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'Noname! Author
Of Famed Nickel
Novels, Is Dead
Luis P. Senarens Was the
Creator of Fabulous
Frank Reade Jr.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
R ECENTLY the newspa
pers throughout the
country printed a brief
press association dispatch
which said:
NEW YORK.—Luis P. Sen
arens, seventy-six years old,
often called the “American
Jules Verne,” who wrote
1,500 dime novels under 27
pseudonyms between 1876 and
1910, died from heart trouble
yesterday in Kings county
hospital. Senarens, who be
gan his extraordinary career
at the age of fourteen, creat
ed the fabulous Frank Reade
and forecast in fiction many
modern mechanical develop
ments.
Son of an immigrant Cuban
tobacco merchant, Senarens
got his inspiration as a boy
from visiting the Philadelphia
Centennial exposition in 1876.
At sixteen he was earning
$200 a week and at thirty he
became president of the
Frank Tousey Publication
company, which published all
his works.
Thus was revealed, for the
first time perhaps, to thou-
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loon that resembled a modern
Zeppelin. Suspended below it by
slings was the hull of a ship,
complete with a rudder at the
stern and a searchlight at the
bow. Thus it was a combined
ship of the air and ship of the
sea, or in other words a sort of
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sands of Americans the iden
tity of one of their favorite
authors back in the days of
their youth when they tasted
of forbidden fruit be revelling
in the adventures of Fred
Fearnot, Young Wild West,
Old King Brady and espe
cially Frank Reade Jr. For
this brief obituary item un
masks, at last, the mysteri
ous, tantalizing “Noname”
whose imagination conjured
up for the use of the ingenious
Frank a host of mechanical
marvels which seemed weird
ly improbable then but are
commonplace enough today.
We are greatly impressed when
modern science and inventive
skill produces a “mechanical
man” who can speak and give the
correct answer to problems pro
pounded to him when the right
buttons are pressed. But back in
1890 Frank Reade Jr. had an
“electrical man” who could do
most of those things. If Henry
Ford and the other motor car
makers had read more of “No
name’s” nickel novels, the course
of automobile design might have
been far different. For Frank
Reade Jr. had a horse made of
steel with jointed legs, driven by
a steam engine inside. This ani
mal was attached to a solid-tired
vehicle in the same location where
the automakers attached an en
gine covered with a “hood” of
steel.
Four years later Frank Reade
was staging a race around the
world for a purse of $10,000. He
was piloting his flying boat, which
Is amazingly like a modern auto
giro, and his opponent in the race
was Jack Wright, diving through
the seas in his submarine which
had a neat, glass-enclosed con
ning tower. In fact, Frank was
a most versatile designer of fly-
ng machines. His “Monitor of
forecast of our modern seaplanes.
By the next year, 1895, Frank
had had another idea for air
travel. “Noname” called it
“Frank Reade Jr.’s Greatest Fly
ing Machine” in which he set out
for a bit of “Fighting the Terror
of the Coast.” The picture on
the front cover of this nickel
thriller shows a large biplane,
driven by two propellers, below
which is suspended a land-boat
with a hull similar to that on the
“Monitor of the Air” but equipped
with four wheels on which it could
“taxi” along the ground in land
ing or taking off.
Perhaps the most extraordi
nary invention of this ingenious
youth was his “Clipper of the
Prairie,” which was a sort of a
cross between a war tank and a
trailer home on wheels and which
Frank used for “Fighting the
Apaches in the Far Southwest.”
Above the cabin, or living quar
ters, was an observation platform
on which were built two turrets
and in front of the cabin was
mounted a good-sized cannon.
If the “red devils” escaped de
struction by the shots from this
cannon, they could be impaled
upon a sharp ram-like projection
from the front of the “clipper.”
This ram was also useful in get
ting a supply of fresh meat for
Frank and his friends, for the
picture on the cover of this par
ticular volume indicates that it
was used also for impaling buf
falo! Incidentally the “clipper”
was propelled by steam on cater
pillar-tread wheels which indi
cates that our “modern” cater
pillar tractors are “old stuff.”
