The daily tribune., 1908-05-15
HUN TING A
MAID
What Happened to Three Mon
Who Went on q Trail.


to the act by their wives. left their
happy homes Sunday and rode down
to Curtis Bay a-looking for Bohemian
servants. Some years before. one of
the wives told them, a cousin of q
friend Of her mother had secured a
splendid Bohemian servant at Curtis
, Bay. She was tractable woman, the
| servant, bidable and amiable. and so
| the incident of her engagement still
hood, They were to find some emil.
grants exactly like her to act as do
mestics.
The three men arrived at their des-
dnation and alighted In sea OF mud,
through which they made their way
with as little injury to their costumes
as possible. Arrived at the lodging
house where newly-arrived Bohemians
| congregate, they sought the proprietor
and put 1t up to him to furnish maids
for the three families. The proprietor
was pleasant, If little difficult to
| understand, owing to the brokenness
Of his English They made out finally,
however that there was no one in the
place who wished to go out to service,
| never had been anyone in the place
and that any report to the contrary
| was libeious and scandalous--or words
| to that effect The proprietor added,
as the three downcast gentlemen were
| leaving the place. that there was a
| woman in the next block who had
three daughters who might wish posi-.
tons.
The downcast gentlemen went to
| see this matron, and was Informed
in words of one syllable that the young
ladies were engaged in factory and
making living.
| Her language sounded so violent
| though very probably 1t was really
harmless enough-that the visitors
backed out of her presence and into
another sea of mud.
Where now7" asked one man, trans
fixing with his eye the miserable
leader of the expedition.
ITO priest" replied the leader, un.
daunted.
"He will turn us out neck and
heels" cried the other two. But the
priest did not. He received them
kindly, and broke to them so gently
the fact that there wasn't a single
woman in his congregation who wished
place as maid in family.
! They went in succession after thai
to the house OF the Presbyterian min
lister, to that of the Lutheran minister
and to grocery store. In each OF
these places they told the sad story
OF their mission, and In each they re
ceived the information that Bohemian
servants were as difficult to find as
pigeon- blood rubies. The manager o
the grocery store had heard, but hi
| didn't know how true 1t was, that
there was one young girl in house
out to service.
The men. now foot-weary and dis
| consulate, set out at once for thi:
place, quarreling en- route as to who
| should have the treasure once she
was found They were still arguing
the knotty question when they reached
their objective point and found theil
prey gone. The woman here said tha
| there had been 10 applicants for hel
hand and heart before she had finally
yielded to the high salary held out b,
a lady on Charles street
| 81 will go home with a servant ol
not at ALL" cried the leader Of the ex
pedition, sternly. Il have been max
| ing game OF my wife for months now
telling her that II | ever took the cast
In hand could get her a servant with
out difficulty-and she will guy me un
mercifully II ! go home empty handed
so to speak
II At that moment they met strange
wild-looking girl in the road, ant
stopped to ask her II she knew ANYONE
who wished the lofty position OF matt
In a humble family. The wild-lookinI
girl proved to be Lithuanian whit
could not speak word of English
She ran hastily for an interpreter
however, and when the interprete
came she said that the girl did wish
position of the sort offered, but tina
nothing could induce her to go for les
than eight dollars month. Tn
leader OF the expedition told her h
would give II to her, and the secon'
man in the expedition offered her tel
dollars without winking an eyelash
This occasioned some argument amonl
the friends. and the second man finall.
and very generously relinquished hi
claim on the services OF the youni
woman, who. through the interpreter
promised faithfully to show up at he
new home the next day at noon.
Tired, depressed and muddy. tn
discouraged trio then crept homeward
One OF them was buoyed by the sens
that he at least had justified his boas
about being able to secure maid
The others felt that they were abou
to partake OF badly cooked dinners an
a great deal OF chaff. And this Is al
OF the story. for we have nothing 4
do with what happened to the crt
saders on their return TO their owI