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FROM JOHN E. WOODRUFF, AUGUST 10, 1904
FROM JOHN E. WOODRUFF, AUGUST 10, 1904
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Dearest Father
I arrived this A.M. at Harbor Springs and am pretty tired but I thought I would drop you a line which you will get shortlyter your arrival in New York.
I struck Chicago last Thursday night which I spent at the Auditorium Annex with Couro Fierd. Friday morning we took an early train to Midlothian where his family live in the Summer. Then Saturday we journeyed to Racine to stay with the Bulls over night; you will remember having Jeanette Bull and her Aunt and Uncle Mr and Mrs Robinson who also live in Racine for supper at the Beaux Arts the night it hailed so. Sunday we returned to Midlothian and the following night I left for here, a 12 hour trip on the train from
Chicago. They have a delightful golf links here where I played a very good game today taking 77 for the 18 holes which is about as well as anyone has done this year. By the time I leave I ought to lower the record several strokes. Father, you would be amazed to see the game of golf I play. Really I am sure that in a ywar or two if I have time to develope it that I will be among the very best in the Country.
I wrote you a long letter about two weeks from Seabright when I thought you would not return till the 15th; I suppose it will be forwarded to you
Now I have something of a services nature to communicate and I dread to do it knowing how strongly you feel about such a thing but while on my way to the golf club at Racine Saturday I dropped my pocket book and lost $80. It was in
a large wallett in my hip pocket; I was riding in a Fall two wheeled dog card which was very jolty so that one of the ribs of the back of my seat must have worked my wallett up through my pocket. The rest of our party coming along 10 minutes later found it in the middle of the road about 100 yards from the club House. Most of the papers and cards had also fallen out but evidently someone had selected the money from among them and made off. We hunted for a half hour all around through the bushes but not a sign of the $80. I had already bought my ticket to Harbor Springs and had $28 in another smaller pocket book which was rather lucky. However losing that $80 completely took the spirits out of me and made me despondent and sore at everyone and everything in general for days and has hardly worked off yet. This is the first time I have lost anything sice two years ago when I lost $18 and I can give you my word it will never happen again. I don't know whenn I have felt so badly about anythinng. I had kept an accurate account of every cent I have spent sice I got $250 from Mr Farnham a week or so ago and I thought I had been doing very well not having spent a cent on anything but the absolute necessities of the trip when lo! and behold! I lose what I had been trying to save. The result is Father, I am compelled to wwrite for whatever more you can spare me and I promise I will be more than careful of whatever you send.
I have economised on my room here. They had for me a $5 a day room on the first floor but I had it
changed to a $20 a week room on the third floor which is the cheapest room in the club but just as comfortable as any other as long as all I need it for is a place to sleep in and a storage room for my clothes.
Mrs Watson and Genie of course are here and in excellent health and spirits. The latter is sweeter and more attractive than ever; I got here to find her quite the belle of the place.
We expect the Petits up here in a day or so.
Must close now. Will write soon again.
Give me the news when you get time. With dearest love
John
August 10th '04. -
FROM JOHN E. WOODRUFF, AUGUST 18, 1904
FROM JOHN E. WOODRUFF, AUGUST 18, 1904
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A lot of St Louis people so I know I will have a good time. But I want very much to know your plans and what you want me to do.
There is a friend of yours here who has been very nice to Genie and me, a Mrs Tracy who is an intimate friend of the Haynies. Everyone is simply crazy about Genie. She is a great deal prettier and more matured than when you last saw her. Half the people here have told me that all they want to do of an evening is to get a seat where they can watch her and that they cant take their eyes off her. She has had invitations from a number of people she has just met here to visit them in St Louis, Louisville, Cincinnatti and all over; I never saw anyone so popular with old and young alike. I think you will be surprised
Father, when you know her better, to find out how much there is to her and how much ability he has.
My idea is now, to start in in Syracuse the 1st of November after spending October, or most of it, in Camp. I won't ask anyone up there but will hold myself ready to help you take care of any party you may have up.
If you have $100 on the way to me now I think you had better send another $100 to Greenwood Inn, Evanston, Ill. we are going from here to Chicago on the boat, Northland , which is nearly as large and equally as fine as the ocean going steamers.
Take good care of yourself, Father dear, and don't work too hard over business and politics. You are so well along now that you can better afford to take things easy.
