The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-13
A "sawdugt'' Game With Cupi,

A "Sawdust' Game With Cupid.
A singularly striking contrast between
romance and reality was brought to light
at Albany, n. Y, recently. The post
Office department did it. The characters
in the romance were Mrs. Jessie Z.
Rivers, aged 23 widow, educated, re
fined, worth property in lands and
houses" and above all beautiful and in
clined to matrimony, and various more or
less aged bachelor jewellers in the far
west, also inclined to matrimony. Ad-
vertisements appeared in western ''matri-
mOnial' papers to the effect that such a
woman as described would CORE
spond with gentlemen of a suitable
age with view to future
connubial happiness. In South Dakota
aud whereabouts, manageable women are
not many, so that Mrs "Jessie" got num-
erous answers to her advertisement A
great part of the Albany mail came di-
rected to "Jessie." And she answered
all of the letters. Her first reply would
be a kind of 'Howdy-do; glad to-meet-
YOU" kind of epistle; her second one
would contain a photograph of a pretty
young woman, and be just little tender,
but womanly; her third would lead the
swain up to proposal of marriage, and,
then, in her fourth, came the fine work.
This fourth letter always told how eager
she was to journey to the land of the set
ting sun and there be joined in holy we'd
lock to the man of her heart But there
was one obstacle in the way; although
she had lands and property, she was
a little short of ready funds besides she
needed a little wardrobe; if her lover
would advance some money she would fly
to his arms, and in the near future would
return the advance made; she had plenty
that would be available shortly. And
then the postscript-for "Jessie" was a
woman, after all-would say that if a re-
mttance was made let it be in paper
money; checks or postal orders would
arouse her brothers suspicion and he
would prevent her going.
Numerous SWANS of the woolly west
sought "Jessie's" hand, among them a
justice of the peace at Yankton and a
farmer at Hallock, MINI. And a number
of them sent Jessie" the money to paw
her fare; some sent $40 and others as
much as SO. But Jessie came not.
The Minnesota man finally got
tired of waiting and sent the
postofflce department a communication
to this effect; 81 would like if you
could help that could get my mony
back what jessie rivers swindeld
from me can prove it that she got the
mony by this postmaster, and i think
that you can find it out in that post offs
in albany that she got it for shure."
Under this and other complaints, the
postoffice authorities went hunting for
Jessie" And they found her. Her
name is Emma Waters. She is of uncer-
tain age, probably about so; is as homely
as a stone fence, is fat and freczled. She
had built upon an extensive bunco bust
ness through the mail, and there were in
/ her room at the time of her capture lis
! letters from persons who had learned to
love Jessie after gazing a few days at
7 the fancy photograph the Waters woman
sent them. The postofice people will have
the fraudulent but loving Jessie tried for
using the mails for unlawful purposes.
According TO current pewspapcrrep
there is hardly safe public building in
Washington. The disaster at the Ford
theater has set everybody to talking
about dangerous buildings, with the re
suit that they arc all condemned, except,
possibly, the capitol itself. The govern
ment printing Office, in which there are
5000 employees; The Widner building an
mex to the war department. the patent
Office and the Busch building annex to the
postolfice department are spoken of as
VIGOROUSLY weak and over burdened The
idea that the whole house room of the
government is on the verge of topping
over or dropping through itself is. of
course, too wild TO be considered; but the
fact remains that the business of the
government, having outgrown the build
ings provided for its transaction, is much
of it accommodated in buildings totally
unfit for the purpose. A rigid inspection
of all buildings now in use by the govern
ment that were not designed especially
for the use they are being put to should
be made at the earliest possible moment.
And then congress should set aside the
possibility of another disaster like that
of last week by providing funds for safe
workshops.
Col Jones, late of Jacksonville and later
of st. Louis appears determined IN have