Peeps at People: Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup
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John Kendrick Bangs
John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922) was an American writer and editor best known for his works in the fantasy genre. Bangs began his writing career in the 1880s when he worked for a literary magazine at Columbia College. Later, he held positions at various publications such as Life, Harper's Bazaar and Munsey’s Magazine. Throughout his career he published many novels and short stories including The Lorgnette (1886), Olympian Nights (1902) and Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1907).
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Peeps at People - John Kendrick Bangs
John Kendrick Bangs
Peeps at People
Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup
EAN 8596547167655
DigiCat, 2022
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Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
NANSEN
MR. HALL CAINE
EMPEROR WILLIAM
MR. ALFRED AUSTIN
ANDREW LANG
ZOLA
SIR HENRY IRVING
IAN MACLAREN
RUDYARD KIPLING
THE DE RESZKES
HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ
GENERAL WEYLER
ILLUSTRATIONS
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PEEPS AT PEOPLE
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NANSEN
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It was in the early part of February last that, acting under instructions from headquarters, I set forth from my office in London upon my pilgrimage to the shrines of the world's illustrious. Readers everywhere are interested in the home life of men who have made themselves factors in art, science, letters, and history, and to these people I was commissioned to go. But one restriction was placed upon me in the pursuit of the golden Notoriety, and that was that I should spare no expense whatever to attain my ends. At first this was embarrassing. Wealth suddenly acquired always is. But in time I overcame such difficulties as beset me, and soon learned to spend thousands of dollars with comparative ease.
And first of all I decided to visit Nansen. To see him at home, if by any possibility Nansen could be at home anywhere, would enable me to open my series interestingly. I remembered distinctly that upon his return from the North Pole he had found my own people too cold for comfort. I called to mind that, having travelled for months seeking the Pole, he had accused my fellow-countrymen of coming to see him out of mere curiosity,
and I recalled at the same time that with remarkable originality he had declared that we heated our railway trains to an extent which suggested his future rather than his past. Wherefore I decided to visit Nansen to hear what else he might have to say, while some of the incidents of his visit were fresh in our minds.
The next thing to discover, the decision having been reached, was as to Nansen's whereabouts. Nobody in London seemed to know exactly where he might be found. I asked the manager of the house in which I dwelt, and he hadn't an idea—he never had, for that matter. Then I asked a policeman, and he said he thought he was dancing at the Empire, but he wasn't sure. Next I sought his publishers and asked for his banker's address. The reply included every bank in London, with several trust companies in France and Spain. To my regret, I learned that we Americans hold none of his surplus.
But where do you send his letters?
I demanded of his publisher, in despair.
Dr. Nansen has authorized us to destroy them unopened,
was the reply. They contain nothing but requests for his autograph.
But your letters to him containing his royalties—where do they go?
I demanded.
We address them to him in our own care,
was the answer.
And then?
I queried.
According to his instructions, they are destroyed unopened,
said the publisher, twisting his thumbs meditatively.
It seemed hopeless.
I BOARDED A PJINE RJAFT
Suddenly an idea flashed across my mind. I will go, I thought, to the coldest railway station in London and ask for a ticket for Nansen. A man so fastidious as he is in the matter of temperature, I reasoned, cannot have left London at any one of their moderately warm stations. Where the temperature is most frigid, there Nansen must have gone when leaving, he is such a stickler for temperature. Wherefore I went to the Waterloo Station—it is the coldest railway station I know—and I asked the agent for a ticket for Nansen.
He seemed nonplussed for a moment, and, to cover his embarrassment, asked:
Second or third class?
First,
said I, putting down a five-pound note.
Certainly,
said he, handing me a ticket to Southampton. Do you think you people in the States will really have war with Spain?
I will not dilate upon this incident. Suffice it to say that the ticket man sent me to Southampton, where, he said, I'd be most likely to find a boat that would carry me to Nansen. And he was right. I reached Sjwjcktcwjch within twenty-four hours, and holding, as I did, letters of introduction from President McKinley and her Majesty Queen Victoria, from Richard Croker and Major Pond, Mr. Nansen consented to receive me.
He lived in an Esquimau hut on an ice-floe which was passing the winter in the far-famed Maelstrom. How I reached it Heaven only knows. I frankly confess that I do not. I only know that under the guidance of Svenskjold Bjonstjon I boarded a plain pjine rjaft, such as the Norwegians use, and was pjaddjled out into the seething whirlpool, in the midst of which was Nansen's more or less portable cottage.
When I recovered I found myself seated inside the cottage, which, like everything else in the Maelstrom, was waltzing about as if at a military ball or Westchester County dance.
Well,
said my host, looking at me coldly. "You are here. Why are you here?"
'MR. NANSEN?' SAID I
Mr. Nansen?
said I.
The very same,
said he, taking an icicle out of his vest pocket and biting off the end of it.
The Polar Explorer?
I added.
There is but one Nansen,
said he, brushing the rime from his eyebrows. Why ask foolish questions? If I am Nansen, then it goes without saying that I am the Polar Explorer.
Excuse me,
I replied. I merely wished to know.
And then I took a one-dollar bill from my purse. Here, Mr. Nansen, is my dollar. That is, I understand, the regular fee for seeing you. I should like now to converse with you. What is your price per word?
Have you spoken to my agents?
he asked.
No,
said I.
Then it will only cost you $160 a word. Had you arranged through them, I should have had to charge you $200. You see,
he added, apologetically, I have to pay them a commission of twenty per cent.
I understand that,
said I. "I have given public readings myself, and after paying the agent's commission and travelling expenses I have invariably been compelled to go back and live with my