muller

See NYT of June 12, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9503E3D7103CE633A... and of June 17, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950CE7DE1730E233A...

According to NYT of June 17, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950CE7DE1730E233A... Muller arrived in New York on JJune 16 and stayed in the Knickerbocker Hotel. From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Times_Square, Six Times Square, also known as the Newsweek Building or Knickerbocker Building, is a building located at 1466 Broadway at the southeast corner of 42nd Street in New York City. This historic building opened in 1906 as the Knickerbocker Hotel. The building in the picture has Longacre Building above a door at the right, just behind the notice that reads "BWAY." A Longacre Building was once located at Forty-second Street and Broadway. See skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=56459 Could be same building as in digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?717484F -- not certain.

This is definitely the Longacre Bldg. , showing 42nd St. in the foreground. Across 42nd street is the Hotel Knickerbocker. In the left background is Broadway and the Times Bldg. Between the Longacre Bldg. and the Fitzgerald Bldg. on Broadway is the entrance to the George M. Cohan Theatre.

"Born in Dessau, Max Muller, whose real name is actually Friedrich Max Muller, was a German philologist and Orientalist. He was a founder of the western academic field of Indian studies. He was a scholarly writer , who wrote a 50 volume set of English Translations under his direction." Max Muller seemed like a very determined and well educated man. Max Muller on Wikipedia