The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-24
4 PECuLIAR
with w orer wIniss Oue Msy Ne Arr.-eea
OF Of which the Law Kesps Its Mnnds.

Oh y HNN I" ~ NAnnNAs
A sUS reporter. coming over from Philadel-
phIA, fell or was thrown into conversation with
q Chicago drummer. He might have merely
fallen into conversation with any one else, but
| with a Chicago rumm he WAS thrown In. for
q Chicago drummer doesn't let any passenger
on q train escape tho conversational pool II he
can help 1t, and he most always does.
"By Jove, old man. he said. with tho seduc-
tive familiarity OF all druminers. that little
tale you have Just told me about the summer
girls mobblng the only man at the hotel isn't a
patching to a cooperative matrimonial snap |
came across one time when l was In y section IN
Massachusetts where men are so scarce that
when the girls give a party they have TO ind .
man with a search warrant. There was n we'd
ding at the biggest church in the town the
evening | got there. and tho whole town was
illuminated and everybody was out, rs IL
there was q Fourth OF July celebration
going on. and naturally | asked what
all the row was about. Then the landlord
OF tho tavern told me. II seemed that
there were twenty manageable young women
in the town aud only one man. and he was so
poor that he was afraid TO venture. being
thrifty as most Yankees are and not caring to
assume obligations without corresponding capt.
tai. The girls were well-to-do. that Is to say,
they were worth four or Ave thousand
dollars apiece, but that was hardly enough
for the thrifty eligible so he proposed
Exactly esss '' '"ppropfis,e. I HI. proposition %T was
that all the girls chip in SO much for a chance
and each subscription of that amount entitling
the SUBSCRIBER to one ticket, with additional
the young man was desirable, and the enthu-
siasm soon became intense. One girl, who was
worth a little moro than tho others or was more
sand dollars on siI tickets, and several OF
them had more than one chance. On
the day Of the drawing there was some
pool and the young man was pleased to death.
The girls, on the other hand. were dreadfully
sSrv 'x,n asa amy shxiS ons 1 of , Snre v ,nV p nian w ~ SCI
the man and the pot. The drawing took place in
the town hall, where an admission of ten cents
fund to be distributed among the nineteen un.
successful ones, The drawing was conducted
BY the town officers and was very simple the
who had more than one chance. having their
names { corresponding number Of times in the
namber Of blanks in the other. Then the
drawing was made. and at the twelfth draw the
young mans name came out with that OF a girl
was declared the winner.
THE wedding two months later was the
event OF the season sea- and, e as st strange az iiamay
where both. drew prizes, for they lived very
happily. and are still living that way | suppose,
other odd thing about 1t was that the unsuc-
cessful ticket holders seemed to take n pro-
~prietary interest in the couple: and they have a
reunion every yefr and call for an accounting.
though they never ask for dividends on their
investment l may say though that the lucky
each Of the contributors a Thousand dollars on
her marriage. and, up to the last time | heard
from them he had paid $4,000. Three or four
of them are in maiden graves, however. and tho
chances are he will never have to give up as
much as they gave him"