- A new conflict between Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Charles H. Steinway leads to parting of the ways. Paderewski sends Charles H. Steinway a telegram, requesting different instruments, and rejecting the ones shipped to him by Steinway & Sons as “not satisfactory to him”. Charles H. Steinway’s telegraphic response has been clearly composed in anger: “Your telegram is so offensive that I have instructed our representatives everywhere to withdraw all our pianos from you from now on.” For the next two years Ignacy Jan Paderewski will be touring the United States, playing and endorsing Weber pianos – which will coincide with a major decrease of Paderewski’s musical reputation.
- Theodore Edwin Steinway joins the “Players” club and the Amateur Comedy Club, where he meets and befriends actors John Barrymore, Charles Coburn, Howard Lindsay, and Otis Skinner.