June 23rd, 1899 letter from George Scherff to Nikola Tesla

New York, June 23rd, 1899
46 & 48 East Houston Str.

Mr. Nikola Tesla
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear Mr. Tesla:

Mr. Uhlman reports that the work on the castings for the independent break is nearly finished, and he expects to have the break completed in the early part of next week. Besides having binding posts made, he says, the cutters of the milling machine are being ground, and is himself occupied on cloth tracing of the new oscillator and design of the old large break.

This morning I brought the money for the balloons to Prof. Myers, and hope I have not done wrong in paying for them in advance. I send the receipt under inclosure.

I asked Mr. Myers if, perhaps, he was not using some superior method for generating hydrogen, and he said he would write out and send during the day the details of a process which, in his twenty year's experience with balloons he has found to be very efficient. He also has here a set of copper pipes, which he told me you might use in this connection and which could be expressed immediately, if you so directed by telegraph.

Under inclosure I send also several letters obtained at the Waldorf to-day and a bill.

Respectfully,
Geo. Scherff