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      An old friend of mine, who was for many years a baggage master on the New York Central, told me the other day a story of Lola Montez, which is rather funny and quite characteristic of the self-willed Lola, of whom I have already written in these reminiscences, and who was really one of the most remarkable women who ever visited New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Lola had been playin\u2019 at the Bowery Theatre, and had made a hit. She was billed for Central New York after this, and so took the cars at Albany for her destination. Palace cars were a luxury not known in those days, so Lola proceeded to make herself as comfortable as possible without \u2018em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The cars were well filled on that trip, and among her fellow passengers was a straight-laced old Presbyterian Minister and his sister, a still straighter-laced and tight-laced old maid, who, as luck would have it, had their seats right behind that which Lola Montez occupied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Lola had a supreme contempt for \u201cthe common people,\u201d caught probably from her intimacy with the king of Bavaria. Besides she always had made it a rule through life to do just as she pleased anyhow. So after the cars had started she pulled a package of cigarettes from her pocket, selected a cigarette, produced a match box set in diamonds, a present from her old admirer, took from it a match, lit the match, lit the cigarette, and puttin\u2019 the cigarette to her pretty mouth coolly puffed at the cigarette. This series of proceedin\u2019s had been watched with the most intense astonishment by the Presbyterian minister, and with the most intense disgust by the minister’s sister. When the proceedin\u2019s were completed, and the cigarette was gettin\u2019 smoked, this astonishment and disgust found vent in energetic ejaculations. By this time the attention of all the rest of the passengers in the car had been attracted to Lola. Every eye was on her, but she smoked on as undisturbed as if she was in her own room, with her boon companions. In fact she rather enjoyed the sensation she was creatin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The conductor of the train, a young man, who, however, knew Lola by sight, happened to be in the car at this moment, and anticipatin\u2019 what trouble might be in store for him from the eccentric women’s freak, went into the car behind, where Lola’s agent and her maid were seated together, and requested the agent to inform Lola that smokin\u2019 was strictly prohibited in the passenger cars among the ladies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The agent refused to carry madame any such message. He said, and truly, it would cost him his place, and for all he knew would raise a row between himself and his principal. Lola always treated her agent and people around her very kindly as long as they did precisely what she liked, and behaved like what she considered \u2018em\u2013her servants. But the moment they bothered her in any way she would either whip \u2018em with a little whip she constantly carried with her (and which whip she had by her side in the car this trip), or ship \u2018em, or both. The agent this time was a nice little poodle dog sort of a chap, who got $30 a week, and was afraid as death of Lola. so you can easily imagine he wasn’t goin\u2019 to risk everythin\u2019 just to oblige a car conductor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The conductor himself was now in somethin\u2019 of a quandary, and determined he wouldn’t act in the matter till forced to; he wouldn’t say anythin\u2019 to Lola till somebody said somethin\u2019 to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He hadn’t long to wait. The old maid sittin\u2019 behind Lola, and gettin\u2019 the full benefit (?) of her smoke, made such a fuss that her brother was compelled, reluctantly, to get up and hunt up the conductor and complain. Then the conductor summoned up his courage and his smiles, and beamingly informed madame that the other ladies in the car objected to her smokin\u2019, and that it was against the custom of the country for ladies to smoke, as well as against the rules of the railroad company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Lola Montez didn’t make as much fuss with the conductor himself as he had expected, but she vented her wrath on the old maid and her brother behind her, to whom she rightly attributed the interference of the conductor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      \u201cShow me ze ladies who objects,\u201d said Lola, who often spoke broken English, as if a foreigner, although she was said to be really an Irish girl by birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cThis lady objects, for one,\u201d answered the conductor, pointin\u2019 to the minister\u2019s sister, \u201cand that gentleman,\u201d pointin\u2019 to the minister, glad to throw the responsibility off his own shoulders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cZat creature,\u201d cried Lola, looking at the minister\u2019s sister,  \u201cand zat thing,\u201d looking at the minister. \u201cHave they ever traveled and been abroad in all zair leetle lives? Have zey ever been at court? Bah! what do zees canaille know of ze manners and customs of ze fine ladies and gentlemen’s of ze world? Bah!