Arose 8:30 A.M. Breakfast at 72. Wet slushy with some snow. Went thru Morgan Memorial Dinner at Arlington. To Providence on 3 P.M. train. Looked around city. Took boat for N.Y. at 7 P.M. Read. Walked on deck etc. To bed 10 P.M.
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Morgan Memorial was a Methodist Church located in Boston. Below is a little bit of information about it taken from the BU School of Theology Library site.
Stanford must have been visiting a charity dinner given by Goodwill.
Here is a picture of the church as it appeared in the late 19th century, taken from the Massachusetts Goodwill Industries website:
I now wonder if Arlington, as referred to by Stanford, is a street in Boston, not the town of Arlington. This 1922 map shows the street's location (in yellow) alongside Boston Gardens. Also note the location of the Post Office (mentioned in an earlier post) on the right side of the map, toward the top.
The boat Stanford mentions must have been one of the steamboats that plied the waters of Long Island Sound in those days. He obviously stayed overnight there on his way to New York. Left is a picture of one of them on the cover of a recently published book about the boats. A synopsis of the book's contents is below.
I had never heard of these "night boats," but apparently one line was owned and operated by the New Haven Railroad, where my father worked for most of his life. It changed names and owners over the years--from New Haven RR to New York, New Haven and Hartford RR to Penn Central RR and finally to Amtrak.
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Morgan Memorial was a Methodist Church located in Boston. Below is a little bit of information about it taken from the BU School of Theology Library site.
Stanford must have been visiting a charity dinner given by Goodwill.
Here is a picture of the church as it appeared in the late 19th century, taken from the Massachusetts Goodwill Industries website:
I now wonder if Arlington, as referred to by Stanford, is a street in Boston, not the town of Arlington. This 1922 map shows the street's location (in yellow) alongside Boston Gardens. Also note the location of the Post Office (mentioned in an earlier post) on the right side of the map, toward the top.
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| Taken from Amazon.com |
I had never heard of these "night boats," but apparently one line was owned and operated by the New Haven Railroad, where my father worked for most of his life. It changed names and owners over the years--from New Haven RR to New York, New Haven and Hartford RR to Penn Central RR and finally to Amtrak.
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