Harry Scovel, an attempted recruit of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst who was invited to the Creelman's apartment for dinner, characterized the couple and their home as "charming".

When James fell ill in Berlin, Alice applied for a visa to go visit and tend to her husband, but did not make it to Germany before his death.

In a letter to Henry Clay Frick she lamented that "with the passing away of my husband, my life and fortune have been completely wrecked".

[9] After her move, Creelman, then 57, brought a suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company after a fall going down the stairs of Penn Station.

She asked for $25,000 from the Rail Company because she asserted the cause of her fall was improper stairway treads that had the wrong type of "corrugations and grooves".

She wrote to him in April 1915: I came in touch with a small collection of wonderful paintings belonging to a titled man who has been ruined by the war and must part with them or go bankrupt.

In order to be a member of this society, she proved that she was sixth in descent from Major David Buel, and also descended from General Joseph Buell of Ohio.

[24] Though a bulletin published by the Mayflower Society specifies that Edward Wyllyss Buell, Creelman's father, was the parent descended from William Bradford, more recent genealogy charts trace her descent through her mother's line.

[25][26] Though it is possible that both of Creelman's parents were distantly related to the same man who traveled from England to America in the 1620s, it is also likely that there was a mistake made either by the Mayflower Society or the historians behind the genealogical index.

She was well acquainted with Henry Clay Frick, and through her husband she was familiar with William Randolph Hearst and composer Antonín Dvořák.

Crane wrote to the Creelman family, asking for donations to her private fund for the children of Kate Lyon and Harold Frederic, who had died several months earlier.

Alice responded in the negative, criticizing Kate Lyon for "the evil influence she has exerted over a morally weak man".

[27] Cora Crane responded to Creelman's letter, writing, "To me, the supreme egotism of women who never having been tempted, and so knowing nothing of the temptation of another's soul, set themselves upon their pedestals of self-conceit and conscious virtue, judging their unfortunate sisters guilty alike, is the hardest thing in life".