The evening world., 1920-09-15
OFFERS TO BUY
MAN Who PUT SELF
ON SALE FOR $1,000
Rich Pennsylvania Wants
Hardy to Help Hunt for
Missing Son.
WOULD MAKE HIM HEIR.
Former Sailor Ignores Letters
of Girls Trying to
Meet Him.

Jack Hardy, the young man who
offered, through The Evening World.
&c sell himself for 5000, received the
Grst apparently bona fide response
10 his proposition to-day. It came
frcm H. Stone, who wrote that he
vas a wealthy resident OF Scranton,
Pa, and would be willing to pay
Hardy's purchase price in INSTALL
iuents. lie wants Hardy to direct a
search for his thirteen year-old son,
who is missing from home.
Mr.. Stone, who gave his address as
40. 91S Prescott Avenue, Scranton,
aid he would be willing to take
Hardy into his homo as a member of
MS family. Hardy said to-day he
would consider Mr.. Stones ofrer.
Most Of the other replies received
py Hardy were of a more or less
frivolous nature and ne said he had
no time for these. He repeated that
his offer Is a purely business propo-
sition.
Several girls have written 30 me
saying they were lonesome and they
thought was too. and suggested
meetings" said Mr.. Hardy to-day. II
am paying no attention to letters OF
Llls sort, for was perfectly serious
n my ofrer. Some people also seem to
think that am merely looking for a
home. There Is nothing TO that
either
The Evening Worlds story has
been flashed all over tho country by
now and expect TO get q responsible
answer within the next few days.
am willing to go anywhere and do
anything for anybody who buys me.
One of the mock Of reporters, who
have besleged my room ut No. %
West 37th Street since my offer was
printed, told me he believed that in
a few weeks the public would read
IN the papers that a new moving pic
tJre featuring Jack Hardy. the man
who offered to sell himself for $4,000
was about to be produced. They need
not be afraid. This Is no press agent
stunt
at has also been suggested to me
that a contract providing for volun-
tary slavery would not be legal and
that I could go back on my bargain
after getting the money. This really
made me angry. Anybody who knows
me will tell you that never go back
on my word. Anybody who considers
buying me Gun rest assured that
will go through with the thing to the
end, no matter If 1t means my life.
AS I announced yesterday. want
the money to help a woman who has
been more than a mother to me. l
originally stipulated that $4,000 Of the
purchase price must be paid when
the bargain is made. On thinking it
over in the light OF the scepticism
that has greeted my offer in some
z quarters ] have decided that l will
make good for any prospective pur-
chaser and prove my sincerity before
the full amount is pad.
Therefore l will 20 through with
the bargain with any suitable person
who will pay down $500 In cash now.
$2.500 70 be paid at the end of six
months IL i have proved n satisfactory
purchase, and the remaining $4,000 to
be paid when my owner pleaSes This
is Just to show that am on the level.
THE Kidding that my perfectly
serious offer has caused among my
friends and acquaintances Is distastefu!
10 me. ! have been told that am a
good Snowman 10 have put such a
story across, but ] repeat that l had
and have no idea Of theatrical work.
"A lady reporter asked whether
would make good if an old woman,
roothless and unprepossessing, but
rich, should decide TO pay the money
and marry me. / told her that
would have tol pass on all the offers
made and would have the final say
az to my disposal, but that there
were no strings to the offer"