Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-17

inclOSed for further information and rel
erences. The replies were then CLASH
fed u.On new basis. according to the
intelligence and the ambitions of the
writer's
BY that time the affair had become gen
orally advertised throughout Wyoming,
and the little town of Grey Bull became
the rendezvous of crowds of ranchmen
and other bachelors who wanted wives.
In the correspondence of the committee
no reference was made to matrimony. IT
was purely an employment agency. and
the committee declined to take any re-
sponsibility further than to show the let
tiers to respectable inquirers and to allow
them to open up correspondence in their
own way.
a start was given to the matrimonial
side of the movement by a young ranch
man. who found letter from a girl he
used to go TO school with in Massa chu-
sets. That letter seemed to fascinate
him. He read it again and again for sew
er'al days, and became ''dotty'' about it,
His friends ''joshed him unmercifully
out thelr ridicule only stimulated his pur
pose. and he finally hallenged fate by
writing his sctluolmate an offer of mar
rage, with a detailed account of his cir
cumstances, certified to by the commit
tee and certificate of character from
the postmaster and the only parson in
town.
A Matrimonial Epidemic.
This started matrimonial epidemic.
and during the next year forty-seven
marriages occurred under the auspices
o. the Meeteetse Club, including two of
its members. There may have been
others, but these are known
The first girl who came was employed
as teacher of the Sunshine Public School
al $50 month She received several Of
fers of marriage during the winter but
rejected them all. and when the spring
term closed she resigned, saying that
she would never come back With
in two weeks, however she wrote til,
school committee that she had changed
her mind. and they were glad TO engage
her for another year But before the
end of the first term she was engaged
and at the close of the year size married
a young ranchman who is rapidly becom-
ing rich from sheep herding.
\ Mr.. Newton. now living i'm Cody n
rich SheeDman. wanted a GONNA mon for
his wife. who is an invalid and the CON-
mittee has supplied three young women
in succession. all of them from Massa-
chusetts. but they We're married within
"a wear after arrival The fourth entered
into an agreement with Mr.. Newton that
she would not marry for two years and
she is still in his family.
\ blacksmith in a neighborine town
came into Gray Bull one day. and looking
over the letters. found one from rela-
tive in Ohio young woman who had
recently lost her parents and was alone
i'll the world. She entirely de1end-
ent upon her own eXertions. and applied
for any honorable employment that could
he offered her. He wrote to another rela-
tive for further information. and receiv-
liz satisfactory reply. invited the young
woman 10 come 10 Wyoming and look
after his household.
Mr.. Barrow SAYS that every woman
who came out to Wyoming under the
auspices of the Grey Bull Club was of
excellent character There was nor one
adventures among them. and so fa- as
he knows. they have all turned out well.
Several of them who have not married
are stenographers. receiving from $50 20
$12J month. Several are clerks In