bick Miller

appreciate. We dined in Niagara end saw the Falls with the
lights on them, before leaving at 8:30 pe me on a pullman tor

West Point, New Yorks

oS December 26

Upon arriving at West Point, we were taken first to the
Thayer Hotel where we hed breakfast. We then went to the gym-
nasium ae went through the huge athletic building. The treining
quarters for the athletic tees fe very complete, containing ell
 Ieinds of whirl pools, gun lamps, short wave end dtatheete machines
It is i sie and modernistic as most seipkta te and clinics, and
all in all, that's about whet it amounts toe

When we left the gym we went to the mess hall where we got lunche
Here f£ sumbee one of the greatest thrills of my life. Yhen a
entered the cadets thet were there stood up and cheereds There were
only about one-half of the cadets there, but it was still quite
anprecetnes

¥e practiced that -fterneon in the orny field house which is

quite large. There is room enough for a complete football field
inside. Ve left West Point about 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon, and
went to New York otty.

There we engaged rooms at the Picadilly Hotel. We dined at
Child's restaurant and went to practice. Thet evening, we obtained
“- first glimpse of Madison Square Garden, the place we had all

heard so much aboute

December 27

- This dey was spent in sight-seeing end it proved very interesting.

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