The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-27
JAPANESE IN PORT ARTHUR; RUSS FIRE CEASING;
KUPOKI HURLS TWO ARMIES ON KUROPAT KIN
CITY MULCTED
FOR CHARITY
Schemes Of a Horde Of Fakirs Elk
posed Many Grafters Are
Women.

charity fakirs'' in Minneapolis.
Police Superintendent Conroy ex-
posed Mrs. S. c.. Currie, who came to
the city a week ago to establish
home for epileptics, as a fraud, and
ISOLATED Charities, issued a statement
in which he says that twenty-five
women in Minneapolis are making
their living as charity fakirs, while
the business men Of the city are being
mulcted over $1,000 a week by them.
Mrs. Currie's case is one Of the
most brazen that has come to the at
tention of the police. She went to
police headquarters last Tuesday and
said that she was going to establish
a home for epileptics. She told SUI
perintendent Conroy that she had
established a home at Round Lake,
ILL.,, and another at Blue Isle, Ill. She
said she had recommendation from
a Catholic priest in Chicago, as well
as from residents in cities where she
had worked.
superintendent Conroy wrote to the
Illinois cities. This morning he re-
ceived letter from Charles G.. Brai-
nerd postmaster at Round Lake, in
which he said that the woman had
never established a home in either
Round Lake or Blue Isle, but, on the
contrary, had been driven out Of both
places. The letter also stated that
she had been arrested in Peoria, Ill,
for fraud. A letter from the Chicago
priest denied any knowledge of the
woman or her schemes.
Minneapolis is soverrun with char
ity fakirs,'" said Edwin D. Solenber-
ger, manager Of the Associated Char
tiles, to r h e 10 n a /. mo fewer
than twenty-five women are engaged
u
large sums every week, but only
small percentage goes to the institu-
tons for which the givers intend it.
Fake sBeneflts.''
1.-TWO Of these charity falstrs recent
ly purchased the name Of e. certain
boarding home for children where
parents or guardians are supposed to
pay full rates for the care Of chill
dren. They then rented a hall with
large capacity and prepared to give
women were employed on liberal COM
missions to sell tiekets. The tickets
SOLD were rarely used, and most Of
them were returned to agents to be
sold again. The scheme Melted a
large sum. The home got $50 and the
rest went into the pockets Of the ia
kris. sifsssa 3 S ~ 55s-sss:;5f
sAnother plan that was worked
successfully both in Minneapolis and
st. Paul, was the selling Of tickets
at 81 each for an excursion. Over
$500 worth of tickets were sold, and
the institution in whose interest the
excursion was given received $12b.
The cost of the excursion was $50.
"a third plan that Is being used is
the giving Of play for the benefit Of
some popular charity. Some one is
hired to drill the cast composed of
young people who donate their serv-
ices. The director Of the play re-
ceives salary; other expenses must
be met, the hall rent must be paid, and
those who sell the tickets must have
their commissions. The charity Is
we'll known and many tickets are sold,
but would the business man give his
money If he knew that only a COM
paratively small amount reached the
treasury Of the institution?
Recently one Of our representatives
| asked paid charity promoter what
percentage Of the money received
went to the charity, and how much
was kept by the ticket seller. Please
don't tell the public that we are being
! paid for selling these tickets she said.
Tt is hard enough to sell them even