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Day 222

November 18, 1912: The Week Ahead

While the cool November weather sweeps around ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in New York, we take a look at the week ahead.

The skyline of Manhattan from the southwest. the tallest buildings, from left to right are: the Woolworth Building, the Singer Building and the Bankers Trust building in late 1912. The Woolworth Building is still under construction. Library of Congress / Bain Collection

Day 222
November 18, 1912 New York, NY

November 18, 1912: The Week Ahead

While the cool November weather sweeps around ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in New York, we take a look at the week ahead.
By Jonathan Menon
Published: November 18, 2012 Updated:

THIS AFTERNOON ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ takes up J. Pierpont Morgan on an invitation to visit his vast library on the corner of Madison Avenue and 36th Street. Morgan, the tycoon owner of railroads, steelworks, and telegraph companies, runs much of modern civilization in America..

In the week ahead, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá attends a farewell dinner at the Great Northern Hotel, which, it turns out, will refuse to let any African Americans through the door; he expresses two very different opinions of America’s two richest men; and, as the decade moves on, the Great War cuts ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s home in Palestine off from the rest of the world while increasing prejudice engulfs African Americans at home.