The Diary

To St. Hall early, both Cotterill and Hoyt there. At 1 P.M. take lunch with them at Luchows, then in my carriage via 34^th street to Steinway Ave (which is nicely paved now) to "Steinway" and take a flying glance at Mansion, Riker Avenue, factories, dock & houses, church, Kindergarten. Snow frozen firmly on the ground. At 7 P.M. to Julius Hoffmann 25^th Anniversary at L.K. in Committee room. Mr. Gustav H. Schwab presides I have charming chat with him, Hoffmann, Adams, Heye, Brunn +. Presentation of a beautiful watch & chain by chairman to Hoffmann, also of a $1000 bond. I am called upon to make a speech, which is rec^d with immense applause, getting in many witty hits, home at 11 P.M. While on way from Astoria we glance over Plaintiffs brief in Carriage, brief continuing most shameful lies and pervertion of testimony. Paid off BBB+It Co. Mtge. $14.000. to U.S. Trust Co

Foggy clammy weather. Receive the said News that our life long friend Oberstaatsanwalt Koch died at Braunsch^g Decbr.22^d 1894. aged 76 years Henry A. Cassebeer called in forenoon. My little daughter Maud, who had been ailing for a week or so is quite well again. I also have better News from my son George, who, though still confined to bed at Mamaroneck, is getting better in body and mind from week to week. At St. Hall from 2-6 P.M. Cotterill and Hoyt, Louis v.B. & Harry D. Low there. We go over brief (in Hamburg case) of Sullivan &Cromwell and it assails Chas. H. St. violently on his evidence, but is otherwise pronounced weak by our lawyers. Am home in evg trying to work but Theodore Sutro calls about Albert Weber case, German Savings Bank and an office for him, he now being the Pres. of the German Am. Reform Union

Again work all day at St. Hall, with Chas. H. St., Burkard and the two lawyers, Home in evg and write a few letters, Frl. M. Bernkopf appeals in a letter for help for her parents. Annual Meeting N. Y. +College Point Ferry Comp. at College Point, gave L.v. Bernuth my proxy B. Newport called at my house