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120 [[symbol in left margin of circle with a cross on top]] [[Drury?]] Club and explained my views as to [[red underline]] conservative policy for Hooker Co.[[/red underline]] - Then to office of Royal Baking Powder Co where met [[red underline]] Ziegler, Champ, de Morest, Gray, Porter and Gary; [[/red underline]] we all (except Gary who does not feel well) drove to Brooklyn to inspect the experimental plant. It so happens that a yield of 71% is just reported in third cell, reconstructed recently. Some whiffs of chlorine [[strikethrough]] by [[/strikethrough]] just at time of visit which made [[red underline]] Ziegler and Champ [[/red underline]] cough violently until they [[red underline]] departed the plant. [[/red underline]] but they took it good naturedly. [[symbol in left margin]] circle with cross on top 5 hrs.[[/symbol in left margin]] I remained there till [[strikethrough]] after 6 P.M. [[/strikethrough]] about 6 P.M. then to smoker of Institute of Mining Engineers at [[Baldine?]] Club. Feb. 6. Home all day. Evening drove to New York with Celine [[end page]] [[start page]] 121 as [[red underline]] quests of American Institute of [[strikethrough]] Chemis [[/strikethrough]] Mining Engineers at Astor Hotel. [[/red underline]] Big dining room many present. [[red underline]] Saunders [[/red underline]] presiding. I was a t speakers table. next to me Mrs. Dudley Field Malone. I was called upon to speak. and spoke about [[red underline]] Naval Board [[/red underline]] and the Chemist and mentioned that I see with regret that some of the [[red underline]] preparedness talk degenerates frequently in preparedness for next election. [[/red underline]] My little speech ended in so much applause as to change into some kind of an ovation and I had to get up again and box. [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] was looking at me at the other end of the table and [[red underline]] I was thinking of 27 years ago, and on some of our earlier letters which I just had read this afternoon. [[/red underline]] While leaving everybody come to congratulate me. [[red underline]] we returned to Yonkers both happy, [[/red underline]] while the others
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