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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-11-19
The Dutch and the Art
of Diamond Cutting

dam by Portuguese Jews after the
sack of Antwerp in 1876. II has been
developed by Dutch Jews. in whose
hands it remains largely to this day.
almost to the entire exclusion Of the
Gentiles
In 1914 there were about seventy
five diamond polishing and cutting
factories in Amsterdam, where dia-
mond splitting. cleaving and polish
ing was done. utilizing about 5000
mills. The number OF cleavers en-
ployed was LOO. polishers 400 max
ing a total Of about $500 skilled work
men employed all the year around.
Including the office stats and others
dependent upon the industry for a
livelihood approximately $4,000 people,
or one-tentb of the population Of the
city, derives its bread and butter from
this source. Some OF these mills re-
strict themselves entirely to one pro-
cess. that Of diamond polishing, while
others carry out the whole Of the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-11-19
By DIRK p. DE YOUNG.

A S far back as the Middle Ages
n the Netherlands surpassed all
other countries OF the world in
the fine arts. with the possible ex-
ception OF italy. in painting and music.
But the superiority of the Dutch in
working diamonds is more matter Of
modern history. Diamond polishing
was perhaps known as early as 1856.
but cannot be said to have been in a
very fiourishing condition until the
eighteenth century owing to the lin
tied supply OF rough stones. which
we're at that time obtained mainly
from British India, Sumatra and Bor-
neo Tt was the discovery Of dia-
monds in Brazil early in the eighteenth
century. and the later discovery OF
the great diamond mines Of Africa.
which brought the Amsterdam dia-
mond polishing industry to the front.
The art of diamond polishing was
introduced into the city Of Amster-
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stone. carefully cutting off all angles
noticeable on the surface by means
OF sharp diamond tools. The cutting
OF large diamond takes a great deal
of time. an ordinary stone weighing
ten carats requiring perhaps eight
solid hours of time for one man.
Diamond polishing consists OF Civ
ing TO the rounded stones what is
termed in technical language the
necessary sides" All diamonds are
divided into two classes, "brilliants"
and "roses." but the only difference in
these two classes Is the number of
sides possessed after having been pol
ished. A brilliant must possess fifty
eight sides. whereas a rose need have
only twenty-four. a brilliant is also
pointed at both ends while n rose has
one end fiattened and one pointed.
When n diamond Is ready TO be poll
ished 1t must be soldered into a pear
shaped frame made OF copper and then
dipped into "A preparation OF oil and
diamond dust before being fastened,
with others. upon a strong frame
placed near an iron wheel. This little
disk is then set in motion by connect
ing IT with a great engine on the
ground floor, and the wheel imme-
diately starts at very fast rate OF
speed per minute. As it revolves the
other diamonds set in the adjacent
frame are gradually polished by means
OF friction produced on the surface by
the particles OF diamond dust still adj
herring to the oil into which they have
previously been dipped.
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Twenty Operations Needed
Before Gem Is Finished

only one part OF the stone can be
polished at once. Consequently. when
one part OF the stone has been pol
ished Il must be resoldered. so that
another portion can be treated in like
manner. This process takes place
about twenty times before brilliant Is
considered thoroughly polished, having
the necessary sides The rose. with its
smaller complement of twenty-four
sides. needs TO be resoldered only about
six times.
The finest diamonds in the world
have been polished In Amsterdam,
such as the Victoria diamond. the
President Reitz md the beautiful Gull
Imam. The historical diamond Kohl
moor presented to Queen Victoria in
1850, was also polished from it's rough
form TO a brilliant by an Amsterdam
workman.
The world war, like other great his
torical episodes. affected the Amster-
dam diamond industry again. bat more
favorably than unfavorably Once
more the Antwerp diamond interests
fiocked TO the Dutch metropolis. this
time to escape the German occupation
OF Belgium. Interfered with, of course.
BY poor communication and subjected
to greater hazards Of shipments. IL
fiourished nevertheless so that Am
sterdam emerged from the war. as She
lss been for centuries, leader of the
Void In the important industry Of
- ting and polishing diamonds.
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the N eSess @ Su eT sss M 7z 55 tie PETIT

three processes-diamond splitting
cutting and polishing.
OF these three processes through
which the diamond has 10 pass. split
ting the stone is the first Splitting
is done by hand without the aid Of
machinery IL IS not "a lengthy pro-
cess unless the stone contains a great
many flaws. for an ordinary diamond
Weighing about ten Carats can gem
orally be split in about fifteen min
utes The object OF course, is to di-
vide the rough stone containing more
or less OF flaws into several pure
fawless stones. In order TO do that
strong pressure is applied % the weak
spots caused by natural flaws by
means of a diamond tipped tool which
is held in the right hand.
While working with the right hand
"A curiously shaped little frame fin
which the rough stone now to he
split has become firmly fixed, IS held
in the left one. Great pressure is then
made on the weak spots and IN an in
slant the diamond breaks into two or
more pieces This process Is repeated
until an Of the flaws have been found
and the stone broken into so many
parts.
stones thus split into various flaw
less parts are ready for the second
process cutting. This process, like
tho first. is mostly done by hand; but
the hands Of women workers instead
Of men The third process polish
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Starts New York Business
On Capital of $1,000

