seven o'clock in the morning
* * * * * `` Nick Hanson , Genesee House , Buffalo , N.Y. , U.S.A : Come quick . Your man is here . Risis -- Montreal . '' Hanson received this telegram at seven o'clock in the morning , while eating his breakfast in the old Genesee House , Buffalo . In thirty minutes he was on the Niagara Express . That night about ten o'clock two men walked into the public room of the Majestic . Just outside the office door , in a lounging chair , sat the prospective landlord , as everybody called him .