Viewing page 353 of 547

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

St.L. phoned today to say he is taking my advice - is going for a week's cruise on the "South American" - Buffalo to Chicago and return - next week. I hope he enjoys it as much as we did in July 1936. The only thing I fear is that the weather will be too cold. It was 31° in Kane the other night, 48° here and is most unseasonable.

Had Ben & Tony Luther in for the evening and they related two items of news that I hadn't heard at the plant today:

1.) Carl Brancke has decided not to stay at Alco and is back here (I saw him around today but assumed he was here on business) taking MacKenzie's place temporarily, having had three month's leave of absence to try Alco. Don't know what the trouble was.

2.) Jim MacKenzie had what some say was a nervous breakdown and some a heart attack and is out for several months - no details. It is amazing because Mac is a big, husky, healthy looking guy - I never dreamed he could crack from anything.

Erie, Pa.
Saturday, Aug. 24, '40.

Cleaned up the wreckage of Roger's shack today, my blood getting up to the boiling point again about it. According to reports now, Elizabeth Cain actually assisted in the wrecking but I have to discount a lot of this because the source is small