his cases and collecting gear that the Museum sent out are scattered all 
over Florida and the West Indies, and it is going to cost something to 
bring them back again, I guess he didn't "take Roebling and his yacht 
and crew" very far. I heard th$t Roebling had a couple of women on 
board and that his biological interests were not synonymous with Bartsch's. 
Bart sch cramped his style too much, I guess. 
four little limerick was a dandy. It has been a huge success 
wherever I have repeated it . 
W. H. Goldsmith died a couple of days ago. I enclose the 
account which Miss Rathbun took from the Star. Mr. Shoemaker said he 
had cancer of the stomach. 
Mrs. Cheney's little girl has been quite sick for the last 
two or three weeks. First she had one ear lanced and then the other, 
and now they are not sure but what she will have to have a mastoid opera- 
tion. Mrs. Cheney stayed home with her today. I feel so sorry for her. 
She seems to have more than one person's share of trouble. 
Dorothy Chamberlain (Etheridge, that was) had to quit her job 
because the Navy Department, wherh her husband works, tightened up on 
the marriage clause and told him that it was his job or hers. I hear 
that Mitman is just holding the job open until July, hoping that the 
marriage clause may be repealed during this session^ &XJ[ ^<*7 
There is all kinds of economy talk these days, and 57 varieties 
of economy legislation^oposed. Don't be surprised to find yourself 
with a pay cut the 1 st of July. I really don't think they'll" have the 
nerve to cut government salaries, but there's talk of it, and this time 
they'll figure out some way so that Congressmen won * t be cut. We will 
be sunk then. 
The man you missed seeing in Bermuda (what's his name?) was in 
to see u.i.ari\. yesterday, and Clark told me this morning that he was sorry 
to miss you at both ends. 
I had dinner with Miss Cable one night l&st week and learned 
a most astonishing thing»-~~that Dr. Hildebrand is not very pleasant 
to work for. Would you ever have dreamed it! I don't think" that she 
was complaining unreasonably, and I was most astounded. She said that 
in ten years he would never recommend her for a raise. Last year she-c/tAW- 
over his head to Higgins and got the raise, and then he was sore. The 
way the conversation started, I told her how I kept a list of the words 
that I think you mispronounce for you. She said, "You'd never do that 
1 or Dr. Hildebrand; he's never wrong." I had always supposed that he 
was much like you as a boss. I guess you never know people until you 
work with them or live with them. 
