Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
023.056.05 |
Collection |
Robert Bowne Suckley (1856 - 1921) |
Title |
Daily Diary, May 1915 |
Date |
1915 |
Object Name |
Diary |
Scope & Content |
Small light gray notebook with "May 1915" printed on cover. Provides two lined pages for each day of the month. Excerpts: 01, Sat: Girls with Whitney Carpenter went to tea with Helen Astor on her invitation. Vincent was off somewhere / H.E.M., Peg, Grace with Whit. Carpenter dined with us. After some dancing and [sic] Arthur took a few to the Merritts / found that Ethel M. had sailed for Europe yesterday to be a nurse at Neuilly sur Seine. 02, Sun: Bessie & Daisy attended the christening of Deborah Dows. Helen Astor was godmother. 05, Wed: Bessie & Daisy left for Morristown; Peg went with them / Dragged & cut ivy east & S. E. of ice house. 06, Thurs: Wright painted the lines on tennis court / Francis Olmstead came to tea & to say goodbye to all as he sails on Saturday in the American Line / Bettie went to Kingston in afternoon with Aunt & Cousin Grace 07, Fri: News comes that the Lusitania has been torpedoed off Kinsale, has been beached & all saved / At Charles & Co. charged & took away 1 bottle Scotch, 100 cigarettes and 25 Romeo & Juliet perfectos. Gave the package to Arthur going to Rhinebeck in the 3:36 / Went to Hippodrome for movie, "This Incomparable Bellair." 08, Sat: Morning papers give a loss of over 1400 lives in Lusitania destruction of which more than 100 were Americans. It includes Alfred Vanderbilt & Frohman the impresario / Bought "A History of Old Rhinebeck" by Collier / Saw the movie "The Eternal City" / 16 of the Atlantic fleet under Admiral ___ passed up the river ab out 10:30. They lie from about 75th St. N. to 174th. 09, sun: As the sun appeared above the haze at 5:30 A.M., each ship of the fleet in the Hudson fired once at second intervals (perhaps blasts) / Took west shore RR ferry landing oppos. S. end of Admiral Fletcher's fleet. Went up stairs to top of hill. Wonderful view! Trolley S. to West Hoboken; inspected Suckley estate and walked down viaduct to 14th St. ferry Hoboken. Ferry to 23rd St. N.Y. 10, Mon: Considerable crash in St. market in A.M. based on rumor that Pres. Wilson had been shot. On contradiction, prices rose / 6:36 train reaching Rhinecliff at 9:30. Through misunderstanding, Newman was not at the station to meet me. Got him by telephone, and walked, meeting the car at beginning of the Morton Estate / Letter from H.M.S. dated April 21, postmarked St. Maurice sur Moselle, Vosges. 12, Wed: The 3 girls & I spent more time than usual today at gardening & kindred pursuits near "The Roman Fountain" / Bessie & Kath. went dressmaking, etc. in P.M. / Today dug down to the pipe carrying water from house cistern to the garage, about 4' deep, at a point south of the house, by the side of the path running west from house. Very hard clay. Was put there about 1890. 13, Thurs. Stock market comparatively dull & off about a point. Everybody waiting to see what is to happen between us & Germany / I bought two suits at Stern Bros; one outing & one business / Saw "The Song of Songs" (Sudermann) at the Eltinge Theater / Hotel Belmont 559, an inside room with bath. 14, Fri: Pres. Wilson's letter to Germany is in the papers - very strong! / Am on the summer committee with the president, sect. & treas. of the Sheltering Arms. 16, Sun: Celine's sister, Mrs.Tschudine at the Olin's, died at 6 this morning after an operation at the Rhinebeck Hospital / The Olins came to tea / Harry & Grace paid a little visit between 5 & 6. 17, Mon: Market dull firm / Beebe, a former chauffeur of ours, came up & spoke to me in 45th St. / Attended last meeting until Oct. of the House of Rest / Letter from Nummie dated April 30th. 25, Tues: McCantry attached today the pipe connection, for hose, to the water pipe feeding the garage. The girls may now, with convenience, water their "Roman Garden" situated south of the ice house on the path leading from our house westerly to the summer house & garage / Trossack & Reggie disappeared [again]at 10 A.M. Tracy Dows will keep watch [to protect his turkeys and Mallard ducks] they returned at 6 P.M. / Bottom (floor) of cistern outside pantry & dining room is 3.2 ft. higher than top of pipe (where tapped today) leading from cistern to garage, south of ice house & 6 feet north of path leading from our house, west to summer house. 27, Thurs: Examinations for entrance to Bryn Mawr commence tomorrow. Kath & Bettie will stay at the new Weston hotel with Miss Walker / Letter to Bessie from Nummie. 29, Sat: To Poughkeepsie [to dentist] on bicycle / Arthur played a little golf at Staatsburg / Robbie arrived at 9:30 |
Language of Material |
English |
People |
Astor, Helen Huntington Carpenter, Whitney Dows, Deborah (1914-1994) Merritt, Ethel Olmstead, Frank Suckley, Robert Bowne, Sr. (1856-1921) |
Subjects |
Baptism Landscape gardening Nursing Stock exchanges Water supply-Rhinebeck N. Y. Wilson, Woodrow, President, U.S. World War, 1914-1918-Casualties World War, 1914-1918-Naval operations |
Legal Status |
Property of Wilderstein Historic Site |