The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-19
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,,,.r,can surety 90. said 10 Have q Daily
Ro,Icsn Of Inquiry for Local MauVa'
monlaI statistics. but Possibly Thts 10
an EXaEEerat~n Ounde ON Fact
rg the little nakei boy with the bow and
. Who has been sneaking around be-
Kind the stenographers' desks down In the
,marican Surety Companys building At
,no broadway and Whispering in the girls
ng,s is caught in the act he will be dropped
,orv gently from one OF the sixth noor
,.rdows. and then, unless his wings are
=, GOOD trim, maybe the American Surety
Covnany can 20 about its business IN the
.olorn. sedate way that bcnte q concern
Of its kind.
while the Little troublemaker is at large
how can folks be blamed for saying that
,be surety c~ompany's chief busines just
aor "a furnishing matrimonial bonds when
=, loas than six marriages among the SIM
nI,,,aes of the company have occurred in
t.Le last few months? It's getting so that
,he first thing Supt. J. r, Kerr OF h ac-
o,,rting department does when he starts
w. laws work is to call up this stenog-
amber and that ~bookkeeper upon whom
a,.ricion has been resting and find out
-hnther they have become engaged or
r,orried since they knocked OF work the
dav before.
Mr. he, RS department is On the sixth
aoor where, in no matter which direction
.o, look. YOU can see stenographers. He
has nearly hundred on his stan when they
oro all there. He has almost as many
,,,nu men bookkeepers who work in the
same room with the girls. Each OF the
Lookkeepers has one certain stenographer
"a whom he dictates day in and day out.
One of the victims of the marrying cpl
demic said yesterday that there might
= Millen, assistant secretary OF the surety
company, hadn't convinced the boys and
GIRLS of the possibilities OF the place a year
ago by taking for his wife his stenographer,
Miss Ethel Bunker. The boys waited long
enough TO find out that such an act wasn't
regarded in President Lyman's ONCE as
a breach of Office etiquette, and then the
whole place became speedily infected
lust about this time the treasurer, William
Brandt. became a bridegroom, but as he
selected his wife from outside the ONCE
he didn't make the situation any worse.
From that time on the company lost
stenorraphers rapidly, and the bookkeepers
gained wives Just as fast. First II was
MILAN Bishop and Miss Sadie Freden-
berg. Then came the mptials o. George
n I TIElN dlIO NAARo 81
last Sunday night Bernard Mc0inn and Miss
Mary Ruth joined the American Surety
family circle, and next Monday Philip Man
ming and Miss Alice Mclaughlin will wed
While Supt. Kerr believes that he has the
endemic under control, it was learned
Yesterday that unless extreme measures
are taken the list of victims will be still
larger. n,
While the officials of the company die
their hest to keep the outbreak Confinec
10 the accounting department, on the sixth
floor. they couldn't prevent some OF th'
microbes from hopping down stairs intC
tho legal department, on the NTH floor
rutherford Hamilton Towner, one OF thu
LAWYERS was selected as a likely candi-
date. with the result that he was marrieS
last month to his secretary, Miss Hermion'
Brouleben.
situation Yesterday, and said that h
couldn't speak officially on matrimonia
subjects without the sanction of Presiden
Henry n. Lyman. Mr.. Lyman sent on
word to the reporters that II they had NJ
more serious business with him than q dis
cussion Of the marriages in h office they
better run along.