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Boston, Mass.
Monday, May 6, 1940.
Perk and I came together to Boston, he on an IGE United Fruit job. From his talk I gathered, somewhat to my surprise, he suspected nothing as to my future in Erie. He told me Totten got "our Alco job" - is to be "loaned" to Alco to work with Jimmy Davenport out of New York. "Tot" is a good man for it - and thru all this I see Whitey's shrewd campaign to gradually weed out the Dept. and get in new blood - working blood, young enthusiastic energetic blood. 

Perk and I parted at South Station and I went to the office, where I now feel as at home as I do in my own. Roy said Neil was in Concord trying to learn from Ernie what prompted this Hercules engine request - was it Munster trying to get into position to battle for price somehow or was it merely someone else battling to get across Hercules as a means to satisfy the B&M desire for a heavy underframe? With the thought we could do little until we had Neil's report tomorrow, we devoted today to Tarzan Jr's. future and went to Watertown to contact Bacall. 

We got there just in time to take him to lunch at Harvard Square and a rugged scotch and soda got us all to contemplating the possibility of going to see the Red Socks battle Cleveland for the top spot in the American League this afternoon - it being a gorgeous, warm, sunny day. Bacall capitulated and we went. It looks like Col. Case now has a better scheme for getting Tarzan. He will issue an invitation for a rental locomotive with a "recapture clause" in the contract whereby he can purchase the unit within a year at the bid price minus accrued rental. He will call for a short delivery which will put us in. Later