Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — Result of Advertising. [ARTICLE]

Result of Advertising.

- “Wanted —A young French woman to give Yhssoas to an American gentleman. Apply IJotel? ,10 o’clock Friday." The foregoing advertisement printed in a Paris paper, almost caused a riot at the hotel at the hour named. The American gentleman was Webster Jones of San Francisco. Mr. Jones left orders that he would receive applicants in a rgom at the hotel, and they might be* admitted to the corridor, pending his arrival. When he got there he found a line that reached out into the street and extended all the way to the Place Vendome. Five hundred dashing Parisian ladies were clamoring for a sight of the “American gentleman.” They were unanimously resolved to give him lessons. Jones was paralyzed at the sight and fled, leaving the hotel people to get out of the scrape as best they might. The managers and clerks argued in vain. The ladies would not be pacified. They clamored for a sight of the evasive American. The police were called. The women were put out, but more women kept coming all day. The hotel was under police protection sor x twenty-four hours. Jodes fled to another hotel, a wiser, and, perhaps a better man. He is now convinced that people read advertisements, but he has retired from the business.—Paris Messenger.