When the season ended Louis Sherry
returned to New York He had 81 300
in the bank, and on that small capital
this young, ambitious Vermonter
launched the business that has be-
come a part Of the history of New
York. He rented a store at Thirty
eighth street and Sixth avenue for
his venture. The fitting up of the
place cut deep into his small capital,
and as overhead and other expenses
went on he soon found himself without
money.
Then he borrowed from his friends,
borrowed from the men he had served
as a waiter in the Brunswick and
from the men who came to know him
at Elberon. He was able to get help
from them because they liked him
and because they had confidence in
him. But the struggle was a hard,
hard one, discouraging, distressing,
almost hopeless at times.
Through it all he worked on a very
definite idea--the idea of using the
very best materials the market af-
forded, preparing them in the very
best possible way, and charging for
them, as he had a right to charge for
such products. higher price than
others were charging. 1t was either
win on this theory, he said. or not
win at all. There was nothing in the
cheap price idea for him. And on this
theory. and on the work. the heart,
the soul ne put into the job. he
finally won out.
once gaining recognition, once get
ting the Endorsement of the social
world, he soon outgrew his Sixth ave-
nue. place and was forced to move to
larger Puarters.
He located the second stage of his
business career at Thirty
street and Fifth avenue. where he had
a fine restaurant. ballroom. and in
fact a handsome ard thorough equip
ment. Louis Sherry had now arrived.
Everything was coming his way He,
could not take care of the business
that came TO him. and so. outgrowing
Thirty-seTenth street. he arranged to
have the sherry Building at Forty
fourth street and Fifth avenue put up
for him on a long lease.
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Passenger Need Only Press
With Finger to Command
Manifold Services.
TELEPHONES IN ROOMS
Vessel Will Be Wonder Of
Deep on Entering Service to
Europe Next Season.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1s.


II TNDER the direction of Rear
Admiral William S. Benson.
L. S. NJ retired, Commissioner
OF the United States Shipping Board,
the following facts regarding the
Leviathan have been prepared:
The steamship Leviathan, queen of
the American merchant marine, is
undergoing reconditioning for service
in the north Atlantic run at the
plant of the Newport News ShipbuiId-
ing and Drydock Company. Newport
News. Va. When she goes into SER
vice next season Americans will have
reason to be proud of her as palatial
addition to their merchant marine.
She will be the last word in luxury,
comfort, convenience and safety.
Throughout she will have the most
advanced electrical equipment to con-
tribute to the luxury. comfort and pleas
ure of the travelling public. If all the
various size wires in the single and
multiple conductor cables were put to-
gether. end for end. they would reach
from New York to Norfolk, approx
mately 400 miles. The total weight OF
this wire and cable is about 100000
pounds Many more miles Of wire are
concealed in the windings of the various
appliances and apparatus.
The latest type of navy standard lead
and armored cable Is used in all spaces
subject 10 dampness and in all working
parts of the vessel. In the passenger
accommodations armored cables are used
and every precsution has been taken Ia
their installation to lessen the fire risk.
Special outlet boxes at fixtures. kick
pipes at the decks. guards to prevent In
jury OF conductors are among the pre-
cautionary devices. Only about 10 per
cent of the original wiring remains In
the vessel. Great care has been taken
in the installation of the wiring TO allow
for expansion and contraction. The wlr-
ing and fittings and all electrical equip
ment are designed to meet the most rigid
underwriters tests and inspections.
For controlling the electric current I'm
the multitude of circuits 5000 switches
are used. the largest being capable OF
handling 5000 amperes and the smallest
two amperes.
To light the 1000 rooms OF the vessel
approximately $1,000 lamps are required
Many festoons and other novel fixtures
are provided for decorating the vessel on
be consumed in one evening between
and II o'clock would supply the ordl-
nary home for seven years.
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Initiative and Artistic
Taste Made His New York
Place an Institution.
GOING TO LIVE IN FRANCE
Has Retired From Interests
Here and Will Make His
Home in Paris.

