O.O. McIntyre

Dayton Daily News/October 6, 1914

NEW YORK, Oct 6. There is an automobile concern over in Jersey that makes ten cars a year and sells them for $10,000 each. It is the highest priced American car on the market and only about 30 are in use. This factory caters, of course, to very rich clientele but it has evidently not reached the limit of ultra-exclusiveness, the last word, as we say at the Union club. Consequently a new car, the total output of which will be five a year, is to be put on the market next season. Several New York millionaires are said to be behind the venture and the first five cars have already been sold for $20,000 each. Auto experts say it is impossible to put that much in a car and get better results than the highest priced American and foreign cars now, so it is presumed that the new car will be very nifty when it comes to trimming and upholstering. It is not believed the new concern will worry Mr. Ford any.

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Leslie Quirk, the writer of books for boys, is back from a summer vacation in Wisconsin, his native state. It would seem that writing juvenile fiction is about the most profitable, and requiring the least endeavor of all literary work. Mr. Quirk writes two books a year and says he can do them in about a month a piece. His royalties furnish an income above the average, and by writing a few children’s stories on the side for Sunday school publications he is enabled to dart hither and yon in an automobile and support a shooting lodge in the west. The demands for juvenile stories are always heavy and a writer who can please children has about the softest snap we know of. One of the big newspaper syndicates has a man who writes bedtime stories for children. An account Is kept in the office of the most popular feature with all the clients served by the syndicate and the bedtime stories are far ahead of any other feature—which shows that in the final analysis the little ones are the biggest circulation getters.

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The 12 Chinese maidens who entered the United States to be educated under the American indemnity fund, which was formed when America remitted $14,000,000 of the indemnity paid by China, are taking New York by storm. They are said to be unusually brilliant and their comments—all speak excellent English—about American customs are most naive. The girls smiled at Chinatown and declared that if it was in China it would be made more sanitary immediately, The Woolworth building interested them most of all. Several of them made a half dozen trips to the tip of the tower. The girls have been students at the Tain-Hua college at Peking, which is conducted in a western manner, only English being spoken.