STATESMEN WHO UNDERSTAND THEIR WORK.
Engineering says that both Mr Witte (now Russian Minister of Finance), and the present Russian Minister of Ways of Communications, have had practical training as engineers. The former worked through the locomotive shops, drove an engine, and was subsequently a stationmaster for some years on the Southern Russians railways; while Prince Khilkoff, under an assumed name, worked through all the practical branches of railroading in the United States of America as a paid employee. This practical knowledge, so valuable to the chief of such a State Department, must occasionally prove excessively embarassing lo subordinates with only theoretical training.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 31 July 1901, Page 3
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103STATESMEN WHO UNDERSTAND THEIR WORK. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 31 July 1901, Page 3
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