The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-17
HE HAS FIFTY WIVES.
CHARLES WOODRUFF DOUBLED
BRIGHAM YOUNG's RECORD.

All In Thirteen Years-Marrted One
Woman In an Hour After Meeting
Her-TwO Days Was the Limit OF
His COurtship With Any of His
Fifty Wives.
From the Chicago inter ocean.
Charles Woodruff of Chicago. is a man
who has made marriage a trade. Within
the last thirteen years he has married fifty
women, an average of four a year. With
every one he got some money, and In this
is the secret of his wholesale ventures in
matrimony. Now Woodruff is in prison
at Buffalo, N. Y He married once too
often.
Brigham Young, the high priest of Nor
monism, with all his facilities for plural
marriage, had only twenty-six wives; he
was a tenderfoot in comparison with
Woodruff There probably was never a
more successful winner of women Than
this man; probably no man who ever had
a more delicate, more subtle affectation of
manner To meet a women and marry
her in an hour is his record for facility.
To WOO and marry half hundred women
is his record of success.
When he was middle-aged and attrac-
tive, dressing as he did In the height of
fashion, it was his diversion TO captivlte
a woman young or old, to tell her that
he loved her as he had never loved an
other and to marry her in a few hours,
or perchance In a few days, only TO desert
her.
Mr.. Woodruff is a student and philos-
opher of love, and this is the statement he
makes of the secret of his success in win
ming wOmen'S hearts:
''Woman's weakness not any accom-
plishment or appearance of mine, is the
cause of my success IN winning hearts.
Women are frail things at best
Take women when they get to be 40,
and almost anybody can win them. They
want TO be won Under 30 II is harder
to win them, but still it can be done If
a person is patient.
"Tell them they are good-looking, of
course; any school boy knows that IS the
first rudlment of success with women.
There is another factor which ! can
not describe. 1t might be called mans
ensemble 1t is his makeup, his appear
ance, his manner, his way Of talking, his
way of looking--a mans eyes, you know,
are what work havoc with women If they
are used right. You cannot acquire these
personalities They are born in man.
Women differ some, too. For instance,
a simpleness of manner might impress
one, while another might be captivated by
a mysterious, self-knowing air. First. you
want to study the woman. / remember
but one whom / could not understand.
can usually read them at a glance. This
one of whom l speak ba1fied me, though.
No, 1 didn't marry her.
THE man that married her was up 10
date She wanted me to make a million
oath bound promises, and | wouldn't do
that for ony one. l might make a few,
but not many. one has to make enough
when he's married. ] have made a study
of emotions in women and of their tastes
and likings, because l found interest in
the pursuit"
Woodruff pushed his numerous court
ships with vigorous alacrity. 1t seldom
took him over two days after he had met
a woman for the fist time to close up
the marriage bargain and lead her TO
the altar. 1t was in 1883 that Woodruff
achieved his especial notoriety. one day
he was descending in the elevator Of an
Office building on Main street, Buffalo
when a woman, overcome by the move
ment of the car, tainted and fell against
him This was Mrs S. a. Sample,
widow with five children. Woodruff was
gay looking and urbane in speech. He
captivated Mrs. Sample even while he held
her on the way down lin the elevator.
He went out with her won her complete
ly, and married her The entire proceed
ing had occupied just an hour. lie de-
serted her two days later. Mrs. Sample
is now living Ia Aver. Mass, under her
old name
Mr.. Woodruff married, so far as detec-
tyes have been aple to learn, five women
in Buffalo. 1t is believed, however, that
he figured in at least dozen weddings