- William Steinway’s diary: “Feel perfectly well, papers have scathing articles on Hale’s flimsy structure. Connolly interviews me on Hale. I am down town, at Tafelrunde, take Centl Diploma to Wahlen to be framed. […] With Maxwell at 5 P.M. to factory, after arranging with Fredc Gross for two fire escapes, one from each balcony, of wrought Iron, at Steinway Hall. Find the modes of fire escape at the Steinway factory excellent.”
- The next day after the fire that has destroyed his piano factory, Joseph P. Hale begins to make arrangements to rebuild it.