The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-07-30
De Beaufort Plans to Grad
uate From Pudding to
Banking.
TAKING VACATION
FROM STEEL MILL
Miliionaire's SOn-in-Law Explains
Why He Donned Overalls.
Trained as q Soldier.

NEW YORK, JULY s9-Down at
Bay Head on the Jersey coast. where
Count de Beaufort IS taking a holiday
after several months pudding in his
Wfe's fathers steel mill, and several
months firing, bralug, and switching
on his wife's fathers railroad, his en-
ergy is pleasing itself by writing a
book, riding, and coming 10 town every
Few days 10 progress some enterprise
OF his OWn-fn manufacturing type
writer's and promote secret patent
For these I got Il months leave,
with loss Of pay, beyond the train
mems usual vacation" he explained
when one rises at $50 in the morn
ing TO catch q freight train TO the
yards-catchinE up a 2o-ceut breakfast
on the way-and has 10 work from
TO s, and on Mondays and Tuesdays
from TO S, often one doesn't have
much time left for those other things
which make up my vacation
de who is Nike 10 his fellow
Iab0rers on the railroad. as he was in
the steel mill, is Count de Beaufort
ar Bay Head He rises at instead Of
4-5a, puts on white drill riding breech-
6 instead of 0veraIiS, changes to fan
De-s IL the afternoon. and is the only
one IN Bay Head who INDUCES in the
luxury Of dressing for dinner
do you think you can come back 10
oyeralls and the tweIve-hour day2r' he
vas asked on the Bluffs varanda-
Wants To Be Banker.
IT We thought out a few things since
I've been working with my hands" He
displayed one while Offering cigarette
rom a gold-crested case with the other
And / can not only come back but 20
further After q little more experience
on my farheT-iu-laV road. shall try
FOR an Inspectors job on a long road
Il know how steel is made. I've fol-
lowed the ore from the mines TO the fin
ished product I've learned something
o. Failroading-and especially 1 know
something about rails ties, equipment
Now what L want eventually to be IS a
banker
Here is what I've thought out while |
hardening these muscles and expanding I
my chest four inches 1t is this I am
q soldier that has been nay work since
eighteen years OF age I see here q I
country making more money than any
In me world Everything is fight here. 4
but la yoar Industrial army there are /
soldiers, subalterus. and generals I /
wish 20 be one Of the generals
The generals are the bankers Money /
Tor all big projects and enterprises has 4
7
are more opportunities in banking Laa 4
n Industries I shan so 1T myself that /
II a man wants To- borrow a million dol
lars on q line OF road / VIII know at I
once what that road is as real security i
the szIabIe value Of its franchise the /
saIable value OF IFS rails and equipment /
Il IS the man Uho finances the great 4
enterprises who backs all
In Training For Future
'AIy wife" be went On, as the only
child OF NJ L. kiigal-en- His son died
! am Sitting myself at present 10 be I
able, il necessary, TO administer the
vast properties her father has built
Up. Sc one win be able to fool me
not that they would try TO. only such
things have happened
AIr. KilGaueu has steel tool mills, a
circular railroad thirty miles long.
which the railroads serving the steel
mill section OF Chicago have to pay a
tribute - Sl-50 a car, and he built I'D 4
The town of 10000 inhabitants known
a. Chicago Heights. and the railroad I.
COnleC-iug 10 with Chicago Count de
Pea utorL speaks adUlriIEly OF the
ability which accom- pilshed these
works and wishes 20 DO as much for
his wife. toward whom ne exhibits
constant devotion, also admires heTl
C5unt de Beaufort has had an active
life Of picturesque sort The head OF
those Soldiers "a fortune vrHo FRI -7Ts z
twelfth century ranged Europe as
men OF arms and when their king
conquered took as their guerdou q
fzr1uy with castle and lands Beau
fort castle IS now ir ruins and con
Que-cd provinces are not psrceled out
any more To- generals
" o--1 L--l -oA5 Day-
The count has served I'm the Df4+cE [
India, in Guiana. in the COMO. in sU-
illlia-He mas even been an attached
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