September 11 Thursday – In Onteora Park near Tannersville, N.Y. Sam wrote again to Senator John P. Jones, passing on an “official report on the Mergenthaler machine,” which concluded that it was “capricious & unreliable in its working,” and in “average hands, a 2,000-em machine.”

3 or 4 days’ apprenticeship on this machine will enable any young fellow of ordinary capacity to beat the best & ablest Mergenthaler or Rogers expert.

And after one week’s apprenticeship he will beat any two Mergenthaler or Rogers expert [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore who’d sent a letter but forgot to enclose something for Sam to fill out [MTP].