TN HERE are many people who
know Mr.. Louis Sherry per-
sonally; all the world knows
Louis Sherry as an institution. But
of those who know Mr.. Sherry per-
sonally comparatively few know him
except as an able and successful
business man. The truth is that he
is inherently more artist than business
man.
His success in his life work, as the
creator and owner and manager of
the Louis Sherry business, is due
in very large measure to the artistic
side of his nature. Louis Sherry has
taste, and in the upbuilding of his
business these qualities brought into
the business a creative resourceful-
ness that made him prominent in his
line.
When Mr.. Sherry sold his lease at
Forty-fourth street and Fifth avenue
in 1919 to the Guaranty Trust Com
pany, and sold out his restaurant,
New York, and the country. for that
matter, lost an institution. New York
had never known anything before the
equal of this Sherry institution, has
never since known anything its equal
and perhaps never will see anything
its equal. Sherry's was unique. 1t
"a distinguished personality. in fact.
Trained to work from early boyhood
and accustomed to carry large re-
sponsibilities. Mr.. Sherry has found
a life Of idleness here in America irk-
some since retiring from business ac-
tivity. So Mr.. Sherry has decided
to try out Europe as a residence,
where there are more idle men and
more things to divert and interest
idle men than there are IN this in
tensive country of ours, where every
one is busy.
He will make Paris his home, and
naturally enough, for he has spent his
summers in the French capital for
a good many years. with the result
that he speaks the French language
with the fiuency OF a native French
man.
Having reached this decision, he
recently returned to America for the
York and his country place on Long
Island. He will still retain an interest
in the Sherry Corporation, which took
over the good will Of his catering
business when Mr. Sherry sold out
his restaurant.
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always Leader, He Created
Styles, Fashions, Custom.

This was an ambitious move. but
after all a comparatively easy one for
his present strength, in comparison
with the plunge he made on his thir-
teen hundred dollar capital in the
store at Thirty-eighth street and Sixth
avenue with no established business
and no following. 1t was in this new
building that Sherry's name and fame
concreted into the institution it came
to be- Everybody knows it's history.
Throughout his career as a res
taurateur Mr. Sherry has done the
things his competitors failed TO do.
lie has shown all the inventiveness
and ingenuity of the Yankee supple
mented by artistic talent of an un-
usual order He has always been a
leader; he has never been n follower
He has created styles. fashions and
customs.
But Mr.. Sherry has better expressed
himself in the construction and de-
velopment of his Long Island home
than anywhere else. Here he has
given play 10 the artistic feeling. TO
his excellent taste and to his knowl-
edge Of fine things. His house, built
i'm 1917-1S, is the expression OF Marie
Antoinette's creation i'm the grounds
OF the Petit Trianon at Versailles
with the necessary notifications 70
make it comfortable modern home
IT is a faithful reproduction. And in
the furnishings of tho house Mr.
Sherry has been equally faithful to
the period and the French atmosphere.
But nowhere on the place has he
shown himself TO better advantage
than in the landscape development OF
the grounds.
While Mr.. Sherry has primarily
given his life TO business. the larger
side OF his nature Is that OF the ar
tist. Az a business man. however. ne
has been highly successful, enormously
successful considering the start he
had in lifo and the line of his en-
deavor From nothing-and the word is
used in an literaln ass--he has accu-
INFLATED q fortune of five or six million
dollars. Had Louis Sherry goneNinto
finance. or railroading. or commerce.
or any other large line Of business, in
stead OF the one he chose. he might
well have made fortune ten times
as large.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-11-19
The Poor Vermont Boy
Who Became MultimiTionaire

From a poor and obscure Vermont
boy to multimillionaire is the record
of Louis Sherry. 1t was in Vermont
that he grew up in the old New Eng
land atmosphere of men who knew
how to work and whose religion was
work. He was not yet fourteen when
he started out for himself at fortune
building. After briefly trying his hand
at whatever he could get to do in his
home town, st. Adams. he went 10
Montreal. where he would have a
larger field for his experiment in for
tune building. Here he got a Job in. a
hotel as general helper i'm all the plain
work that was to be done.
It was in this place that the restaur-
ant business first came to appeal TO
his fancy. SO, after a short stay in
the Canadian metropolis. he decided TO
come to New York, where the oppor-
tunities for the restaurant were bigger
and the outlook more alluring to an
ambitious youth.
Young Sherry didn't find a cordial
welcome in this great city. He didn't
find people reaching out after him. On
, the contrary, nobody seemed to require
20 keep life and body together. lie was
willing and ready and eager to do any
honorable work no matter what It
was, TO keep him going till he could
get something better.
At last. after hungry days, and II
may be the sky Of night his shelter,
he secured place az bus boy in the
old Brunswick Hotel at Twenty-sixth
street and Fifth avenue.
az resolved" says Mr.. Sherry. "that
having job would do my very best
with il. was never late reporting for
work. 7 was not afraid of working
overtime. ] knew that i'm working for
the Brunswick Hotel, in putting into
my work the best there was in me. 7
should be working for Louis Sherry.
This truth I always tried to impress
on my own employees"
Once on the job, Mr.. Sherry did not
long remain as bus boy. He was
very soon advanced to the position of
n full fiedged waiter. lie learned
French from the chefs and the French
walters II was necessary for him TO
know French TO get on in the business.
As a waiter at the Brunswick Louis
Sherry began to attract attention.
Men insisted on being served by him.
lie was always courteous. He had
what has been characteristic OF him
throughout his life--the manner and
the bearing of gentleman. The pro-
prietor recognized his worth and made
him manager of the cafe.
He was still youngster when the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-11-19
All the Cutting Tools
Pointed With Diamonds

