Letter, William Gleason to Kate Gleason

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Genesee Foundry Company,
Office: 10 Brown’s Race.

Rochester, N.Y. San Antonio, Oct 11 1895

Dear Daughter
Your letter of Oct 2nd
reached New Orleans after we left and I have
just received it the adgustment of centre
of tail stock refered too by Farrell Fdy Co
Mr Brown showed me a sketch of the moveable
head which had in it an adgustable tail
spindle the arrangement for adgusting I did
not believe to be as good as the one
I made for the McDowell 38” tail stock
the screm cap nut and adgusting arrangement
is all he wants have Mr Ashley make
a copy of that part and send it too them
the reason I did not send it I did offer
to send it but from Mr Browns manner he did not
seem very anxious. but it seems I was
mistaken. according to present arrangements
I will leave here next Monday. I am at
present studying the routes and may have
to change my plans on account of the difficulty
of getting a time ticket at a reasonable price

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I must have 10 days to make the trip and
the $42. ticket is limited to 4 days I may buy
2nd class part of the way and buy in sections
from here to New Orleans then to Atlanta
and from there home. I dont see any other
way at present. Ellen has had a little set back
she caught cold in some way and had a
bad night coughing. She is quite strong able to walk
mutch faster than when we first came. I believe
the set back only temporary. if she improves
I will start Monday if not I will not start untill
there is a change. Eleanor is going to school
every day. She passed the exam the principal
gave her all O.K. I visited the machine
shops in this town. I got acquainted and
that is about all that I can say. they are
very crude affairs general jobbers. the
largest Lathe in either of them is a 36” and
not many of any kind. the city is purely
commercial. very clean built of white stone or
white brick. for fuel they burn wood. except the
few [illegible] and the Electric [illegible] Coal Co soft coal is $750
hard coal 12 per ton. there is a native coal that
is cheap but it is very poor I will write again
in the morning and report how Ellen gets along. William G

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I am glad you received those orders