Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-12
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt and a New
international Love Match"
RAFFLESES RIFLE THE RICH
Gent Burglars in Evening Clothes
Driving the Real Gums" Out
of the Profession.

~ problems. Evidences multiply
that this town contains many
multi-spliced men and women. Death
brings out most of the instances. A re-
liable newspaper statistician finds that
seventeen wealthy New Workers. dying
within the twelvemonth. have had their
bodies claimed by two women possessed
Of properly attested marriage certificates
This ought to help toward silencing the
folks who claim that marriage is becom-
ing unpopular. Marriage, and lots of 1t,
is pretty nigh as popular over here. &C
cording to many various showings. as
affintyism.
During the past six weeks three men
have been killed In automobile accidents
in and around New York, each and sew
eral Of whom had taken pair Of spouses
unto himself knowledge of their marry
ing habit only came forth when the man
gled remains of the victims were being
prepared for burial. All three were quite
well-known men. One Of them, almost
a millionaire person OF the stock pro-
noting kind. was crushed In q motor
car collision while riding with one Of his
wives on Riverside drive. The other
wife didn't know anything about No.
till after the accident. A gentleman
chauffeur was killed at the Morris Park
motor car races last week. His two wives,
neither Of whom had ever seen the other,
blended their tears at the bier.
In Brooklyn last spring died very
auriferous. SNUG and churchly man VINO
had no less than three spouses cooling
his fevered brow before his final moment
sped along Each was wholly unaware
brought them together at his bedside.
They were all pretty nice and uncatty
about 1t, too, for they found that their
mutual husband had made fair split OF
it In his will and had fixed them all out
handsomely. The man had been just as
fair as could be to all three of them. too.
so there now. He'd spent four months
of each year with each Of EN-. leaving
each in turn to go of on protracted
business trip" Behave. now. you
girls, and be good friends, won't you?"
he said to them Just before he cashed
in. and just as his eyes were closing
in death he experienced what must have
been the ineffable satisfaction and Joy or
seeing the three Of them standing along
side his bed with their arms affectionately
draped about each others waists There's
no use in talking. ills a philosophical
epoch.
In view of all Of this 1t annoys us
and causes us to become peevish when
dying out. 1t isn't at all: It's becoming
a fad with a lot Of folks. Plenty of
affiuent New Workers, instead OF, collect
ing old china or ancient tapestries or his
toric clocks, make collections of wives.
They develop a hobby for marrying.
Presently (sh-sh-shD a bunch Of shrewd
lawyers will De attempting to prove. by
documentary evidence, that the senior
senator from New York IL. or was.
Mormon.
Another Title Bought.
Speaking of marriage, another Of these
international love matches" 10 an
nounced. Miss Gladys Vanderbilt is 60
ing to bestow her roll-er-that is to say.
her hand, upon q Magyar nobleman, with
name that Hstens like basement area
cat with a cold in the head. The beauty
about these international love matches
IS that one doesn't have to await the
sequel. It can be doped out in advance
with the most foolish ease. 1t was an
international love match when the
Count Festetics married Miss Willing Of
Philadelphia. After q few months OF
internationally developed love the Count
took his regular calisthenics at his Aus
TRAN castle by dragging his better seven
eighths around his ancestral halls by her
hair. It was an international love
match" when the Prince Colonna Of Italy
took Miss Mackay to wife, only the
Prince Colonna modelled himself upon
the lamented Bill Sykes in proving to
her the violence Of his love after they
had been safely married and he had been
financially fortified against want. Little
BOni, too. internationally loved Miss Anna
Gould. but that instance is SO recent that
it's trtte to mention It. international
love match" really sounds too much like
international prize fight" and as a
matter Of fact the parties to these ar
rangements usually get along together
just as peacefully as couple Of tigers.
The hoe-tong of this town sure Is disap-
pointed about the marriage Miss Gladys
Vanderbilt Is making for herself. 1t was
fancied for quite a spell that she had
picked out for herself square-chinned
young American who looks like a. conner
in business and politics.
It Is the keen competition in the burg
larry profession that Is fetching forth all
OF these Raffles persons. The loW-brows
in the profitable housebreaking line are
being rapidly forced into other and less
remunerative channels in and around
New York. few afternoons ago l met
I'D with a low-brow who, in my repor-
torial period around here. was one of the
most successful burglars in town. a man
who could figure on his $4,000 and $2O,-
600 per annum right along so long as he
stood in with the bulls" and cut the
swag with them. But, when met him the
other afternoon, he was the motorman
of a surface car. I asked him about that,
and he grew quite melancholy.
Jaw, wot chanel did mug have, he
came back at me, wen all o'dese college
Policies an Algies bulged into de liftin
game? Dey mixed in sassiety an got de
lay O. all de dumps an cribs an dey
beat US to 1t evry time. l been woik1n
now FIR four year-couldn't do nottin
else" and he brushed away furtive tear
as he rammed his car into a produce
wagon on the track and busted eight or
ten crates Of eggs.
But lie had 1t right. The old-time
porch climbers and second-story men
have for the most part been compelled
to seek other fields of endeavor on &C
count of the intrusion into the profession
Of these evening-clothed Raffieses.
The Successful Rafles.
To be a successful Raffies. however, one
must have little capital If he expects to
make good around here. The Raffies
must settle in some nice house in a
wealthy suburb, install handsome furni-
ture, join a church, get acquainted
around, have wife that knows how to
entertain, and mix generally in the COM
munal life of the suburban towns. Thus
he finds out where the swag Is and at
the same time averts suspicion Dozens
of ambitious young fellows, all of them
speaking several languages and all per-
fectly at home in the drawing room, are
following the occupation In and around
New York now. and they are getting the
money rapidly. Those who desire to reap
the first fruits of this promising profess
sion, however, had better get In right
away. for 1t is said that very soon now
there Is to be started in New York a
Polytechnic School for the Instruction Of