[PRCo] Re: was Feeling a little too hot and humid? OT!!!

[Boris Cefer]

This sounds familiar. I know that it was not his original name, but I
perhaps never heard "Samuel Clemens" or it was of no importance to me. You
don't look for books from Samuel Clemens at a library...

B

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 6:29 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Feeling a little too hot and humid?


> Samuel Clemens wrote under the pen name Mark Twain.   Same guy,
> Boris.   He was a former Mississippi River captain before the Civil
> War.   The expression Mark Twain was a term meaning an adequate river
> depth for sailing ... I'm not exactly sure how many fathoms or feet
> or meters without researching it.   Later in his life Clemens adopted
> that name for his writing.
>
> On Jul 29, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:
>
> > We have around 95 these days!
> > Didn't the same (or that?) comment come from Mark Twain?
> >
> > B
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> > To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 6:04 PM
> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: Feeling a little too hot and humid?
> >
> >
> >> I feel sorry for Holland knowing how unseasonably hot its been in San
> >> Francisco.   (I remember the story by, I think originally, Samuel
> >> Clemens, that the "coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San
> >> Francisco."   So when I saw those 90 degree readings in the city, I
> >> knew Jim had to be suffering.   Do they even have air-conditioned
> >> buses in the city?   I would imagine not because it seldom gets above
> >> the 70s.
> >>
> >> I went to Newark yesterday to photograph the downtown portion of the
> >> new Broad Street extension of the "Newark City Railway" ... walked a
> >> mile in 95 degree heat and my wife said I looked terrible when I got
> >> home.   Felt dizzy this morning.   But I did get the pitchurs.
> >>
> >>
> >
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