The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-01-29
n Bunked Broadway" Says
Miss Sachen, "Tilt Pa
Split the Beans
C0NFESSES TO REPORTER
Pretty Girl, 18, at Hotel Nc
Alpin Tells Of One Mad,
Glad, Glorious Week.

Here was, handing Broadway the
bunk by the bushel. and going stronger
with each edition of the newspa pers.''
sighed Miss Louise Sachen to large
congregation of reporters assembled
around her in the Hotel McAlpin yester-
day afternoon, 'and-holy fathers =
what happens? Pop. away out there in
Kansas City. up and spills the beans"'
Miss sachen. It may be necessary to
explain here. ~ the ever so charming
young 'wondrous eyed unspoiled queen
OF the Alaskan wilds,'' ''the daughter OF
the far frozen north gasping In awe ar
her FIRST sight of man in his highly civil
lied state" the lovely child Of nature
who--''
Well. see any edition of the past week
or more of the leading newspaper In
all Greeley Square. the paper that dis
covered Miss Sachen soon after she ar
rived here from Kansas City. via Chi
cago week ago last Friday. and
promptly started out--with the able as
sistsnce OF the sob sistern and brethern
Of some more papers-to air each day
the views Of the quaint little snowbird.
ting great city for the first time in
her life"
Old Nick Upset the LeRumes.
"Bunkins Broadway" repeated Miss
sschen yesterday. as IL to herself. in
whispered. awestruck tones. Gee
The night before once she had learned
that her father, Nick Sachen OF Kansas
City. had SPILLED the beans when Man
haitian newspapers filled with heart
tnrobs about Louise had been brought
20 his attention. she had successfully
evaded even the very interviewers who
throughout the past week had been maxi
ing her famous. Yesterday afternoon,
however, after thinking over the f,cts
about herself which she read in THE
SUN yesterday morning. "the unspoiled
child Of the wilderness''-or Kansas City.
Chicago and all points east-decided TO
face the music.
The girl who had had her moments
during the week, who had received
vaudeville offers, invitations to lecture
70 learned folk. to teas to theatres. to
dances, to automobil trips, to meet
famous men-all in ore mad. glad. glo-
rious week, and all because. as Our Chaun-
cey Depew once was quoted as saying,
"the newspapers can make you In an
hour and break you in a minute"--yes-
terday came bashfully into reception
room Of the McAlpin. her head bent
slightly and her eyes showing signs Of
tears Just wiped away. She 10 only IS.
"I Never Did No w rong to Nobody
"well." she said listiessiy as she sat
down. a suspicion of tremor in her
voice as she prepared to face the music
Go ahead. Ask me, boys. III tell you
the whole truth. Go on bunked
Broadway for week and broadway
liked It. and liked me. And now be-
cause the town has found out it's been
bunked I suppose it's sore and wants to
bust into me. Go ahead and
But listen here :" she cried with head
raised suddenly as she gazed straight al
the critical audience before her. "you
boys got to get one thing right. l never
did no wrong to nobody in my life--noi
even TO myself earned by working
hard the 81 a day l spend for a room
here. l was in Alaska / hate Kansas
city. When ] got here ] said ! was
from Alaska, which was true
'rhere was piece in Kansas Cit,
papers when ! got home from Alaska
last May and I thought maybe the New
York papers would publish a piece abou
me II ! said here I came from Alaska
But thought 1t would be just a few
l.nes-I never gave no thought to al
these columns after columns of bunl
here-never dreamed of II. The re
porters came to me and asked me 70
Impressions and l gave 'em. And, bang
Broadway falls so hard. and it's 70 mucl
fun, and the going is SO good-wel
would you fellows cut your own throats
Would you? Would you?
Now" she said. with something ap
preaching liestlessness again, TASK me
shA
silence that ensued. the first suspicio
OF a whimsical smile twisting her lips
-this. I s'pose. will be tho fare-thee-wel
interview. Louise. But while II laste
II sure was one of those things"
And there's one other thing" she be
gan again with renewed animation. whil
intsrviewers were preparing with pre-
hminary hens and haws.
She Didn't Work in . Besnery.
u never worked in a Chicago beaner
like pa says. What does he know abou
h'-!he amt heard anything about m
since left Kansas City. I wouldn't b
ashamed to say 1t II l did. You stan
corrected just because didn't, that's al
ne only thing connected with beanerie
IN my life is the beans that pa spille
all over the works"
How did you happen to leave Kansa
City and go to Alaska. Miss Sachen?'
Because" she answered promptly.
had an aunt going there. My aunt gt
divorce and then she went to Alasls
and went with here three years ag'
ia have gone any place rather tha
stay in Kansas City.
In my family in Kansas City yo
gotta be a Austrian like my father. VI
father had ton children and we all hs
10 60 to a Austrian convent in Kansf
City and associate with Austrians. II
ioea was that when one of his girls G,
sbout 15 years old she oughts. mar
the first Austrian that come along viii
about 5000. Thatd be fortune
Austria, SO pa would arrange who
should marry.
"oh-yes-he-would! Not! wants
10 get an education that was Americs
ana be and live like other America
girls In town. 10 did my older sists
too' What did want to be around
school where we got only q foreign laI
Sasse and stun about religion and q
like that for? F n
80 bust right out II Pop wouidn
send me to an American school I'd I
10 work and make money to 90 to on
90 s got Job pushing plugs In Kansl
City and"
Pushing piugs9"
fes-fu thA tslsnnona axcha naA. Al