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Evening we both went for supper to the hotel where Henry Howard lives. Long talk about boats.
[[underline]] Nov 6. [[/underline]] Election day. Took train at 8:00 AM for Wyandotte Desolate station. Halowax plant, small and rather clueless like anything in the chlorine line but well designed and well kept Maurillo a cheerful chap who does not mind his cheerless job. Says smell keeps the moths away from his clothes. Building rather crowded He drove us to Detroit where we got afternoon train to Chicago
Arrived there 9. P.M. A. Kaspen and Mrs. Redman there drove us to Drake Hotel. A rather opulent but quiet hotel altho' not so intelligently conceived as that hotel I had yesterday in Cleveland.
Nov. 7. Redman came to fetch me
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and took me to Kaspen Bros ^[[show rooms.]] [[strikethrough]] factory [[/strikethrough]] to meet A Kaspen An imminence assortment of highest class furniture all very artistically conceived and well built. Nothing common nor [[strikethrough]] tad [[/strikethrough]] tawdry. A.K ambles along full of life and interest and a pleasant greeting to everybody. Then drove to Redmanol plant. A suitable maze of isolated departments intertwining the Kaspen Bros furniture factory. Each unit presided by a chemist who in Perth Amboy would be a foreman and who here acts as a "captain" in overalls to the department he directs. This explains to me why we got action so promptly on several matters which kept being delayed by us in the East where there was too much centralyzation. and when Rossi