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south east corner of 11th and Sixth Avenue. It was a frame building, one side of which had a hip roof, showing that it must have gone back to the early 18th Century. The other side had been cut off by another building. What it was originally I don't know. It was a two-story building with a little attic. It had an old-fashioned sign out such as you would see on an old New England inn or sometimes on an old English inn. It just had a grapevine around it and the sign said, “The Grapevine.” The sign would swing. They wouldn't let any women in. Women always complained about it. Mrs. Poole was always making a great comic complaint about how she couldn't go to the Grapevine, and what went on at the Grapevine anyhow that we couldn't see? It was all very sweet and pleasant.

That was where these men used to talk things over. Lots of people used to come there to see them. They met all kinds of odd people in Russia whom they later introduced into the circle into which they moved. They were all very nice young people - Daniel French, the sculptor and all that sort of people.

Mr. Scott wrote a book of social significance too. He was the man who wrote that extraordinary article about me when I got the 54 Hour Bill through. It was published in Collier's which was a new magazine in that day - just sticking its head up. That was about in 1911 or '12. He referred to the