Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-31

for one to gain wrong impression
The greater part of the shafting has
been running, if L Understand il cor.
rectly, many years and is old stvla
NO one would use anything but ring
oilers today where your hangers are
| of the old grease box style. I sbouId
! word that section Of the report q little
! Inherently II i was to write il again
| l'ut III my valuation of the shaftiny
ana betting | took those things into
| consideration realizing the general
condition including small shafting in
4 number Of places and the customary
wear al all bearings and put a yalu-
atiOn for the two items, shaftinp ana
! btltlnS, At what seemed to me to be a
very rca&On1hle figure for your num-
Der of apindleS: and if any person ever
cited that quotation of mine in the let
! tcr to you this would ! think eoualizc
any misunderstanding the first NAV
! nave caused. There ulay be others
! who would value the two somewhat
F., lDV or, but if III your place | shouIj
not feel like being questioned on tn
lower valuation. may have been III
error in locating All the described ma
rhincry. If have done 80 thos.
time for examination Was exceedingly
limited ana it would be surprising if
did not misplace some things. In my
cstimat" % the buildings ami land vnu
viii FIND that did not separate the
two, but put them together | assume
he spare land YOU had around thu.
premises was suitable for use in BULL
inc and had no reason to think other
a
its being unsuitable. / find in my slirs
that ! have for memos, that | put the
new machine shop valuation into the
$1SoHOD which perhaps | should not
have do:lc under the circumstances.
You can refer to this item, having this
in mind"
So that, Mr.. Pencil, although your
original letter as it was as YOU sent
it to Mr.. Pratt, might on a cursory
reading convey the idea that you had
left out the machine shop, You did in
ract mclude it in the $4,000. a.
state in the letter. My memo l had
On my desk 1t that time included tile
machine shop ana the tools because |
took the prices If many Of the tools
as | went along and put them on
Slip. those | considered worthy Of val
uatiOn.
Q. So that in revising yonr letter,
Or revising your schedule there was
no occasion for your changing the
$4,000? IL did include the machine
shop? y. 1t did.
.. Why lid you strike out that sub
feet matter in the letter in regard t.
the machinr shop? 1t did not affect
the Valuation one way or the other
a. III" word "modern' ] did not like
lccau,. would not call the shop mod
ern if We're to write the letter today.
] would nos cLll it modern shop. a
shop as ,lalll rs that. fairly con
Nrni"nt shop for doing workout the
word modern was word l should not
have used. | have Il modern shop
myself and | have a good deal of light
in it, and | believe in light in all
rooms: and it was Il slip of my pen in
writing that "modern''
@. You have injected in here in
your revised memorandum this com
mcnt IN the shafting. You say: Il
Say fairly good, but I do not by any
means intend ID convey the idea that
il il NJ to date Pulley boxes and no
ring oilers are not what one would adj
NOcIlt USlIlS AT IlliS time. mat was
precisely " hat You said in this letter
three days afterwards a. I think
That is in accordance with the testi-
m"ny | gave.
.. ON the 10th day of March you
asked the same modification, didn't
y1ur 4. ! did
O. This is putting in the same modi-
fication YOU nut in three DAYS after
wards il writing the second letter to
Mir. Pratt. a. I did.
g. Now on page 10: the fourth Item
III lie valuation. steam piping. fire
protection. boilers. hydrants, hose and
pumps and mOiStCncr In your first
/, port to Mr. Pratt YOU left. out the
moist cning system didn't you: a. i
am convinced left that off.
g. That We have been over in the
testimony. so that what you have
tHerC as $3J,G0D, You made $3S 600 on ac-
C0un; of thlt one matter" a. | did
g. Where You had 4 total in your
letter of $3.50 200 that was made lp OF
100000 Stock-in-rrocess which YOU
were not called upon To value here.
y. toS. that has all been gone over in
the testimony.