Tuesday, February 28, 1922

Cool and breezy. Arose 6:15 A.M. Shaved, washed etc. Breakfast on boat. Wrote letters. Went ashore 9 A.M. Ferried to Jersey City. Looked around. To Board of Education etc. Out to Grantwood. Talked with Miss MacCulloch. Back to N.Y. Stayed at Hotel Woodward Room 43 Broadway & 55th. Up to look for H.G.C. Walked around town. To bed 9:30 P.M.

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Miss MacCulloch was Margaret H. McCulloch, who was a teacher at Public School IIG in NYC. Stanford must have contacted her because she knew where to find Hazel, whom he refers to as H.G.C.

Hotel Woodward was a pretty fancy hotel. Here is a page from one of their brochures, published around 1907, when the hotel was fairly new:

This ad for the hotel was published in a newspaper in 1920:

Not much had changed in a decade, apparently.

The building is still there, although it is now the Dream Hotel. Below left is a photo featured on the new hotel's website, although in a December 2014 Google street view photo (right) they were apparently doing renovations (see scaffolding).

Monday, February 27, 1922

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.

Taken from Amazon.com

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.

Sunday, February 26, 1922

Bright, warm. Springlike. Arose 7 A.M. To Church at Brookline in A.M. Met Miss Barker. Dinner at Ginters. To Lexington on trolley via Cambridge and Arlington Heights. Walked about. To room. Took bath. To Park St Congregational Church to C.E. and Service. Lunch. To bed 11:30 P.M.

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Ginter's is a restaurant in Boston, near Simmons College, at least that is implied by a statement in the 1922 yearbook for Simmons, describing a senior by the name of Gertrude Christine Butler: "The idol of the Freshmen, she is ready for anything, provided she can go to Ginter's for her cup of coffee before she comes home."

Park Street Congregational Church is a historic church on Boston Commons. Below is a stereoscopic photo taken in the late 19th century and one taken in the 1910s that shows the original burying ground that was next to the old granary that was torn down. Learn more about it at Wikipedia.

Saturday, February 25, 1922

Marvelous, bright and cool. Arose 9 A.M. Breakfast in room. Cleaned up. H.H. and I skating at Arena. To room. Odds and ends. Dinner at Arlington. Walked around town. To market, out along piers etc. Bowled spindles. 90-82. To room. Wrote letter to M.L.S. To Supper at Arlington. To see "The Virginian." Ate. To bed 12 P.M.

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Arlington is a town about 9 miles from the campus of Boston University, where Hanford attended school. I'm not sure why Stanford was in Arlington, but probably he was lodging there.

I have not been able to find information on spindle bowling, but I think the pins may be similarly shaped to candlepins. They are equally hard to knock down, apparently, judging from Stanford's score.

The Virginian was a play that premiered in 1904, based on the book by Owen Wister. It was also a movie released in 1914, and then again in 1929 and as a TV show later. It's not clear what version Stanford saw, but it's likely it was the play, since movies generally do not stay in the theaters that long.

The Arena was presumably the Boston Arena, where Stanford and Hanford skated and where the hockey teams of area colleges played. Below is some information, taken from Wikipedia, on Matthews Arena, as it is known today.

History[edit]

Entrance to the arena, showing the original arch from Boston Arena now enclosed by bricks.

Originally named Boston Arena,^[4] the arena opened on April 16, 1910 for an ice show.^[3] The first games of professional ice hockey took place in March 1911 when a two-game $2,500 competition between two NHA teams, the Montreal Wanderers and the Ottawa Senators took place.^[5] As the successor NHL's first United States-located professional ice hockey franchise, on December 1, 1924, the Boston Bruins played their first-ever NHL regular season game at the Arena,^[3] leaving in 1928 when the Boston Garden was built. The Boston Celtics played their first game at the Arena in 1946, and played at the Arena until 1955.^[3] The WHA's New England Whalers played their first season at the Arena from 1972 until 1973.

