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Had a word with Waller and then went over to Alco with Clarence Bailey to see the 2000 HP streamliner for the Rock Island. It is a lovely job and I think at last a competitor is about to come out to be worthy to give E-M a run for their money. I invited Clarence to have a drink with me and he refused - said his wife is a semi-invalid with severe sinus trouble and he goes home every evening early to help with the housekeeping. So there is another story of trouble behind a cheery, brave exterior.

I had dinner alone at Pelop's just for old time's sake and went to the movies for lack of anything else to do, having vetoed an idea to call up Shiloh, although I don't know if there would have been anything out of the way about it. After the movie, I still had nearly two hours to kill before the train time at 11:40 PM so went to the tap room at the Van Culer for a couple of bottles of Ballantine's ale and recollections that Sch'dy, always brings back.
 
Somehow I got to thinking about the most significant moments in my life and they were these:

1.) That 26th of February, 1915 when Cousin Nellie Barber came and said, "Forman, God had taken father away,"

2.) That day in the spring of 1923 when Dr. Applebee told me I was to go to Star Island.

3.) That afternoon in the spring of 1924 when, after having inspected Merrell-Soule, I stood in the Applied Science drafting room and debated whether I should bother to go in and talk to Mr. Pfief.

4.) A winter evening sitting alone in the Waldorf drunk in Sch'dy.