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Erie, Pa.
Friday, Oct. 28, '38.
The U.P., on today its last scheduled day on the New York Central, ignominiously tied up on the main line when the booster pump "froze", and they had to haul her in with a steam engine. There she stood for some time on the "high iron", while the New York Central's busy fleet of freights and passengers had to be shunted around her over the freight tracks. 

Had a letter from George Burnett saying Helen's baby was still-born prematurely August 27th and she was two weeks in the hospital but came out of it all right. Dr. Neighbors, Helen's brother's husband died Sept. 13th, and some of George's relatives died recently, so the letter was hardly cheerful. I am very sorry about Helen's baby as I think they needed a child to bind them together. George always was a wild man and I have often wondered how long he could tread the straight and narrow path. A child would have helped hold him down. To me, there is something tragic and unnatural about that whole Schatz combination. Take the uncle who was sensationally murdered by his Japanese valet. Take the Helen-George combination. Note Dr. Neighbors death so early in his life.

Bob Walsh is back on his pipe again and growing a moustache. As he is working on the Paulista, I asked him if he had a moustache for a foreign job and smooth face for domestic. That recalled to Bob a Brazilian inspector he knew in England who had three apartments with a woman in each one, and made his money by being tipped off by a friend in the Brazilian location when the Gov't. was going to change the value of the managed currency.

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