Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1911 — WOULDN’T GO WITHOUT THEM [ARTICLE]

WOULDN’T GO WITHOUT THEM

Ocean Liner Is Held While Porter in Taxi Speeds to Ship with Wealthy Woman’s Lingerie.

New York.—Miss Elenor Spang, a wealthy unmarried woman, who owns a house in Washington and another in Paris and who recently has been a guest of the Hotel Plaza, was booked to sail on the Kronprlns Wilhelm. .. For several days past she had overseen the packing of her 15 trunks by her French maid, Celeste, who understands little English. She had placed some of her lingerie in a suit case to 'have by her in her cabin. When it came to packing her fishing implements—for Miss Spang is a great tyherwoman—she told Celeste to “leave out the longest reel” Celeste thought she meant the "lingerie.” When Miss Spang arrived at the ship, accompanied by Max Thompson, assistant manager of the Plaza, she found on looking over her baggage that the suit case containing the lingerie was missing. She became panic-stricken. No, it was absolutely impossible for a lady to sail under such conditions. She must have those things. What should she do? Sailing time was only M minutes away. Thompson dashed to a ’phone, called up a porter at the Plaza, gave

instructions where to find the suit case, and ordered him to rush to the Twenty-third street subway line in a taxi. Thompson dispatched another taxi to meet the porter on the Jersey side. Then Thompson begged the captalfi to hold the ship. The captain agreed to wait five minutes —no more. At four minutes past the hour for sailing no tAxi was in sight It looked as though Miss Spang would not sail. But exactly at 10:05 the cab come in sight The porter sprang out and heaved the suit case over the rail, and Miss Spang sailed.