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oucc in a while and go away over the boat, 

 rt has rained almost every day we have been 

 out and I am so siek of the sight of water 

 that when I see land again I'll shout for joy. 

 We sight land Friday afternoon, arriving 

 at Rotterdam Sunday morning. This letter 

 will be mailed at Bologne Saturday morning, 

 nhicli is the first stop the boat makes. I 

 liave been thinking about meeting you people 

 over here. 



Thursday and Friday, Nov. 1.5 and 16. 



yesterday it was too rough to write, so 1 

 liave delayed until today (Friday). 



We received word via Wireless last night 

 rVom Holland that a great storm was ap- 

 [iroaehing us. It hit us about midnight and 

 washed away the steel railing and plates in 

 "he bow of the boat so that we had to stop 

 an hour or so for repairs. Today the weather 

 is still bad and the worst sea imaginable is 

 rurniug. However, it does not phase me, as 

 1 am no longer inclined to be siek. I received 

 my mark in mensuration today. I passed 

 with 80 per cent, which was not bad, consider- 

 ing I wrote my paper 1.5 minutes before I 

 left Asheville. I was afraid of it and am 

 glad that I have passed successfully. I have 

 now but one more exam., the B. F. S., to take 

 under Schenck, and I have never failed in 

 one, which is a record only equalled by two 

 in the class. 



We sight land tomorrow noon, probably 

 arriving in Bologne tomorrow night late. 

 This letter will be mailed from there and 

 this will be the last instalment. We get to 

 Rotterdam Sunday and we should be there 

 [low (Friday). I sure will be glad to get off 

 tliis old tub, as I believe this is the most un- 

 comfortable two weeks I have ever spent. If 

 we were able to get fresh air it would not 

 be bad, but we have been penned in here like 

 cattle for two weeks. I have arranged for 

 good rooms in Darmstadt with Jonesie. Am 

 feeling fine. Will write from Darmstadt 

 Tuesday. 



Letters from Germany 



D.'iRMSTAXiT, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 25. 



Dear Dad : Six o 'clock Thank.sgiving 

 Evening and soon I will be sitting down to a 

 turkey dinner with the fellows. I arrived 

 here last night. Was in Eotterdam two days 



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and liked the place very much. Such a funny 

 town, with canals everywhere about you and 

 one has to be careful for fear he w'ill make a 

 false step at night and fall into one. We saw- 

 wooden .shoes, piles of them, and windmills, 

 right in the town. Imagine a town of 300,- 

 000 people in America with herds of cows 

 being driven through its streets at all hours 

 of the day. Such fun as we had roaming 

 about there. Some gentleman, a friend of 

 Doe's, who owns a fine steam yacht, took us 

 all over the town via the canals, also all over 

 the harbor of the Maas River, or tlie mouth 

 of the Rhine, where we saw thousands of 

 boats. Rotterdam is the shipping town of 

 Europe, you know. 



We left there yesterday morning, coming 

 up the Rhine Valley in the funniest compart- 

 ment train you ever saw. Saw the most im- 

 portant historical points to be noticed : Old 

 castles, hundreds of years old, and looking 

 the part, standing high upon some hilltop 

 and overlooking the Rhine Valley. I saw Die 

 Lovelii Tower. What impressed me most, 

 however, was the farms. They use every 

 bit of ground here, even if it be the steepest 

 hill, for they terrace the sides so a hill looks 

 like a lot of steps, and on top of these dinky 

 little gardens or steps they raise vegetables, 

 corn, etc. The woods are great and every- 

 thing is pretty, yet bearing an artifieial air 

 about it which is not like old TJ. S. A. 



We arrived here last night and I sure am 

 impressed with the place. Americans are few 

 here and a curiosity. No American ever 

 comes here, they say, as it is not a town for 

 sight-seeing. However, it is a great univer- 

 sity town and you see thousands of students 

 on the streets. This morning I was up early 

 and hunted all day for rooms, but without 

 satisfaction, until I introduced myself with 

 a few others to a bunch of German Corps 

 students (Fraternity), with green caps. They 

 looked at us when we offered our hands and 

 said ' ' agreeable ' ' and we managed to talk 

 to them a little. They were fine fellows and 

 gave us the name of an Englishman studying 

 there and we hired a taxieab and looked him 

 up. He is a "jolly good chap" named Craw- 

 ford Maxwell and is living with his mother 

 and sister, who were also very hospitable to 

 us. We got Maxwell in the machine and he 

 took us to the student quarters of the city, 

 where Jonesie and I oljtaincd a fine suite of 



rooms (2) with rolls and coffee for break- 

 fast, at 30 marks per month apiece (.$8.00). 

