Show tHE PIE GIRL IS ALIVE I CTOR IN STANFORD WHITE DINNER DIN-NER NOT DEAD ute Johnson Declares Money Was Paid Her to Disappear from ViewTells How Feast Was Planned New YorkThe Girl in the Pie to figured so prominently In the mulng revelations of upper life In lew Yorks Bohemia a few years ago id who was reported to have died of cMtimptlon Is alive and literally king Susie Johnsonsuch Is her amedld not get married did not die nnn of consumption and was not burled In Potters field as was alleged when the notorious pie Incident was brought up during the first trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White White was one of the diners at tho celebrated dinner given by Jimmy Breese at which the high filers of Now Yorks rapid set were present He became much Interested In Susie Johnson after she made her sensational sensation-al exit from the big pie In which she was concealed at the now historic I carouse A worldwide search was made for her when the matter came up during the Thaw trial but she was not found A importer tlie other dew met the young womnt who Is hale and ex trcmoly hearty Why did yon not contradict those reports of your marriage desertion and pathetic death 1 asked the re porter Money replica the vie girl placid ly as she slipped off her dancing slip ¬ per and shook out an ordinary bit of sand Money she repeated thought fully The same money that makes men take long chances down on Wall street the same money that makes diem sacrifice fame and friends the same money that makes Mr Rocke I feller happy and Mr Carnegie build I libraries kept Susie Johnson tho girl In the pie out of sight I was doing pretty well thank you by Just keeping still But now the time for keeping still la past I Just want to say that a lot of stuff published about me was not true No reporter has ever talked to me I was spirited away when that dinner broke up and no one not oven my own parents saw me for a long long time Perhaps other girls represented themselves them-selves as Susie Johnson and did the talking I never did They said I was married and that my husband brooding over my role In that famous dinner went nearly Insane and deserted de-serted me I never married They said I had consumption I have never been 111 a day And youll admit Im I very much alive i Now that my lips are unsealed I am willing enough to talk My memory mem-ory for dates Is not very clear but I think that dinner was given In May 1895 I had been posing for various artists head and figure and was just 15 years of age Henry C Poor gave the dinner In honor of a business friend whose name I do not remember remem-ber In the studio of James I < Dreese on Sixteenth street I think Robert Reid planned the dinner and Mr Poor footed the bills because It was Mr Reid who engaged me and told me what a great event It was to be One hundred and fifty quarts of champagne he said had been ordered and the dinner was to cost 100 per plate without the wine He rehearsed me very carefully for the part I was to play You see I had posed for him very often and ho knew Just what to expect of me He bought a great shallow pan or tub Just big enough to hold me and had a cover of crust baked for It Then the crust was very carefully lifted off I was put Inside and the cover laid over me My shoulders were draped with black gauze and a blackbird such as you put on a hat was fastened In my hair which hung down around my shoulders shoul-ders In my hand I carried a box filled with tiny birds As soon as the crust was cut I took the lid off this box and out flew the birds Then I popped up Into view |