\u201d And she puffed her cigarette more fiercely than ever, and tossin\u2019 it out, gave the minister and his sister the final puffs thereof, right in their faces, makin\u2019 \u2018em cough desperately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Then she turned to the conductor, and with great majesty inquired, \u201cHave you on ze train any place where a lady (a most tremendous emphasis on the \u201clady\u201d) can enjoy her cigarette, undisturbed by ze barkin\u2019 of ze canaille?\u201d (A most tremendous look at the seat behind her.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cThe only place on this train where smokin\u2019 is allowed is in the baggage car, in the rear,\u201d said the conductor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cZen show me the baggage car,\u201d said Lola, risin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The conductor, stammering, tried to assure madame that the baggage car was uncomfortable, and not in any respect the place for her; but madame persisted, sayin\u2019 \u201cShow me ze baggage car. Better to be surrounded by ze baggage zan ze boors.\u201d  (Another tremendous glance at the old maid and her reverend brother.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The conductor reluctantly led Madame Lola, snappin\u2019 her whip viciously every now and then (as if she was lashin\u2019 some imaginary minister and old maid), through the train and the baggage car, which was then full of trunks, includin\u2019 her own, and occupied by the baggage master and several assistants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The conductor thought madame would be disgusted by the looks of things here, but he didn’t know women and Lola Montez. She would have smoked now on top of the engine boiler itself. Drawin\u2019 the skirts of her rather short dress, black velvet, as usual, tightly around her and takin\u2019 no more notice of the baggage men than if they had been so much baggage, the madame mounted on top a big black trunk, and kickin\u2019 her heels against its sides every now and then tappin\u2019 it with her little whip, smoked a fresh cigarette, and smoked it with a vengeance, scatterin\u2019 the sparks about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Somewhat annoyed at the contemptuous way in which she had utterly ignored his presence, the baggage master remarked to her, \u201cMadame must be careful that she does not set fire to the baggage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      With a look of freezin\u2019 dignity, worthy of her friend the king himself, Lola drew herself up on the trunk, looked at it a moment, and then said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cHow you dare speak to me in zat way. I am sitting on my own baggage\u2013smokin\u2019 on my own trunk.\u201d (As she was.) \u201cIf I set fire to zis I will stand ze loss. Meanwhile I will sit and smoke.\u201d And she did so for an hour, smokin\u2019 some ten cigarettes without speakin\u2019 one word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Lola Montez, like Ada Isaacs Menken, had the faculty of attractin\u2019 women to like her. Although Menken was looked down upon by society women, the women who met her, or were around her on the stage, fairly worshiped her. Lola had an adorer in madame Leoni, the swordswoman. This Leoni first met Lola at a ball at Niblo\u2019s saloon on Washington’s birthday, and fell in love with her on the spot just as if she had been a man. Lola was dressed in her favorite style, rich black velvet, with fine old lace, the dress being modestly high-necked, long sleeved, but fittin\u2019 very closely to her perfect figure. She stood a little apart from the crowd with a gentleman, lookin\u2019 at the animated scene with her big ,round black eyes, which were the great feature of her face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Leoni was \u201cstruck\u201d at once, got introduced to Lola right off, and kept as near to her as she could all the rest of the evenin\u2019. Lola didn’t dance, so Leoni didn’t dance, much to the disgust of her partner. Lola didn’t eat any supper, Leoni didn’t eat any supper, either, still more to the disgust of her partner. Lola left the ball at an early hour, Leoni left right after her, most of all to the disgust of her partner, who soon \u201cwithdrew\u201d in favor of his rival, Lola Montez, bein\u2019 the only case I ever heard of in which a man backed out of courtin\u2019 one woman on account of her courtin\u2019 another woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But although Montez had several female admirers besides this Leoni, yet it was a woman who went back on her at last, and it was this woman’s goin\u2019 back on her that chiefly caused her death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     There lived in Brooklyn a pretty and clever young girl, who attracted Lola’s notice one evenin\u2019 in some way\u2013I don’t precisely know what. At any rate, Lola took a wild fancy to this girl, and wanted to adopt her, but to this her mother wouldn’t consent. She did consent, however, to Lola’s spendin\u2019 money on her daughter, which she did in her lavish way, as if money was water, and there was never to be any water famine, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The young girl had a fancy to go on the stage, and this fancy Lola gratified, of course, givin\u2019 her some instructions herself and gettin\u2019 good teachers to impart the balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Lola wasn’t flush