| Show I DEMAND FOR ESCORTS An Office Opened to Supply the Trade in New York The advertisement of a young American Ameri-can athlete who desired to act as nn escort es-cort and private secretary to a middle aged lady or widow appeared in one of the New Yorkpapera of yesterday It Wasanswered By a score ot single ladies who had not yet arrived at the middle age and by half a hundred winsome widows wid-ows I owsMany of the letters offering him situations situa-tions came from the Summer resorts Richfield Springs wanted him Saratoga and the White Mountains entered into competition for him Long Branch and Fire Island Beach bid for him In short the single advertisement procured places for half a dozen members of the New York and Manhattan Athletic Clubs and I excellent situations are waiting for other young men who belong to these popular I organizations The demand for athletes to serve as escorts I es-corts for widows and middleaged ladies has become so great that an athlete employment I em-ployment bureau has been opened in Nassau street The new bureau has been overwhelmed with business from the I start and has promptly furnished every variety and style of athlete It is soon to extend its business when it will not only I supply athletes to the home market but export them i The General Manager of the Athlete Intelligence Office said that the demands for athlete escorts was something unprecedented I unpre-cedented while the supply was small It would take him at least two months to I fill the orders from the watering places which were already on file I They are demanded by fashionable I young ladies said he uas an improvement I improve-ment on the dude Handsome young ladies of Fifth and Madison avenues have been pretty much mortified at having to i walk in the park or along the seashore with a spiderlegged dude grinning like a monkey They feel like a person leading lead-ing an ape They hire the athlete as an escort that they may promenade in public without humiliation The athlete may be a longshoreman long-shoreman or a hodhoisting engineer but his stalwart and manly bearing commands com-mands respect and for aught any one in society knows he is a foreign count and as such she frequently refers to him I among rival society ladies I Our second class of customers are young ladies of fortune and refinement who for some reason have no beaux It may be that they are not handsome or that they are excessively diffident and have frightened eligible young men by their shyness Our No1 athlete warranted war-ranted for two years affords them an excellent i ex-cellent beau with whom they may go I everywhere and whom they may flaunt wth triumph in the faces of rival belles Honely young ladies who have tried this styV of escort have written many testi1 morals to us in which they say that withn a few weeks after engaging our i athl es they were surrounded by scores of adnirers Mny of our athletes go as protectors for nevous old maids They demand al i lowant for double time in the payment of theiiwages and it is hard to get one for the tgk Old maids with corkscrew curls vrh make the mirror change color when the look into it are proverbially afraid of lashers and it is to protect them agaiijt the impertinences of these people tha our athletes are engaged The old mids pay well and we are always al-ways glad ti have them on our books tThe onl drawback to our business is I the fact thamany of our athletes marry J I their emplo rs and cease to pay sixty j j per cent of teir incomes to the agency I We are also nnoyed by an agency in the Bowery vjich gets up counterfeit athletes an works off Tim Phelans toughs on tb most exclusive families in the cityrelt1 York Journal |
