Press: Old Bull's Baths

"MR. MELLON NOT BATHLESS" headlined the New York Times last week. What! thought readers, has Mr. Mellon been pictured as a dirty old man? Is this the correction of a horrid error? On the contrary, the story in error had redounded, if anything, entirely to Andrew William Mellon's hygienic credit. The Times had headlined that Mr. Mellon was "staying in old Hotel Bull which has no private bath." Indignant, the old Hotel Bull in Cambridge, England, so old that none knows when it was built, save that it was old enough to...

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