Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-05
Meanwhile Authors First Wife Waits New
Shift in Life Drama.

NEW YORK, Oct. Harry Kemp,
''the boxcar poet" who eloped with
Mrs. Upton Sinclair. and subsequent
ly deserted lyrics for Masefield epics,
shipped on the Oceanic as a stowaway
yesterday morning and is now on his
way to Europe He had no ticket,
but had SO in American money and
an English sixpenny bit.
Just about the time Kemp stole
aboard the liner. Upton Sinclair
whose name has been linked in the
news with that of the Kansas versi-
fer more than once. arrived from Eu-
rope with the secopd Mrs. Sinclair,
who suffered a bad fall while on the
Continent, and is preparing to under
go an operation on her spine.
The coming and going Of these two
literary lights recalls the domestic
triangle in which each had part. It
was Kemp who, after attracting Sin
clair's notice by his poetic effusions,
visited the author of The Jungle"
via the side-door Pullman route, at
AIueUt Dcl.s anu lell SOOll lIlSItdllS
with Mrs. Meta Fuller Sinclair to set
up housekeeping a la George Elliot
and George Lewes in a $40 bungalow
at Point Pleasant on the Jersey
coast.
Their Idyll Didn't Last
Kemp affrms that Sinclair wanted
to secure a divorce so that really he
was no love pirate Their idyll, how
ever, did not survive the chilling
wind and rain of December for the
$3.50 a week allowance that Kemp
received from an admirer failed to
stop the leaks in the roof or procure
seclusion from the crowds of curious
that were driven past their seashore
retreat.
No poetical soul nor fineness of
character could stand such a test as
that, so Mrs Sinclair returned TO the
home of her mother In New York.
Later, 1t is said, while in sanitarium,
she found, in another sanitarium. sui
another soulmate in the person OF
Hugh Bert Halliwell. son of a wealthy
Poughkeepsie ieweler. His weekly
income was Just "a less than that
Kemp received, although the proVl-
sions of his fathers will gives nm
$3.50 when he marries.
This contamination, which for q
time he devoutlv wished, is sun IN
the future, for after vainly attempt
ing to secure a marriage license, Hal
liweu allowed the romance to lapse
/ This was last summer year AFTER
Sinclair secured a divorce. That
same year the author married again,
This time Miss Mary Craig Kim
brough, of a good Southern family,
of Greenwood, Miss. They went
abroad soon after their marriage.
Kemp Lonqs for Easy Winter.
So. while Sinclair is helping his
second wife prepare for an operation
and the first Mrs. Sinclair is await
ing a new shift in the drama Of her
life, Kemp is preparing to pass the
winter in England in more comforta-
BILE circumstances than face nm IN
the United States, for his literary
hacker to the extent of $3.50 a week
has withdrawn his remittance.
I'VE poets must get around in spite
of hard times" said Kemp just be-
fore he embarked, and ! have
bunch that a winter in London will
be nice"
Kemp's baggage consisted of rain
coat given by the dramatic editor OF
a newspaper TO which he pledged eN-
elusive tidings of his flight; some
loose poems and three books. One of
the latter was a Chinese grammar,
which he hopes to study between in
tervals Of boiler stocking. He reck-
ons that it will broaden his mind and
that he'll lose his only shirt less fire.
ouently if he has a line on what the
laundrvman's receipt really does
stand for.
Sure He Will Eat.
I'm going to beat the high cost Of
living" he said. by just walking
abroad at the dock and eating an eX-
ceUent lunch with the rest of the first
class. passengers while We are steam
ing down the bay. ! shall fade away
like the wreathing mists of dawn