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[[start page]] 50 [[left margin note]] Got telegram from Niagara from Converse to send more qualified expert for explosion. I sent Brenerman. [[/margin note]] not do anything which might be unpleasant to [[red underline]] Wiechman [[/red underline]] Wiechman is now in Louisiana. [[red underline]] Benjamin [[/red underline]] did not come to meeting altho' he knew that we were to vote on cessation of company. [[double underline, red and black]] Mr. Patterson [[/double underline]] the president of the [[red underline]] Protal [[/red underline]] Co was there for the first time since he had his automobile accident. He tells me that last year it was decided to discontinue the salary of [[red underline]] Wiechman [[/red underline]] but that he Patterson had favored to continue the salary for one year more giving as reason that in as far as I [[end page]] [[start page]] 51 [[red underline]] was a friend of Wiechman [[/red underline]] I might have disliked to see him docked. [[red underline]] This occured before I had any connection with the Protal Company sometime in the latter part of 1909! [[/red underline]] [[Two red exclamation points in the margin next to the preceding two sentences]] Went to sleep at Martinique hotel, where I met Frank Seaman at the Restaurant Slept badly. Telephoned [[strikethrough]] March 9 [[/strikethrough]] to Celine to send copies of [[red underline]]letter to Damrosch [[/red underline]] [[inserted above line]]copies[[/inserted above line]] to the following: [[red underline]] Patterson, [[Wenzel?]], [[Gerbracht?]]. [[/red underline]] and [[red underline]] Van Sinderen. [[/red underline]] March 9. Got up early and took 9 [[underlined superscript]] 04 [[/underlined superscript]] train on Penn. R.R for Perth Amboy. Townsend on train and we discussed [[end page]]