According to Edmund Pearson
in his “Dime Novels; or. Follow
ing an Old Trail in Popular Liter
ature” (published by Little,
Brown and Company in 1929),
the Frank Tousey firm of which
Senarens was president in addi
tion to the Frank Reade Weekly,
also issued “Work and Win” with
its hero, Fred Fearnot; the “Wild
West Weekly” with Young Wild
West and his sweetheart, Arietta;
“Secret Service” with Old King
Brady and Young King Brady;
and “Pluck and Luck.” The Old
King Brady stories, he says, “are
attributed to Francis Worcester
Doughty, who, curiously, was the
author of works on numismatics
and archeology.”
Pearson does not give the au
thorship of the other Frank Tou
sey publications but it is not un
likely that Senarens, who was the
“Noname” of the Frank Reade
Jr. yarns, also wrote most of the
others under one of the 27 pseu
donyms mentioned in the obituary
story quoted at the beginning of
this article.
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Ten years ago there died in
Orlando, Fla., a man whose writ-
i) g career paralleled that of Luis
P. Senarens and the other writers
rc the nickel libraries and boys’
weeklies but whose literary prod
uct differed greatly from theirs.
He was Kirk Munroe and during
the period from 1890 to 1910 one
of the biggest events of the year
for Young America was the ap
pearance of a new book which
had come from his industrious
pen.
Munroe was a descendant of
Col. William Munroe, who was an
orderly sergeant in the Minute
Men of Lexington, Mass., when
they fired the opening guns of the
Revolution. He was born on April
15, 1850, at Prairie du Chien, Wis.,
where his father and mother, both
New Englanders, were living in a
mission. He was educated in the
common schools of Appleton,
Wis., and later in the schools at
Cambridge, Mass., where his par
ents returned for a brief time.
To the Frontier.
When he was sixteen he per
suaded his father to allow him
to spend his vacation in Kansas
City, Mo., which was then a fron
tier towm. He reached that place
just as a surveying party under
Gen. W. J. Palmer was preparing
to explore the vast region west of
Kansas City. By making him
self useful about the camp of this
exploring and surveying party,
young Munroe secured a job as a
“tape man.” Thereafter, for
nearly a year, the boy traveled
and camped through the wilds. He
saw much of Colorado, Arizona,
New Mexico and California.
He was engaged in numerous
skirmishes with hostile Indians,
was wounded, frequently went
hungry and thirsty and suffered
in the biting cold of those western
plains and mountains. Once he
was the guest of Kit Carson at
Fort Garland, Colo. He associ
ated with pioneers, soldiers, west
ern bad men and Indians. He was
well acquainted with Buffalo Bill
Cody.
In California he found a job as
a transit man, and after he had
saved sufficient money he took
passage for South America,
where he traveled extensively be
fore returning to Cambridge,
Once home he entered Harvard,
taking an engineering course, but
this proved rather slow and he
left college at the end of his first
year.
He was then nineteen. Once
more he went West to Kansas
City, but this time he was not so
successful in finding work, sihee
the labor of surveying was tem
porarily suspended, and he came
back East.
A Star Reporter.
Then was to occur the incident
that largely determined his future
career. His familiarity with the
Big Horn country, where Custer’s
force had just been killed, gave
him a chance to land a job as a
reporter on the New York Sun.
Here he found a congenial field
for his talents. He soon moved
to the New York Times, and there
he became a star reporter. A
brilliant career in journalism was
fairly opening before him when,
again, he was diverted into an
other field.
Harper’s started a magazine
called Harper’s Young People,
designed for the youth of the na
tion, and the editorship of this
magazine was offered to Munroe
at a salary of $30 a week, about
one-third of the pay he had been
receiving. Nevertheless, he ac
cepted this offer and began his
duties. The magazine was im
mediately successful. Munroe,
two years after he had been made
editor, began to write stories for
boys. His first book, “Walkulla,”
was published in 1880.
From that time on his books
multiplied with amazing rapidity,
until in all he had published 35
volumes. After publishing the
first few of these books Munroe
gave up his editorial duties to de
vote himself entirely to writing.
He had married Miss Mary Barr,
daughter of Amelia Barr, the nov
elist, and a contributor to the
magazine, and together they trav
eled extensively, both for pleasure
and to collect the material for
stories. After the death of his
wife, he moved to Coconut Grove,
Fla., a suburb of Miami, a place
which he had visited as a youth
in a canoe and had become one of
the pioneers and founders of that
community before Miami was a
town. He lived in seclusion in
Coconut Grove for many years
and in 1924 married again, this
time to Miss Mabtl Stearns,
daughter of William F. Stearns
of Amherst, Mass,
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