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over scotch and soda at the Hotel Richmond Grill. At midnight we repaired to the Hotel Wellington for sleep. The magazines on the table in the Wellington lobby were typified by the New Republic, [[underlined]] November 1938 [[/underlined]] issue. But, all in all, the evening proved more of a pleasure than an ordeal.

En route Albany to Erie
Friday  Jan 26, 1940.
  Up at 6:30 AM, breakfast in the Hub Restaurant at a long counter like a bar, and out at the electric engine house at 7:30 AM where I met Clarence McElroy , foreman, and old pal of Ernie Bloss - a college man too - a tall, long faced , pleasant individual to whom I took a liking at once. There on one side of the shop hoisted up on blocking with two axles removed. all rods off and strewn about the place, was "GE-1", so christened by the B & M and so stencilled in big white figures. It was a sorry sight. We spent the morning there with "Mac" going over all of Ernie's kicks a few of which Mac made somewhat light of. Ernie hopped off for Boston on the 9:20 AM  so we didn't see him again. Neal caught the "Minute Man" for Boston after lunch and Andy Johnson and I went hunting for weather stripping in the North Adams hardware stores, for the purpose of patching up the doors that were susceptible to throwing a cat through,  they were so loose. Then we went back to the shop where we stayed until 4 PM when  Mac left and took us to a bowling alley for 5 fast games of candle pins (not my meat at all.) It was a real workout; I'm feeling it in my muscles already. When we got through all that. I felt like I'd known Mac for years - he's that kind of a guy.