May. It was 11.45 o'clock when we were alone and in a few minutes we were through the Custom House. Autos are not allowed here, but Tour and occasional road trucks do come. Carriages galore and all are operated by clever gentlemen. Bicycles are common and some ladies go to market on them. In a few minutes more I am aboard a very high three-wheeled string omnibus — the Langton Hotel Bus — and so we go to the mall and up upon one of the higher hills in Hamilton. There's a splendid garden all about with lots of flowers and creepers and cedar trees. Had lunch and then was shown a room in the cottage which I concluded to take for a spell to see if I liked it. It is to cost $42 per meal for the first month and $50 for a week for the remainder of my stay. Later finding no conveniences here I told the manager that I would change to a room 18 in the hotel proper in the morning. For 1½ hours strolled about Hamilton to see the stores. Go any large ones, and hardly any are attractive. So far in the way of local souvenirs saw nothing of artistic value. The stars are neither English or American and since the majority of decorations are imitations (maybe some are Spanish mixtures) and of the less good kind here is little local talent, and what outside talent there is appears to be I am indifferent kind.