Viewing page 10 of 101

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

14
road.  Fork River quite a little town.  Pretty little river, yachts and yachtsmen seems to be a cheerful place.  Later on violent rain storm.  Engine again overheats much.  At about 7 P.M. arrived at our factory at [[underline]] Perth Amboy. [[/underline]]  Just stopped long enough to see that future work for upper story of factory was all up and ready to pour.  Then thru Staten Island.  At Ferry New York notice front tire is flattening.  Arrived in New York about 9 P.M. had to drive in one street to change tire.  Fiercely hot work in this sultry hot weather.  Wet of perspiration.  Arrived at home at about 11 P.M.  [[underline]] Celine [[/underline]] and children still away in woods.

[[end page]]
[[start page]]

15
July 27.  A delightful night [[underline]] this is the coolest place I have struck since I left. [[/underline]] First time slept under blanket since [[strikethrough]] last [[/strikethrough]] Wednesday last week.  Spent day straightening up belated correspondence.
July 28.  Cooler weather and clear.  [[strikethrough]] Level [[/strikethrough]] Got thru belated correspondence.  Evening went out with new car met [[underline]] Gary Hutchinson [[/underline]] and went for supper together.  [[underline]] Celine [[/underline]] and children back.
July 29 (Sunday) Home all day.  [[underline]] [[Potzer?]] [[/underline]] and his wife here.  [[Fadovic?]] here to [[underline]]  accept position offered [[/underline]] to him at [[underline]] Nashville [[/underline]]
July 30.  A very hot day.  Evening at Chemists Club.  Dinner in honor of [[underline]] Grignard [[/underline]] and Engel about thirty present.  I was toastmaster.  [[underline]] Zimmer [[/underline]] spoke on behalf of Americans of German extraction who are anti-German