WANTS A JOB

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 31, 5 August 1930, Page 4

WANTS A JOB

HANDYMAN BARONET

TIRED OF LEISURE

Sir John Faggc, the former handyman of Peppcrcll, Mass., at present a baronet in Dover, wants a job.

Sir John arrived in England in midMareli, when he came to assume the title he inherited from his elder brother, John Charles, who aied in January, says the "New York Times." Sir John's life has not been too exciting during those ten weeks. He got no money with the title, and he is becoming a little bored with his role of leisured country gentleman who has to live m a board-ing-house. . . In fact, he would like a job in London or any city in the United States except Pepporel^. Sir JOII7I doesn't know yet- whether he is going back to the United States soon, although lie is sure he will return eventually. "But not to Pcpperell," he says, tor it's very different now, you know. I used to work there. Now it would be different, because my position has changed. In other words, I won't work in Pepperell." The publicity on his acquiring his title hadp its usual results, hundreds of letters from unknown correspondents. "Most of them arc from old maids," explained the sixty-year-old baronet, "who say all they want is sympathy and understanding and love. Some of them tell me they .have a little property —to go with my title, you know. But I don't pay any attention, to them. I can't be too careful." NOT MARRIED. Sir John took pains to'deny rumours that he was to be married -again. "Anyway, if I do, it won't be a Pepperell girl," he said, "but right, now I have too much on my mind to think about it at all." The Baronet explained that he does not like formality, and he has consistently refused all suggestions by his New England friends that ho buy dinner and evening clothes. Pointing to his navy blue business suit, his light blue shirt, and his stiff collar, ho declared that" one would never recognise him as the same man who four months ago plied the trades of nurseryman, carpenter, auctioneer, and housc-paperer in blue denims and canvas shoes, and who didn't own a white collar. "But thJH iH as i'ar as I'm going," he said, flicking a bit of dust from his suit with a gray hiWq glove. Sir John upends most of his lime walking about Kent or up and down the beach promenade of Dover. Twice daily he goes to his local room to collect mail and have a game of billiards in the back room. The difficulties of his inheritance, Sir John said, were due to the fact that his brother loft his entire fortune to two old servants and none to his younger brother, who left home when ho was 17. The problem of-an heir doesn't worry Sir John at all. Ho said he had a seven-teen-year-old daughter living "somewhere near Boston." His wife died thirteen years ago.