davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-24
ENGINES
IN TUNNEL
COLLISION
Victims are Burned BY Molten
Metal and Rushed 10 the
Gary Hospital.

A head-on collision between two To-
| comotives. one hauling a load of white
I hot metal. this morning caused a ter
| rible explosion in the tunnel under the
! 2'ew YORK Central tracks between No.
and No. 2 plants Of the Inland Steel
ana injured seven men. none of whom.
however, were injured fatally. All of
/ the injured were rushed to Mercy hos
pital a. Gary for medical attention.
ENGINES MEET HEAD ON
The accident occurred this morning
| about seven O'Clock in what the Inland
steel employees know as the new tun-
mol which Is about half way between
the Canal and Michigan avenue and con-
meets ~ ! plant with No. 2 plant An
inland Steel locomotive was pulling a
load of three or four ladies' filled with
white hot metal from No . to No.
Plant and had just reached the middle
of the tunnel when an Indiana Harbor
Belt switch engine coming from No. l
plant met it head-on.
NARROW ESCAPE
The collision caused some Of the white
hot metal from the ladies' to splash out
upon the damp ground in the tunnel
and the resulting explosion shook the
were slightly burned in the explosion
but not enough metal spilled to cause
disastrous explosion Had the ladies
which contained more than 100 tons Of
metal turned over the entire tunnel
would probably have been blown to
bits.
CONSIDERED LUCKY
OF the seven men in the crew who
were injured six of them were able to
walk out of the tunnel and wait for
the ambulance to take them to the hos
ritaL The seventh, man by the name
Of Chadwick who lives on Common
wealth avenue Indiana Harbor. suffer
ed broken leg and it was feared that
amuptation would be necessary.
Fololwing the accident an engine was
hooked on to the ladle cars and the
metal was taken back to No. ? plant
after which work of clearing the tunnel
was Immediately begun. Plant officials
consider the accident very lucky mas
much as no one was killed
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-24

The wisconsin Lumber company has
filed suit against Frank CvitiSovich. ct
al. for foreclosure OF a mechanics lien.
Attorney J. D. Kenned yis appearing
for the plaintiff.
Jose ~, Wlcockaon, et--ai. were
made defendants III a auit on account
filed hy George W, Cottrel. through
Attorney Trau Greenwald.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-24

On streets and newsstands, &c
Hammond ard Wesl hammond
per copy. Delivered by carrier n
p0c per month.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-24
THE WEATHER.

FOR INDIANA - Partly CLOUDY
with probable occasional showers
saturday and in extreme north por-
tion.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05

age of eleven. couldn't have been
older, because-as is we'll known
illusions as to nobility latent in bell
boys do not survive the twelfth
birthday.
And then, only the other dav |
found while overhauling some old
papers a copy of Harper's Young
People dated 1908, to which | had
contributed gratis half-column ac-
count of life in a newspaper editor
lal room. In the same year. the
same department, the Round Table.
or the same publication, printed a
short article of mine descriptive of
the Library Of Congress at Wash
lngton. | was fourteen then; and it
must have been at about that age
that [ discovered that writing was
work, for, aside from one or two
dlmly remembered essays in pre-
destined futility, | did no writing
That can recall until was twenty.
Then, finding myself a father after
two years Of being an irresponsible
husband, and being, to boot, sorelv
IN want Of money to exc out an in
adequate wage which I was then
earning in a clerical position. be-
gan to write again.
4" did first tragic short story
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05

launched out as free lance writer,
and came damned near to starving
before | sold anything more.
"Oh, yes he continued, "those
were days Of industry. There was
the time wrote two-thirds of a
popular priced magazine which was
launched about that time-two-
thirds of its first issue, that is-and
more than one-third of the stuff it
published in it's first year, using no
less than seven pen names to cover
not my duplicity but my multiplicity
III It's usages, wrote day and night.
sometimes turning out more than
$4,000 words in twenty-four hours.
and kept this up for about three
years., until by some freak The Brass
Bowl made hit with the public and
more money for me than 1 had ever
dreamed was in the writing game. so
that | could afford the time to Law
Oft and take life more easily and
grow self-conscious about nv writ
ing.
People are always asking me how
write my stories, whether prepare
synopses, whether use pencil.
whether l wear dressing gown or a
monocle while writing, and the time
Of day when / write best"
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05
launched With Mrs. Leeds

