The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-08-02
NINE DAYS IN NEW YORK
SORT OF DIARy nv q IT II 4
OF DIARY BY G. u. H.

/ crtulteu, L must confess tnat 1 nave
read some of these books several
lines. The Kentucky Cardinal and
Aftermath could be read about once
year and the Choir Invisible every
once in a while.
| So you can see why I would rather
spend an evening with Mr.. Allen
than TO go to the Hippodrome.
| Mr. Allen greeted ME with rs this
YOUR first visit to New York;" And
| to my: reply said, Then you have no
time to spend with me-" But as ,
have said we should all choose to do
the things that we like best-in New
York.
Mr.. Allen is tall weli-built man.
six feet two. perhaps. and looks the
part of an aristocrat. He wears a
heavy gray mustache. and might be
| described as handsome in personal
| appearance. He never married. He
lives in an apartment. He is sur
| rounded with comfort, good taste and
| modest luxury. He has been i'll for
| a year and is more or less confined to
| his home at the present time.
! He talks entertainingly and mod
| estly too little about himself and
| his books. He answered questions
patiently. He grew up in Kentucky.
Went to college in Lexington. taught
| in the academy and in other colleges
| taught English and History. Later
ne went to New York. stayed there
and has grown to like it.
In talking about The Reign of Law
said. Mr.. Allen / knew David.
knew the room he occupied in the
old dormitory. the back window to his
-oom. the old Locust tree which bore
the burdens of the kitchen and the
laundry- / have watched it budding
in the spring time. Yes" he said.
Il knew them too"
But" | said, You left out one es-
sential detail" What was that?"
he said quickly The odor from
the back yard" / told him. Yes
| knew that, too.' he said. And our
| times were twenty-five years apart.
Talking of "A Kentucky Cardinal"
told him that lot of my friends
had always wanted to know how many
toes Georgiana lost when Joe came
chopping down the log with his lit
tie hand AK He laughed and said
| that he had been asked that question
more than any other about his books.
having had many letters on the sub
| iect. but that he always replied that
he knew no better than they-that all
| he knew was what you could read in
| the book
He told me some interesting expert
ences in the early times after col
| lege days. He was teaching in col
leges in Missouri. One time near
| Lexington, Mo-, he, with others on a
stage, was held up and robbed by the
James and Younger boys. He didn't
have much money to contribute but
they took his coat and vest and a
valuable old watch. At Richmond
Mo-, when both were teaching in an
academy he roomed with Charles J !.
Hughes, who later became the great
corporation attorney of Denver and
iU. S. Senator from Colorado. In
those days as all thru his life Mr..
Hughes was hard worker. He
spent many hours writing-writins
writing. He was studying law and
Mr.. Allen thought he must be writ
ing imaginary briefs and speeches.
With Mr.. Allen literary work is
a keen pleasure. He has a new
story just about ready for his pub
fishers. 1t will deal with Kentucky
life of little later period than the
life in the other books.
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| On my way down town l dropped
on the car-or rather climbed out OF
the subway at 50th street to look Up
my old Colorado friend Walter Juan
Davis. Mr.. Davis used to write a
lot of good stun for The Denver Post
which you have all read. He is now
writing good stun for the New York
Morning Telegraph. He is working
like galley slave at nights. but looks
well and happy