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train to New York. May is on his vacation. [[red underline]] Gordon asks a raise in salary. [[/red underline]] Excellent financial statement for first half of year. Profits about [[red underline]] 500,000 and about one million bond and cash at hand. [[/red underline]] From profits has to be deducted taxes, bonuses etc. Declared a [[red underline]] 4% dividend to be paid Oct. 1. Peters there but Williams absent.
Arrived Yonkers afternoon [[strikethrough]] Celine [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Mary the cook leaves and Celine [[/red underline]] has engaged a [[red underline]] Japanese [[/red underline]] and his [[strikethrough]] wife [[/strikethrough]] Irish wife as cook and waitress and chamber maid. They look a decided improvement on former clumsy inefficient service.
Sept 9. Drove to Reliance Motor Boat Co. nothing done on my mahogany table. Ivan
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away. Dictated letters most of day.
Sept 10. Spent all forenoon with a Mr. M. J. [[red underline]] Reagan [[/red underline]] internal Revenue agent. Room 601, Custom house who went [[red underline]] over my tax [[/red underline]] returns from [[red underline]] 1916 to 1919. [[/red underline]] A gloomy looking individual but who acted tactfully and went in detail over every item
Sept 11. Left with [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] at about 10 for [[strikethrough]] Saybrook [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Bayshore]]. The whole house left in charge of [[red underline]] Hamanichi [[/red underline]] and his wife
Arrived [[red underline]] Bayshore [[/red underline]] about 2 P.M. went immediately aboard, rowed Celine around in neighboring canals.
Met [[red underline]] Samuel T. Peters in [[/red underline]] his sloop yacht Patience with Mrs. [[red underline]] Havermeyer [[/red underline]] aboard
he had left a letter aboard [[red underline]] Ion [[/red underline]] inviting us for dinner