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George brought home some rather exagerated and amusing newspaper accounts of the fire as they had appeared in the three Yonkers newspapers.  Cold windy night sweeps snow as spray.  Went to barn with a candle to see if all water was out of vacuum pan jacket.  Cheerless look moon shining through roof.  charcoal and devastation everywhere!  Feels like a night mare.
Wiedmann calls me up at 'phone to tell me he has succeeded entirely with Bakelite + [[varnishes?]] seems as happy as a child
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and thanked me profusely.  I believe he was up against a very hard proposition and his Protal process seemed doomed on account of sensitiveness towards water.  He asks me whether I think he should take out additional patents; told him he should wait until I could advise him.  Will see him to morrow night.
Bach & Mandel called up.  Spent evening with the children.  [[underlined]] George [[/underlined]] was making a small model of a full rigged ship while [[underlined]] Nina [[/underlined]] was reading aloud history of settlement of
[[vertical entry in margin]] Found out later that Wiechmann had exhausted the patience of Peters and Williams who had risked more and more money on his foolish unwarranted statements that they had decided to drop him forever and pocket their loss but that his [[?]] cement of Bakelite gave them new hope etc. and led them to be swindled further by George Hilland Benjamin who used Wiechmann as a tool [[/vertical entry in margin]]