Devotedly your son
John
August 18th 1904 -
FROM JOHN E. WOODRUFF, DECEMBER 12, 1908
FROM JOHN E. WOODRUFF, DECEMBER 12, 1908
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December 12 '08
Dear Father
Yours of the 10th just received this A.M. thought I said in my letter of the 7th that we would [---] a check from you for $500.00 to meet a pay roll on [---] This pay roll is actually paid Saturday noon [---] it is our custom to ge the money Friday. Not hearing [---] you yesterday I put off getting the money till today [---] now that a check did not accompany your letter [---] drawing on you for $500.00 and am sending this [---] without delay to you at Sherry's so you know [---] this draft will be presented, or you will be phoned [---] it, on Monday at 43 to 39th This draft will [---] very little more than cover the pay roll and other [---] that must be met by Monday, so I am not [---] a chance on shairing in the way of a remittance [---] coming in by Monday. we are expecting settlement [---] on the Penna R R [---]
As I wrote you on Thursday I am coming down Tuesday night to have time for a little necessary shopping in New York and Josephines supper in Brooklyn that night Wednesday at 10 P.M. So don't you put off anything you have for Wednesday night I am coming back Thursday night, unless there is some reason for staying over till Friday.
I suppose you expected your leter of the 10th would reach me yesterday the 11th but I notice by the envelope that it was not taken from the mail box till 12.30 yesterday If I had gotten it yesterday [---] could have telegraphed you for the 500 but now [---] have not choice but drawing.
With love and looking forward to seeing you [---] Wednesday I am Yours devotedly
John
P.S. I will come over to Sherry's to Breakfast [---] leaving my things at the Yale Club, where I will [---] a room. I suppose you breakfast about 8.30. -
FROM JOHN E. WOODRUFF, DECEMBER 3, 1908
FROM JOHN E. WOODRUFF, DECEMBER 3, 1908
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Dec 3rd 1908
Dear Father
So sorry conditions so shaped themselves that you had to drop out of the race. It was hard luck and nothing else. Your statements have all been very good and the newspaper comments have been excellent. Everyone seems to think you made a mistake but of course you didn't.
I have some Dr bills and one or two others that I would like to get out of the way as they have run for a considerable length of time. One is Dr Heffron (97.00) most of which covers his services at the time Genie had the operation on her teeth. Another Dr Dayau (195.00) for this operation. I thought this would be $300 as he gave me to understand it might go as high as that but as a matter of fact he charged ($100.00 for the operation and $95.00 for 19 visits at $5 per. These two are the most pressing of the bills and $500 wil put me practically even with the game; where I was on Jan 1st 08. If it had not been for Genies illness I would have saved over $500 since then instead of going in the hole. If it is possible I wish you would help me out at this time, if not these bills can wait a while longer.
We are all very well and Genie is continuing on her improvement. Hope you will be up this way soon. Write when you have time.
Love to Isabel.
Devotedly
John -
FROM JOHN E. WOODRUFF, DECEMBER 7, 1908
FROM JOHN E. WOODRUFF, DECEMBER 7, 1908
Dec 7 '08
Dear Father
I am in receipt of yours of the 4th and am much indebted for such a detailed account of the reasons for your withdrawal from the Senatorship race. It was exactly as I had expecteed except that I had supposed you had good reason to believe you could get the election if you fought to the end for it. Still, as I reason it all out, it does not seem as if it were a possibility for you to contend successfully against the powers that would have been brought to bear to bring about Root's election. As it is you are certainly in fine shape with the incoming administration and I must say I have been surprised at the almost absolute lack of sarcasm thrown in your direction by the press in general. I only hope that the next time you have your heart set on something of this kind no one else will bob up with a seemingly better claim. I am sending back Taft's letter.
Concerning Frank Hiscock's letter to you, which I am also enclosing, beg to say I have seen Wal Hiscock (Bert's Brother and the executor of the estate) and have fixed it up with him that they are not to worry about paying the call due now on the stock and that they will wait till at least Jan 1st before endeavoring in any way to dispose of it. The understanding is that they will sell the stock for just what Bert paid in and will, therefore, forfeit the interest which has accumulated.
