The Diary

defaulter. A. Maurer called, also Wm. H. Williams. It cleared up in the afternoon and quite a crowd came to North.Beach. Adam Weber who returned by the Augusta Victoria friday, called, also J. Otto Toussaint who again borrows $150 of me. Am interviewed by the reporter of Morning Journal on the divorce of my son again, and of course must patiently explain again. C. v. B. with us in ev’g. I have been working hard all day sifting papers, and am quite tired on retiring

Quite cold weather, both sides of my neck affected, back free to St. Hall via 34^th str. A terrible lot of work awaits me. A. D. Coe of Cleveland, O. calls, and Charles H. St. Stetson +I are having a high old time with him, as he rides a remarkably high horse and demands S&N. prices which I flatly refuse. An immense concourse of people attempt to see me & are mostly sent off, but still I listen to J. Hirschman, Au. Spanuth, Laura Danziger and Bernheim A. M. Britting, Otto Kempner, H. L. Saxer, Adam Weber and Harry Brown call. At 6 P.M. rise, and find upright knee sore, while my back is nearly well but my neck on the right side is also affected. Heinrich Zoellner, and Saml Nordheimer also call, having arrived pr. Trave this morning. Morning Journal has a correct view of the divorce case, and I am glad that neither the Staatsztg, Morng +Eve nor the New Yorker Zeitung and Herold mention the matter. I give Ida Rhoner letter installing her sister Irene in the Scholarship of Musical Guild, give Selma Grimm $75 to study Stenography and typewriting at Walworth College.
Removed with my family from Steinway back to my house on Gramercy Park, NewYork. received the following cablegram from Japan “Yokohama Sept. 30^th Arrived well Burkgeorge, showing that my son George and his friend Howard R. Burk arrived pr. steamer Coptic today. William Ottmann died today

Slept quite, knees better and sore neck reduced to right side. To St. Hall early, at 2 P.M. at Rapid Transit Meeting, all present except Mayor +Comptroller We locate all the stations, and my Ideas are all