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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20

| the old schatchens are not unhappy.
One occurred recently in the Yiddish
quarter which was arranged by an old
patriarch, and the bride and BRIDE
groom looked as happy as any young
couple entering the holy bonds of we'd
lock could look.
The little bride was as pretty as q
colored lithograpn, and her veil stood
out like a frost-covered lamp shade
from the white flowers on her small
black head. The bridegroom wore a
black suit and tall silk hat, and
smiled and perspired with equal pro-
fusion all through the evening. There
were pretty girls with curly pompa-
dours and little hooked noses, and en-
barrassed youths, and patriarchs, and
stout, aquiline matrons. And there
was music, with great deal of drum
effect, and dancing, all quadrilles of a
peculiarly wooden and seemingly joy
Gus nature, and there were strange
things to eat and drink, and a COM
plete absence OF oxygen in the room.
When the ceremony began the bride
| and bridegroom and rabbi stood un-
der gorgeous fringed canopy, with
long poles held over their heads by
some men. The rabbi talked for a
long time in Yiddish-the service took
three-quarters of an hour-and every
one wept, especially the brides mother,
| dear soul, who babe fair to dissolve in
tears. Then the pretty bride walked
seven times around her husband-the
symbolism is obscure and has been
forgotten by most Hebrews. And final
ly in little hush that was rather col-
emn, on the whole, a wine glass was
flung upon the floor for good luck. The
! little tinkle of splintered glass sound
ed like tiny chime of bells. So they
were married-happily, if one may
trust their faces-and all through the
old schatchen.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
if you wanted to put the thing through
Iy

If you wanted to put the thing. through
quickly"
The swindling schatchen has two
possible methods of procedure. 1t de-
pends upon his nerve as to which he
adopts. If he be brazen specimen,
he will advertise himself frankly as
a schatchen, and bring as many men
and girls together as possible, ask
ing commission for his services. The
men are always picked from his own
band, and the same man will marry
and rob half dozen girls before he
decides to leave town and try a new
field of activity.
The other method is more subtle,
and infinitely more dangerous. Here,
again, we find the band, the swinding
broker, the trusting girl and the black
leg prepared to marry as many wom-
en- as he can conveniently pauperize in
a limited space of time. But in this
case the marriage broker is less cour-
ageous, and hides his nefarious trade
behind the screen of some legitimate
and blatently advertised business.
Employment Agencies.
The favorite cloak of these schat-
chens is an employment agency"
They have large signs, front offices,
desks, ledgers, and all the costliest
paraphernalia.
To them come girls in search of
work-most of them foreigners just
from the other side. The girls names
are entered, their looks and savings
are estimated, and the willy employ
ment agent talks matrlmony, the com
forts of home and being settled for
life into the girls ears.
The girls who are amenable to the
agents reasoning find husbands speed
lily for the coming, their small earn
ings are taken away, and Immediately
afterward they are deserted and en-
tirely without funds. They may ap-
peal to the police, but the husbands
have gone, and who can touch the
agent? He knew nothing about the
mans disreputable character, OF
course. and had nothing to do with
the matter beyond introducing one
young person to another.
Bands Work in Unison.
AS has been said before, the team
work." or concerted action, of THESE
matrimonial bands is rather extraor-
binary. The interdependence of the
members is of necessity tremendous
and the men all stapd in with one an'
other so successfully as to drive the
police and the plain-clothes men iran
tic. The best chance for the force
comes when some one man, to save
and square himself, peaches" on an
other, and so destroys little of that
perfect harmony In the organization
of crooks.
Sometimes, of course, broker cheats
one of his men, or man goes back Oh
the broker and falls to give up The
! promised share of the plunder OBJ
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20

