February 27 Thursday – In Bermuda, the Clemens party was entertained by a baseball game [D. Hoffman 105].

Isabel Lyon’s journal: Ball game today / I turn on the practical faucet & suggest a publisher. This apropos to Miss W’s [Wallace’s] charming ms. reminiscent of her life in France. She’s been reading it to me on the porch & I went off to find the King just arrived from a trip to town with Mr. Rogers. St. Simeon Slylites—or Skylights—[MTP: IVL TS 27-28].

The New York Times reported Sam’s enlistment by Mrs. Isaac L. Rice in the Anti-Noise Society, though this was merely the use of his name, as he had allowed with previous social movements. In part:

ANTI-NOISE SOCIETY REVIEWS PROGRESS

Fifty-Nine Hospitals with 18,000 Beds Now Represented in Its Directorate.

CHILDREN HELP THE CAUSE

Mark Twain Runs Their Branch—Mrs. Rice, at St. Regis Meeting.

Tells What Has Come of Small Beginning.

The Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise held its first annual meeting last night at the Hotel St. Regis, Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street, and Mrs. Isaac L. Rice, its founder and President, reported the progress it had made.

One of the newest moves was the organization, with the full consent and cooperation of the Board of Education, of a Children’s Hospital Branch, to be composed of children pledged to make as little noise as possible in the neighborhood of hospitals. Mark Twain has agreed to be

President of this. In accepting the office he wrote to Mrs. Rice:

I have an abundance of sympathy for this movement. If I were younger I would like to work for it. Now, I thank you for the compliment you pay me, and shall be happy to have my name used as President of the Children’s Hospital Branch. Sincerely yours, MARK TWAIN.