February 8 Wednesday – George N. Stone, Chicago attorney, wrote to Sam, (at Players Club):

Upon reaching home last evening, I found awaiting me, a pleasant reminder of you and our short acquaintance. It is needless for me to say that the souvenir will be kept and treasured not only as a reminder of our pleasant relationship, but also of a triumphal ending of one of the longest physical and mental sieges that a business man or lawyer ever encountered. [Note: Sam wrote here: “True for him!”]. On the bottom of the letter Sam wrote in pencil: “One of our Board of Directors,” and in ink:

“Poor devil, all by himself he had to beguile, persuade, beseech, threaten, abuse & bully Paige day & night all those exhausting weeks, to get Mr. Rogers’s terrific requirements out of him & hold him to his agreements” [MTP].