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ingly slippery -- Bed 12:30 --
Tuesday Feb 2
Dense frosty fog -- "pogonip" -- all day. Very cold & disagreeable -- good sleighing throughout the city -- PM I was about town -- Evening at theater -- "Black Diamonds" -- 1/2 a house -- very good performance-- Bed at 12 -- Received a very nice well and correctly written two page letter today from Sterling Price, the Shoshone Indian boy, in complimentary acknowledgement or recognition of the item I put in the
Sterling Price's letter -- Old Man Klink's Celebration
Enterprise relative to him Jan 29 -- He dated his letter, "Stewart Institute, Feb 1st 92" -- His grammatical construction is somewhat defective, but he writes an unusually good letter in an unusually good hand and style for even a white boy at his age -- 18 -- Old pioneer Brother Klink invited me Col Bob Patterson, Otto Eckelmann, and a few other fellow members of the Society of Pacific Coast Pioneers to his residence this evening where he proposed a nice little banquet festival in honor of his arrival in San Francisco 42 years ago today. But the fog was so dense the night so dark and the way so slippery, off the main street and to where he lives, near the Savage works that we all backed out of the really dangerous proposition -- not enough in it to pay for risk of life or limb. So I wrote this item which we published in next mornings Enterprise, put to apologetically please the old boy: [newspaper clipping here]
"Pogonip" -- FW Clough off to California "Shadows of a Homestead" -- Terrapin Stew -- Big Snowstorm "Joe the Waif" -- "She"
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Wednesday Feb 3
Dense fog all day, but more moderate -- thawy, with a light snowstorm about dark -- Fred W Clough left this evening for a short visit to relatives, friends in Tulare County Cal, where his wife also went a few weeks ago. I saw him off on train -- borrowed $10 of him -- Evening at Theater -- "Shadows of a Homestead" -- Very good -- Good house -- At Enterprise awhile reading proof, items etc -- Bed 2 -- cold & cloudy -- Terrapin stew at free lunch at International saloon this evening -- fine --
Thursday Feb 4
Moderate snow storm all day -- PM about town -- Evening at theater -- "Joe the Waif" -- Pretty good -- Slim house owing to the weather -- Home at 12 -- Fully one foot of snow on a level and more steadily falling --
Friday Feb 5
Partially clear at times -- About a foot of snow on the ground this morning -- Grand sleighing -- Evening at theater -- Play dramatized H Rider Haggard's famous story of "She" -- pretty good, & pretty fair house -- Terribly bad slippery travel -- Bed 1 -- snowing some -- 30 --
"Peck's Bad Boy" -- "Chips From Old Blocks" Snow -- Cold -- 500 coal
Saturday Feb 6
Variable -- small snowsqualls occasionally -- cold -- P.M. about town some -- Evening theater -- Played this PM matinee "Peck's Bad Boy" to big lot of children, women,
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etc -- evening "Chips From Old Blocks" -- very good -- 1/2 a house -- Was at Enterprise afterward, reading proof etc till 3 oclock -- Bed -- same weather. This was last of the Beebe-Barbour Co -- They go to Reno for 1st 3 nights of next week --
Sunday Feb 7
Clear & pleasant but cold -- PM about town some -- Bed at 11 -- cloudy
Monday Feb 8
Variable -- inch of snow this morning additional -- Fine Sleighing -- everything on sunners -- Was about town some -- Evening Enterprise reading proof, etc -- Bed 2 -- Very cold -- About 15 degrees above zero --
Tuesday Feb 9
Clear & pleasant -- Moderate -- PM & evening about town -- Bed 1 --
Wednesday Feb 10
Same -- Bed 12 --
Thursday Feb 11
Clear & pleasant -- thawy -- Evening attended the Odd Fellows reunion, wrote it up, & read proofs at Enterprise office -- Bed 3 -- Got 500 lbs more coal in today from Gold Hill.
J G Fair Jr. Death -- Jack Rabbit Bell
Friday Feb 12
Clear & pleasant -- Streets pretty muddy & sloppy made it rather bad for clean marching. Evening grand ball of the Jack Rabbit Social Club at National Guard Hall --
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crowded and one of the best and liveliest parties I ever saw -- At midnight, refreshments -- sandwiches, cake, coffee & ice cream was passed around. At 2 when I left, Virginia Reel the 1st dance after supper was going it fast and furious -- Bed 2:30 --
Big Spot on the Sun -- Exempt Financial Report Reichel's old fiddle
Saturday Feb 13
Clear & pleasant -- thawy -- muddy and slippy. Much interested by local astronomers and heavenly inspectors through smoked glass, in a small very distinct, black spot on the sun's face -- like a worm hole in an apple or an orange. It has been observable from clear weather localities the last 2 or 3 wks or more -- No harm done, so far, PM and evening I was more or less occupied with the semi-annual reports of the Secretary & the Treasurer of the Exempts as we have to report thereon at the regular meeting, as Finance Committee I being Chairman thereof -- Bed 1 -- Professor Frank Reichel brought an old violin to me at room this PM for me to fix -- He took mine home with him to adjust the bridge department, fastening of tailpiece, etc.
St. Valentine's Day -- Dinner at Connerton's Repaired Reichel's old Violin
Sunday Feb 14
Same -- St Valentines Day -- AM I wrote out my report of Finance Committee -- PM at regular monthly meeting of the Exempts -- I signed report as Chairman and [Bart?] Burke
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and CM Brown the other 2 Committeemen signed it and it was read, accepted and ordered on file -- I went down to Connerton's at 4 by invitation to dinner -- turkey & other good things -- Only Connerton & wife & I -- Evening at room -- Repaired Prof Reichel's old violin -- glued up four cracks in its belly, clamped it very strongly & hung it up -- took me 2 hours -- It is marked STAINER, on the upper edge of the back, close to the neck where mine is marked HOPF. Reichel says this is an old violin, but whether it is a genuine "Stainer" or not he dont know -- Bed at 12 -- Stainer, like Hopf, was one of the famed old violin makers.
Violin exchange -- Fathers old one complete
Monday Feb 15
Clear & Springlike -- PM about town some -- Evening at room -- Bed 12 --
Tuesday Feb 16
Cloudy & cooler -- AM -- Prof Reichel brought to my room my old violin in full order, complete and took his which I have repaired -- [It belongs to Dr Hirschberg] PM about town -- Evening ditto -- Was at Enterprise, wrote couple of items, read proofs etc -- Bed at 2 -- cloudy --
Wednesday Feb 17
Clear & pleasant -- As usual -- Bed 1 --
Thursday Feb 18
Cloudy, with a light snowstorm or two -- Bed at 12 --
