The Ritz-Carlton. I went + waited till 2.35 - looked around everywhere but couldn't see anything of Mrs Stewart. She called me up, on Sunday morning, + said she had been there all the time, in the lady's sitting room - so I didn't see her after all. She kindly invited me to motor down to Long Island, but I had a luncheon engagement up the Hudson and had to leave at 6.45 pm for Canada. The New York papers said that week was the hottest ever recorded in the city. The thermometer for 5 consecutive days registered 96 degrees, 98 degrees, 102 degrees, 104 degrees, 103 degrees - but it is the great humidity which takes the 'zip' out of one - about 90 degrees all the time - 234 persons, 673 horses died from the heat in those 5 days + more than 1000 persons were prostrated. I stood it pretty well, although I got a bit discombobulated sometimes from too much ice water - or some fluid of that sort!! The heat was certainly very trying -