The suburban citizen., 1901-08-10
A POPULAR Superintendent
Some Facts About Mr., Larsen Of the
ButtaTine Factory at LangdOn,

The Standard Buterine Company
was fortunate in securing as the super
mtendent Of their establishment Mr.
A. Larsen, whose experience in the
manufacture of artificial butter covers
many years Mr.. Larsen came to the
United States from Manchester, Eng
land where for a long time he was
connected in various important capaci-
ties with the largest butterine fac
tories of that country There is no
branch OF the business with which he
is not familiar He knows its history
from the moment it began to attract
attention as a commercial possibility
in France to the present time, when
millions OF pounds are made and used
in the United States alone There is
no method OF producing butterine
which he does not fully understand,
nor is there an article which enters
into its composition the effect OF which
upon the finished product he can not
satisfactorily explain
Mr. Larsen severed his connection
with the English concern at the earnest
solicitation OF President Wilkins and
other gentlemen interested in the fine.
establishments at Langdon which will
open its doors for business on Septem-
bed /. For more than ten years he had
served in the English factory where
his services were so highly appreciated
that his employers, upon learning that
he had been offered the position of
manager by President Wilkins, endeav-
ored by persuasive means both sub
stantal and eloquent to induce him to
remain with them. He had decided
to come to America, however, and that
settled it, 1t was with many regrets
that the men for whom he had worked
SO long and so well, together with his
numerous associates in the business,
saw him step aboard the steamer which |
was to bear him to America
Mr. Larsen was born in Denmark. 4
but it has not been so very many years !
ago since that event occurred Few
people would believe upon looking at
him, that before going to London he 4
had served six years in a butterine fac
tory in Manchester for the same firm.
But that is what he did, and hence,
when he reached the latter city, and
took his place in the great concern,
which was making a million pounds of
butterine a week, he was thoroughly
equipped for the responsible duties
which he essayed to perform Since
coming to Washington Mr. Larsen has
made scores OF friends, and is as popu-
lar here as he was in England He
resides in the Hardness property on the
road, opposite the fac
tory Among the articles which adorn
his we'll supplied table one will always
find butterne. which he regards as being
more wholesome than butter, but he
knows that it is pure and contains no
harmful substance.
Mr.. Larsen came to Washington
about the time work on the factory
was commenced and has superintended
the construction Of the buildings and
the placing Gas we'll as the selection)
OF the equipment His chief ambition
is to make the enterprise success, a
result with respect to which no one
who knows him entertaihs the slightest
doubt In speaking OF butterine as
article OF diet Mr.. Larsen
had this to say The quality of good
butterine is far superior to ordinary
butter. and since all the ingredients
are so thoroughly purified it is impos-
sible for any one, however fastdious,
to find fault with it on any reasonable
ground | use it on my own table.
This | have done for thirteen years,
and it is not likely that ! would use it
myself it l did not know that it is
pure and wholesome"