May 5 Saturday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam inscribed an etching to Edward Lauterbach: “It is not best to use our morals on weekdays, Edward, it gets them out of repair for Sunday. Your friend / Mark Twain / May 5, 1906.” [MTP].
Sam also wrote to Oren Root, Jr., an officer in the Kingsbridge Railway Co.
My daughters are frequently robbed by conductors on the surface lines; there they report to me, but bring me nothing upon which I can enter a complaint, since they shrink from asking the robber for his number. But at last my eldest daughter has brought me a number. The swindle was perpetrated this morning upon the 3 avenue between 60 & 64 street (going up town), between 11 & 11.30, & the thief’s number is 3818.
I am bedridden, but if you will send some one to me for the particulars, I will furnish them. Please telephone first, (3907 Gramercy)—it is not in the telephone book [MTP: John S. Mayfield, Mark Twain vs. the Street Railway Co., 1926, p.18-19].
Sam also wrote to Oren Root, Jr., an officer in the Kingsbridge Railway Co.
My daughters are frequently robbed by conductors on the surface lines; there they report to me, but bring me nothing upon which I can enter a complaint, since they shrink from asking the robber for his number. But at last my eldest daughter has brought me a number. The swindle was perpetrated this morning upon the 3 avenue between 60 & 64 street (going up town), between 11 & 11.30, & the thief’s number is 3818.
I am bedridden, but if you will send some one to me for the particulars, I will furnish them. Please telephone first, (3907 Gramercy)—it is not in the telephone book [MTP: John S. Mayfield, Mark Twain vs. the Street Railway Co., 1926, p.18-19].
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