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TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 19, 1905
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 19, 1905
April 19, 1905.
Dr. Chas. H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
I received word on Monday afternoon from Miss Scharff that she would like to see me on Tuesday. I telegraphed her that she could see me at noon, or at three o'clock. I received a telephone message the next day that she would call at three o'clock and I spent a lot of time between then and three o'clock trying to get you on the telephone at Adelphi College, and subsequently learned that the telephone was out of order. She put in an appearance at three o'clock and demanded to know why she had been "fired". She said you would not give her any reason and simply reiterated that you were most devoted to her and very fond of her, etc. etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc', etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.
Before she left I made up my mind that I had discovered why she had been "fired".
This morning Mr. Rossiter called me up to say that Coler had paid his $1000. subscription, and (Mr. Smith who is sitting next to me listening to this dictation says "Don't you know that he expects to run for Mayor this fall) in the course of the conversation with Rossiter I told him of Miss Scharff's call. He then told me about the letter you had written to him setting forth the reasons for the offer of the three months' pay in in lieu of discontinuing her services. She uttered some threats in her letter making for an interview and also in her conversation with me, and I told her I thought she was very foolish, for her own good; that the College could not possibly suffer thereby and I feared she would. I am glad that the Atlantic Ocean will soon separate us.
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 28, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 28, 1904
April 28, 1904.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn.
My dear Levermore:
The next meeting of the Board, I believe, will regularly take place on Monday the sixteenth of May. I think I am correct in the belief that the Board Meetings are held the third Monday in the month. Now, I cannot be in the City on that date. In talking with Mr. Rossiter last evening about it, he suggested that it was important that I should be present at this annual meeting and advised the calling of the meeting in the regular way and the sending of a notice that owing to my inability to be present, the meeting would be adjourned or postponed until a later date, which I would suggest - if you approve of the plan - be Thursday May twenty-sixth. Then just before that meeting it might be well to send a special plea to each member of the Board to attend. I am still trying to arrange matters so as to be with you on Commencement, June 14th, but I have considerable doubt as to my ability to do so. That is the date I should be in the far West. You know that during the entire winter, on account of Mrs. Woodruff's condition, I who obliged to neglect my business interests to a very considerable extent. I only went to Syracuse two or three time for a day or so at a time, and was unable to go out among our branch offices which I felt was very desirable. It would seem as though I must do it now, especially in view of the fact that I am going to Europe to look after our business interests over there on the first of July. I hope everything is getting along nicely with you.
Sincerely yours, -
TO LEVERMORE, FEBRUARY 11, 1903
TO LEVERMORE, FEBRUARY 11, 1903
Feb. 11, 1903.
Dic. T. L. W.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Levermore:-
You have probably learned by this time of my new business connections. I am sending you to-day Syracuse papers which will explain what I have not time to set forth in a letter, for I am overwhelmed with work.
I should think Senator Hoar would be a good man, although he is pretty old and could not, I think make himdself heard in the Academy. You know, perhaps that he can, and, if so, I would secure him if I were you. How about Lodge if you cannot get Hoar?
I think Mr. Herman Metz would do all right on the Board. I believe he is the kind of a man we want, but I heard a reflection upon him which probably had no foundation, and may have been the result of some political jealousy. I am sure you could not get a better man than Mr. Kimball and hope you will succeed in getting him.
If it is possible for me to be in New York February 27, I shall attend the class dinner at the Yale Club. I have undertaken an enormous contract in the management of this business. I think you know I was largely interested in it financially, and when the Smith Brothers, four in number, occupied the offices of President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Manager, all resigned somebody possessed of a reasonable degree of nerve, energy and acquaintance with the business to take hold of it fearlessly had to step to the front. I am yet unable to state how much time or attention it is going to take in Syracuse, but it may be months before I can get away from here except for a day, or two, at a time.
I wish you would write me from time to time how the College is getting along, and I will do everything I can to help you through the medium of correspondence until I can be with you again.
With best wishes, I remain,
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 1, 1905
TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 1, 1905
March 1, 1905.
Dr. Chas. A. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Levermore:
I am in receipt of your three communications of the 22nd, 24th and 27th of February.
I thank you for your congratulations on my impending marriage, which you refer to as having been announced, no doubt, with my authority. It has not been announced with my authority; but so sensational has the newspaper press nowadays become, that one's private, domestic affairs are as much used for the purpose of increasing circulation as are the affairs of public men or the affairs of State. However, it is a fact that I am to be married and I am glad to receive the congratulations of my immediate friends. I thank you for your expression of confidence and affection.
I will attend the meeting on Monday night, the 13th, and then talk with you about the deal with Pratt High School. I cannot arrive at a conclusion as to what is best to be done, without talking the matter over with you and being better posted than I am at the present time.
I agree with you that the three lady members of the Board could serve the institution much better in the capacity you suggest, and thus make room for three men upon the Board who could be more surely counted upon to attend our meetings.
About Miss Mae M. Hall, now in the employ of the Government at Ellis Island, being transferred to a place in the Brooklyn Post Office, I will have my Secretary, Mr. Smith, take the matter up with Postmaster Roberts and others, and see if anything can be done for her. Of course, a vacancy will have to be found before such transfer can possibly be made.
I read, with much interest, your description of Comptroller Grout's dinner. I met him at lunch today and he asked me to attend the meeting of the Committee of One Hundred tomorrow afternoon, which was the first knowledge I had that a Committee had been appointed, or was to hold a meeting. I told him I could not
the meeting because I was going to Washington on the 12.55 train tomorrow, having an engagement there tomorrow evening. He then wanted me to write him a letter to be read at the meeting expressing my advocacy of his scheme. I told him I was not prepared to take a definite position with regard to the proposition. I told him I must certainly consult you and my fellow trustees of Adelphi Board before I even expressed a personal opinion. I asked him if you were on the Committee and he said of course you were. Therefore, I presume you will be present tomorrow afternoon. It is just as well for me not to be there as I would certainly have to say something and it looks to me as though the matter would take shape without our having any participation in the direction or shaping of the course which will be eventually pursued. I mean by that to refer to the attitude of the Polytechnic Alumni, which Mr. Grout said was hostile to his scheme. As you know, from what I said, I think a consolidation of the institutions is a good thing and probably it might be a good you will attend the meeting tomorrow afternoon, and without committing yourself one way or the other, learn the views of all the others who are prepared to express themselves.
I see no objection to the insertion in the catalogue of the paragraph embodied in your letter of the 27th. I am willing to take the responsibility of saying "go ahead." We will bring the matter before the Board, if necessary, at the meeting on the 13th, when I am sure our action will be ratified.
Relative to the closing paragraph in your letter of the 27th, let me reiterate what I have said, that the matter will shape itself without our being obliged to take the initiative. At all events, let's see what transpires between now and the 13th, a week from next Monday, and then we will discuss it. I go to Washington tomorrow and will not be back in the City until a week from today.
Yours very sincerely,
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