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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January 1918

1917-01-15 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2

for some of my gang and taking in the sights of Fifth Avenue. You know the street -- it's the most interesting in America. I love to take in the most fascinating shop windows, and watch the crowds, and follow the traffic (having a care not to be run down). While thus engaged I encountered Ding-bat and a woman. Aha! She proved to be Miss Jessie Payne, whom I had known slightly at the University. We chatted until Miss Payne got shivery and had to move on. Ding-bat and three others had taken a suite at the Brogtell on 27th, with the expectation of having me with them; so I hiked to the Martinique, got my bags, and joined them. After dinner I met the Sanborns at the Theatre de Vieux Columbiers, and we heard a play in French. The speaking was a bit rapid for me in spots but I followed most of it, and enjoyed the experience. 
This morning I reported at Hoboken and was mugged and finger-printed and otherwise recorded so that there would be no chance of my disguising my true identity. I was then directed to report at 104 Broad Street. That is down at the south end of Manhattan -- miles from Hoboken. I couldn't make the trip in one piece, so I disembarked from the tube train at 28th street, went

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for some of my gang and taking in the sights of Fifth Avenue. You know the street -- it's the most interesting in America. I love to take in the most fascinating shop windows, and watch the crowds, and follow the traffic (having a care not to be run down). While thus engaged I encountered Ding-bat and a woman. Aha! She proved to be Miss Jessie Payne, whom I had known slightly at the University. We chatted until Miss Payne got shivery and had to move on. Ding-bat and three others had taken a suite at the Brogtell on 27th, with the expectation of having me with them; so I hiked to the Martinique, got my bags, and joined them. After dinner I met the Sanborns at the Theatre de Vieux Columbiers, and we heard a play in French. The speaking was a bit rapid for me in spots but I followed most of it, and enjoyed the experience. This morning I reported at Hoboken and was mugged and finger-printed and otherwise recorded so that there would be no chance of my disguising my true identity. I was then directed to report at 104 Broad Street. That is down at the south end of Manhattan -- miles from Hoboken. I couldn't make the trip in one piece, so I disembarked from the tube train at 28th street, went