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But the gentleman never asked his hundred questions; he never asked one of them. Instead he made a little speech on preventive maintenance and cooperation on the part of manufacturers with operators to alleviate their troubles. He was an ICC inspector and later I had a very nice talk with him. No one else even threatened to ask a question, so my worries were ^[[for]] naught. The presentation of the movie went very smoothly. The movie, though a bull, was projected with a 200 watt lamp instead of a 750, so was disappointingly dim but still went pretty well.

After the meeting, it was more drinking and conversation until 12:30 AM. Met a couple of splendid men, Kennedy of the Wabash at St. Thomas (where the original Tarzan Jr. went) and Kennedy of the Lackawanna, brothers. Met Wyre, Supt. of the NYC here and he was much interested in the 70 ton - doubted it would do the Tonowanda job - next week we shall see. Jay and Bill and Geo. Wakeley left.

After all had gone, Tom and I sat and chatted until 1 30. The subject drifted to Maybelle and Walt. He didn't know they were divorced. I thought - here's the man before me now to whom all Maybelle's troubles trace; she married Walt on the rebound from Tom. Tom went on at length about her; he said that shortly after she and Walt were married, she had told Tom Walt wouldn't let her have any children, he wondered if that had caused the trouble. He said that Maybelle, after her marriage, had asked him for advice that she wouldn't consult Walt for. He said also that when Maybelle was last in N.Y. she had called him at the office but he was in Erie at the Alco-G.E. meeting. Tom felt Maybelle needed a strong man to rule her and thought