Viewing page 188 of 291

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

dissatisfied with the way Rudy is handling it. Jay says Rudy's away so much he doesn't get his work done in Erie, that he fools around on problems without getting quick answers and that he actually doesn't seem to know his stuff. I was surprised as I thought Rudy rated ace high with Alco and Walter Hedley.

Had a wire from Jim Smith today saying "0361 badly damaged by fire caused by failure of changeover switch details later." So we wait, feeling very low!

Mother, Willie and I went to the Luther's for music and bridge tonight, another thing which made Mother feel better about it here, I think. Had the usual jolly time. Ben repeated the famed remark of Bill Knotek when he heard Ben and Bob Walsh talking about Jose Iturbi - "Oh, you mean Itrubi, the Italian violinist!"

Erie, Pa.
Thursday, Oct. 27, '38.
It's odd how sometimes one sentence or question will reveal so much. Today I was talking to Bob Walsh about the New Haven development memorandum and when we got through and I was about to leave, he said, "Fore, when you were in Vermont this summer, did anyone tell you about the climate there in the winter?" That means to me that Mrs. Walsh has got to seek another climate again and that she is slipping after having been apparently quite well here for a couple of years. It is too bad. Bob didn't mention her but I'm sure that was what prompted the question.

Walter Hedley was here today and asked me if I would be agreeable to making a diesel report in Boston or New York Central for Alco, the first opening on Alco work for me. I told him "yes," as this southern job seems so darned uncertain, with Jake still there and our specs and costs still not available on

Transcription Notes:
Reviewed