Sam and Cable arrived in Toronto, Canada at 4:30 P.M . on the Great Western train from Niagara Falls [Roberts 19]. In Toronto, Rose Publishing Co. applied to Sam to buy the Canadian rights to publish Huck Finn [Dec. 10 to Webster, MTP]. Ozias Pond was not the tour’s manager until after New Year’s day, but came with the pair. They all stated at the Rossin House, Toronto’s first luxury hotel. In the evening Sam and Cable gave a reading in Horticulture Gardens Pavilion, a 2,500 seat hall only six years old.
Sam and Cable rose at 4:30 A.M . and took the train [from Utica?] to Rochester, New York, arriving at 10 A.M . They gave a 2 PM matinee reading in Rochester at the Academy of Music for a small, but “appreciative to a degree” audience, who fought a downpour to hear the two men. The evening performance was to “a large house and great fun.” Cable wrote his wife that neither of them had ever done so well [Turner, MT & GWC 66].
Sam wrote from Syracuse, New York to Thomas Nast, thanking him for the Nast family’s recent hospitality in Morristown, N.J.
“...do all your praying now, for a time is coming when you will have to go railroading & platforming, & then you will find you cannot pray any more because you will have only just time to swear enough” [MTP].
...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]
Sam and Cable arrived at Albany, New York at noon. Governor and President-elect Cleveland requested an audience. Writing to Livy the next day about the meeting: ...we had a quite jolly & pleasant brief chat with the President-elect. He remembered me easily, have seen me often in Buffalo, but I didn’t remember him, of course, & I didn’t say I did.
According to Scharnhorst ((The Middle Years pg 430), they left Baltimore early Monday morning (after midnight). Following Day By Day, they must have traveled to Hartford and Simsbury respectively. From New Haven, Twain would continue to Hartford and Cable would take the New Haven and Northampton to Simsbury. Later that day the Clemens family drove north a few hours to Simsbury. Sam and Cable would take the New Haven and Northampton to Westfield, then the Boston and Albany to Adams, Mass., on the western side of the state. Sam wrote at 6:30 PM from Adams, Mass.
Sam submitted to an “interview” by the Baltimore American. (See Fatout, Mark Twain Speaks for Himself, p137.)
They spoke at the Lyceum - Library
Livy’s 39 th birthday.
Once again, Sam was away from home on a family member’s birthday.
Sam and Cable left Washington for Philadelphia, where they gave a reading in Association Hall.
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