September 18 Saturday – In Weggis, Switzerland Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers:

The Swiss vacation is ended & I am packing the trunks for Vienna. That is, I am superintending. …I leave all places with regret, & if there is ever to be an exception, this is not the one. We shall reach Salzburg next Wednesday 22d—no, a day or two later—& remain a week. We reach Vienna about Oct.1. Our address there for a few days will be c/o Thos. Cook & Son, while we hunt up a house to live in.

Sam wished that Dr. Clarence Rice had come to Weggis, wondering if he came to Switzerland with his family.

We should have been very glad of a night of them. I could not have offered any billiards, but German 9-pins are to be had. There is good exercise in it, but that is all. You can’t hit anything but the game-keeper. We have played, all these weeks.

Sam noted he’d only seen a newspaper three times in ten weeks, didn’t know what was going on in the world, but didn’t “seem any the worse for it.” He intended to “continue the deprivation” to see what the result would be. He also noted on Charles Langdon’s monthly statement that Bainbridge Colby charged him $800 “for something or other,” which he said was the “third or fourth similar robbery he has committed,” and still had not collected the money due from Daniel Frohman. “Colby is a bilk” [MTHHR  301-2]. Note: German 9-pins was an old European lawn game, from which many forms of later bowling descended.

Sam also wrote thanks to Robert Barr for a Thesaurus. Sam gave his Thos. Cook temporary address in Vienna and disclosed they would stop in Salzburg on the way, from Sept. 22 [MTP]. Note: See Feb. 10 and Aug. 7 entries for more on Barr.