rather proud of 1t at that, was mar
was that pathetic-looking woman over
there, who was Recently deserted by
her husband, and is now begging pen.
MES on the sidewalk.
Her case brings us to the other
class of schatchens-the men whose
praitice of their trade makes them a
menace to the community, and whose
ill-gotten gains come to about quad
ruple what the honest schatchen makes
by his legitimate business.
The Crooked Schatchens.
These crooked schatchens have been
little talked about until lately. Their
trade has been so secret, their pre-
cautions so complete, and their team
work" so remarkable that they have
operated almost entirely unobserved.
Now and then the complaint of some
deserted wife has started the police
upon scent which seemed bound to
lead to new and important discoveries,
but it was usually found to lend in
squirrel tracks or run up a tree"
Even now 1t is next to impossible
to arrest or convict a "swindling
schatchen," as the police call them.
The police have been at work on the
overthrow of several for years, but the
game is a long and arduous one, and,
as one young detective declared, 'it
would take the entire time of the force
to the exclusion Of every other case
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
Man Was Mailed.

The English postal authorities lately
had living parcel committed to them.
and promptly and safely forwarded 1t
to the desired destination. A dweller
in the island of Guernsey wished to go
to the neighboring island of Sark as
expeditiously as possible. He accord
ingly presented himself at the post
Office and asked to be sent as par
eel. He was accepted as mailable. A
tag was attached to him and messen-
ger detailed TO go with him. The
postage charged was five shillings and
tenpence.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
Methods of Schatchens, Straight and
Crooked, Among Girls of the
Yiddish Quarter.
ARE A MIGHTY POWER FOR GOOD AND EVIL
How They Ply Their Trade Among the Inno-
cent Young Jewish Maidens of the East
Side-Swindlers and Their Subtle
Methods Described.

with him or her business dealings of
so delicate and intimate a nature. The
type? Come with me to Riverton
street, and stand on the corner where
Norfolk crosses it. Watch the girls
go by. They are pretty in gentle
foreign way. They wear their hair
low on their necks and very loosely ar
ranged. One and all have white worst
ed shawls wrapped about their slightly
bent shoulders. Their figures are full,
their steps heavy. They have the hall
marks of the working woman, the
beast of burden writ large upon their
patient faces and STOPPING backs.
One in seven has bright ribbon in
her hair OF a string Of colored beads
about her throat. Only one in 80
wears a hat. They move quickly,
casting swift glances. half shy, half
bold, at the men they pass. Their
lives are spent in shops and factories
gaining meager living. They never
come in contact with men; they have
no time. Romance has no place in
their cramped, crushed destinies. Love
is not known in their hearts, any
more than JOY is known to their lives
They are the plodders, the workers,
the women whom the gods have for
gotten. And these are the natural
prey of the schatchen.
Advantages of the System.
Perhaps prey is the wrong word,
after all, for when the schatchen is
"on the level" and plays a straight
game" his office may be a most useful,
valuable and beneficial one, and often
he carries away from a Yiddish we'd
ding the good wishes of the two con-
tented young persons whom he has
united. The legitimate schatchen is a
necessary factor in Yiddish life of the
lower strata. Without him these
girls would find no husbands, and the
men of the vicinity would go to other
districts for their wives. Also, there
would be much more immortality. The
schatchen forestalls the natural mat
ing proclfvities of young people and
ties up his clients in pairs, firm and
fast with knots that hold the couples
in comfortable bondage for good and
all.
One and all of these girls, whom we
see passing and repassing on all sides,
wish husbands. They save their earn
ings for the purpose of massing a dot
adequate to make good showing
with the schatchen and win satisfac.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20

