White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-05-16
Possible and Impossible Ro-
mances Spring Up in
New York
SAYS CzAR'S DAUGHTER LIVES
Story Of Escape to New York Has
Many Believers In East Side-More
Incredible and True Stories Packed
Into Foreign Section Than All Movie
Directors In World Could Shoot In
Month Of Sundays.

For months I am told, many people
on the lower asst side have believed
that one of the cars daughters es.
capped the bOlsheviki, who would have
murdered her, and managed to get In
New York. There Is not an atom of
known fact TO justify this rumor, but
one of these days 1t may rise to the
dignity of the tradition of the lost
dauphin of France, writes Herbert
Corey In Tie Chicago News.
"Her old nurse saw her the other
day." the girl who was being inyolun-
tarily nodded to my form in last nights
subway crush told her friend. Il know
a girl who knows her old nurse. She
says there Is no doubt of It,"
The nurse talked with her, accord
Ing to the story. They met face to
face on a Broadway car. and at first
the little princess tried to deny her
identity. But the nurse knew her
and loved her too well, and so the
cars daughter told her pitiful tale.
She had been left for dead, but a
servant found that a spark OF life re-
NAMED and struggled her body out of
the pit into which the corpses of her
father, the emperor of all the Rus
sias, and of her mother, the czarina,
and of her royal brother and sisters
had been thrown.
Romances In the Slums.
The story of the cars daughter Is
TO the last degree improbable, but 1t
IS not quite impossible. It might have
happened, though one may be certain
that 1t did rot. But If it did happen,
it would be the most natural thing In
the world for the princess to come to
New York. This is the natural repos-
tory for old world romances. It is n
greedy, bad-mannered, pushing, gut
tural, good-natured, bullying, cringing
generous city-and there are more in
credible and true stories packed into
that district south Of Fourteenth street
and East Of Broadway than all-th
movie directors In the world could
shoot in a month of Sundays.
Within the last week l have heard
of the legitimate holder of a title
whose business here Is blackmail. OF
a man who was n millionaire In Mos
COW and who is living on the earnings
Of his pretty daughter, who clerks
downtown. OF a French countess"
who was once a figure In the gay
world In Paris and who now Is a shoe
clerk. OF a leader Of the Apaches of
Paris. who has become a respectable
business man. OF the captain Of a
German ~" boat who is a bookkeeper.
Such are the takings OF but a few
days fishing In the waters Of east side
gossip. Not one of these tales may
be true. haven't looked them up.
But they ere pale and lifeless COM
pared to some OF the proved stories
that have come from the slums. Run
away banker, crushed a%ristocrat, pro-
fessional murderer, fanatic, adyen-
turer, unfortunate-every tragedy In
Europe. n thinks sometimes, has an
echo in these dark streets.
She's Being Assimilated.
Two months ago a nice little girl
from Cincinnati came TO town as pri-
vate secretary for the head of a big
western concern. She is quiet, demure
and ladylike-but with q full share OF
western independence and self-respect
and pep. The first week she wrote
home TO her mother:
"This is a detestable town. l am
forced TO ride TO and from work in
the subway, in which / am mauled
about by crowds of foreigners. They
jostle each other like cattle. they are
odorous and they are incredibly I'M
polite. 1t seems sometimes that ]
shall be physically unequal to the
strain of pushing and showing through
these subway jams. II is rare to see
n man offer a seat 10 a lady and then
he is n westerner. No one has ever
said Excuse me- TO me-"
Yesterday she wrote:
"Home again after the uptown battle
in the subway. ! no longer resent the
pushing AMI showing Of the crowds.
Poor things, some Of them are half
speechless with fatigue. They are al
most faintlng on their feet. One gets
more pay In New York-but n pays
In strength and courage a dispropor-
Tomato price for every dollar"
That night she went to a movie and
had a corklng good time and this
morning she refused her employers
offer to transfer her to a western town.
She said she was growing sort of fond
of New York.