The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-11-10
Telephone Heir6SS
in Receipt of
NumGPOuSPrOpOSdlS

/ q INCE the recent announcement
- that Miss CIittie Griggs, a tele
phone girl, employed with a Kan
sas City grain commission company,
had received a half million dollar be-
quest from a cousin in Alaska, she has
received letters from persons all over
the Middle West. Most of these have
been from men, some proposing mar
riage; others asking for money, and
still others begging her to let them
have the money to invest or perfect
inventions. But the women have not
been far behind with appeals TO the
young heiress. Representatives of So
cieties and associations have requested
her to give part of her money to them.
The letters from men who desire the
young woman for a wife, and, Incl
dentally, her half million, although
they all declare they love her for her
self and not for the moneys sake, are
most interesting to the disinterested
reader, for Miss Griggs declares she
will pay no attention to them.
Miss Griggs does not deign to answer
any Of them, and. as a result, the
writer's have, with one exception, sub
sided into silence after one letter. The
one exception is an Iowa man. He
gives his name as Butler and his ad-
di ess al Whittemore, Iowa. His first
letter to Miss Griggs covered three
sheets and was closely written. In it
he mixes business and sentiment by
alternately declaring that he wanted
to love her and begging for $4,000 to
''r11Ir him on hiS -,
The first letter says in part:
Miss Clittie Griggs, Kansas City, No
Ny Dear Friend II have read of your good
fortune in getting a half million dollars It
will be nice for a young and beautiful girl
like you are. 1 a poor and want TO
ask you to help me. have been sick and have
lost out 50 that 1 am about on my last ground.
Won't you give me $1,000 10 start in the drug
business with? Or. no; 1 don't want you to
give me the money. Let me have il and 1
viii repay you That sum will be small you
and would be such help to me. who needs
lift so sorely. Now. dear lady, remember
the Bible says 1t is good to give. and you
won't miss it, l have worked hard all my
life and have not squandered my money. but
you know we all have bad luck at times.
So on through to the end the letter
ran. Miss Griggs did not answer the
letter and she has recently received
a second letter from Mr.. Butler. in
closing a stamp for reply and plead
ing at great length and, in turn. for
an answer, her love and $4,000 of her
money. He said:
My Dear Friend CIittie III you allow me to
call you such) You must not get angry, but
please read all this scribbIing. II may be true
that you getting many letters; but will add
that there is not Of them that needs as
sistance from you as I do know If could
have personal interview with you, you would
not turn me down 1 have concluded that
you are fine girl and nothing would give
more pleasure than TO be able to call you my
wife. Would it not be nice If such a thing
would come to pass? bet you will laugh and
say I crazy. but I win say I only
half way TO the quarter mile post
Buffers letter continues on for sew
eral pages. His sentences fairly TEEN
with novel declarations. He also init
mates that he viii come to Kansas
City to see Miss Griggs. Butler closes
his letter, after innumerable pleas for
money, with the phrase, Your honest
friend" and begs in the humblest Ian
Z guage for a reply
A man who signs himself Lowen-
stein writes from Strong City, Kans.:
Miss Clittie Griggs, My Dear Friend
I am sure you viii want to invest your
money in good, paying proposition. Now,
that IS what l have. 1t is sure thing. II
you will write to me- l will send you the
names Of some OF our leading business men
who have invested in my proposition. 1t pays
100 per cent per year. 1 would be willing TO
invest much you wish and in my
proposition proves successful. would be willing
to marry you. Hoping you VIII consider both
my propositions. l remain,
! Miss Griggs has been at work at
the switchboard as usual