APPENDIX 1

Max and Marianne Weber’s Itinerary for the American Journey in 1904

August 17

Departure from Heidelberg

August 20

Departure from Bremen, Germany, aboard the Bremen

August 29

Arrival in New York Harbor; the Bremen is sighted “south of Fire Island at 7:30 p.m.”

August 30

Passengers disembark

August 30–September 4

New York City; Astor House at Broadway and Vesey Street; visit to the Stock Exchange, Brooklyn Bridge, Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, Fifth Avenue mansions; discussions with Professor William Hervey, Columbia University

September 4

Train to Niagara Falls with Ernst Troeltsch

September 5–9

Niagara Falls: Hotel Kaltenbach; joined by Paul Hensel

September 6

Visit North Tonawanda, New York; the German Reform Church; meet Hans and Grete Conrad Haupt

September 7

Meet Professor Edmund James, president of Northwestern University, his wife Anna Margarethe Lange, and their sons

September 8

Marianne visits Buffalo, New York, settlements with Professor Johannes Conrad and Grete Conrad Haupt

September 9

Train to Chicago

September 9–17

Chicago, Auditorium Building Hotel, Michigan Avenue

September 11

Hull House visit, meet Jane Addams; Marianne attends WTUL Meeting

September 14

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; attend Methodist Chapel, probably with Professor James Taft Hatfield

September 15

Congress of Arts and Science invitees visit the University of Chicago and the Field Museum; reception at Reynold’s Club, possibly meeting Albion Small

September 16

Max visits the stockyards; evening banquet for Congress participants, Auditorium Building

September 17

Train to St. Louis, Missouri; Max to stay until September 26, Marianne until October 1; stay with August Gehner and family, 4498 Lindell Boulevard

September 18

Troeltsch visits the Gehners

September 19

Congress of Arts and Science begins

September 20

Max and Marianne’s eleventh anniversary

September 21

Max’s lecture, “The Relations of the Rural Community to Other Branches of Social Science” (official translated title)

September 22

Marianne attends the Woman’s Club dinner (“Science Section of the Wednesday Club”); Max probably attends Jacob Hollander’s lecture, “The Scope and Method of Political Economy”

September 25 or earlier

Breakfast with W.E.B. Du Bois

September 26

Max travels to Oklahoma Territory by night train

September 27

Max arrives in Guthrie, Oklahoma at the Hotel Royal, 11:40 a.m., and stays one hour, according to the Daily Oklahoman; he then travels to Muskogee, Indian Territory

September 27–October 1

Max in Muskogee at McFarland’s Hotel and Café

September 28

Max has lunch with Robert Latham Owen and his mother, Narcissa Chisholm Owen; meetings with Col. Clarence B. Douglass, editor of the Muskogee Phoenix; J. Blair Shoenfelt, Indian agent; J. George Wright, Indian inspector; and Tams Bixby, chair of the Dawes Commission

September 29–30

Max takes trip to Fort Gibson Clubhouse

September 29

In St. Louis, Marianne visits a coeducational high school with Pauline Gehner Mesker

September 30

Max observes a land auction

October 1

Max observes the Creek payment; stops in South McAlester, Indian Territory; Max and Marianne travel separately to Memphis, Tennessee, by night trains

October 2

Max and Marianne rendezvous in Memphis at the Peabody Hotel, and continue to New Orleans

October 3–5

New Orleans

October 5

Train to Tuskegee, Alabama

October 5–7

Tuskegee; meetings with Margaret Washington, Jane Clark, and the staff of the Tuskegee Instutute; Marianne attends the Tuskegee Women’s Club; encounter with Dr. S. Becker von Grabil

October 8

Train through Atlanta, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Knoxville, Tennessee

October 9–12

Knoxville with William F. (Bill) Miller and family; discussions with John P. Murphy, Miller’s law partner

October 12–13

Asheville, North Carolina, at the Manor, Albemarle Park; visit to the Vanderbilt estate Biltmore

October 14

Stop in Greensboro, North Carolina; lunch at Hotel Huffine after leaving Asheville at 5 a.m.; continue by train to Mount Airy, North Carolina

October 14–16

Mount Airy with Jim and Jeff Miller and relatives

October 16

Attend Methodist church service, Mt. Airy, with Miller relatives in the morning; Baptist sevice in the afternoon

October 17

Train to Richmond, Virginia

October 18

Tour of Richmond in the morning; train from Richmond to Washington, D.C.

October 18–24

Washington, D.C., at the Raleigh Hotel; visits to Mount Vernon, Arlington National Cemetery; Max meets Samuel Gompers

October 23

Attend African American church service at Nineteenth Street Baptist Church

October 24

Train to Philadelphia

October 24–28

Philadelphia at the Aldine Hotel, 1910 Chestnut Street

October 25

Max visits the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, attends Jacob Hollander’s lecture and seminar; meets George E. Barnett

October 26

Marianne visits Bryn Mawr College and meets Martha Carey Thomas; Max visits Haverford College and its library, and meets Professor Don Carlos Barrett

October 27

Attend the Quaker service at Haverford Friends Meeting, hearing Allen Clapp Thomas speak on the saints

October 28

Train to Boston

October 28–November 4

Boston, at Young’s Hotel

October 29

Attend a football game: University of Pennsylvania defeats Harvard University, 11–0

October 30

At Hugo Münsterberg’s home, 7 Ware Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts; meeting with William James;

October 31–November 1

To Melrose, northern Boston suburb; visit with Laura Fallenstein and Otto von Klock

November 2–3

Max uses the Harvard University Library; probably meets John Brooks, William Ripley; Marianne visits Wellesley College (twice) with Ethel Dench Puffer, and attends a lecture by Ethel Dench Puffer; also visits Simmons College; Max and Marianne pay another visit to the Münsterberg home

November 4

Train to New York City via Providence, Rhode Island (Max visits Brown University Library there) and New Haven, Connecticut

November 5–19

New York City, at the Holland House, Fifth Ave. and Thirtieth Street (November 4–7), and at 167 Madison Ave. (November 7–19)

November 6

Max attends a service at the First Church of Christ Scientist, Central Park West at Ninety-sixth Street; Marianne attends a Presbyterian Service at the Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth Avenue at Twenty-ninth Street

November 8

Theodore Roosevelt elected president

November 10

Dinner with a trade union secretary and his wife, probably Jerome F. and Margaret Ufer Healy

November 11

Dinner at Paul Lichtenstein’s, 182 Amity Street, Brooklyn

November 12

Visit to University Settlement, meet Lillian Wald; attend a lecture by Dr. Yamei Kin, “A Chinese Woman’s View of the War in the East”

November 13

Attend Ethical Culture Society meeting, Carnegie Hall; Felix Adler speaks on “Mental Healing as a Religion”

November 14

Dinner at Edwin and Caroline Seligman’s home with colleagues and friends, including Felix Adler

November 7–18

Meet Florence Kelley, hear her speak at the School of Philanthropy meet Otto Weber and his wife, and Hermann Rösing; meet Helen Frances Garrison Villard; Marianne attends a “working girls’ club” meeting and dines with Lillian Wald at one of the settlements; also attends a boys’ club meeting at the settlement; Max at Columbia University, working in the library and attending lectures

November 17

Dinner at Alfred Lichtenstein’s, 201 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn

November 18

Reception in honor of Marianne at the Columbia University Club; attend a performance of Jacob Gordin’s play Di emese kraft at the Yiddish Theater with Gordin and David Blaustein, the latter the leader of the Educational Alliance

November 19

Departure from New York aboard the Hamburg

November 27

Arrival in Cherbourg, France; train via Paris to Heidelberg