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me if I'd have a "small" room at $2.25 or one at $3 or $4. I said "$3." So, after walking, what seemed like a quarter mile from the elevator, the boy took me into a room about 20' X 20' and equipped with twin beds, a large wardrobe, a desk, dresser, table, fireplace, 4 chairs, smoking stand, baggage stand, radio, 5 lamps, 4 windows, bath, monophone, candle and a Brimmell sprinkling system, and very attractively finished in cream, with paneled walls. I wondered if for $4.00 they would let you take over the lobby as a private suite. Had dinner in the "Danish Café" off the lobby, a replica of a medieval Danish public room in an inn, complete to Dutch tile, cast iron stove of 18th century vintage, smoked cieling, crude wooden furniture, and waitresses dressed in peasant costume, a charming place. And after dinner, I repaired contentedly to my room to listen to Jack Benny, write, and phone Willie to find Bab not yet well, but coming along and hard to hold down and things generally okay. The connection was better than if I were at the office in Erie and it took less than one minute to make it! Then enjoyed Charlie McCarthy just as they were at home.
    Started to draft up the report on the small diesel-electrics before retiring on my pick of the twin beds. And thus endeth SIX MONTHS OF DIARY, full, complete - more so than any other six months of diary for me before, a real accomplishment.
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I was a fire protection engineer. I believe it was a Grinnell sprinkler system. https://www.grinnell.com/index.php?section=us-mech-page-fpliterature