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the Industrial Dept. salesman at Boston who follows Chapman. If they had bought the diesel before repairing the steam, they could have made a billing. We wandered over the property this morning in the snow and slush and biting wind before seeing Fox, the Chapman man, a big, coarse faced, goggle eyed, well dressed guy who needed a shave and didn't impress me too much.

Had lunch at Howard Johnson's near Worcester, where we phoned Paton and found him still in bed. So then we phoned Perkins, Supt. of the New Hampshire Div. of the B&M at Concord. N.H. He said he would arrive at Boston on a "Hockey Special" at 6:40 PM and would have dinner with us, so we drove into the office. And there was Doc Millan at his desk and not looking too badly either. He has to have a siege of x-ray photos and examinations and is worried to death naturally. But it was good to see him and I admire him his ability to come in and work under the circumstances.

We had dinner at the Manger with Perkins, dapper and bow tied as usual - a good looking man who appears more the professional or business type than railroader. He told us about conditions on the Laconia job, now harder on account of the dam the gov't is building for flood control at Franklin. Then he told us about Woodsville where there is one hard pull up out of the yard but the way he described it, Tarzan Jr. should do it. There are great savings to be made there if a 44 ton can be worked in. Then he went on to say Berlin is another possibility but that may conflict with our road study from the River to Berlin. Then he went on further to urge us to promote a 660 HP for Nashua. So all in all it was a profitable hour. Mr. Perkins