Mrs. Leeds, now Princess Christo-
pher of Greece, figures often. There
is one particularly interesting anec-
dote of her boy and another Of her
self
launched with Mrs. Leeds,o the
Colonel says. Owe had a political
talk, and then she told me a lot
about her boy lie is at Morton S
school, where young Lord Herbert
now is. The Leeds boy is being
brought up as though he were the
son Of q poor man. She gave me an
amusing example. He had written to
tell her that he was obliged to take
half Of a half-crown tin of Bovri]
every day, and he wished to consult
her whether he could at the same
time buy a Charlie Chaplin outfit.
She had written to tell him that as
health was his first consideration.
he could have the Bovril but the
outfit must wait until Christmas
He gets 50 a quarter from the
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05

of the Civil War, which my friends
praised and editors didn't, although
did sell the fool thing two or three
years later, in abbreviated form, for
S25. My second short story, "a
Western,' as we'd call it nowadays,
sold Immediately to newspaper
syndicate, for $25, and The Sun
used it in it's Sunday edition and
reckoned myself an established au-
thor and wrote a lot more, a few
of which proved salable, generally
for $25, most of which died a-born-
ing.
''Then, for a year or so, wrote
and peddled to newspapers with
pages devoted to children lot of
rhymes and stories for children.
Some Of the stories fetched as much
as $40 or $12. Then somebody told
me that the average novel was about
100000 words in length. and | fig
l!rcd that by writing / 500 words a
night for a little over two months
could produce q novel. and did it.
and sold the serial rights to Mum
sey's Magazine for $500, and hneto
that | was regular author at last,
and resigned my clerical job-which
had been holding down for the sake
OF its So3 week all alonr-and
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05
Breaking Into the Writing Game

I'D REAKING into the writing
4 b game IS such a puzzlng
business. AS we look with
mingled envy and reverence at the
author who has arrived and is the
happy parent of dozen best sell
ers, we wonder, those of us who
have never tried it, why every one
doesn't do it; and the rest of US.
how any ono ever did. Louis Joseph
Vance. one Of the most popular
writer's of mystery romanccs, tells
how it happened with him.
II broke in he chuckled, o'with
pen and ink; that is to say, at first:
later with typewriter. Stamps,
sweat, paper, groans, mucilagc and
a lot Of little things like that like
wise played parts, Of course. Oh,
yes and bills and bills and bills
Mr.. Vance disclaims being an in
fant prodigy, but the impulse to
write came carly
Like fair majority Of selling
.platers in the writing game he
says, 81 seem to have been scrb-
bling more or less aimlcssly ever
since | cnn remember distinctly
recall writing a pathetic sketch
about a noble bcllboy In a hotel on
school exercise papen at about the
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05

pei, who says that second youth re.
sultlng from a man Of fifty-eigh,
marrying a pretty woman is only
transient-a st. Martins summer
Lady Randolph Churchill does no,
like the free and easy manners brea
by the war. Repington says:
IN the evening a pleasant dinner
with Mrs. Astor. came away early
with Lady Randolph, and we walked
to the tube. She compared the
present unfavorably with the past.
Formerly people who were fond Of
each other appeared immaculately
dressed without a hair out Of place
and on terms of stiff formality. Now
people slapped each other on the
back and pretended to be attached
and it meant absolutely nothing
There is an interesting paragraph
on Lady JellicOe:
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05
The Potential Grandmother

When Lady Cunard's daughter be-
came engaged Colonel Repington
says:
Il don't think Lady c. much rel
lshes being a potential grandmamma
tor she is so indescribably young"
and little later he tells of one Of
her hits at Arthur J. Balfour:
launched in Cavendish Square.
Balfour and Winston very interest
ing at lunch, Lady c. occasionally
throwing in her usual impromptu
and startling observations. such as
that Balfour was an abstraction and
not a man, and that the upper part
OF his face was like Christ's-which
made A. j. B. laugh consumedly.v -
There is another good story on
Balfour:
launched with Mrs. Greville and
found the Spanish Ambassador, Sir
Mark and Lady Sykes, Sir Fritz
Ponsonby, Lady Abingdon, Lord
Qucensborough and Lady Cunard. I
told the story Of Balfour, who. on
being Informed that we had lost
1000 guns. replied calmly, oh, real
ly, what bore This story brought
up one by Mark, who said that as
ne had been sent by the w. O. to
keep touch with the f. O., he thought
1t right to report himself TO Bal
four. who said to him: But. nv dear
Mark, | thought that you had been
at the Foreign Office for years.
<Ihe Ambassador also told us that
Cambon had grumbled to Balfour
about the latter's Zionist plan and
had reminded B. that, according to
prophcsies. the end of the world
would follow the return of the Jews
to Palestine. That is Just the point. >
rejoined Balfour. Think how in
teresting it will be for us all to
see it,"
Mrs. keppel, according to Colonel
Repington. does not think high]v Of
old men marrying young girls. He
says Of her:
Had a long talk with Mrs. KEEP
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05
Turned Down a Throne

