June 20 Saturday Very warm day. Busy morning of course. I got home (after a little shopping) about 12:30 and had lunch & got dressed & down to Rose Mills' by two. Waited for her a little while in a big cool parlor - all fans & curios & smelling of pine needles &c. It made me think of the one in "Eight Cousins" someway. Rose looked very pretty. We met Mary, Emma, Ned & Edith & got a Sophia St. car & to the Driving Park & our "box" in the second tier, in due course. There were crowds & crowds. The "procession" all waiting in lines inside &c.&c. A very animated scene - J.G., Mr. Brewster (H.C.) Mr. Burrill &c. over in the judge's stand. The Kauffman children did some quite wonderful tricks on a wheel - & wheels - and then a man with two artificial legs rode - a gruesome sight to me - he only needed a sign saying where he bought them. The procession was very amusing. First Marshall Monethrop on a big white horse. Then aides - mounted policemen &c. & a band on wheels - mostly tandems - a cornetist on a single & the bass drum on a companion wheel! It played "King Cotton" very melodiously. A beautiful sextuplet wheel - trimmed in light green with six men in white ducks pink neckties & riding it. They carried garlands
June 20 Saturday Very warm day. Busy morning of course. I got home (after a little shopping) about 12:30 and had lunch & got dressed & down to Rose Mills' by two. Waited for her a little while in a big cool parlor - all fans & curios & smelling of pine needles &c. It made me think of the one in "Eight Cousins" someway. Rose looked very pretty. We met Mary, Emma, Ned & Edith & got a Sophia St. car & to the Driving Park & our "box" in the second tier, in due course. There were crowds & crowds. The "procession" all waiting in lines inside &c.&c. A very animated scene - J.G., Mr. Brewster (H.C.) Mr. Burrill &c. over in the judge's stand. The Kauffman children did some quite wonderful tricks on a wheel - & wheels - and then a man with two artificial legs rode - a gruesome sight to me - he only needed a sign saying where he bought them. The procession was very amusing. First Marshall Monethrop on a big white horse. Then aides - mounted policemen &c. & a band on wheels - mostly tandems - a cornetist on a single & the bass drum on a companion wheel! It played "King Cotton" very melodiously. A beautiful sextuplet wheel - trimmed in light green with six men in white ducks pink neckties & riding it. They carried garlands
June 20 Saturday Very warm day. Busy morning of course. I got home (after a little shopping) about 12:30 and had lunch & got dressed & down to Rose Mills' by two. Waited for her a little while in a big cool parlor - all fans & curios & smelling of pine needles &c. It made me think of the one in "Eight Cousins" someway. Rose looked very pretty. We met Mary, Emma, Ned & Edith & got a Sophia St. car & to the Driving Park & our "box" in the second tier, in due course. There were crowds & crowds. The "procession" all waiting in lines inside &c.&c. A very animated scene - J.G., Mr. Brewster (H.C.) Mr. Burrill &c. over in the judge's stand. The Kauffman children did some quite wonderful tricks on a wheel - & wheels - and then a man with two artificial legs rode - a gruesome sight to me - he only needed a sign saying where he bought them. The procession was very amusing. First Marshall Monethrop on a big white horse. Then aides - mounted policemen &c. & a band on wheels - mostly tandems - a cornetist on a single & the bass drum on a companion wheel! It played "King Cotton" very melodiously. A beautiful sextuplet wheel - trimmed in light green with six men in white ducks pink neckties & riding it. They carried garlands