New York.-On the great East side
the innocent foreigner naturally drifts
on his arrival in America, to seek his
brother countryman, the schatchen
finds rich field for plying his trade.
The schatchen pronounced shot
ken), better known as marriage
broker, is one OF the most curious sur
vlvals of ancient orientalism which
one may find in many days travel.
He is busy, prosperous man, with
q good business and large following
of clients, and he has developed his
ancient and picturesque trade along
the modern lines of commercial Amer
lea, but withal he remains the scbat-
chen-the matchmaker, the trafficker
In young men and maidens, the indie
tatigable, serene, obsequious, popular
marriage broker.
In the heart OF the "rogues' dis
trict," where the criminals of all
classes are wont to gather, is where
the schatchen finds his best work
ground. Here it is that he plies his
trade and wins his gains, rightful or
otherwise. And here it is that his
good faith brings a queer, pathetic,
manufactured happiness, even as his
treachery brings suffering and shame.
For good or for i'll, he Is curious and
mighty power in the Yiddish quarter,
thus schatchen, agent of matrimony,
broker in men and women, buyer and
seller of lives.
business Brokers'"
In older days and older lands the
schatchen wore the dull red and
green and russet robes of the orient,
he jingled with chains and ornaments,
or slipped on silent feet into the
dwellings of the east; in this city he
has a card printed stating that he
deals in real estate, and is also a
business broker"
Business broker" means but one
thing in the part of town particu-
ularly affected by the schatcnen.
Everyone knows what his business is,
and he carries on an excellent trade.
The schatchen is almost invariably
of one type. He is not very tall; he is
bearded; patriarchal and intensely
Yiddish. He walks silently and
watches every chance passerby with
eyes that are both furtive and keen.
He slips in and out of places almost
without making his presence felt.
When he speaks it is with marked
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
$500 an Acre
n6SyS5suTysuNT#D~1o of WESTERN CANADA Is
I q" =. i:
tktSfS}kAifVe esYYbDnG the amount many farm
ers will realize from
IeH1V F$4BFkakNA their wheat crop this
l&6&Gb &M$I year.
HMS ME%gSaas5 rs Bushels to the Acre
| v GSRlS&9 sS3ats3l will be the Average
| SSf&Fd5 NJ Yield of Wheat.

The land that this was grown cost many OF
the farmers absolutely nothing, while those who
wished to add to the 100 acres the Government
grants, can buy land adjoining at from 50 to $40
an acre.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20

tory mate. There IS not girl among
them who will not go to the schatchen
in time, If she has not already been
there.
There is young couple. She is
dressed in her beat, and he looks in
tensely sheepish. They have just met
each other through the schatchen. In
afweek they viii be man and wife. 1t
sounds risky, does it not? Yet they
will tell you down here that there is
about the same percentage of happi-
ness in these queer broker manufac-
tured marriages as in unions where
choice, romance, and other considera-
tions have a part That man over
there carrying q baby, and looking
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20

tatined from the newest wife, but this
does not help the police. No COM
plant will be made, of course, for, as
may be readily be imagined, in no
walk of life is the glass-house les
son more forcibly illustrated.
The men who belong to the bands
and lend themselves to the vile
schemes for betraylng and robblng
young girls are all of peculiar type.
Shifty eyes, weak chins, evil mouths
they look and are ready for any job
that may offer itself-the lower the
better.
Escape Comparatively Easy.
But no crook has ever been so care
less as to prepare job without first
arranging to "get away" Many Of
the employment agents" have maps Of
the city with the get aways" all duly
marked. The city Is so large, and the
districts are so distinct and separate,
that whenever he finds it too warm
in one locality, he simply moves on
to another, and all traces of him is
lost. The aforementioned map has
estimates of population in various dis
tricts, and all sorts of valuable in
formation. Its usefulness in an en-
ployment agency seemed rather OBJ
scure, but perhaps the agents are per-
sons who like to be we'll informed on
all subjects.
One Happy Marriage.
But all weddings brought about by
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20

desire to please, but with strangers he
Is cautious and slow of tongue,
He has no regular office as rule,
but is apt to use upon his card the
address and telephone number of some
influential friend-the alderman of
his district, or, If all else fail, the big.
gest saloon keeper of the neighbor-
hood. He slides in and out of his
adopted headquarters by day and
night, insinuating himself into conver.
sational groups or listening sharply to
the talk of others about him.
Types of ZIis Clients.
His. clients are practically all Yid-
dish. A Jewish schatchen would never
trust Gentle sufficiently to have
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20

that l was laid up
four months. /
had nigh t sweats
and fainting spells
and dropped to 90
pounds. The urine
passed every few
minutes with in
tense pain and
looked like blood.
Dropsy set in and
the doctors decided
i could not live.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
Get Big Salaries.