The other story relates to the
Americans liking for crown.
Colonel Repington writes:
I'm the afternoon had tea with
Mrs. Leeds and she told me as a
good joke regular fairy story.
One day at Montreux in the spring
a delegation had arrived from Lith-
uania to offer Prince Christopher
the drown of this newly created
state. Mrs. Leeds had fled in a car
to the other end of the lake. to avoid
the deputation. When Prince c..
told Mrs. Leeds of the offer she re-
piled that she would rather be q
lamp-pos5 in New York thar Queen
Of Lithuania."
Later: ut struck me to-day that
the stake burning affair has put
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05

Mrs. Leeds still more off the throne
OF Llthuanla, as she does not relish
frlzzling. She prefers England and
liberty to a crown and stake. But
she would go if she were told that
it was her duty"
The Countess of Pembroke. who is
referred TO as Bee" is character
lied as "a very gallant lady and
keeps up her wicket in these hard
times" There is story of her in
Paris:
Bee sat between L. G. and
BRAND one night at the embassy in
Paris and translated the questions
and answers. L. G.. asked what
BRAND would now do in his place.
BRAND replied that he would have
l. G.'s information and would act
accordingly. L. G. asked how many
times BRAND had been P. NJ. Sew
en- times replied BRAND. when
Will you be +. Nj. again?' 1 have
been inoculated so often that | am
free of the disease Bee described
L. G.'s infectious enthusiasm as he
rushed in to announce Austria's sur
render. The terms asked had been
purposely made most severe in order
to test the weakness of Germany.
OF the Marchioness of Headfort
Colonel Repington says:
Lady Headfort is good looking
and clever and no actress-peer mar
rlage has been so entirely success
full Countess Curzon of Kedles-
ton, who was formerly Mrs. Duggan.
rs a very pretty woman; most
charming and restful, but has got
many enemies, probably because she
is such success"
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05

At THE upper left is Vis.
4 countess Cureon, called
"lndescribobly yo'ng' for
q potential grandnother at
the time her doughter's en-
gogement araS announced
Upper RIGHT, Countess
- Cur1on Of Kedleston,
most charming and restful'
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05
''Princess Patricia

sipy Colonel "Princess Patricia
of Connaught also there. 1t is
pleasure to see a princess who is not
dowdy. The Princess very delight
full when the first formalities began
to wear off. She is rather like
Juliet DnH "
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05

much wealth, and she and her hus-
band had determined this boy should
only have it if he proved worthy
of If :,
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05
Lady Jellicoc on Jutland

Lady Jellicoe told me that during
the first three months Of the war.
when there was no safe port, Jellcoe
had coaled and victualed at sea ana
had only entered harbor twice. She
was very critical of the way Balfour
had announced the Jutland fight
she had to explain and excuse her
Admlral's action. She Thought the
official Admiralty approval of Jell
GOES proceedings very cold. She
said that the Admiral now skated ii
the morning at Princes, but tool
little other exercise. The war staf
constantly rang him up at night, anc
as he was gun-deaf it dcvolved Oh
her as rule to wake him up.
said she ought to stop the staff wax
ing him up except in case Of real
necessity, but she said that she could
not oppose his wishes The worsi
was that when he had given an order
he turned over and went to sleep
while she lay awake thinking Of the
lives that would be lost A woman
of character"
American finance comes in for
limited approval from Reginald Ne
Kenna. The Colonel notes:
"Dined with the McKcnnas and
Lady Paget at Smith Street. No
kenna told US the story Of the
Goeben. He also said that America
would have all the money and the
knowledge how to make munitions
after the war and would be the
greatest power in the world. He had
found J. P. Morgan and others had
learned lot about finance and wefs
now less provincial"
Winston Churchill's account of The
inception of the tanks is given. The
story came out at a luncheon, as
follows:
Secret of the Tanks
"Lunched with Lady Cunard.
Winston, Lord and Lady Frederick
Blackwood and Lieutenant Herman
Of the French War Office. We had
a great discussion about the famous
tanks, which made their first az
pearance in the field in last Friday
battle. Winston said that. though he
had in his mind II. @. Weiss pre-
diction about them, they really de-
veloped from the armored motor ca
which trench warfare had RENDERED
useless. They were taken UP by the
Admiralty. He found that he hac
some money to spare and he applied
1t to this purpose. To that extern
the initiative and responsible:
rested with him"
There are many brief characters
cations, as that of Niscountess Cur
zon: Lady Curzon also there, looS-
ing like a pink rose" Lady d'Aber-
non: plays tennis well and has the
figure of a girl still. For how man!
years has she been one Of the mos
beautiful! fair women in England.
Lady Loughborough Lady l., aiia
Australian, very dainty and charm.
ing. Has already had two sons, o.
whom she says that she is frlghtene.
to death" Millicent Duchess O.
Sutherland: What wonderful
woman. She could easily be take
for twenty-five" Lady Downshi"
is "a beautiful woman with grss'
natural dignity"
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05
4 u Y RIBBLESDALE.

