April 9 Monday – Sam was en route to New York on the S.S. New York. In the Brooklyn Eagle, p.9, “The Anti-Spoils League,” Sam’s name was listed along with many others, reading like a Who’s Who in New York. The Civil Service Reform League started this new group, the Anti-Spoils League, whose aim was “to form a single popular organization, working into every state…toward the abolishment of the spoils system under the national, state and local governments.” Carl Schurz was elected president.