The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-14

4s shortest VI ey to the Harrison Street po- lice station and into the courts.
 Schiosser is the president of the Stan dard Corrs sspondence Club and he used the quotatf on on his letterhead. When te was arrest ed last week for obtaining money und CT false pretanses he was DO: at all certs tin about love. People want to get mas ried," he said. but Of the d. vine provin ce of his work he was not so positive n he matrimonial bureau has baen Mfeu 1ork with him and he may be said to haws worked it very successfully. At least great many people who have been worked by it are of that opinion.
 The stand ard Correspondence Club had headquarteri at los North Ayers Avenue sided In tn parlors of the Ayers Ave- nue fiat then are letters and photographs enough to fI a furniture car and the po- lice have ah 'eady taken away wagon load. Tho su iff is piled up to the window tops. 1t is q owded into the closets and still floods tl c floor.
 Without anl Chicago members. the club is representa- in almost every city or town of any size in the United States; 1t has members in very nearly every county of every Stai C. Canada and Mexico are / well represen ted in it's membership and 1ts officers have had correspondence with England. aori many and Sweden, When Detective 6er1 cant. C. R. Woodbridge of 6u1dness n ful swing. the click of type writsrs and th bustie of clerks attesting the psospsrity of the establishment
 Members Complain of Neglect.
 President echlosser protested the integ- r1tE oe his va nture. he insisted that he was dpfng q wall accredited marriage bus snese and shai. people were getting the wort.e of their money through his ser wces A sfarah 0f the morning mail. tSsts and the overloaded wastebaskets contain ed . bur den of complaint Many of thesN letters having been marked Kick" Sy the head of & the esta5hshmsat sS .Sn sa dresses Having been saved were thrown aside.
 The com mon protest was 'T sent you my f2 for ma t1eership p and have received no word froms you since.
 Another, e"The list you sent me was no good; if you cant give me some names of people whs will answer an my my , ieftsss ! The policy of the club seemed to be to get the g msrnbe rshfp fee. then to encourage the new member to buy. guide to love and matrimony," a book written by the Dros1dent them to have the member buy !. ..jo1fnal of love letters and then to interest him in some ''get-rich-quick" Many of the members who refused to be interested in these various publications and buslness schcmas were drJpp cd No ! goed" ts marked aftsr their names in the books of the club Others rebelled against the club service: the majority of the rnsmberR seem to have been ''ldckers." Tktfe are baiiels of letters of this order:
 Your flfth list of ladies' names and addresses are to hand and are not setis- factory. If you can send me the names as re- quested-wsaithy ladies ard the amount if you oanno. de so please return to me the q which I sent to yorg."
 The Standard Corfespolldence Club is but ore of a :luznbdr of -'bunko mstri- monial agencies which the police depart ment is now Investigating. In the opinion of the police authorities ttaere is such a ness. In cases where the agencys claim is fulfilled. where contracts are carried out to the letter and wives and husbands are actually furnished is. tee business Of During the last year the number of agencies which did not do this kind of business has been growing. and in that time, too, the number of complaints en- tered against them in the police register has been increasing
 Business by Letter Only.
 Of all the agencies in Chicago there is none more generally reported than the Standard Correspondents Club. The busi- ness has been done entirely by letter and a list of marriageables having been fur nished the applicants must settle their own cases And the eases have not al members have made heavy demands upon the time and attention of the club off esrs. The following letter is one of hun dreds which the mails bring daily to the Schiosser fsgidence:
 Could you please give me a personal description of the ladies you send the ad-
 1t would be moro correct plan for me to select the lady wished te correspond with, as l would not care to correspond choice, for that would perllaps create dis appointment to ladies wrote to-"
 The Standard Correspondence Club had Indeed. 1t had as many schemes as there were kinds and condition of people in it's menbershAp For instance, if some one wrote in for membership from Kansas he was sent the printed matter which began the club correspondence. He was also asked to send description of himself and to name some people in his community who might well join the club. He sent in nance and those people were addressed by the bureau with the information that certain people wanted to meet them with a view to matrfmony.
 Rich Lady for Matrimony.
 Another scheme was to put a matri- monial advertisement in various papers throughout the country. Such an adver- tisement was this:
 ATTRACTIVE and unincumbered Amer
 jean lady, age %. worth $f5,000, wants good. honest husband. Address Pacific
 -A 6a Dearborn St, Chicago"
 Armies of men all over the country were American iady % and by % the SS0:FSe s7s'Soo TSe love letters poured in and the lovers were inveigled into joining the club before Dpening correspondence with the fair lady. The lady wrote to some of ner corre- spondents and got loving answers. Some of the answers were less loving than businesslike. As for instance. thls one from Joplin, Mo-: Dear Madam-I am very glad to hear from you. It would suit exactly to get an American lady with $70,o00 as l l Mouldnt have foreign lady at any event. | T can make the perpetual motion with l less than $500. When we get married 1 will make the motor power and then we win be richer than Rockefeller and we | will take trip or two around the world | But a friend tells me that you are a | decoy duck to catch wild geese. If your | folks run a matinee paper put me down | as the greatest inventor wishing a help i meet to patent and take care of my inVen- | tons Write soon. B. B. Britts"
 Men of Many Professions. That these correspondents are men from | all walks of Hfe is indicated by the let l ..srS They write of their business occu- i pauons as frankly if they are coal miners | as when thev are bank cashiers. One | man is a soldier in the army. He says:
 "I am a sergeant in the artillery and | will be discharged soon and would like | to marry some girl with money" Another man. in dainty foreign hand. ! calls himself an electrical engineer. He | writes: T am a gentleman of refined test, grad | uated from naval academy and from col l Alege as mechanical and electrical engi- | yAeer My name is familiar to the per | s5e&. interested in sciantific work and |