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buff and mention Rube Marquand and they'll say, “Oh, 19 straight.” The $11,000 lemon became a great hero. He lived near us somewhere or other, and we used to stand in front of the house waiting for Rube Marquand to go in or out and we'd say, “Hey, Rube,” you know, and wave at him.

That was a real thrill.

You bet! Well, in those days Washington Heights was not quite built up yet. There were still empty lots where we could play ball. Right south of where the Washington Bridge is, big apartments were just beginning to be built, like the Riviera, which is still standing there. You could look out of my window and watch the trains go by on the west side tracks of New York Central, and the great pleasure was watching the boats to Albany go by with the searchlights playing from one side of the river to the other as they went up. There were about four. A couple went to Albany; a couple went to Troy. The night boat to Albany was great. I didn't realize that many of the passengers were fellows with other fellows‘wives, so they didn't see the scenery at all; they were in the staterooms. But people did go to the Adirondacks. You'd take the night boat to Albany, and then you'd take a train. It was wonderful. I remember going to camp on that night boat, and the actual thrill of being on a boat instead of watching it from the window.