Riverton, N.J. 

 March 4th. 1914. 



My dear Father: 



Here I am all safe and sound and I had a most interesting trip 

 down here. In the first place when I sat down in my seat in the train yester- 

 day I looked across the isle and there sat Mary Kellogg. You and Auntie 

 will remember her as the girl who gave that delightful entertainment at our 

 Opera house the winter before last; you all met her after it was over, Do 

 yom fcemember her, and the dance, it was a Grecian thing and we all agreed 

 very lovely. She was going to New York to give the same thing there some 

 time in April, and she is going to train two sets of girls for it, o%e a 

 set of New York society girls and then the other set is of the hard working 

 girls. It will he a very interesting experience for her, and she was 

 much Pleased with the order. 



When I reached New York. (By the way the snow did not show itself till 

 within half an hour of the city. ) I went in the trolley to the Penn. sta. 

 there they told me the Trenton and Riverton trains were running alright, so 

 I called Emma up on the phone and took the 4.02 for Trenton. We started 

 on time, and Just as soon as we came out of the tunnel the devastation of 

 the. storm beaan to show itself, the wires all along the track were Proken, 

 twisted, andnolowing in the wind. The snow Pecarae deeper and deeper as we 

 went on, but the worst of the storm was between Elizabeth and Trenton. In 

 that region telegraph pole after pole was snapped right ogf and the pole 

 must in many cases have fallen across the R.R. tracks, I truly never saw 

 anything like it in my life! The snow lay in very high drifts, someplaces 

 I should think as deep as fifteen or twenty feet. We made however very 

 good time till we were within aPout half an hour of Trenton and I was Just 

 congratulating myself on the fact that I was going to make rny local train 



at Trenton and get here in splended time, when the delayc began, v/e just 



stopped and stood there then went forward like a snail, then stopped for a 

 long rest and started forward at the same pace. We reached Trenton at 7.30 

 instead of 5.36 "/hen we were due, there was no train from Trenton down here 

 till the 8.50, I had written Florence that I would come that day, and mailed 

 the post card Monday morning, and she received it this morning. From the 

 Trenton station I called Florence up on the phone and was delighted to find 

 the lino *as -vorking, I told her I was coming on the 8.50 due here at 9.44 

 but not to stay up for me as I might be late in getting here, she said the 

 local tr i; had been runnung very nearly on time all day and that she 

 thought I would haveij.no trouble in coming through the rest of the way. I 

 was only ten minutes late reaching Riverton and walked right up here to the 

 house. The walking here was very bad for the snow had melted all day and 

 frozen Just as little so that there was deep water under neath the thin ice. 



I found Florence and her Mother pretty well. Lillian her girl who went 

 home and did not return to Florence has married a man clown there at home 

 and so of course Florence has lost her, she is not altogether sorry>for 

 Lillian devoted as she was was far from perfect. She has no girl at present 

 and is not going to get one, a woman comes in twice a wetek to do the washing 

 and heavy cleaning. The house Is very small and little work to care for. 

 Kenneth has Lillians room as a work room and is too happy for words, I do 

 really think it is just as well during the time her Mother is here for them : 

 to get along in this way, then when Edwin returns she will get as good a one 

 as she can find. The work j& not hard if you do not make it so. Cooking 



on a gas range is Just fun, and I can help in many little ways and we are 

 so much freer in every way to have no other person in this tiney little house 

 I think Florence is very 7ise and enjoy the "work" as she calls it, so much 

 that I call it "play". The boys are well but rather lively just at 



present because they have been kept in during the storm, and still it is so 

 wet under foot that they cannot play out: yet, but the snow is melting very 



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