Identifier: americanadventure00stre (find matches)
Title: American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home"
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Street, Julian, 1879-1947
Subjects: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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al by which all railroads enter the capital, Ihardly believed that I was there, nor did I feel entirelymyself until I had reached my room in the New Wil-lard. Having started my bath, I went and knocked uponthe door of the near-by room where the clerk had toldme I should find my fellow traveler. Oh, he said, without enthusiasm as he discoveredme. You re here, are you? He looked imposing and severe in his evening dress.I felt correspondingly dirty and humble. Yes, I replied meekly. Any news? None, he replied. I ve reserved a table at Har-veys. They dance there. At first they said there wasnot a table to be had—Saturday night, you know—butI told them who was to be with us, and they changedtheir minds. Good. I 11 be dressed in a little while. Silk hats? He nodded. I returned to my own room. Less than an hour later, my toilet completed, I re-joined him, and together we descended, in full regalia,to the lobby. Shall we take a taxi? he suggested, as we passedout of the side entrance. i88
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:8 V,-, O 0-^ e 3 o o «*-. o O 3 o 2 P^: ^ oc «>o: A CERTAIN PARTY *How far away is the theater? I dont know. We asked the carriage starter. He said it was onlytwo or three blocks. Lets walk, I said. *T dont feel like walking, he returned. We rode. The theater was just emptying when we arrived. I suppose wed better let the cab go? I said.There 11 be quite a while to wait while she s chang-ing. Better keep it, he disagreed. Might not find an-other. We kept it. At the stage door there was confusion. Having com-pleted its week in Washington, the play was about tomove elsewhere, and furniture was already coming outinto the narrow passage, and being piled up to be takenon wagons to the train. It took us some time to findthe doorman, and it took the doorman—as it always doestake doormen—a long, long time to depart into the un-known region of dressing rooms, with the cards we gavehim, and a still longer time to return. Says to wait, he grunted when he came back. Meanwhile more and m

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