number of newspaper publishers bankers and industrial leaders to his suite in a prominent hotel in order to explain a new method he had devised for mill operations dinner was late in being served and as there had been plenty of liquor offered the host found himself in an embarrassing state of intoxication just before dinner was served I noticed him staggering into his bedroom and pulling himself up abruptly before his dresser thinking I might help him I followed him to the door of his room as I stood there I saw him grab the edge of