New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-29

Poor old Ruby Romancel She's a
game girl. is Ruby. and she dies hard
She has to struggle, does Ruby. IN an
age in which the venerable coaches on
the elevated are the only reminders OF
the good old days.
Ard 80 when Louise Sachen dropped
dow the Hotel MeAlpin and told
lust seven days ago last night that the
miners from Koyukuk 90 Juneau called
her "the Queen Of Alaska" and all that
sort Of thing poor old Ruby took a new
lease on life.
For seven sweet days Ruby ana
Louise romped hand in hand. Ruby rs
tened in admiration while Louise
smeared her Arctic ignorance all over
Broadway. Ruby even ceased to keep
forever green the memory of poor
dear Baron Munschausen." She de-
clared she'd found a new playmate in
the Kid from Koyukuk.
Well, Ruby gained weight while the
Most Nimble- Witted Reporter in New
York Che admits IT'D spent Greeley
Square money showing this "turrible"
city to the wide-eyed child Of the
frozen North. Day after day he filled
columns Of his paper with pictures and
stories Of the Juneau Juno. He kidded
the girl. kidded the city and kidded
other reporters. But he did not know
until Saturday night that he had kidded
himself. too.
Romance Gives Up the Ghost
He knows it now. He and Ruby Ro-
ance developed a severe headache on
reading the dispatches from Kansas
City, Kan, in which one Nick Saehen,
laborer, Of 5000 Dugarro Street, pricked
the bubble they had been keeping aioat.
Louise Sachen," the dispatches quot
ed Nick as saying, sure she's my
daughter She's been up in Alaska, all
right Worked in boarding houses up
there. Then she went TO Chicago to
work III a beanery. so she could make
eight bucks a week"
Poor old Ruby Romance took to her
bed at that. And when yesterday
Louise, with the eyes that had blszed
with amazement at the wonders of
great city dimmed by weeping, wrote
"Finis" under the tale of seven gold
trimmed days il was too much for Ruby.
"The old man had TO go and spill the
beans" confessed the child from the
wilds Of Kansas as she claimed a new
title-that Of "The Girl Who Bunked
Broadway" But she hadn't intended
her Barnum stunt to be on such
grand scale. She had sought merely to
see New York and be noticed little.
Poor old Ruby Romance! She sighed
once. And she yielded up the ghost.
Then came the autopsy. Six report
ers formed the coroner's jury. Seated
in the parlor on the sixth floor of the
McAlpin, the star witness, Louise, grew
more cheerful as time passed.
Louise's Real Story
"Mv intentions was good" said the
girl-and no one questioned this. "They
was-honest. Say, knew it was gonna
blow up. ] never knew it was gonna be
so big. | thought the papers might
have a little piece saying was from
Alaska. But they went and printed
lcn Dig stories.
what could do? could not just
tell you fellers, Say, boys, I've been
living TO you And | wanted people to
think | was from Alaska. Geel they
made such fuss about me. was
meeting swell people. Dye think
wanted to tell 'em my pepper was a
sparrow watcher in a park"
Briefly, her story is this. She is the
daughter of Nicholas Sachen, OF Kan
sas City She was born there, one of
ten children. She is a telephone opera
tor. She went to work when she was
twelve years old.
Three years ago she left Kansas City
for Alaska. She went to Fairbanks
with an aunt and got job as tele-
phone operator. There is Jack Ma
ioney" and he is her sweetheart. He
owns the telephone company in Fair
banks. He used to own saloon. He
gave her the diamond earrings, the
solitaire and the gold watch.
Wages are high in Alaska She
saved her money. With 81 900 she
came back last June to Kansas City.
"Well." she said, 81 stayed with my
folks three weeks. They amt like me.
The old man is an Austrian. Them
foreigners is funny. I'm American
see? Why, they wanted me TO marry