The change was hard enough for me, but much harder for my mother; but she was still in the prime of life and we could be happy anywhere so long as we were together.

Still she did feel the leaving of our home very much.

We were perfect strangers in New York, and at first took up our quarters in the St.Nicholas Hotel, then in its glory.

I opened an office in Broad Street.
For some time the Pittsburgh friends who came to New York were our chief source of happiness, and the Pittsburgh papers seemed necessary to our existence.

I made frequent visits there and my mother often accompanied me, so that our connection with the old home was still maintained.