Block 22 of Mary Berenson diary, 1903 - 1904 (Q27689)

paying damages, and putting up a private Theatre for the night, whose electric plant alone cost $10,000. Another still had up all the organ grinders and their monkeys from New York for a barrel-organ concert. Another lady paid $250 dollars for an entrée of “incubated turkeys” for one dinner. And so on. Mr. Longyear of Marquette built an opera house and gave it to his wife “to play with”. Milli...