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Met [[red underline]] Hasslacher [[/red underline]], Harriman, Roessler and Foersterling for lunch at Drug Club.  Discussed division of profits and [[red underline]] extra bonus for employees. [[/red underline]] Pleasant discussion everybody agrees.  Foersterling tells me he has succeeded in buying in Chicago a 3 months further supply of Cresol.  Met Frank Low at office. Then went to [[strikethrough]] University Club [[/strikethrough]] Mouquin then to unusually witty play of Bernard Shaw: Androcles and the Lion.

Jan 30. Obtained here ^[[in Yonkers]] [[red underline]] excellent transparent sticks, which are colorless and electrize by friction.  (See notes of Laurence who did the experiments for me.) [[/red underline]] 

February 1. 1915 Drenching rain and sleet. Home all day - routine work.  Feel very bored and uninterested - [[red underline]] tired of reading war news. [[/red underline]] Went to Warburton theater by sheer [[strikethrough]] ennui [[/strikethrough]] boresomness.
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Feb. 2. Heavy snow fall.  Went to [[red underline]] Bayway Chemical Co [[/red underline]] to meet Carrier and his partner Yokum etc.  They want to raise about $20000 by selling more of their stock.  They distill tars but make no phenol.  Told them I see nothing in it because none of their products have anything to do with my other enterprises.  Took trolley to Perth Amboy.  Spent time with Alford.  Then went for supper with Swan to Mouquins.

Feb. 3. Meeting [[red underline]] board of Directors. [[/red underline]] Williams and [[Creevey?]] absent. 
[[red underline]] Declared 7% dividend and [[just?]] as much in reserve, amortization etc. [[/red underline]]
May has a manufacturer of [[red underline]] dolls [[/red underline]] who wants to place order for about 132 tons. (about $50.000) but we have to get the cresol first.  Snowstorm   On coming home I learn [[red underline]] George has flunked [[/red underline]] in all his mathematics except solid geometry.  I [[red underline]] feel much disappointed [[/red underline]].- What's