The combined salaries of the presi-
dents of the IA leading universities in
the United States do not equal the
amount paid the head of one life in
surance company.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
MPainters.n

Artist lin the Adirondacks)-Many
painters around here?
Guide-Oh, we shoot one occasionally.
Puck.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20

My wife got me using Doan's Kidney
Fills, ,and as they helped me took
heart, kept on and was cured SO thor
oughly that I've been well three years. {"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
RAISED FROM A DEATH-BED.
Mr.. Pitts, Once Pronounced Incurable,
Has Been Well Three Years.

e. e. Pitts, go Hathaway St., Show
hogan, Me-, says; "Seven years ago
my back ached and was SO run down
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
Preferred Her Weekly Salary.

He-Will you marry me?
She-No; but ! will be typewriter to
you.-Town Topics.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-04
OLD CURE FOR POISON IVY.
Simple Remedy which Affords Speedy
Relief from the Intense
Itching.

This is the season when the person
who takes woods rambles is very likely
to suffer for days thereafter with swol
len wrists and itching hands, some.
times suffering real agony, from ivy
poison, says Field and Stream. Poison
oak and ivy are much like the copper.
head snakes in the hills in that both
seem to try hard to torture human be,
ings with their poison, and will do sc
if they come too close, especially in the
spring. A physician once told us that
there wa nothing that would cure ivy
poison quickly, but that d~octoring II
and letting it alone took about equa'
time, SO he advised washing the parts
affected quite often and letting it take
its course. Now, the cure consists In
a very simple adherence to two things:
Preventing the spreading of the poison
and drying it up quickly. Its spread
can only be prevented by washing fire.
quently with hot water: its cure by
amounting the affected parts with tine
ture grindelia, procurable in any drug
store. as soon as the skin has been
dried. Every camp outfit should on
tain a four-ounce bottle of grindella
Its cure is very rapid, and 1t o STOPS
the almost unbearable itching by
which ivy poison is first noticed. This
remedy is a very old one, but 1t is mol
known as we'll as it should be.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-04
Port Reading.
LOCAL ITEMS.

Miss Christina Christensen, who is
spending a few days at Mrs. Albertson's
was a visitor at Boynton Beach last
nj ght.
Daniel Mcdonald and Patrick Kerwin
were in Perth Amboy yesterday after
noon, purchasing a horse and transact
ing other business.
George Speak aud lady friend, spent
last night at Boynton Beach.
MI. and Mrs. Howard Valentine, Ross
v alentine and friend, while passing
through here yesterday in their automo-
bile; killed the little white pup belonging
to Mrs Giles.
Thomas Bolger was at Boynton Beach
last night.
William McGittegan, has resumed his
regular duties as switchman in the local
yard, after relieving yardmaster, William
1ibetts.
Thomas Gallagher was a visitor at
Boynton Beach last night.
Peter Larson, of Perth Amboy, has a
position as brakeman in the locsl z. &
X. yard.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-04
GIRLS SCHOOL OF ECONOMY
University of Nebraska Gives In
struction as to How to
Spend Money.

A good many schools have depart
ments where girls are taught domestic
science in a more or less theoretical
way, but it remains for Nebraska to es-
tablish at its state university a course
in which young women may be in
structed in the art of spending money
to advantage. Every woman, OF course,
knows how to spend money in the
sense of paying it out for something,
but it is the belief of a good many men
hal she is so anxious to get rid of any
funds she may have in her possession
that she does not receive their value.
1t is to show her how to make her out
lay wisely and ju~diciously that the new
department is to be established.
1t will require a fund of $4,000, and
some cynical persons aver that this is
to be used in furnishing a miniature
department store, where lessons in par
gains can be given. This is probably
not true, but however the task Is TO be
performed, whether with or withou
object lessons in the shape of actual
goods. it is proposed to equip the girls
with q knowledge Oh VALUES III medtS,
groceries and dry goods, how to distin-
guish between cotton and WOO fabrics;
in short, to teach them that large
share of the science of housekeeping
which consists of judicious buying.
Possibly this art may be taught in
schools. Perhaps the professors-thcse
of them who are married men may be
able to impart to the students the Sc
cret of the value of money, even II they
have not been able properly to con-
vince their wives that they (the pro-
fessors) know all that is to be learned
on the subject. 1t may be that girls in
large numbers will flock to this school
for the purpose OF finding how to make
a little money 60 q long way, but there
is reason to suspect that this will not
be the case, but that the majority will
continue to follow the tfme-honored
method of learning how to economize-
namely, by marrying men of small in
comes.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-04
LOCAL ITEMS.