at this time, but she raised all the money needed for her new hobby by pledgin\u2019 her diamond rings, of which she had plenty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But, spite of all Lola’s lovin\u2019 care, the young girl didn’t do as well on the stage as Lola expected. So she tried to introduce her to some rich young men whom Lola had met around town, thinkin\u2019 that the clever young girl might get well married and settled, which would be far better than makin\u2019 a stage hit, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Her hopes on this point were gratified. A young swell about New York, the junior partner of a bankin\u2019 house, met the girl at Lola’s place, took a fancy to her, and finally married her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Now this young swell had been a kind of pet of Lola’s, and she had always treated him well when he called on her, which he had done pretty often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But knockin\u2019 around town is one thing, and marryin\u2019 is another thing, and it don’t do to get the two things mixed. So when he proposed to marry this clever young girl he exacted of her two promises, one that she would retire from the stage, and give up all idea of ever becoming an actress; the other promise was that from the time she pledged herself to marry him she should have nothin\u2019 more to do with Lola Montez\u2013should never call to see her, nor let Lola call on her, should never write or speak to her, should act as if no such woman as Lola Montez had ever lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The clever young girl married the rich young man, and Lola Montez was not at the weddin\u2019 because she was not invited. But Lola, although the highest spirited kind of female, ready to resent a slight on anybody anywhere at any risk, didn’t resent this indignity, but tried to kind of explain it away to herself and friends as a strange mistake, but only a mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      And one mornin\u2019, meetin\u2019 the clever young girl, now a bloomin\u2019 bride, alightin\u2019 from her carriage on Broadway, Lola Montez, in her warm-hearted, impulsive way, rushed up to the girl she had fondled, loved, educated, spent money on, pledged her diamonds for and got a husband for, and openin\u2019 her arms would have held her darlin\u2019 in her embrace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But the lady (?) she would have embraced drew back, pretendin\u2019 not to know her, or as if Lola was crazy, and passed on without a word or look of recognition from her carriage to the store, where she bought a bill of goods, as calmly as if she had not just committed a crime blacker than thievin\u2019–a crime at which many a pickpocket or cutthroat would have shrunk, and which no sort of a dog could ever have committed under any possible circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Meanwhile Lola struggled and staggered on the sidewalk, and came near faintin\u2019 away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      She went back to her home, or rather her lodgin\u2019s, for she lived in a very humble way then, over in Brooklyn, near where she had just met this ungrateful girl. She had no money now, no diamonds to pledge for it. They had all been swallowed up in reckless acts of generosity and in doctors\u2019 bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      She went back to her room in Brooklyn and wept the rest of the day like a baby. She had never wept when the king, her lover, turned his back on her, and the mob had clamored against her. She had been full of fight then. But now she felt, like Old King Lear in the play, heartbroken, and from the same cause, and pretty soon she acted like King Lear. She didn’t do all weepin\u2019– she did a good deal of cursin\u2019, ere she got through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The next mornin\u2019 she called at the house of her ungrateful charge, forced her way into her private room, and there in the presence of her husband and her maid upbraided her terribly. She looked and talked then just as grandly as ever Ned Forrest did in the curse scene of Lear himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      She had her revenge. The husband felt for awhile thoroughly ashamed of himself, and as for the bride she could have crawled through a knot hole, for her new French maid from Paris was looking on and understood pretty well what it was all about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But it was not revenge for Lola wanted most just the\u2013it was love, and medicine, and affectionate nursin\u2019, which she couldn’t get. True, the lodging housekeeper over in Brooklyn did what she could for her, and tended her till she died, in return for which Lola left her all her worldly goods, which didn’t at that end amount to much, but still Lola Montez missed at her deathbed what she ought to have had\u2013the gratitude of the girl she loved, and she died not only in a strange land, but poor, and among strangers, and of a broken heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Editor’s notes: The top picture of this post, showing Lola holding a cigarette, is the first photo taken of a woman smoking. A short summary of Lola’s amazing life<\/a> can be found at her burial place, Green-wood cemetery in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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