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Title: A Flight in Spring
In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and
back, during April and May, 1898

Author: J. Harris Knowles

Release Date: September 3, 2010 [EBook #33620]

Language: English

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A FLIGHT IN SPRING

IN THE CAR LUCANIA FROM NEW YORK
TO THE PACIFIC COAST AND BACK
DURING APRIL AND MAY, 1898, AS TOLD
BY THE REV. J. HARRIS KNOWLES

NEW YORK
1898

SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES PRIVATELY PRINTED
FOR FREDERICK HUMPHREYS, M.D.

No. 750

COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY
J. HARRIS KNOWLES

Dedication

_TO THE LUCANIANS_:

"THE KING AND THE QUEEN"
"THE APOSTLE AND THE ANGEL"
"THE FAIRY PRINCESS"
"JUNO AND PSYCHE"
"THE GYPSY QUEEN"
"THE PRINCESS"
"MINERVA AND JUPITER"
"MERCURY," AND
"THE SPANISH COUNT"

THESE RANDOM JOTTINGS OF OUR HAPPY
"FLIGHT IN SPRING," ARE AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

BY THEIR FRIEND

"THE POPE"

CONTENTS

I
PAGE
The Circumstances of the Flight.--The Start.--The Car "Lucania."--The
Kitchen.--The Cook.--The Poetic Dinner.--Our Accommodations.--Visitors
at Newark.--Improvised Theatricals.--Philadelphia, Wilmington,
Baltimore, Washington.--The Approaching War Crisis 1

II

On through the South.--Thomasville, Georgia.--Dr. Humphrey's Winter
Home.--Southern Flowers.--The Old Plantation.--War Declared.--They
Leave To-day 8

III

Departure from Thomasville.--Pet Superstitions.--Montgomery,
Alabama.--The Capitol.--The Public Fountain.--Montgomery to New
Orleans 15

IV

New Orleans.--Surviving Traces of Spanish and French Occupation.
--Jackson Square