In Philadelphia's Broad Street Station the send-off was grandly staged. Everyday travelers were befuddled by the confusion. A great crowd jammed the dingy old terminal, fairly fought to be near the track where a train was labeled PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRARCA VICTOR TOUR.
On the observation platform Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson spoke his good wishes into a microphone which gave him a nationwide audience. Without topcoat or hat but wearing white gloves was fair-haired Leopold Stokowski, exulting not only over the tour to come but because there is a prospect of a European trip...
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