Matthews is where the hockey programs of Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern University, Tufts University and Wentworth Institute of Technology all began; in particular, it housed the Boston University hockey team until 1971, when Walter Brown Arena was built.

Friday, February 24, 1922

Beautiful and bright but cool. Arose 9 A.M. Out to Breakfast. Back. To classes 10:30 to 12:30. Wrote letter home. To dinner at Arlington. Tried for symphony. Thru Christian Science church. Over to Cambridge. Called on Ed. Snell, Bryan Carpenter. Looked around Harvard. Supper at Arlington. To see "The Green Goddess." Ate, home. To bed 12 P.M.

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I'm starting to wonder what Arlington means on this trip. Is it where Hanford lives? Not sure.

The Green Goddess was a stage play by William Archer, first produced in 1921 in England. Here is a website that tells much more about the history of this play which later became a silent, then talking film. Stanford doesn't say where he saw the drama.

Thursday, February 23, 1922

Overcast damp, cool day. Arose 9 A.M. Breakfast in room. Cleaned room etc. Wrote letter. To dinner at Arlington with Alex. Stewart. Wrote cards etc. To Class and Chapel with H.H. Down street with Timmerman. Thru Public Library etc. To supper with bunch. Down town with H.H. Thru hotels, P.O., office buildings etc. To bed 11:30 P.M.

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Sounds like Stanford had a day of touring. I'm still not sure whether he stayed in a hotel or a room in the dorm. Two of the buildings Stanford visited are pictured below. One, the old Post Office, was torn down and replaced in 1933. The other, the Public Library, is still in use today. Both are taken from the website Lost New England.

http://lostnewengland.com/2015/10/post-office-boston-mass/

http://lostnewengland.com/2016/01/boston-public-library-main-entrance-boston/

Wednesday, February 22, 1922

Arose 7 A.M. Breakfast. Took 8:16 train to Boston. Out to Bunker Hill etc. To 72. Shaved. Took shower. Wrote Letters. Wrote in diary etc. Dinner at Arlington. H.H. & I thru Navy yard. Then about town. Bowled candle pins. 80-70. Supper at Mr. Vernon Lunch. To "Red Pepper" a musical comedy with H.H. Lunch with stuff mother sent. 7 fellows here. TO BED 12 P.M.

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[2-22-22] Wow! What a busy day! I'm not sure what 72 is, but it may be Hanford's room at the dorm. Stanford saw some of the sights in Boston, it looks like. They had supper at the Mt. Vernon Lunch, a restaurant that no longer exists, but in 1922, The Boston Register and Business Directory, Vol. 86, 1922, listed it as being on 77 Hancock St. Below is a current Google street view of the address, apparently residential now:

I wonder what prompted them to go candle pin bowling? For those who don't know what it is, below is a Wikipedia article excerpt describing the sport, with a photo :

Candlepin bowling was developed in 1880 in Worcester, Massachusetts, by Justin White, a local bowling center owner, some years before both the standardization of the tenpin bowling sport in 1895 and the invention of duckpin bowling, said by some sources to have been invented the same year. Today the game is enjoyed in many diverse places such as California and Germany in addition to New England.[2] As in other forms of bowling, the players roll balls down a wooden pathway ("lane") to knock down as many pins as possible. The main differences between candlepin bowling and the predominant tenpin bowling style are that each player uses three balls per frame, rather than two (see below); the balls are much smaller (11.43 cm or 4½ in diameter) with each ball weighing as much as only one candlepin and without finger holes; the pins are thinner (hence the name "candlepin"), and thus harder to knock down; and the downed pins (known as "wood") are not cleared away between balls during a player's turn. Because of these differences, scoring points is considerably more difficult than in tenpin bowling. [That explains the much lower than usual scores.]

The musical comedy Stanford and Hanford went to see, Red Pepper, was apparently very popular at the time. Left is an article about it that appeared in the Cambridge Sentinel for January 21, 1922. McIntyre and Heath (below) were minstrel showmen, often wearing blackface in their productions.

McIntyre & Heath (Wikipedia)