The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-09-25
the TRAGIC AND
ROMANTIC LIFE or
OWEN KILDARE.

ton" Ia based on the life Of Owen
Kildare, the famous writer and
40 called Bowery KipliDg who
gave to the world in his book,
"My Mamie Rose a STORY that
was proclaimed q classic from
the moment It made its public ap
pearance. Owen kildare wa
born on the Bowsry. His father
had died before he was born and
his mother gave her life in bring.
ing him into this world. He
was adopted by \ rough family
on the East Side, and at seven
years Of age, a kicked into the
street, bare-fOoted and half clad
by his drunken foster father
Wandering through the snow
filled streets, cut by wintry
blasts, he found q place to warm
himself over the grating OF an
engine room in a big newspaper
office, where were huddled sew
eral other similar unfortunates
waiting to sell their morning
newspapers.
They welcomed him - one of
their own, and the next morning
saw him q full ledged newsy.
From then on. his career was q
varied one. He rose rapidly to be
q Bowery tough, q bar tender, .
saloon bouDcer and prize
fighter Of no mean ability. He
was nearly thirty years old when
he met Marie Rose Deering,
whom he later immortalized in
his famous book, my Mamie
Rose" Owen Kildare was STAND.
ing in front Of a saloon where he
was acting az %bonDcer, when sew.
eral Of his companions began to
insult q beautiful young girl who
was passing.
He had not been paying much
attention to the proceedings IN
til he heard a feminine voice ask
"and you call yourselves mens"
The peculiar sweetness of the
voice attracted KIldare's atten.
ton, and then the sweetness of
her face brought him to her i'm.
mediate rescue, and IN less time
than it takes to tell, he bad
knocked down several of his
tough Bowery friends and Of
course, nothing was more natural
than to ask to see her safely out
OF that low neighborhood.
This woman brought The great
change into Kildare's life. He
saw her many times after this,
and It was duIDg one OF these
times when she was inviting him
TO attend q church sociable and
had given him a card bearing the
address Of the place, that she
discovered that be could neither
read no write. Then II was that
she undertook to teach him.
Like . child, he learned HE A
b. O's ahd proved an apt pupil,
and II was not long before he
was reading and writing fuently.
Rhen he and his young teacher
became engaged to be married.
Kildare's whole life had been
centered In his sweetheart, and
the day Of their wedding had
been filed, when she sickened
and died. With her, died all OF
Kildare's hopes aud ambitions,
withered and crushed ~ If BY an
unquenchable FIRE For many
monthe be Vas crazed with grief
and at times, went back to his
old Bowery life to drown his
mental anguish Memory Of her,
however, would always bring
him back to himself again, and
later 10 life be began to accom-.
plish things. He wrote "The
Rsgene ration," which proved his
fn Il undoing, for the demand for
It's quick production placed him
under such menial and physical
strain, that he collapsed. Final.
", he became 30 generous that
his wife, who was . newspaper
woman, was forced to have him
placed In the hands Of the an.
thorities, and 10 1911 the life OF
Owen Kildare, the rise Of which
lad been like unto that Of . me.
teor, passed ont Of this world.
But the children OF his brain
aud the sweet situations that he
created through his romance
with Mamie R0se, will live on
forever, and to-day in the won.
deffnlly sweet and powerful dra.
m nffn af0rC AZ seTho Ra9anApn