Master Robert Monroe. of Main
street, who left two weeks ago for
a two weeks vacation with his cous-
in. Master William Brown, of Sleeps
head Bay. has decided to spend the
whole month of August at Sleeps
head Bay. and one week at Rocka-
way Beach with his cousin and
grandma.
Mr.. and Mrs. William McAndrewe
are receiving congratulations ON the
birth of n baby boy.
Frank McNally. of West Brighton
a clerk in the Office OF the District
Attorney, of Richmond Borough
spent yesterday with his sister. Mrs
William McAndrcws.
A number of local people went tc
Coney Island Wednesday.
Fish have not been biting as good
the last few days as In the first par
of the week.
Robert j. Brown, ST., of MaiT
street, left last Sunday for Saratoga
for his health. He will visit hi
brother, Richard II. Brown, o.
Shcepshcad Bay, who has a cottage
at Saratoga for the summer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-04
SLIPPERS HARD TO HANDLE
Those of the Japanese Are Not the
Best to Climb Stair
ways In.

He shuffied awkwardly about his
room in a pair of japanese slippers
sent from Toxic by his brother, the
wal correspondent, relates the New
York Herald. The slippers had no
heels; they only hung on by the toes;
and they fell off if, forgetting himself,
he once lifted his feet instead OF drag
ging them.
Soon, though, he acquired the knack
of walking about without losing the
slippers; but he never could acquire
the knack of ascending a stairway
without losing them. So, in despair,
at the end he would always take off the
slippers and carry them in his hand
before attempting to go upstairs.
Even the Japs themselves" he said,
couldn't ascend a stairway with these
slippers that have no heel clutch. You
see, such slippers are only worn by
the Japanese middle classes. and the
middle classes have no stairs in their
houses-everything Is on the first
floor. For sAuming about on the level
heelless slippers are hll right, but for
stair climbing they areluseless, and be-
fore stairways they must disappear
even as before the lo6 mptive the stage
coach faded away.
without shame, thei ore, 1 take of
my Japanese slippers carry them
in my hand when | go stairs, for
know that the Jap, II hefA4 s~tairways,
would be Obliged 70 90 like wise
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-04

Arrangements are being perfected
BY Castlcton Council. Royal Arcan-
I'm. Of New Brighton, for holding a
picnic At Silver Lake Park. August
80. The committee in charge Is com
posed Of W.. l.. Niece, o. Clark, j.
y. Shea and Il. Finncrty.
Miss Daisy O'Donavan Rosa, of
81. George, Is spending her vacation
at Athens. n. Y.
After n pleasant vacation spent
with relatives AZ Kingston. N. Y,
Miss Mamie Gallagher has returned
20 her home In Mariners Harbor.
Miss NJ. Hagaman. OF Port Rich
mond, Is the guest of relatives at
Princeton, n. J..
The annual meeting and election
of officers OF the Edward Fader AS
sociation. composed Of young men OF
MlddlotOwn. viii be held this evening
at 2S Water street. stapleton.
Louis BirkIe and Otto Schroeder,
OF Staplcton. spent Sunday at Allan
tic City. n. J.
Yesterday afternoon ON the lawn
In front of the residence of Charles
Rosenberg. in Wright street. Staple
ton, a fair and lawn fete was held
for the benefit of ST. Vincent's Hos
pital. All kinds of useful and orna-
mental articles ere for sale, and q
nice sum was realized for the cause
Mr.. and Mrs. William Vandervort,
of West Brighton, are making a tour
of Ireland.