Friday, August 8, 2008

Sunday, August 8, 1915

We went to chapel and after that was over we went ashore. Luckily for us the waffle kitchen was in full swing when we arrived. We went to the Hof Brau for dinner, and at 2:15 we went to the Orpheum where we saw a very good vaudeville. This was the first day of liberty that did not appear to a great extent to be a Sunday - and yet it was a Sunday. As we were returning to the ships we saw Silvio Pettirossi, the monoplane artist, in a trial flight over the Exposition grounds. His flight was thrilling - even more so than Art Smith's daredevil loops and twists and drops. We were beginning to feel the strain on our pocketbooks that a week of high life in Frisco had brought on, and were at a point where we realized that we would have to "go easy."

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