk, became Sir George Northedgo,
tho wealthy English capitalist and a
man OF birth.
After the publication of this story,
Sir Georges address 10 Out-Of-town corr
respondents was at tho Auditorium
hotel, Lake Front Park, Michigan boulc-
ward and Congress street, while his
residence to those who wished TO sec
him personally was No. $500 State
street, up one flight
Sir Georges mail at the Auditorium
hotel began 10 be yoluminous Each
delivery brought at least half dozen
letters, and every night when North
edge called 40 tho hotel for his mail he
received reading matter enough 10
keep him busy for the entire evening.
II he answered each iotter he worked
vol into the night. Tho mnil clerk at
the Auditorium was Kept busy, too,
with Sir Georges mail.
He noticed that on none OF the en-
velopos was printed IN not called ior,r
etc., ind that each ono was evidently
addressed by u wOmans hand The
letters were an sizes, tints, shapes and
scents. Some OF thom tho address was
writton on lines scratched on the sur
face of tho envelopes with pins, on
others the address was stretched noross
FROM opposite corners OF the envelope,
with big gsbs Of sealing wax ON tho OPP
posito side.
Tho mail clork who had handled all
those lotterS addressed "a Sir Gourpo
hnauy became curious about his idpnt.
ny. After satisfying himself that he
was not and did not intend 10 bea uuest
Of the hotel he informed tho noblemnn
that he could save him the trouble OF