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[[red underline]] talked to you Seabury." Seabury accepts Hays and S. Brown. [[/red underline]]
April 18. Deposited [[red underline]] 55000 [[/red underline]] - 4 1/4% Liberty with Bank for eventual loan. 
Told [[red underline]] them to sell $40000 of [[/red underline] same and place to my credit
April 19. [[strikethrough]] Left for Washington on 3:25 P.M train with Celine for [[/strikethrough]] Busy day in New York then here for packing trunks
April 20 (Sunday) [[strikethrough]] Celine [[/strikethrough]] Left with [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] on 3:25 P.M train for Washington for tomorrows meeting of [[red underline]] American Chemical Society which I have to conduct as president. [[/red underline]] Rooms reserved for me at New Willard Hotel which seems to be much crowded
[[underline]] April 21. [[/underline]] Feel well rested. Meet many of my old friends
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At 10:30 AM. presided executive committee
[[red underline]] Horne, Parson, Teeple, Crane, Comey Talbot, Hoskins [[/red underline]] present Geo Rosengarten absent. Managed to hustle long program along no interruption for lunch. - Sandwiches being served in room Most ticklish subject was report signed by [[red underline]] Ira Remsen, Theodore Richards, Venable and Edgar F. Smith relinquishing further participation of Am. Chemical Society in disposal of prize of $20000 offered by United Dye and Chemical Co. [[/red underline]] See Journal Industrial and Engineering Co for May. also [[strikethrough]] Meto [[/strikethrough]] Chemical & Metallurgical Industry next number). The committee and everybody feel humiliated and feel United Dye and Chemical are trying to withdraw

Transcription Notes:
Ira Remsen (1846-1927) was a chemist who, with C. Fahlberg, discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin.