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Start Date
9-10-2008 1:45 PM
Description
Twenty-seven year old engineer Max Eduard Kämper arrived in America at 4:00 pm on May 16, 1907 and was greeted by a thunderstorm. His presumed goals were to study American manufacturing methods, learn English, and enrich himself musically. New York had so many German immigrants at the time that German was the second most common language spoken in the city. He stayed at the Belvedere House at the corner of 4th Avenue and 18th Street, and the next day visited acquaintances in Newark. He visited New York landmarks and May 20 visited the famed Hippodrome theater. He moved on May 25 to a furnished apartment at 306 East 14th Street, away from the teeming unsanitary tenements of lower Manhattan.
Recommended Citation
Sides, M.D., Stanley D., "Max Kämper’s Introduction to the New World" (2008). Mammoth Cave Research Symposia. 9.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/mc_reserch_symp/9th_Research_Symposium_2008/Day_one/9
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Max Kämper’s Introduction to the New World
Twenty-seven year old engineer Max Eduard Kämper arrived in America at 4:00 pm on May 16, 1907 and was greeted by a thunderstorm. His presumed goals were to study American manufacturing methods, learn English, and enrich himself musically. New York had so many German immigrants at the time that German was the second most common language spoken in the city. He stayed at the Belvedere House at the corner of 4th Avenue and 18th Street, and the next day visited acquaintances in Newark. He visited New York landmarks and May 20 visited the famed Hippodrome theater. He moved on May 25 to a furnished apartment at 306 East 14th Street, away from the teeming unsanitary tenements of lower Manhattan.