- Charles Kimball, the Centennial Commissioner from the State of New York, invites William Steinway and his brother Albert to Brewster & Company, a New York carriage manufacturer.
- William Steinway’s diary: “Kimball wants us to make a positive statement that we never paid any money to the judges, which I do and send off per mail.”
- The written statement, made by William Steinway, is formally true, since no one from Steinway & Sons have given money directly to any of the Centennial judges.