July 13 Tuesday – The Clemens family left Flushing, Belgium and traveled on to Cologne, arriving after midnight (July 14); they took rooms at the Victoria Hotel. Sam’s notebook gives particulars, beginning with the railroad station in Flushing.

Huge map 15 x 15 feet (Holland) in the RR station—made of tiles—brilliant polish, strong colors, vividly readable at a great distance—beautiful—& good sense.

These villains cart you to the station nearly 2 hours before train time. A very jolty road till we passed the German border, then smooth. It cost 6 of us $5 a day at Flushing.

Left Flushing 5.30 p.m.— [NB 41 TS 47-8].