[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from February 20 (reply #4.)]

February 22. Thorndike, George Anthon, and Murray Hoffman here this evening. Strolled with George Anthon to Forty-second Street and back, discoursing of old times – college days – when our walks above Tenth Street took us into the fields, when the “House of Refuge” stood where Madison Square begins, and the Fifth Avenue was a mere tentative group of houses from Washington Square to Tenth Street and the new Ascension Church. “Thinking on the days that are long enough gone” is always sad work.

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

[colorado tanker]

our walks above Tenth Street took us into the fields, when the “House of Refuge” stood where Madison Square begins, and the Fifth Avenue was a mere tentative group of houses from Washington Square to Tenth Street and the new Ascension Church. “Thinking on the days that are long enough gone” is always sad work

My, some things never change. The fields where I played as a boy are now subdivisions. Even the quiet spot in the country where I parked and smooched with my gal.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from February 22 (reply #6.)]

February 23. European news rather indicative of coming war, France and Sardinia vs. Austria. May England, Russia, and all the German Powers side against France and lick her into due appreciation of what she is, a mere element of mischief in Christendom since the days of Louis XIV.

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas