The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-02-19
BUTTNER AS CUPID.
Ex-Everything He Is Now
Proprietor Of the Home
Aid Association"

Simon Buttner, formerly of New York,
his statement yesterday to reporter
'.the whole thing in the Mutual Home
Aid Association, main office No. AZ Mont
gomery street, Jersey City"
There is president of the association,
Charles A. Mcclure, and the secretary is
Franklin B. Packard, but Mr.. Buttner
says they are figureheads.
Simon Buttner's Home Aid Association
is, by Mr.. Buttner's own confession, des-
perately in need of funds to enable 1t to
carry out it's objects, the chief of which
is to assist young people contemplating
matrimony.
Each person-man or woman-who be-
comes a certificate holder of the associa-
tion must first pay to Buttner or his
''fgureheads" $50, which may be done on
the fnstalment plan, and upon the mar
riage of any other certificate holder must
pay an assessment of 30 cents. When a
certificate holder gets married, he or she
| must notify the association, and upon pre-
senting proof that such marriage is legal
will receive $3.50.
A few days ago Buttner advertised for
a man with $15O0 cash capital to take
an interest in the business, and yester-
| day he is said to have offered to re-
| porter a quarter interest for $1,5O0, and
| his personal guarantee that the invest
| ment would net 100000 profit In year.
81 will say to you in confidence" said
Buttner, "that am in this business not
| for my health, but for profit.
I'VE divide our certificate holders into
| $50, so we have $4,000 as sinking fund,
| the interest on which will pay the run
ming expenses of the office. Then when
we have marriage there is an assessment
| of each member in the group. This will
bring us in $500. Out of this we pay the
person who gets married $3.50, leaving US
| $50 profit.
Talk about the profits on Chemical
| National Bank and Shoe and Leather
Bank stock! Why this scheme will beat
| them. Just as soon as we have few
| marriages and pay few benefitswe will
have them out here blocking the streets
| in their efforts to get their money into
| the game. We will spread all over the
| city and State of few York and then
| throughout the United States
"But'-and here the great Buttner hesi-
| tated and lowered his voice-'I've got to
have money to float this scheme. Just
now am strapped. I got ex-Preseeuting
Attorney Joseph M. Noonan to prepare an
| opinion on the legality my scheme. He
charged $500. 1 paid him $100
and owe him 800. Then I want to
! incorporate the association, but it
| will cost $500 to get articles of incorpo-
| ration, and I haven't the money"
| Buttner in explaining his scheme said
| the association would easily be able to
pay five benefits in a week.
'FIow many marriage benefits have you
| paid?'' he was asked.
| "Well-er-none as yet. You see we are
only two weeks old and haven't a COM
pleted circle of one thousand members.
Our list now numbers 720 Names
| Simon Buttner's New York public career
| ended about a year ago. He was the pro-
prietor of the Broadway Garden, after
ward known as the 'Chop Suey," at No.
1851 Broadway. In January, 1899, ex-Mayor
| Frank A. Mcgowan, of Trenton, charged
that he was robbed of $2,6 600 in Buttner's s
resort. Buttner and a waiter, Arthur
| Sussman, were arrested and Buttner was
held to the Grand Jury in 5000. The case
| has never come to trial.
In March, 1898, Buttner, who hac been
indicted on a charge of receiving stolen
goods from Asa o. Beville, a clerk in a
department store, was tried before Re
corder Golf and was acquitted.
July II, 1899, Buttner fled petition in
bankruptcy, scheduling liabilities at $685.
1856. Since then, it Is said, he has been
proprietor of the Manhattan Bureau of
Exchange, No. 208 West Thirty-fourth
street, with turf correspondents and re-
the ..B. B. Watch Company" at Nos. 305
3e7 and 800 Broadway, and the firm of
A. G. P. Dorlon, dealers in oysters, CLAIMS,
ton street.
He was witness before the Mazet
Committee and charged that while pro-
prietor of the Broadway Garden, Captain
Price had 'shounded" him. These charges
Captain Price emphatically denied.