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March 21. Snow everywhere Arrived at Buffalo went to Iroquois hotel then to [[red underline]] Hooker plant [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] Conditi [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Townsend [[/red underline]] there also E H. Hooker. Marsh away
[[red underline]] Conditions even worse than I suspected. [[/red underline]] Ampere efficiencies down to 70% or thereabout. All suggested remedies of no avail. Suggested to take out all bad cells. but this seems [[impracticable?]] He suggested running only the two upper rows. of cells in series. but even this leaves little hope because cells running now in single compartments in old bay run just as bad while old type cells are running 90-95% even under same bad conditions
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Mud and gas and leaks everywhere. [[red underline]] I aroused E. H. Hooker to the earnestness of the situation [[/red underline]] and urged to return to old type of cells
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[[vertical note in left margin in red pencil]] Serious Hooker situation [[/vertical note in left margin]]
as soon as possible. He and his brothers are still losing much time with investigating the details of the situation while I am convinced that this is [[red underline]] so serious [[/red underline]] a condition of affairs that [[red underline]] we must take sure and tried means at once [[/red underline]] instead of losing time and fearful amounts of money told him we are up against it for a [[red underline]] quick decision. [[/red underline]] Told him cannot stay longer than tomorrow as I see no way whereby my presence may be of use or profit beyond what I have stated
Left them at six and went to Buffalo. [[Lansing?]] was with me and like all of them is still trying to find remedy in correcting some details of operation. I am convinced he is wrong and the [[red underline]] Marsh Cell has some inherent defect. [[/red underline]] which makes it worse and