The Dickinson press., 1909-04-10

and democratically went by trolley to
the New Willard: which Is the modern
type Of the luxurious hotel, fast eleva-
tors and good service generally.
I had to attend to business. but we
managed to get feast or two of steamed
oysters. One has never really had any
unless one has had them in Washington
or picked them out of the bay or river
bed where they grow and had them
roasted in their shells.
That evening witnessed Kyrle .Bellew
and company in Tho Thief splendid
acting in a devilish kind of a play.
Thursday on a daylight express, we
travelled on the Pennsylvania Washing
ton to New York It was enjoyable and
we had fresh. broiled Holsters for lunch
con id tho dining car.
New, York ID q marvellous place, a
neverSendins forest of buildings. Bee
hives of people in .multitudea sMasnifi:
cent hotels. Colossal business. Theatres
and show places in profusion. A con-
tinuous. and continued circus and ex-.
position combined. encompassed on an
island and overdowing into the nearby
country. Wonderful bridges spanning
the rivers. and tunnels underneath, and
then some. It's worth many a mile Of
travell3to q
Wesarrived in New York early in the
afternoon of. January 22nd. After CROSS
ing OF the 23rd street ferry. like true:
''tenderfoots,'' we received directions
from people who pretended to know the
i~ntricacies Of, street car service and
sought the Park Avenue hotel via surface
car lines The good doctor was still
tusging the young steamer trunk i
carried my " and my wife's grip,
while Clara Dillon barrow and Clara
Lincoln Phelan played the perfect lady
and sympathized with Us. The weather
was sloppy and somehow we arrived at
the hotel, hut l could not 90 by the
same route again if. paid wages for
extra'time.
Before dinner I started out and secured
four tickets for Maud Adams at the
Empire in what Every Woman
Knows" First row in second balcony
was the best l could do at seventy-five
centssper. When we reached the theatre
that evening we followed the we'll
dressed multitude into the. front en-
francs, but we were uishered' to the
street again around to a side entrance
up thee flights of stairs and landed
near The roof, thence to where our seats
wereao,ca,ted.. Il. was like descending
a ladder, towards the pit. But once
locata5d tie show was fine Mautd:Adams.
as M1Beeie Wiley, with her three Scotch
brothers were worth climbing to and
over the roof to see: John Shand.. the
Scotch student and later the husband
of Maggie Wiley, and member of sparlia-
ment. all set in Scotch thrift and humor.
By the record of the play. John Shand,
;for. nine years never cracked a smile.
while his wife laniented his lack III
humor. At one point he soliloqdized
that he had read somewhere that It
required a surgical operation to get"a
joke into a %Scotchman's head, but he
couldn't see how they could put q joke
into a mans head with a surgical opera
ton.
Witnessing such a play is one of the
pleasures of lifetime, while to get a$2'
show for seventy--6ve' cents Yves q novel;
ty and a treat. II it were not for the in
convenience Of climbing, the show can
be seen and heard in the second balcony
froma better point of vantage than the
pit. ~
The following day we went by subway
to the Battery, and then the whole
length of it into the country. when it
comes out Of the bowels Of the earth.
Ny wife declared it al all alike and
one block would have done just as well
as the whole Of It. No use trying to
please a crowd when one is travelling.
but the .Darrows were. polite and pre-
tended to enjoy it l am clad I saw the
whole works anyway. e
That evening we had a box at, the
Academy of Music and saw David
Warfield in the ''Music Master David
can act that play as long as Joe Jeffer-
son acted Rip Van Wrinkle. Another
pleasure to add joy to ones thoughts for
a lifetime.
I:can't describe it. Go see him if you
get q chance.
We had a good, spacious room at the
Park Avenue hotel. but they had a pair
uf elevators that were evidently built to
that an object could move
and at the same time be almost stand
ing still.
We left there early Saturday morning,
reached Hoboken via trolley through the
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