New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-06

little further from their reach until they had
paid still another fee.
Shortly after I began work at matrimonial
agency in this city" said the woman yesterday.
in telling of some Of her experiences IAN IN
couth workingnan called. who said he was look
ing for a rich wife He was sent 10 q special
reception room. where I was told TO see him
and Jolly him along" had no sooner taken
e seat him than I how utterly unfit
the man was TO marry any one except a labortng
woman, who could do her share of hard mental
work. He had not learned a trade. and his
hands showed that he had not even tried to
wash them after their last task. I asked him
why he wanted TO marry.
Cause that's the easiest way O. gettin' a.
start knows on. he replied. work so hard
now don't get no chance TO git no eddication:
but if has a good gal with some dough for
wife, she wud larn me something
Before an applicant has a chance Of meeting
available candidates for his affection he must
pay registration fee of So. If he wants wife
especially wealthy he must pay additional fees.
For example. for every $1,000 of wealth up to
5000 one pays an extra charge Of 50, and for
woman worth more than 5000 81 for each ad-
ditionaI 81 600 she possesses.
This unsuspecting youth had made a deposit
Of 81, on the promise Of paying the other 81 for
his registration card in weekly payments But
when I heard him say he wanted a wealthy
woman blundered by saying:
The richer the woman the more you will
have TO pay for her, and then pointed out the
terms Of his contract.
AS soon as he began TO realize the amount e.
money he would have to pay he squirmed un-
comfortably. picked up his rough cap. showed
his cud Of tobacco into another corner of his
mouth, and said:
I'm up agin too stiff a game I'll let the
whole blank thing slide
AS he was just about to edge his way out the
proprietor Of the agency came in and told him
10 stay, for he had Boston woman who was
looking for just such a handsome fellow as he
was She had a house and servants, and was
willing wait for the man of her choice, In the
mem time he could pay the extra charges, and
when the time came she would come to New
York from Boston and be introduced to him.
The marriage, Of course, would be celebrated as
soon afterward as he desired.
The silly lad is stil paying his instruments
and the Boston woman is still biding her time
After applicants have paid their registration
fees they are then permitted to meet each other
+ charge Of 90 cents is made for every person
introduced. AT such times what is most unex-
pccted IS The most likely to happen.
one Sunday afternoon 4 man Of middle age
but as bashful as a lad in his teens called at
the agency and said he came to meet a young
woman by appointment. AS she did not come
he sat down and waited in reception room
His embarrassment, however. only increased,
and, is the way with some easily frightened
persons, he sought 10 take somebody into his
confidence. He told ne that he had intended
going q picnic that afternoon with a second
third cousin, who, he knew, loved him, but
who was too common for him. He said ii would
be easy for him TO marry her. but he wanted
a woman with money. Accordingly. he had
given up The picnic 10 meet some one whom the
matrimonial agent had told him was wealthy,
bea utiful and young.
Just At that moment the door opened and IN
walked a buxom woman. who carried her head
with an air Of superiority, and who swung a
fat round. red fist. She swept her eyes around
the room. Suddenly they lighted Oh the man
there and I thought he would sink through a
crack in the floor
What YOU here, you sneak? Come 10 SPY
on me- Ell? Get out-get out OF here before the
millionaire comes I'm going 70 marry
In a moment I saw what had happened. The
millionaire that she expected was no other than
that poor, cringing cousin of hers. Each had
been corresponding with the other through the
medium Of the agency tried 10 think of some
way ont Of the ENHANCEMENT, when the truth
dawned on the mind of The woman. and she let