On the afternoon of Sunday, May 14, 1899, Mrs. Arthur W. Clarke, the young wife of a British publisher’s agent residing at 159 East Sixty-fifth Street, New York, found this advertisement in the New York Herald, under the heading, “Employment Wanted:”
GIRL (20) as child’s nurse; no experience in city. Nurse, 274 Herald, Twenty-third Street.
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The author will now refer to the discovery of the Hudson River and the town of New York via Fort Lee and the 125th Street Ferry.
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Safe arrived last night, after spending twelve days of my life at sea. I say last night, as it took us so long to land and get through the custom-house that it was dark before we reached the Fifth Avenue Hotel. But it was bright daylight and sunshine as we steamed up the splendid harbor of New York, a view which I should have been sorry to have missed.
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