Touring World to Keep Young

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 988, 3 June 1930, Page 1

Touring World to Keep Young

STARTED WITH SHILLING MAUNGANUI PASSENGER At the age of 24, Mr. E. P. Butler found himself in San Francisco, dressed in a pair of dungarees and a shirt and with a shilling in his pocket. Today, a wealthy man, he tours the world to keep young and fit, “And I’ll do that until I give out” he remarked this morning. “That man in the spectacles has lived a jolly interesting life,” a fellow-

passenger remarked on the'Maunganui, pointing to Mr. Butler, who was taking his first view of Auckland from the deck. “Yes. 1 suppose I have,” smiled the still-young-at-63 Mr. Butler, when a Sun representative approached him. Then, after some persuasion, he told his story, but only very briefly. He was born in London and at the age of 19 arived in Australia full of hope for the future. But after a few years he found himself out of work. Times were bad and the banks were breaking. That vi as in ISS9. There was nothing for it but to leave the country. “I shipped before the mast in a sailing ship bound for San 1 rancisco, continued Mr. Butler. “I paid the captain £2 to give me the job. "We had a terrible trip and the ship was given up as lost. The voyageoccupied 93 days. V e ran into a typhoon and what luggage 1 had went overboard.” When the vessel eventually reached San Francisco, Mr. Butler found himself almost penniless and without any prospects. He hunted round and got work as a tile-setter, a trade which he had learned In England. “I got four dollars a day. It was the most money I had ever been paid in my life,” he remarked this morning. From then on his success seemed assured. lie worked his way across the United States to Chicago and from there on to Milwaukee where he went into business. Mr. Butler’s tile-making business prospered. He became president of the National Tile Association of the United States and Canada. Still the business grew, and three years ago, Mr Butler decided to retire and spend the rest of his days travelling round the world. Periodically' he goes back to his beloved England and tours the country by motor-car. "Work— hard work —that is the onlyway to get there,” he assured the reporter, “It will bring success to anyone.”