I note by your letter that you are in Kamp but will be in New York again on Wednesday morning. I am afraid the Co. will have to have some more money on your call, as much as you can spare we have a pay roll on Friday which our present balance does not cover. I think 500. will see us well towards the end of the month as we are expecting to get, before the end of the month, remittances amounting to at least $1500.00 These are slow in coming in and I cant count on them although we are doing everything possible to get them. The only trouble is we should be paying some invoices that fell due Nov 1st and which we are holding up as they do not seem to be in any great hurry for the money. All this reminds me forcibly of the fact that we are nearing the end of our financial rope and that unless business takes an upward turn pretty soon, we will be in a bad hole. John left Wednesday night and returns tomorrow morning. I am expecting at that time to learn more definately just how matters stand and what we can reasonably expect in the way of orders in the next 60 days. When you realize that our entire accounts receivable only amount to about $7000.00 and that our expenses are that every month, it shows that we are running pretty close. You know John as well as I do and you know that the hates to pull in any if he thinks it looks as if there was business for us in the near future. The trouble is John's jusgement on this is, in nearly every instance, wrong. In John's mind every cloud has a silver lining and he gives along in a happy-go-lucky way on this basis. As far as our business gives you would think the panic was now at it's height. We have been going along on the basis that the tide was turning but, unless the tide does turn, we can't go along this way much longer. Instead of holding in any we are continually branching out. We are doing a considerable amount of expensive work on the drill, the 500 volt mch, the A.C. mch and have now more demonstrators than we have ever had before at any one time. Besides our shop is working on full time instead of partial time as has been the case for the past ten months. We don't seem to have any trouble securing trial propositions but there is no direct return from these as the profit from the sale of a single machine under these conditions is entirely list in the expense we are under in making the installation. Of course we charge the Coal Co with the services of the demonstrator but this does not nearly let us out whole on the matter. As you know we can't expect to make any money until we receive additional orders at the conclusion of a succe -
FROM JOHN E. WOODRUFF, JULY 27, 1904
FROM JOHN E. WOODRUFF, JULY 27, 1904
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July 27 '04
Dearest Dad
Just back from the woods today after spending yesterday at the Adirondacks League club. I got Hector Haremeyer to have Denis build his Camp on Little Morse Lake which he will start when he is finished at Kora. We had a great time up there six of us including Esty who is a dandy, I think when we left there the Haremeyers insisted that he come down with them and spend a week here which he very gladly accepted. He was a great aid to me when all the fellows were up there.
I forgot to tell you what wonderful fishing we have had in the lake. Nobody has gone out in either party who has returned with less than 10 or 12 and last Sunday Hector and his wife caught 33 yesterday. Miss Woodruff caught 18 and the day before something over 40 were brought in by 2 boats. I guess raising the lake made quite a difference. Moreover over 2/3 of all these catches came from the hole inn the outlet between the rocks and the temporary dam. Miss Woodruff caught all hers there and they averaged well over 1/2 lb. all this proves to me that the trout beginn to run down the stream about this time of year but are now stopped by the dam. So, it seems to me, that in years past we have only been stocking Morse River by stocking our lake because nothing like the number or size of trout that go down come
back up. I should think the scheme would be to keep them from going down in the Fall but open up to let them in in the Spring.
Everything seems to be going along beautifully at Camp; never saw the place look so beautiful. I leave for my "tour of the west" Monday. Today I wrote to Mr Farnham for my first check of $250 which I will make last as long as possible. Now that I am out of college I am taking things much easier and looking at everything in a more sober and
Sensible tight as you will notice when you return. I am perfectly prepared to settle down to hard-work and in fact am looking forward to it. I want very much to start in in the factory in Syracuse where you are so much interested and have so many friends who would help me so much on account of their regard for you.
You can't imagine how much
I miss you and darling Mother It seems impossible to believe that she is not with you since she is not with me. Never, never Father, will we cease to mourn her and realize what a wonderful companion we have lost.' As you say, no sweeter woman ever lived or ever will. If the Mother of my children is half as thoughtful or half as sweet as she always was they may thank God and deem themselves most fortunate. Somehow or other I miss her more as time goes on, never will I be able to adapt myself to the space her death left vacant in my life. At first
I thought I could, I thought the coming on of new events would fill it up, but now I know they never can. All I can say is, God Bless her and treat her as she did you and me.
With love for your own dear self I am devotedly your son
John
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