Waltham Daily Tribune; Thur. Nov. 13, 1884; p. 1.
Courtesy of Janice Zwicker, Archivist


Rumford Institute.

Music Hall was well filled last evening on the occasion of the second of
the present season's course of Rumford Institute entertainments.  Mr.
Geo. W. Cable, the popular author of the serial story now publishing in
the “Century,” gave several scenes from that work with fine effect, and
was listened to with the hushed stillness of intense interest,
especially in the closing graphic scene, while Mark Twain, for it was
the genial humorist universally known under this name rather than the
fine gentleman known in the social circles of the city of Hartford as
Mr. Clemens, read several highly amusing sketches from his own writings,
to the great amusement of the audience, manifested by almost incessant
applause.  Upon the whole this second evening of the course, seemed to
meet with as much favor as did the first evening with the popular and
charming Barnabee troupe.