The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-11
MISSING MISS
FOOLS HUNDREDS
IN |RONBOUND
Walks Safely Through Big
Crowds Near CellulOid
COmpany's Plant.
MANY ACCOST HER, BUT
NONE WITH RIGHT WORDS
PlainclOthesmen Among Those
Who Fail of Easy Opportunity
to Identify Her.
BY II S S MISS.

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through the Ironbound district yester-
day, n in the vicinity of the Celluloid
Company's plant I was met in the
afternoon by thousands of people. 1
walked through the crowd three times,
and yet failed to be captured.
The whole trouble is that the con-
testants do not study the formula of
words. You must have the words COR
rect.
For n and one-half hours, from 4:45
till 6:15, l was in the vicinity of the
Celluloid plant, in East Ferry street,
and was positively accosted eight times.
None had the words right. however.
and the confusion of some when 1
stared at them was awfulIy funny.
1 am sure that many hundreds will
now recall the demure little woman in
a simple little pink Bingham dress n
large hat with a brown veil
holding in the feathers, and brown
elbow gloves. I admit that when l
first came In sight of the huge pile of
factories and saw the crowds hat were
waiting for me, hundreds of working
girls. hundreds whom I presume live in
the neighborhood, and. oh, thousands of
men of all kinds and sizes, not to men,
ton the children, / thought my time
had come.
Nor was the vicinity of the Celluloid
plant the only place where Iappeared, for
1 strolled all afternoon through the Sec
ton below the railroad, and saw ever Sc
many factories. and a number of pep
pie shouted jocularly to their friends
that 1 was the Missing Miss.
Told Who She Was.
1 got off a car at the juno
ton of Hamburg place and East
Ferry street and walked down
Hamburg place. 1 do not know
all the streets that I went through, but
l was. walking ever so long, n finally
found myself in. South street. The
young man who accompanied me spoke
to a number Of men and n Of them
told me his name was James Byrnes.
and that he was a plainclothes police
man. At the South street station the
young man stopped n spoke to a
policeman, who said his name was
| O'Rourke Two blocks below he spoke
to another policeman on foot talking tn
a mounted policeman. Finally I got
back on a Hamburg place car and
started for the Celluloid Company's
place.
I rode to Darcy street, and Just as the
whistle was blowing 5 / turned the
corner of .Ashbridge street between
the rows of factories, and at East
Ferry street saw a huge crowd with
papers in their hands. The street
is three blocks long. and there was
not another person on it, save poor lit
tie me. in a bright pink dress and big
hat. Well, 1 held my head high and
walked on confidently, and as l neared
the crowd I heard murmus: There's
the Missing Miss"
Mems Nerve Lacking.
Now, never tell me that women have
not as much nerve as men, for those big
strong fellows moved back and dared
each other to hold me up" I turned
east on East Ferry street and walked
through the crowd past the entire row
of shops and to the corner of Maya
zine street without being spoken to.
At this point I noticed that there was
a crowd of people at the East Ferry
Street Station of the Central Rail
road, and 1 crossed at this point and
mingled with them.
A sweet little girl. I should judge
about Is years Of age, said: please
Miss, are you the Missing Miss?" anc
when l smiled at her she walked away
But this was sufficient to give courage
to a stockily -built young man, in 6
dark checked suit, who a kept hi:
eye on me from the time I a started
below Magazine street, m he ap'
preached me rapidly.
Frosen with stare.
1 was close to Bowery street at THU
time and wanted to turn round an(
come back, so / went up a stoop ant
rang the door bell. intending to ask fol
some one. The stocky young man fol
lowed me up on the stoop and asked
Are you the Missing Miss?" doe
Mrs. Johnston live here" 1 parted
"Are you the Missing Miss?" he agaiI
asked, and I told him sweetly that
had been looking for my friend, Mrs
Johnston for ever so long.
l was sure that he would catch on,
but he seemed confused, and, tipping
his hat. walked away. I calmly cam
back through the crowd at the railroad
station and up into the crowd tina
seemed to me to be composed of mill
ions of people, all with papers, stopping
and accosting every woman about me
Suddenly when I was in front of tn
engine house, directly across iron
Ashbridge street, a big man in shir
sleeves, grabbed me by the arm ant
shouted belligerently: Are you tn
Missing Miss?"
I froze him with a stare and the mic
firemen started the laugh on him.
I then deliberately crossed the stree
at Ashbridge street to the steps of tn
Office of the Celluloid Works, and Will
| was pushing through the crowd tn
young man who had accompanied m
downtown stood on the Office stoop an
deliberately pointed me out to a mum
Der of men who were standing with hin
l stared back at them and l heard on
of the men who was in his shirt sleeve
and who / learned worked in the OF
flee. tell him not to try and fool hi
friends, / then walked westerly o
East Ferry street, and as 1 was jus
on the outskirts of the crowd two youn
men accosted me. The formula o
words seemed to be too much for then
One man approached me with tn
light OF a great determination in hi
eyes. opened his mouth, saw that I wa
calmly ignoring him and then fiushin
up he raised his hat without a wor