scott
19 March 2025
May 19 Tuesday – Sam returned to Riverdale, N.Y. either the night before or this day. He returned at least part way on Rogers’ yacht Kanawha [MTHHR 528n1].
Sam’s notebook: “Mr. Rogers made $95,000 for … some years ago; he speculated & lost it. Got another start; now has bought U.S. Steel Common at 42 on a margin & got sold out at 18—leaving him ‘broke’ & in a position to need $70,000, which Mr. Rogers has furnished him on a mortgage of some land saved from the former wreck” [NB 46 TS 16]. Note: the unlucky investor Sam kept anonymous. Possibly one of his Rogers’ son-in-laws?
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May 19, 1903 - Tue