Show Croy Tens Tells How He Won Fairest at Boarding House aT 4 c C p S L p ps s S A Mr lUr and Mrs Irs ISomer Homer Cro Cray Croy fled and Carol NEW YORK Jan 16 NEA NEA- NEA New York was romance to O. O Henry No boarding house was too poor no alley too mean that It could not produce for tor him those sparks which set tile Uie hearts aflame It was the ev everyday events of ot life which bore the real romance for tor O O. O Henry Every girl In a tenement to him was a potential Cinderella The boy who sold him his morning paper the young banK clerk who sat across the table at athis athis athis his boarding house had somewhere concealed the makings of ot Alladin's adventures or the wanderings of or Haroun al Possibly his spirit still lived In the theold theold theold old house at 55 Irving place his New York home when Homer Croy former Missouri boy now well known knon as of ot West of or orthe the Water Tower and R F. F D. D No 3 came there to At any rate Croy came to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York a poor boy with nothing but ambition to write He lived in the theold theold theold old boarding house which had been the scene of ot O. O Henrys Henry's life Ute here and from this boarding house he went to fame tame com comfort tort and best or of orall all to romance Heres Here's the way Croy tells the story By ISy HOMER CROY This Is our Romance I r was a green country gosling on ona ona ona a farm In Missouri and I pitched hay to get enough money to buy a second hand typewriter and the railroad fare tare to New YorK When I got here I moved Into a boarding house at 55 Irving place and had O. O Henrys Henry's old bathroom as this was the house where O. O Henry had lived Jived I was put at a table with nine girls I was the only man there there there-oh oh boy I r loved New York I looked em over o and picked the prize one one She was Miss Mae Savell Sa- Sa vell veil a Southern girl Just Up from Bagdad Fla which was then just justa a poor struggling state She Sha was wasa a stenographer and Want wanted to write So I sold myself to her and pretty soon we were both using the same typewriter When we were married we had motion pictures made of ot the wed wed- ding We were the first couple In the world to do this Well Mrs Croy began to write and has written four tour books books and and we are still married I guess that's some some Romance for tor a writer these days Just to b be married once In the days when we we- were hungry she sure could make a can cn of or beans go farther tarther than an anyone one else In the world She had a a. positive genius for fOl It She could frill up a bean and make me think It was a health diet We now live at Forest Hills Garden Garden Garden Gar Gar- den Long Island In a house that she planned and built She Is also a genius at planning houses I run the tho furnace But otherwise we are happy appy One or two points more On our Wedding anniversary we ve get the motion motion mo mo- tion Uon pictures out and nd run them oft off and say you you ought to see how styles have changed Also my hair w now have one child a girl 3 years old named Carol She came at Christmas time and that Is how she got he her name She seems to get her good looks from both sides of ot the hO house S |