April 26 Tuesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Charles Webster.

“All right. The reasons why Kaolatype hasn’t paid, seem to be very simple. But I think you will make it pay. You will remember I gave Sneider a week’s grace—let his wages cease with that” [MTP].

Western Union Telegraph Co. bill of Apr. 30 shows telegram sent this date to New York, recipient not specified (see that entry for others).

Charles Webster wrote from the Astor House, NYC to Sam. He hadn’t yet found a boarding house but would “in a day or two.” As to the Kaolatype business, “Sneider has been booming away casting plates & pulling the wool over Slote’s eyes magnificently. He telegraphed S. Today, ‘I have just made several splendid plates.’ Slote hasn’t seen one of the operations but Sneider was going to get affidavits. As soon as I can find Sneider I will stop this farce” [MTP]. Note: Sneider and Slote had been engaged in a fraud.