In the Sunday, Chicago _Daily Inter Ocean_ for May 19, 1895, there is an interview of Mark Twain datelined May 18 from New York. The story reported that Mark Twain and his family had arrived in NY at the American line pier that morning and would remain in the city 24 hours. The text of that interview is online at: http://www.twainquotes.com/interviews/Interview19May1895.html Barb