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6 September 1901 — Aboard Alert, Stonington, Connecticut | |
Friday. 6th [September 1901]. There was hardly a breath of air this morning till 10 when we began to tack & try to get on. Happily the breeze freshened a little and we got as far as East London by abt 12.30. Here Mrs Griscom determined that we should land & take the train for N. York. We packed up & went on shore & took the 3.50 train & got places in a “parlour car”– It was a very hot afternoon & the carriage was pretty full– I had a chair next behind Mrs Griscom & we were sitting very quiet when a lady got up crossed over to our side of the car & said “Have you not heard news”– Don’t you know that the President has been shot at & killed.” On Mrs Griscom & I expressing our horror she said “Yes every body in the train is wild about it & I thought you looked as if you did not know & that I must tell you.” She said the Mayor of Newport was in the train & had got out at the last station (Stamford I think) & had asked for the latest news & was told the President was already dead. It was the outcome of an Anarchist plot & only just a year since the King of Italy had been killed– We could think of nothing else all the rest of the journey. On reaching N. York we took a carriage & drove to the Griscom’s town apartment where we expected to find Mr Griscom & to sleep– On arriving there we found Mr G. was at Dolobran & tho’ we were absolutely in the lift on the way up to the apartment we determined to go to the station & go to Dolobran so we jumped out of the lift called cabs & leaving Sister Bettle who had to meet her husband arriving tomorrow fm Europe we hurried off to the Philadelphia railway station. We bought newspapers there which told us that the President is still alive tho’ shot in the chest & in the stomach & in a precarious state. We got dinner at the station & left by the 8.30 train for Phila: Got there at 10.30 changed trains & got to Haverford at 11. We were soon at Dolobran & welcomed back to Dolobran. Mr Griscom was much depressed about the President but said there was still a faint hope his life might be saved. We went to bed very tired after the day’s emotions—the maids & luggage have not yet arrived. | |
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