 One room, for sleeping, is a peach, and the 

 other has a piano, bird, flowers in every win- 

 dow, etc., and clean as a whistle. We are 

 situated over a store, nearly across from the 

 University. 



Do you remember of my telling of George 

 Merck (had met him and his sister at Doc's), 

 the nephew of Doc 's, who was such a fine boy 

 and who was up in the woods with us last 

 summer and made so well with the boys. His 

 father is the Merck who is the great drug im- 

 porter of the country (U. S. A.). They have 

 a great home in East Orange, N. J., and a 

 villa here in Darmstadt, the best in the place, 

 with a park, etc. George has offered his 

 house for a lecture hall of the B. F. S. We 

 went up there today and found the place 

 ready for us with an American flag covering 

 the whole side of the immense drawing-room, 

 with our school insignia and ' ' Welcome B. 

 F. S. " on it. It sure was great and every 

 one uncovered and gave three cheers for 

 (ieorgie. We also sent a wireless telegram of 

 thanks to Mr. Merck, the father, who is on 

 his wa.y over here now. 



Doc is the whole cheese here in this town. 

 The honorary ' ' Oberf orster ' ' or head master 

 of all the foresters of the state and they all 

 know him and kowtow to him. He only has 

 to salute one man in tlie town, all the others 

 must salute him. They also all know about 

 his trouble with Vanderbilt and stand with 

 Doc to the finish and they can 't understand 

 why he should suffer an insult like a dis- 

 charge. Here he has always a life job. 



No one speaks English here, but I find 

 that I can make myself understood pretty 

 well with what German I had while in col- 

 lege. Besides, I will pick up my vocabulary 

 ((uickly, living in a German home in the stu- 

 dent quarters. .Jonesie and I are away from 

 the rest, so it will be a good thing for us, 1 

 think. 



Today is Thanksgiving day home and here 

 it is also holiday, being the Grand Duke's 

 birthday, so we are going to celebrate both 

 occasions by having a turkey dinner tonight 

 and followed by a Sangerfest. Later we are 

 all going to an assembly of militia men and 

 students where Doc is to speak and they all 

 make speeches about the Grand Duke. We 

 are all going. 



Annual National Veneer and Vanel Mfrs.' Association 



The fifth annual convention of the Na- 

 tional Veneer and Panel Manufacturers' 

 .\ssociation was held in the Auditorium ho- 

 tel, Chicago, December 14 and 15, being 

 called to order b,y President Burdis Ander 

 son ats 11:30 a. m. Secretary E. H. Defe- 

 baugh recorded. 



It was an enthusiastic meeting in every 

 sense and as President Anderson stated : 

 "We have terminated four years of splen 

 did work." The attendance was large. The 

 actual results accomplished embraced the 

 adoption of a policy of more aggressive and 

 greater individual work; a line of investi- 

 gation to determine actual cost and account- 

 ing systems for the manufacturer; an in- 

 crease of $15 in the annual dues through an 

 assessment by the executive committee; the 

 recording of the unanimous support of the 

 association in deep waterways matters, and 

 two changes promulgated by the rules and 

 grading committee. 



After the president's address, followed 



BURDIS ANDERSON, RETIRING PRESIDENT. 



Ijy tliat of the secretary, the president an- 

 nounced the substitute appointments for 

 the standing committees as follows: 0. C. 

 Lemke to act in the absence of J. A. Under- 

 wood on the committee on constitution and 

 by-laws; H. M. McCracken as chairman in 

 the absence of M. C. Dow, Jr., on the mem- 

 bership and credentials committee; Nathan 

 M. Willson to fill Mr. McCracken 's place on 

 the resolutions committee; W. S. Walker as 

 chairman of nominating committee in the 

 place of D. W. Williamson and R. C. Day- 

 ton in the place of C. W. Talge on the audit- 

 ing committee. 



The convention adjourned at 2 o'clock to 

 give the subsidiary organizations, the Ro 

 tary. Gum, Quartered Oak and Panel Clubs, 

 an opportunity to meet. 



President Anderson stated that the work 

 of the association for the past four years 

 had been quite satisfactory. He mad^ a 

 strong plea for individual work, contend- 

 ing that the individual must make more of 



