World War I Collection

was from Calif. & naturally she took him for one of us, and then he had the crust to ask for a ticket to her show in the evening. Herb. gave me the job to inform our Stanford friend, if he came to the theatre, to politely let him know in unmistakable terms that he was not wanted, that he had gained the dislike of all the Calif. boys, and we didn't care to see any more of him.

May 11, '17

Our Stanford boy had hollared to Mr. Hearford that he was being abused and Mr. Hearford jumped all over Herb, Krusi, & Johnnie Wilton who were down at his office in the morning. He accused me of mutiny and I couldn't go to France as they didn't want such a character over there in the country. After much

to speak to Mr. Hearford about the flag episode. He had a few highballs and was feeling good. We put our arms around each other and had a fine time talking it over. He thought I was a fine fellow and said that "If I had been in your place I would have tried to do the same thing." Had the pleasure of eating dinner with Josephine Miller. Mr. Melone made a spendid speach[speech] and so did Ex. Pres. Roosevelt. Four or five other notibles [notables] spoke, including a representative of the British War Envoy to America. A joint banquit [banquet] of both the British & French Envoys was held at the same time on the same floor as ours at the hotel. Tried to get Major Joffre to speak to us but was unsuccessful.