Monday, July 18, 1932 Got up early. Tessie prepared breakfast for me and I drove the Packard in town. Stopped at the store and Bert Heurin took me on to the R.R. Station to make the eight o'clock train to New York to attend the Wall Paper Convention. It is very hot as usual. Registered at the Commodore Hotel. Assigned to room 1738 on the seventeenth floor on the Lexington Avenue side. Went right over to the new Waldorf Astoria on Park Ave, where the Wholesalers held our meeting all day and our dinner in the evening. A very good attendance considering the depression. The Waldorf people gave us an air conditioned room for our meeting and it appreciated this hot day. Sent post card home to Peter Hodges Barker and one to Irving Bailey, who is ill.