Annie's Diary 1906 August 28th

August 28 – Tuesday

We spent a long while, about two hours, in the Eden Musee, looking at the different scenes, hearing the music, and watching two different series of subjects on the “Cinematograph”. The racing scenes were about the best of all the pictures, at least very realistic. It was very beautiful, and we certainly did enjoy it. Rooms where the pictures were shown and the band played was called the “Winter Garden”.

After lunch we took a Fifth Avenue stage and rode out to the entrance of Central Park. There we took a park carriage and rode all over the Park covering an area of about fifteen miles. The scenery is simply grand, many acres of it is still in its naturally wild state. We had pointed out to us Senator Clark’s, the copper king from Montana, palatial residence, the Mt. Sinai Hotel, the large resevoir of N.Y. which holds several million gallons of water and also Carnegie’s palatial residence, whose servant’s house is just as fine as many homes on Peachtree. But it is much to our regret that we have to acknowledge that this is true.