Sharp diary 1918 page 58. Sunday 24 February 1918 - Chicago - Detroit
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Sunday 24th of February 1918
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Breakfast early and then taxi’d to 53rd St station where we caught the 9.15 train for Detroit. We imagined we were going to arrive at 3.30, but we were half an hour late and also discovered it was 5 not 4 when we arrived as Detroit for some reason other than their latitude follow the eastern not central time! Mr Ashe met us and motored us to the Pontchartrain Hotel where, having settled on rooms, we repaired to the reception room where 30 or 40 people were assembled to greet us! Mr Dyar, apparently a rich person and a sort of managing Ward Hinman ran the show and introduced us to various Detroit worthies. Then we changed our rooms to a higher floor and a quieter aspect and then trammed to Mrs Armstrong to supper. Had a very al fresco supper with her and her husband a nice man and an attorney by trade. Returned home about 10.30, had some milk downstairs and then to bed. My heating apparatus made a terrific noise in the middle of the night, woke me up and caused me to telephone for the engineer who put washers in the valves and stopped the beast’s roarings!Location
USA : Illinois : Chicago [41.8781136,-87.6297982]
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