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Out at the office, Fred, Neil and I sat around my desk telling stories for a half hour while they got the first 2 locomotives over to the East Erie Scale House and then drove over there. They put on #111 first. We were [[underlined]]sure[[/underlined]] it was OK. So our consternation was enormous when it proved to be 165 # overweight! During the course of the day we weighed the other four and they were all okay. So we told Fred we could get the 165 # out and he phoned Gus Munster to ask if he should stay over to witness the reweighing or come home. Gus said, "well, if you think you can trust them out there to weigh it and send you an honest weigh card, come home." So Fred decided to return tonight, telling us to ship 110 and 112 tomorrow and 111 and 113 Saturday if possible.

We had luncheon in the private dining room and Henry Guy was there on Fred's left, charming as ever. Whitey was away. Also we had A. J. Woodward, Kjolseth and John Downie. I tried to get Speicher, but he wasn't available. I think Fred enjoyed the luncheon – I was proud of our fellows and rather proud of Fred too. He is a splendid man; I like him better and better. The few little things he caught on inspection he was most reasonable about. The side bearing clearances were high and instead of insisting that we correct them, he said, "Well, those will probably wear in by the time they get to us. So just ship along a set of shims and if they don't, I'll put the shims in over there. If they do, I'll ship the shims back to you."

Fred, Neil, John Downie and I had a six scotch session in the Commodore Perry Room at the Lawrence before train time – a very convivial affair. I promised Fred I'd come to Boston with the engines, one of which