The Diary

Piercing cold. Hogan calls at 9 AM He & I fully discuss matters, give him $200 to carry out intended business, then I proceed to Store, try if space allotted to us 20 x 22' for Centennial is sufficient. Take lunch home have about one hours conversation with wife respecting our future. By 4^th Ave Bridge uptown, see mother on finding she knows Reinel departure to Europe tell her all about it. Home for supper, play Skat with Reck, C. St & Albert, win 40 Cents wife to bed early, not feeling well

Clear cold day, heavy payday I lunch at home, feel again very sad and depressed in spirits. All Concert business wretched beyond measure, Strakosch with his Titiens-Goddard troupe, even Thomas losing money. Von Bülow business said to be very poor, not 200 people in the House at his first performance in Phila. I send Darcie to Printer Gray to change Vienna Matter in our Catalogue. With Toussaint, Reck and Steins to Neuss, Reck & Steins to Supper with us. I proceed uptown through 50^th str. My wife with Reck to Alberts house, where we play Skat I win 24 Cents. Albert & I go over his tabular statement of different prices, am very much astonished by the unexpected result