Item 02: Nellie Clark correspondence, 29 September 1916- 15 August 1918 - Page 40

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next day & also got out the three days following. As soon as we got off a mate & I made straight for N.Y. via the Subway. We first of all changed our money & had just got out when a returned American soldier came up to us & took us off to dinner at his home. Leaving there we made for Coney Island. Coney Is. is similar to the White City only on a very much larger scale. There we had a swim & after tea took a ticket for Steeple Chase Park where we went on all the wild & tame things that seemed worthwhile. When we came out we had our photos taken in the electric light in 20 minutes & came out like so many Dagoes. After that we went home.

The next day we went up the Woolworth building 793½ ft. high. It was some view from up there too. We there met 2 Yankee solders who were expecting to leave that night. We went with them to the acquarium which is very fine. After that we visited the Public library & saw papers from 5 June to 26 June, Sydney Morning Herald. Then had lunch at a soldiers rest of some sort or other. The next