Baron Carries A Hod.
MAKING A STUDY OF MTLL CONSTRUCTION. Baron Ivimo von Eltz. nep'hew of the Prime Minister of Hungary, lias got a job as labourer on the new Uswoco mill of the United States Worsted Company now building at Lawrence. Massachusetts. Every morning he appears with his dinner pail, and donning his 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 of its construction. Baron Eltz 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 bard work. I arise every morning at 6.30. bathe, shave, and enjoy a light breakfast. ' I 'board the 7.30 o'clock train for Lawrence from Amdover, and at 8 o'clock T have donnedi my overalls and am ready for work. ' At noon I cat little or no lunch, but I enjoy a cigarette or two. In 'the evening T' 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 regarding Ameri. can mill construction. Tam representing my country over 'here. G. R. G. Sjostrom, treasurer .of tlie United States Worsted Company, is also a director of the American-Hun-garian Bank, and when in my country a year ago he interested the Prime Minister so much in tlie manufacture of worsteds fchnt I was sent to study mill construction, and later will take up worsted nianufactu>--ing."
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 April 1911, Page 4
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266Baron Carries A Hod. Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 April 1911, Page 4
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