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 |