...at the opera house in Ithaca, New York, they opened to “a quiet, undemonstrative audience and presently had them clean out of themselves,” Cable chuckled. Afterward Sam went to a beer hall “and found about forty students from Cornell University” with whom he imbibed. [Page 430 The Life of Mark Twain - The Middle Years 1871-1891]
December 3, 1884: DBD
December 3 Wednesday – George W. Cable wrote en route between Albany and Ithaca to his wife, Lucy: