The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-15

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Maxwell Ryder. and Thanks. said the
refortsr thirsty Lama In the Sacred
city carvei him w like a Christmas turkey
and trank = toas' w Ryder IN the explorers
own blood, bn, nov u wearies him even n
think ~ II.
4 cavn't fawncy. you know. Why they
will brng up tho~e most embarrassing
ad~yenchaws.T said Mr.. Ryder yesterday
afternoon in his room 81 the Plaza Hotel
a- he lighted a cigar cite which Paul Arm
strong would calf The Ave cent kind. the
local kind. and turned to consult his notes
On tho Tbetsn adventure. The moment
was freed through the good Offices Of q
lama. good old durer he was, too. I lost
all interest in III" thing. even " ] was the
first European To enter the sacred city.
Ho~evah. IN you are keen on the thing.
I might say ] made the trp behind the
Babu Sarat Chandra Das OLD Dot and
Dash we fellows In India used to call him
-because 81 my interest in ethnoiogy.
a~nthropology and biology. having done
quite a bit q work in those lines. andowhen
old Dot and Dash left me at DonGtse |
ouched myself up with goldbeater's skin
me up in a yskis skin and in ] went in the
gates Of Lhasa ~ a smallpox victim. The
game was up, though. when a Lama the
did rotter -svskef me n lot OF questions
They took one ~ my men, Sonam DorJ.
and cleaned the flesh from his fingers and
toes, broke his ankles and burned out his
eyes. Then they alto him. laughing the
while. They would have done the same
TO me IL my friend the Lama hadn't Snug
gled me ont Of the country"
There WAS no Use Knocking a good story
by remarking that Thomas Manning visited
the sacred city in 1911, inst OF all Euro
peans; anyway. Mr.. Ryder wasn't through.
when my friend Col. loungh,sband
started out With the opening up expedition
in 1904 he sent for me. They all wanted
mo, NY hoy. and said: Ryder. We need
YOU. You have been there. You know
The road
Il answered like a fash 7 shawn't do it.
Why the hell should !? To me II would
he no more exciting than a walk from the
lock TO the Houses of Parliament. Make
your own way. It's an old story to me-
When the first Egyptian campaign. vas
On the London Pictorial World needed a
man 81 parts TO send along. Mr.. Maxfield
Ryder got the job. Bullets sang around his
ears. He knew Gordon. kipling himself
never got chummier with Thomas Atkins
than the man who tried to sidestep boredom.
II they had listened To- him the British
army would have saved Kbsrulm;
"Of course. after that said Mr.. Ryder,
there was nothing left for me to do but to
accept the editorship Of the London
Pictorial World 1t 10 now Block and White
! sold out awfter I had made it a 60. II
az Phil May, G~riefenhagen, Raymond
Potter, TO work for me and built up a won
dcrful stan, wonderful
Skipping over a few Old World rumpuses
Mr.. Ryder touched lightly On the Russo
Japanese War. II came ut q time when he
was sick OF dining out teaing and
receptions and theatres and drawing room
rot.
Away 7 went for Port Arthur, " said he,
determined to lie the first outsider there
before the shots were fired. Here's the
rotton luck 81 il: When ] arrived the first
man I saw was Will Greener, the Londop
war correspondent. He had beaten me
three hours. vas Disguised: Port Arthur
pHt dl " W INV a w. ~ 80
or not at all, d'you seer
Always fleeing and lodging soul weari-
ness Mr.. Ryder has written no less than
thirteen novels. -Handfa sted." Tho Junior
Partner The House at the Corner. : The
Green Chrysanthemum.' Wheels Within
Wheels whom Pleasure Quickeneth'--to
mention a few. Swinburne and the Proverbs
~ solomon have furnished him inspiration.
He happens on u neat phrase or epigram.
sleeps a night or two on il and writes a
novel just dashes IL on. tremen dously en-
thusiastic while at work. unacco untably
depressed and devoid Of interest and natural
pride when the job 10 once lone. Possibly
the stage has held his interest more atten-
lively. II seemed 80, because his voice
jumped above it's level tone and his eyes
flashed when he spoke Of his services to
the Drama in England.
Il have been associated - pretty
nearly every important theatrica al produc.
ton in England 10 the lawst twenty years.
he said. 1T was I who discovered Little
Lord Fauntleroy' and produced Il. IL was