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of gasoline. ^[[again careless Lewis]] Thus upsetting all our arrangements So Celine and I took train at noon reception lunch to foreign guests of Britain [[red underline]] and Canada [[/red underline]] at Pennsylvania Hotel. A rather lugubrious affair since the Volstead act. everybody seems fearfully sober and bored Drove to Columbia for reception and had a Colombian professor and his wife (Vergasa) who knows nothing but Spanish with us.
Evening [[red underline]] Baskerville [[/red underline]] and I had arranged a private dinner at [[red underline]] Engineers [[/red underline]] Club where following were present: Ruttan, Bancroft, Little, Parsons, Meges Churchill (C.C.N.Y trustee)
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A.W. Kiddle (President Engineer Club) [[red underline]] WH Nichol [[/red underline]] Sir William Pope, George Rosengarten Owens, Cohen (Utrecht) Edmund O'Neill Reese, Coates. Then to Smoker at Waldorf Astoria. The latter was well arranged and a great success.
Remained in University Club, and [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] in Gotham till Saturday.
Sept. 8. My [[strikethrough]] lecture [[/strikethrough]] address "The Engineer" etc [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] in Chapel of College of City of New York. Hot and sultry. Other speakers Little, Bakewell, ^[[Sir Wm]] Pope, Cohen, Whitney & Bancroft Evening banquet in Waldorf Astoria. Speeches too long and poor. Rather