BARON CARRIES A HOD.
MAKING A STUDY OF MILL CONSTRUCTION.
Baron Ivuno von Eltz, nephew of the Prime Minister of Hungary, lias got a job as laborer on the new Uswoco null of the United States Worsted Company now building at Lawrence, Massachusetts. Every morning lie appears with liis dinner pail, ana donning nis overalls joins the gang and wields a pick or shovel or carries a hod. Baron Eltz expects to remain here until the mill is completed, and will study every detail if its construction. Baron Eitz makes his home at a fashionable inn at Andover. He is 32 years of age, and speaks English fluently. Baron Eltz says:—“I love this hard work. I arise every morning at 6.30, hat-lie, shave, and enjoy a light breakfast. I hoard the 7.30 o’clock train for Lawrence from Andover, and at 8 o’eock I have donned my overalls and am ready for work. At noon I eat a little or no lunch, but I enjoy a cigarette or two. In the evening I arrive home at 5.30 o’clock, and after bathing I enjoy a hearty supper. “In the evening I make out reports of what I have accomplished and what I learned legarding American mill construction. I am representing my country over here. P. R. G. ' Sjostrom, treasurer of the United States Worsted Company, is also a director of the American-Hungaria.ii Bank, and when in my country a year ago he interested the Prime Minister so much in the manufacture of worsteds that I was sent to study •mill construction, and later ivill take up worsted manufacturing.” T-
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3184, 1 April 1911, Page 9
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