IL formerly Mrs. j. j. .Astor,
IS q great tauorite Of the
Colonels. Seeing her IN her
electric brougham, he says
she looked "f0r all the rorld
like q beautiful piece of
Dresden china IN a glass
case"
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05

aon and not allowed to have than that Of
tips II nearly sons Of
this vcious
day want good outfits useless
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05

rather contemptuously to her friends
She's no 81 Young as a that.'o
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05
( LIEUTENANT COLONEL C.
a COURT REPINGTON'S
4 laoI- IT. Ir.-.4 IuA<.les ~.

published by the Houghton
Miftlin Company, is really q tran
scription of his diary through the
period from 1914 to 1919, and
large part of its interest lies in his
plquant personal comment and the
anecdotes related, such. for example,
as where he tells of a dinner at the
Ritz and continues:
"Afterward a vaudeville and Lady
Constance Stewart Richardson poxd
and contorted and danced in few
clothes and with bare feet. She
looked like white dervish. Lady
Straiford declared that she was, play
ing John the Baptist and that her
contortions represented her attempts
to find locusts and wild honey. Many
fled when Lady C. danced, including
Sir William Robertson, who, when
asked whether he did not think she
had very fine leg, replied that 1t
was just like any other damned
leg "
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05
Didn't Like Alexandra

Okun Like alexandra
Queen Alexandra did not please
him SO well. Of her he says:
Went down to Coombe this aft.
ernoon. Had an interesting talk
about the command in France, when
Queen Alexandra was announced,
and | was caught and could not get
away. She was very charming, but
very deaf. | wonder why royalties
will stand up for SO long and make
every one else stand"
Lady Ridley is one of those Colo
mel Repington most admires, as
witness the following comments on
her:
Lady Ridley looking more like a
Hopper portrait than ever.
Went on to have talk with Lady
Ridley at her house. She has a re-
markable capacity for rapidly an
alyZing q situation and arriving at
the truth, and do not know any
woman in London better worth con
sulting.
"The Prime Minister telephoned
that he would lunch with me to-day,
so l invited Lady Ridley and Mrs.
Astor to join, but at the last mo-
ment the P NJ. could not turn up.
We had very pleasant lunch all
the same and a great political talk.
Both fair ladies wero very intelligent
and penetrating in their criticism of
minister's"
Discussing the Future
Lady Ridley and I discussed
what posterity would think Of US in
England. We agreed that we should
be considered rather callous to 20 on
with our usual life when we were
reading of 5000 to 1000 casualties
a day But she said that people
could not keep themselves elevated
permanently on some plane above
the normal, and she supposed that
things around us explained the
French Revolution and the behavior
of the French nobility.'
Another to whom he gave his ad-
miration was the late Lady London
derry, of whom he saws.
Heard this morning with deep
sorrow Of the death of Theresa Lady
Londonderry last night, after a short
and sharp illness. She was in the
House of Commons only on Tuesday
last. a great figure gone and a real,
true friend A grande dame Of a
period which is passing; one of the
lost striking and dominating femi
nine personalities of our time, ter.
rlfying to some, but endeared to
many friends by her notable and
excellent qualities. She was unsur
passed as hostess, clear headed,
witty and large hearted, with un-
rivaled experience of men and
things social and POLITICAL and with
a most retentivc memory and i'm
mcnse vivacity and joie de vivre."
There is a piquant anecdote of
Lady Carson told by herself:
Lady c. said that she was wait
ing for Sir L. (Sir Edward Carson,
the Ulster lcadcr) outside the club
at Belfast the other cay in her car,
which had one window down. One
'shawlie' got on the step and looked
In and examined her. Then She
stepped down and SAID loudly, IT'S
his wife Then second 'shawlic'
got up and polecd her head in and
ba"led out as she got down, She's
vara young Whcreupon a third
mounted and poked her head in turn
10 have u good look and then shouted
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05
A Luncheon Quip

