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170 [[symbol in top left margin showing a circle topped by a cross]] [[red underline]] annual meeting [[/red underline]] of stockholders of [[red underline]] General Bakelite Co. [[/red underline]] adjourned since Oct. 6. then Board of Directors meeting. Present [[red underline]] Hasslacher, Williams, ^[[Creevey,]] Peters, Foersterling, Mausolf [[/red underline]] and myself. Everything very pleasant and mere formalities. Told them about my experience with [[red underline]] Edison and Hutchinson [[/red underline]] Then at noon went to Porter and invited him and Geary for lunch to Fraunces Tavern. Explained present [[strikethrough]] str [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] situation at Brooklyn [[/red underline]] and discussed future action. Then went to Brooklyn. [[symbol in left margin showing a circle topped by a cross with annotation]] 4 hs. [[/symbol and annotation]] [[red underline]] Paulus [[/red underline]] not yet ready but most of machinery is up now except for some [[strikethrough]] dle [[/strikethrough]] delays in delivery. Left there at 5 P.M. to [[end page]] [[start page]] 171 meet [[red underline]] Gilbert Rigg [[/red underline]] and Herbert Gelb the latter from Melbourne Australia who is here to purchase ammunition They took supper with me Home with 10:45 P.M. Oct 9. Wrote an indignant letter to Electric Light Company because in my absence they have erected [[red underline]] four ugly and [[/red underline]] unnecessary [[red underline]] telegraph poles [[/red underline]] on [[strikethrough]] Po [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Rock Lane. [[/red underline]] Spent all morning dictating. Afternoon [[red underline]] Roeber [[/red underline]] came so that I might tell him that Advisory committee should not be handicapped by hostile comments in technical press. That they were a body which if properly supported would accomplish much good etc. Took him on [[red underline]] Yacht [[/red underline]] along [[red underline]] Palisades [[/red underline]] and landed him at 125 street. He seemed