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New York World "HO FOR NEW YOR-R-K!" NOW SAYS MARY MACLANE. Montana Maid, Coming Here, Is "Almost Afraid," She Doesn't Know Why. (Special to The World) Chicago, July 15. - "Put me off at Buffalo" will be Mary MacLane's instruction to the conductor of the Twentieth Century Lake Shore train to-morrow. "I am going to stay over a day with my 'anemone lady's' sister. No, I won't tell her address. Maybe the 'anemone lady' will be there, but I think not. She is in Boston now. I will visit Niagara, and then go direct to Boston for a three weeks' visit with my 'anemone lady.' "And then - oh, then - then it will be New Yor-r-k!" declared Miss MacLane, ecstatically. "New Yorr-r-k! I have been there in my dreams. Do you know, I am almost afraid to go there. I don't know why, but I am." "Will you be sorry to leave Chicago?" was asked. "M-m-m-m, I don't know. It's kind of nice, and the Misses Monroe are awfully nice. I bought a pair of gloves this morning. White silk. Aren't they pretty?" "It was generally understood -" "That I wasn't going to New York? Well, I've changed my mind. I want to see new York worse than I wanted to see Chicago. Changed my mind, that's all. Had a right to." Regarding her plans after arriving in Gotham, Miss MacLane said: "I don't know what I'm going to do after I get there. I expect to be in New York about the second week in August. I've never made plans for more than a day ahead. What do you think? The manager of 'Floradora' offered me $500 to join something he calls a sextet. The idea! Things will be real bad with little Mary MacLane when she goes on the stage. I prefer scrubbing, smelters, and sand." Her publisher furnished her to-day with New York exchange in four figures and a roll of bills as big as an elephant's foot. Mrs Woods is the name of the woman in Buffalo who will entertain the "mountain maid." Aldermen Might Have Invited Miss MacLane to Address the Board. The Board of Aldermen felt badly that Miss Mary MacLane, the Butte (Mont.) woman who wrote a book revealng her innermost thoughts, tooth brushes and other things, should have determined to slight New York. Had it not been for the unexpected adjournment of the City Fathers yesterday afternoon, the following resolution, prepared by Alderman Timothy F. Sullivan, would probably have been adopted: "Whereas, The Board of Aldermen of the City of New York learns with pain of the determination of Miss Mary MacLane, of Butte, Mont., to ignore the metropolis of the western world on her triumphal journey to Boston; "Resolved, That a formal invitation be extended by the Board of Aldermen to Miss MacLane to visit the city of New York and that she be invited to address the Board of Aldermen at the next public meeting on the new literature of the new West and why the East needs it; also "Resolved, That a committee on reception and entertainment be appointed to care for Miss MacLane's tooth brushes and general welfare during her stay in New York." Alderman Sullivan said in explanation of his resolution: "I believe there exists a general desire on the part of the people of New York to see Miss MacLane. She is the most interesting woman of the new West and her book is the work of a genius. She says so herself. Miss MacLane cannot secure any idea of the high order of civilization and culture of the East without visiting New York City and inspecting its advanced institutions and meeting its cultured and learned men and women. "She could learn a lot in New York not possible for her to learn in Chicago or even in Boston. I think she is making a mistake by cutting out New York. Tammany would give her a big send-off if she came East. I hope Mary will change her mind." The news that Mary had indeed changed her mind came after the Board of Aldermen's adjournment. While Mr Sullivan's resolution is this made unnecessary, none the less may Mary know how New York yearned for her.
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