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Article: Lonely Evanston Bachelors Send out Call for Genial Mates


Letter to the Chicago Tribune on January 19, 1915:

Away out in Evanston, isolated in a Y.M.C.A. dormitory, far from the sound of a sewing machine or a breath of the biscuits like mother made, are thirty bachelors, tired of restaurants, weary of the freedom that knows no feminine touch -- and, O girls! SO lonesome!

Organize Lonely Club.

On Saturday night they organized the Lonely club. They elected C. M. Daniels of the Bethlehem Steel company president. As a result the following letter reached THE TRIBUNE yesterday: "Referring to the news item in this morning's TRIBUNE regarding bachelors in Canada who want wives, we want to say if there be any nice girls in Chicago who are looking for husbands they need not go so far to find them. There are thirty of us men, who live here in the Y.M.C.A. dormitory, ages from 18 to 40. We are all well bred. Most of us are business and professional men and able to provide a good home for the right kind of a girl. While we do not want to be understood as advertising for wives, we would like to meet a few nice girls who are also lonely -- and leave the rest for Cupid. If the Chicago girls want to meet some lonely bachelors they need not go to Canada. Send them to Evanston. Respectfully yours. DORMITORY MEN.

Look 'Em Over Girls

Here, girls, is the roster and their qualifications. Look them over:

E. A. Barber, bookkeeper.
William P. Barth, lawyer; "fireside" man.
A. E. Bassett, traveling salesman; prefers stenographers.
H. R. Bunce, assistant physical director; dark hair, gray eyes, and good looking.
J. L. Cooper, bookkeeper; prefers blonds.
Ralph Church, lawyer; light curly hair and gray eyes; prefers heiresses.
C. M. Daniels, steel man; bald head and blue eyes; devotee of skating; both ice and roller, and fond of widows.
Lieut. De Forest Davidson of the Illinois national guard and superintendent of streets of Evanston; blond with blue eyes; fine carriage.
N. T. Dowling, lawyer; no opinion.
Howard Dwan, student.
John Dwan, traveling salesman.
J. L. Gedney, salesman; open to conviction.
Ebert Hastings, office secretary; very studious; admires religious type.
Charles Z. Henkle, contract agent; favors trained nurses.
Karl Hoffman, motor expert.
Robert E. James, credit man; former basketball star; likes the athletic type of girl.
Alex Johnson, machinist.
O. A. Johnson, clerk.
E. M. Keays, railroad man.
Owen King, lawyer; blond; likes music and new dances; would marry good dancer.
Walter Koren, heating inspector; blond.
Riley P. Martin, retired newspaper man; leaving soon to look after extensive interests on Pacific coast.
Stanley Martin, organist; likes sopranos.
Arthur Nelson, clerk.
Lee Nelson, jeweler.
C. F. Sexton, insurance; admires good housekeepers.
Thomas Sheridan, patent attorney; known as "Handsome Tom"; 6 feet 2 inches, with Apollo figure; owns an auto.
Emery S. Sherwood, private secretary.
John Stewart, city engineer; former shortstop on Illinois baseball team; prefers plump girls.
Stephen R. Truesdell, civil engineer; tired of mending own clothes."


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