_gohn Buescher

December 24, 1940

We left the Allerton Hotel in Chicago in time to arrive at the
New York Central railroad station about three minutes before the
train pulled out. While enroute to the station we rode on
Chicago's famed Michigan Boulevard. We er the Stevens Hotel,
which is the largest hotel in the world, while on Michigan
Boulevard.

We left Chicage at 9:15 in the morning for our trip through

Michigan. The train we rode on was one of the most modern in the

- gountrys One of the features of the train was a speedometer ©

found in the observation car. While looking at this speedometer
I noticed that we were going seventy-seven miles an houre
"While enroute to Ann Arbor we passed through Kelamazoo,
uichigen. Ka lama 200 is the city in which stoves and furnaces are
manufa ctured « ee
At Niles, Michigan, we changed our wetehes from Central
Standard time to Bastern Standard Tine. Instesd of being 10:45
Be Me it was 11:45. This made Howard Engleman very happy es his
seat was getting herds iM |
At Battle Creek we saw the homes of Generel Foods, Ralstons,
and Kelloggs Cerealcs — 3
The team members were doing many things on this leg of our
flight again. The most. populer was playing bridge.
Vance Hall picked up he fu somewhere and was very 411. At
this point he is sitting covered ‘up and thinking of a little gal

in Wichita, Kansas.