To say the least, I had enough of German banquets on that trip to be sufficient for a lifetime. At the close of the official German trip I visited a friend who was chief engineer of the Italian Westinghouse Company near Genoa, and then spent a month investigating harbor facilities, water front freight terminals, etc., of most of the main continental and English seaports. One result of this work on freight terminals was the development of some special freight handling machinery.

"In addition to my consulting work I am the President of the E. V. Lawrence Safety Brake Company, Inc., and the Terminal Engineering Company, Inc.

"This last year has been an interesting one. Some consulting work took me on a trip to Birmingham, New Orleans, Memphis, Louisville, etc. Immediately afterwards work for another client involved a trip to China in the quickest possible time, going and returning on the same steamer so that I was in China only ten days.

If this were an illustrated report I would insert a photograph showing a crusade through Soochow on donkey back with both feet dodging the ground.