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 -