William A. Carr diary, Volume 2, 1903

Highlights include:

Reception for P.C. Knox hosted by Frick; death of George M. von Bonnhorst; establishment of the Union Club in Pittsburgh; return of Charles Schwab from abroad; exhibition of Dagnan-Bouveret’s Consolatrix Afflictorum and Chartran’s portrait of Pope Leo in the Frick Building; opening of the Union Safe Deposit Co. in the Frick Building; visits to Pittsburgh by M. Leopold Mabilleau, Sir Swire Smith, and Sir Colen and Lady Scott Moncrieff; various elevator accidents in Pittsburgh buildings; streetcar accident in downtown Pittsburgh; Frick’s purchase and razing of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Pittsburgh; death of Benjamin F. Jones; plans for the Hump removal in downtown Pittsburgh; honorary degrees awarded to Frick; Frick’s meetings with President Roosevelt; Chartran’s Signing of the Protocol, commissioned by Frick and given to the White House; changes in management at United States Steel; death of Mary E. Schenley; rumors of Frick running for M.S. Quay’s U.S. Senate seat (includes political cartoon); fire at the Pittsburgh warehouse storing fossils and antiquities from the Carnegie Museum; Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago.