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

New York, Sep. 23rd, 1899
46 & 48 E. Houston Street

Nikola Tesla, Esq.,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear Mr. Tesla:

Your letter of Sep. 19th, with check of $200, for shop expenses, was received this morning.

I have delivered the message to Mr. Unger; he says he is desirous that you should not inconvenience yourself in the matter.

Mr. Loewenstein has not yet arrived. Mr. Uhlman says he will take pleasure in cooperating with him in any work he may bring along.

The work of the shop to-day is on the castings, the switch, connecting rod and other brass parts of the fourth break and on the pump.

Inclosed I send a statement of the laboratory expenses up to date. The salary account this week is $133, seventeen dollars less than usual, which is due to the absence of Mr. Seibel, who has not been working the past week, being laid up with rheumatism. I would like to know, whether I am to pay him or not when he returns to work.

Mr. Czito's salary for this week I have sent to his wife, as he requested me to do. Mr. Page to-day sent the vouchers of working the German patent No. 99,173.

The inclosed letter from the National Geographical Society was obtained to-day at the Waldorf and the other one in Servian was received here at the office.

Respectfully,
Geo. Scherff