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Continued: Daniel Kennedy Bailey attended Central High School in Cleveland andYale (Sheffield), but a serious injury to his knee in football at thelatter laid him up for so long he did not return. He entered theemploy of the Grasselli Chemical Company. He became GeneralSuperintendant. He resigned in December 1928. He became a Directorof Cleveland Worsted Mills Company in 1916.
After going broke in Florida, and when seeking employment, LewisBailey Skinner went, in the winter of 1926, to Cleveland, under whichcircumstances he was provided an occurence which hi will never forget,a which is:
A couple of days after registering at the Hollenden, and aftertramping around until 5 p.m. on a dismal day, he asked the room clerkfor his key, and was informed that he had been checked out and thathis baggage had been removed. While expostulating with the clerk thatthere had been a mistake, and a probable confusion with someone elseof the same surname, he thought he noticed the hotel manager peekingaround the frame of the door leading to his office, so he asked thatan official be summuned. After some considerable palavering with him,during which he seemed evasive and a little amused, Lewis began tosuspect that some sort of a joke was being perpetrated, so he calmeddown, with the final result that he was told that, provided he went toa certain parlor, he might find the answer to hs insistent, "Howcome?". Having learned that his writer was in Cleveland, there satDan and Florence, beaming because they had "pulled something", butsomewhat concerned, after a couple of hours of waiting, as to howtheir chauffeur and car were faring out in the bitter cold. In spiteof being told that his stay might be prolonged, they insisted thatLewis should go to their home and remain there until he found outwhether he could make a connection or not. During a period of about amonth, he was urged to make use of their autos, was made a guest at anumber of social affairs given by them and their friends, and wasrequested to do anything he liked in their beautiful home and withtheir competent menage while they and their three daughters took apreviously-arranged trip to the New York Horse Show. This is insertedbecause of the belief that it describes more aptly than could be doneotherwise natures thoughtful, kindly-disposed, and generous.
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