Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Lady Doyle go to Coney Island.

This is, apparently, huge news. Look at the size of the article, replete with quotes that show him scrambling for something nice to say when pressed about what he thought of the place:

"Coney Island doesn't give one time to think. I'm trying to get myself together. I must do that before I can think. But I certainly had a good time."

Later, he said he liked the dancing, and he seemed surprised to find refined dancing there.

He refused to discuss Coney's lights, noises, and exciting attractions. They didn't need discussion, he said. They spoke for themselves.

I think it's easy enough to read between the lines there. He didn't like it! He "shot the chutes," rode "the seemingly perilous Whip ride," and toured "the ridiculous Crazy Village."

But check out this article, published yesterday, that shows him expressing a lot of opinions — about suffragists, plumage laws, and New York skyscrapers. ("It seems as though some one had gone over the city with a watering pot and stupendous buildings had grown up overnight as a result.")

THE YEAR THAT BLOG FORGOT IS: 1914.

"There is little use in trying to beautify Central Park West if the line serving it terminates in the black belt of Harlem."

That's the objection of J. Bowie Dash, a director of the Central Park West and Columbus Avenue Association, about the proposed extension of the subway in New York City. The Association wants the route bent eastward so Harlem residents don't flow downtown.

THE YEAR THAT BLOG FORGOT IS: 1922.