Show TWO OF CRAE A bew york newspaper man who knew stephen crane one of the most promising writers of english of his generation who died before he was 30 when he was in london just after his ret irn from the gracco turkish ar relates some amusing stories con berning that erratic genius one morning crane dropped into a newspaper office to borrow a eign from a friend he said that he was going to luncheon with harold frederic now also dead for whom he had an admiration almost anointing amo inting to awe but with whom he was then only tl acquainted though they afterward became inseparable friends in the middle of the itter noo i crane came back tor another eign and told a tale of woe he had asked frederic into a p ib to have an appetizer on their way to luncheon and had handed it the sovereign he had just borrowed in payment there for the barmaid had laid the change down before fredeca who engaged in an earnest discussion with crane had mechanically picked it up and put it in his pocket without pausing for a moment in his conversation cranes reverence for hia felloe craftsman vas so profound that he preferred to lose the money rather than embarrass him by asking for it acquaintances of S S mcclure pro inetor of mcclure s magazine will appreciate crane s emotions on an other occasion about the same period mcclure has two brothers and the t ree bear a striking resemblance to one another with their pronounced scotch features and fair hair and mus baches crane rushed up to a friend in trafalgar square one morning in a condition of great excitement I 1 ve had a terrible shock he said I 1 was coming through the strand just noa and I 1 saw three S S mcclunes mcclures McC lures standing at the corner of bedford street |