Lady Juliet Trevor, who through
most Of the book was Lady Juliet
Duff, was sprightly conversational.
ST The following bit is recorded
from luncheon: Lady r. (Lady
Randolph Churchill) said that no
woman ever loved good man, and
Juliet agreed, saying that it was
the last thing that gave any salts
faction. Lady r. said that man
had terrible advantages over wom-
an, IA he came into the cradle fully
armed. Lady Cunard thought that
= woman ought to have romance
and man sense of humor.v
Another time: Juliet said that
everything went back to love, even
70 her conversations with Cabinet
ministers. ! DO not wonder with
such a lovely lady" On another
occasion: Lunchcd with Lady Juliet
She has decided that she cannot
fall in love with anybody while
She has hospital accounts to do"
At tea with Lady Juliet: "We SUP
nose that ten yeara hence VIC shall
ail have 70 live on what we can
'~fn. She III going TO be typist
and "a teach French, also Russian.
10 those who DO not understand it,"
Princess Patricia Of Connaught,
row Lady Ramsey, IL compared to
Lady Juliet:
Travelled down to Giynde TO stay
v''th Inc lsIingtons," rays tho Cos
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05

0F LADY HEADFORT It
- Is recorded 'Lody Head
fort IS good looklng and
clerer and no octress-peer
marriage has been so en-
tuc|Y successful
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05

T ADY CUNARD (atpper
Ii left) is recorded as say
ing that "a aron1an ought to
hare romance and q man q
sense of humor'
COUNTESS OF PEN-
~ BROKE upper right 81
described as "a rery gallant
lady Who keeps up her wicket
IN these hard times'
New-York tribune., 1920-12-05
Praise for Lady RibblesdaIe

Lady Ribblesdale, who figures
through most of the book as Mrs.
John Astor, is one of Colonel Rep
ingtons favorites. He says of her:
"She looks in her electric brougham
for all the world like beautiful
piece Of Dresden china in a glass
case While another of his COM
ments is:
To-day went to see Mrs. Astor,
who is just back in Grosvenor
Square after nearly three weeks Of
the nursing home. She was look
ing like a beautiful French eight
eenth century aquarelle, half sit
ting up in a French bed with blue
silk hangings and coverlet, and with
pink pillows and pink jacket with
much lace on it."
And when Mrs. Astor and Lord
Ribblesdale were married the Colonel
remarked:
We were thrilled in the morn
ing to read that Mrs. John Astor
had been married quietly to Lord
Ribblesdale. A most suitable al
lance. There is no one the least
ike either of them, and l am sure
that they will be very happy"
Some Of Lady Ribblesdale's rel
atives also come in for praise, es-
peciaAy Mrs. Phipps, Of whom he
says: Went down to Wilton Park,
Beaconsfeld, to stay with Mrs.
Astor. There Joined us Mrs. Phipps
delicious little sister of Waldorf
Astor. She Is small and very pret-
ty and all on wires, dances divinely
and sings charmingly to a guitar y
A Luncheon Quip
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-14
CARLOAD OF ALCOHOL
TR|PPEO UP BY POLICE
Local Party Bound for Philadel'
phia Came to Grief Through
Officers Vigilance.

Three persons were arrested md lW
quarts Of pure grain alcohol seized when
the police stopped and searched an auto
mobile shortly after o clock last night
Mt Market street bridge. The persons in
the car had been under suspicion for some
time. but, the police say, always managed
To elude the vigilance Of the police until
their arrest last night. They are: Charles
kolakowski, Cos South Van Buren, street
Blanche Kadznnowski, 307 Maryland
avenue. and her son, Zygmond.
They were arraigned in City Court
today for violating the State liquor law
and nj the request of their counsel, j.
Frank Ball. hearing was continued until
Friday.
Last night the police discovered that
the party was going 10 start for Philadel-
phia in n high powered automobile and
officers we're stationed Mt various streets
leading from the city 10 the Philadelphia
pike. From n description furnished them
Officers Blackiston and Cats recognized
the car and stopped II At the Market
street bridge Search showed that tho
car was filled with tin containers of pure
grain alcohol.
The woman, who keeps small iewelry
store at MARYLAND avenue and Linden
street. had case of jewelry IN her pos
session
The machine carried license No. 23l6
which belonged 20 another car. II ~ be
icved. the tag, IT IL suspected, having
been transferred without being registered
An additional charge ~ not having propel
license tags was placed against the
woman.