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LARGEST PRODUCERS OF FIREWORKS DISPLAYS & SPECTACLES IN THE WORLD 
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JAN 231331 ■' armary 19th, 1937* 
Factories and Studios - Roby,'Indiana and Bear, Delaware 
OFFICIAL PYROTECHNISTS 
FOR A CENTURY OF 
PROGRESS 
Dr. Alexander Wetmore, 
Smithsonian Institute, 
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Doctors 
First I must apologize for not aclmowledging with 
thanks the copy of the Geographical Magazine you so kindly 
autographed and is now in my shelf of hooks. 
With the holidays that came upon us so suddenly 
plus Mrs. Briese being in the hospital for about 10 days for 
an operation and then several road trips, I have been quite 
the busy man. However, Mrs. Briese has fully recovered and 
Is home again. 
This is right in the midst of our contracting 
season. Just returned yesterday from Louisville, getting 
in here about 12 hours late on account of the high-water. It 
is beyond escription the amount of land that is covered by 
the swollen rivers down there and we watched them rescue 
about a dozen people from roof-tops, watching from our 
train window. 
Am leaving tomorrow for a swing out west and 
north to Winnipeg, Helena, Butte, Spokane, Salt Lake City 
and Denver, coming back to Chicago to pick up my car and 
then drive south to Memphis, New Orleans and Dallas and am 
trying to make the trip in less than a month, so will have 
to do some real tall stepping. 
We drove out I believe Xmas week to see the 
Callanders• Took the colored movies of Guatemala with as 
they are pictured in several scenes and they enjoyed them 
very much. They certainly are fine people• 
I 
BOMBARDMENT OF FORT MCHENRY — PIONEER DAYS —MARCH ON AMERICA 
