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New Years -- Snow 20 inches deep -- Col Woods dead -- HOPF.
Friday January 1, 1892
Cloudy, moderate & variable. Street lively with people out making New Years calls or enjoying the usual salutations and festivities -- Snow 20 inches deep, finest kind of sleighing and many sleighing parties out. Saloons all setting forth good cheer and everybody cheerful and hopeful -- PM I dined with John Connerton & wife at their home, Corner Washington & F streets -- turkey, etc -- Evening about town some and at room reading etc -- Bed at 2 --
Saturday Jan 2
Clear & fine -- More like a holiday than yesterday was -- Col Thomas B Woods died today. I wrote notice of him for Enterprise. Got the letters HOPF on back of the old violin of my sire retouched or reproduced today -- About town some -- Bed at 12 --
J P Jones -- Father's old fiddle Zimmer's smashed fiddle -- Wife & Lalla
Sunday Jan 3
Same -- somewhat blustering. W P Bennett came and I wrote a couple of letters for him at my room. Was about town some -- Evening wrote a three page letter to Hon J P Jones, San Francisco, striking him for $5,000. Bed at 2 --
Monday Jan 4
Clear, moderate & pleasant -- PM & evening about town. Bed 1 --
Tuesday Jan 5
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Same. About town some. Met Jose Salinas, at 2:30 took him to my room and we glued the back onto father's old violin again. -- clamped & secured it all right -- took us couple of hours. Evening down town a short time. Bed 12.
Wednesday Jan 6
Cloudy & moderate -- thawy. About town -- Bed 12 --
Thursday Jan 7
Snow stormy and and variable -- An evening or two ago Prof Zimmer, on his wasy to Gold Hill slipped and fell on top of his violin badly cracking it. This PM I repaired it for him at room -- Evening wrote 3 page letter to wife, criticisizing one she enclosed me a day or 2 go from Miss Lalla -- Bed at 1 --
Eunice -- Wm Thompson -- Jones gone East Exempts -- Installation banquet
Friday Jan 8 Clear, moderate and pleasant. Added another page to letter to wife, enclosed Lalla's letter, & sent it by evening mail. Evening at room busy at odd jobs. Zimmer played his violin at a dance tonight, my repairs proving to be effectual. Took the clamps etc, off from fathers old violin this evenin, putting on a few finishing touches -- Bed 12 --
Saturday Jan 9
Same. About town. Evening at room. Wrote letter to Eunice and another to Hon Wm Thompson Reno. Also wrote up this new journal book from notes taken each day from Jan 1st. Bed at 1:30. Hon J P Jones passed Reno yesterday morning en route for Washington.
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Sunday Jan 10
Same -- PM about town -- attended regular monthly meeting of the Exempts -- good attendance -- installation of officers elect at last meeting -- etc -- Then came the banquet usual on such occasions -- baked beans, sandwiches, beer etc -- Evening at room -- Bed 12 --
Father's Old Violin Completely in Order Bennett $2 -- Major Pauline Cushman
Monday Jan 11
Clear & cool -- Was about town most of day -- Evening at Enterprise awhile with items -- reading proof, etc, Bed 1 --
Tuesday Jan 12
Same, About town -- PM met Bennett on C st, & he paid me $2. Jose Salinas was with me at room awhile and we cleaned up and finished up the old violin so that all is needed is the running rigging and consequent musical extraction --Evening about town some -- Bed 12 --
Wednesday Jan 13
Same -- AM. odd jobs at room-- PM about town -- Evening principally at room -- Bed 1
Major Pauline Cushman -- Chronicle Press Comstock Amateur minstrel performance -- My sore finger and thumb healed
Thursday Jan 14
Same -- PM about town -- At 4 I dined with the Connerton's -- Baked beans, etc -- Evening attended performance of the "Combination Minstrels" -- Comstock amateurs --
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Usual style, first part, olio, etc. Horizontal bar by 3 plugs at it. Chas A Jackson from Reno played madolin and banjo very good with fancy points, swinging in the air, etc. He also did some very expert and fancy rifle shooting at a target. He was the best of the lot. 20 in the first part -- all "black face." They had a street parade at 2 PM, with brass band. About half a house -- Pretty good entertainment considering material. Would have been very poor for professional. Bed at 1 -- When the Chronicle went to press I was present and timed it. 32 copies a minute. My sore finger and thumb that I chopped with my hatchet on the 14th of last month are nearly well -- finger entirely healed. left stall off thumb for first time today. Worse cut than I thought.
Frank Delavan -- HW Bracken -- Old Violin String up
Friday Jan 15
Same -- PM about town some -- Evening mostly at room -- wrote letter to Frank Delavan, Reno requiring him to return the Secretary's books of the Pioneers which he took away with other effects of his father after his death & burial, his father being Secretary of the Society at time of death. Bed at 1 -- put the strings, tail piece, bridge and pegs onto the old violin just before going to bed. past midnight I commenced -- didnt tune it, only set up the strings a little to stretch them -- rosined the bow, which is new.
Saturday Jan 16
Same -- colder -- PM about town -- Evening wrote leter to H W Bracken, San Francisco,
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Golden West Hotel, in response to one from him a day or two ago about his safety device for mining cages, hotel elevators, etc -- Was at Enterprise awhile, reading proof etc -- Bed 2 --
Father's Old Violin Relaunched Professor Zimmer tests it
Sunday Jan 17
Same-- PM down town short time -- At room and completed the stringing up and fixing up of the old violin. At 4:30 PM having got her in 1st class tune, with Billy Brady the colored janitor of this Douglass Building I struck out on the first time I have played on that old violin for about 43 years, as I left home the 18th of March 1849. And the tune I played was "On the Road to Boston," one of the most familiar of father's old tunes on this jolly old instrument -- it sounds out splendid, especially in the bass or lower notes. Evening Professor Zimmer called, and he played the old violin for all of its merits. Says it is a very fine & valuable instrument, and in the bass or lower notes it is really phenomenal. Bed 1 --
Rain -- The Old Violin Complete -- Bennett $1 Sleighing gone -- Prof Reichel tests the old Violin
Monday Jan 18
Clear & pleasant -- Freezing in the shade -- PM about town -- wrote couple of letters for WP Bennett -- Evening was at Enterprise awhile reading proof, writing, etc -Bed 2 --
