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100/ [[left margin in red]] Pantone & [[strikethrough]] Tris [[/strikethrough]] Trist [[/left margin in red]] [[red underline]] Trist [[/red underline]] made to me. - He also tells me we should abandon efforts at monochrome printing and slow printing because present existing processes are sufficient, specially at a time when printers do not want to go in considerable expenses or delays and hesitations in changing their methods which are all adapted to present conditions. That the new an important field lies in the daily newspapers which must use rapid processes for three color half tone work and none of the present processes is suitable for this. Weeklies etc. can afford to print slowly a week in advance their colored supplements and utilise the present slow processes. But a few large enterprising newspaper owners are eager to jump in the field of 3 color daily printing, and spend the necessary money for it if they can get the process The others are reluctant and opposed because it would involve them in large expenditures of equipment, which they are not willing to risk. I see now why [[red underline]] Trist, [[/red underline]] wrote that it was impossible to convey all this information by writing and not risk of being totally misunderstood. - He writes me to see his [[red underline]] laboratory [[/red underline]] at his country place. [[strikethrough]] Sunday morning [[/strikethrough]] tomorrow morning. Went with [[red underline]] Kingsbury [[/red underline]] for luncheon to his Club then had pleasant walk along Thames etc. Pleasant bright weather 75°F. Everybody getting ready for [[red underline]] Witsuntide [[/red underline]] Holidays [[end page]] [[start page]] 101 [[underline]] June 3. [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] Saw Potter in morning at his office. Had a long talk about situation of Am. Bakelite, English and German general situation. Also about program for handling English patents in future as proposed in a letter by Rossi and which is acceptable to Potter. [[/strikethrough]] This conversation took place yesterday. (June 2) [[left margin in red]] Trist [[/left margin in red]] Went to [[red underline]] Trists [[/red underline]] Country place by omnibus left 8:30 AM, arrived there about 40 minutes later. Old manor with grounds around and separate buildings. His [[red underline]] four daughters [[/red underline]] and son there. Son about 14, daughters in the twenties. - One married since on year another marries Monday. [[left margin in red]] Pantone [[/left margin in red]] [[red underline]] Trists [[/red underline]] has installed his [[red underline]] laboratory [[/red underline]] press room - dark room etc in old stalls which have served the horses for centuries, old kennel, old attick of the man who attended the horses & a small improved wooden hut etc. for housing his different equipment. Thus improvising cheaply and quickly the necessary outfit, similar in his ways as I did when I spent my own money for my laboratory work. [[left margin in red]] Bakelite Spendthrifts! in Bloomfield [[/left margin in red]] [[red underline]] - Quite different from our men in Bloomfield, [[/red underline]] who spent more time and money [[red underline]] in making blue prints for an addition to [[/red underline]] the laboratory than it cost me to build my 3 story building in 1909 after my first laboratory was destroyed by fire. Trist uses same ingenious and improvised adaptations for his different apparatus, altho' he uses great care and precision in his work [[strikethrough]] Expla [[/strikethrough]] Showed me everything
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Correct spelling is Whitsuntide, but it is spelled Witsuntide in the document
