CHAPTER VL 



ALBANY TO SYRACUSE. 



JourteeutI) IDa^. 



Giveri's JB'otet, 

 Schenectady, New Yore, 

 May 22, 1876, 



EFT Albany at eleven o'clock. My 

 journey to this city led me over the 

 Schenectady Turnpike. Was compelled 

 to ride between showers all day as a 

 rainstorm had set in just as I was 

 leaving Albany. Stopped for dinner 

 at Peter Lansing's, whose farm is about 

 midway between the two cities. This 

 genial gentleman of old Knickerbocker 

 stock greatly amused me with his blunt manner and 

 dry jokes. I was sorry to leave the shelter of his 

 hospitable roof, especially as the weather was exceed- 

 ingly disagreeable, but my engagement to lecture in 

 Schenectady obliged me to go on. I found it necessary 

 to ride the last three miles at a gallop in order to avoid 

 an approaching shower. Reached my hotel at four 

 o'clock in the afternoon, and lectured in the evening 

 at Union Hall under the auspices of Post 14, G. A. R. 

 Several representatives of the city press were with me 

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