The tools used I'm cutting diamonds
arc very similar in appearance to those
used in the first process. In both
cases diamonds are used as knives
after having been firmly fixed into the
tip OF pear shaped tools. At the same
time the man holds the diamond he
wishes to cut in the left hand, in a
little wood frame. Little Jets OF gas
are always kept burning on the tables,
ready 90 be used AT any moment when
melted wax is needed for holding the
stone fast in its frame.
Tho principal difference in the two
processes OF diamond splitting and
diamond cutting is that in the former
pressure Is brought only on one spot.
Tho flaw, while In the latter workers
exert pressure in rounding the whole
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-11-19
REPRODUCTION
Of the ONE IN
WHICH CORN WAS
GROUND for MARIE
ANTOihETTE and HER
DAIRY MAIDS Of HONOR

manager. of the Hotel Elberon, at
Elberon,- near Long Branch, n. j.,
asked him to direct that establish
ments dining room and kitchen for
the summer. Long Branch and the
nearby coast resorts then enjoyed high
vogue among society folk. He made
a success of the job and incidentally,
made valuable friends. Again, the
following summer. the Elberon wanted
him. = The Brunswick people refused
to grant him leave Of absence. When
he pressed his case, he was dismissed
which left him free to go to the
Eiberon.
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ing requires a great deal OF time and
skill and is performed entirely by
machinery. motor supplying the
power for all OF the form disks.
Diamond cutting is a very delicate
and difficult task, very trying to the
eyes. as some OF the stones are so
small that often four hundred or more
weigh less than a carat. Besides, each
worker is responsible for the packet
OF diamonds he receives from the fore
man. and IL he happens TO lose one OF
the precious stones he must either
find 10 again or forfeit its value
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Continued on Page Twelve.
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SALESMAN WANTED.


SALESMAN WANTED.
Aggressive, Gle cut
young salesman, covering
Virginia, with headquar-
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grade cooking utensil prod
ucts, marketed through the
general stores, hardware
and house furnishing de-
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PAIGE TOURING

Car has not been abused: bar
gain to quick buyer: sS25. with
terms. Call Mr. Abbey. Randolph
6l3s.
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THANKS

To the liberal support of
the used-car buyers of
Richmond and the sur
rounding terri t DRY, our
sales last week were the
largest since our entering
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are looking forward to an
other successful week be-
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Deaths

Deaths /
a; the home ct his daugh-
ter. Airs. J. II. Collie. 3ls East Twelfth
Street Saturday night, W. r. Crostic,
age IS. Survived by three daughters.
eigh; grandchildren and two great
grandchildren. Funeral today at 3
O'Clock from Stockton Street Baptist
Church. the Rev. W. Il. LeckIitcr oificiat-
inE. lnterment N injury Cemetery.
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1918 FORD TOURING

1915. good tires and paint: me-
chanical condition perfect. Pr.ce
only Sii5, with terms. Cali Mr..
Abbey, Randolph 5iSs.
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Hclp--Maic or Female "a
MEN AND WOMEN wanted to learn the
barber trade. Tuition. SIS tools free;
diplomas given. Write Cor Information
Richmond Barber College. hoI EAst Mar
shall street. or Norfolk barber College.
sci Bank Street. Norfolk. Va
fhN p'"Sihg Dspatcb CLASSIFIED An
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Anderton Automobile Co.,
Inc.,
1887 West Broad st.


FOR SALE. nice touring chr in hes; OF
condition, with license. Price 1925
Charles Reha@k. II. F. n. No. g. BOZ
81. Nine Mile Road. Stop No O.
GOOD touring car, IN Al shape Good
tires and paint. Cash terms. l2a
North Seventh Street.
OLD TIRES made new We sell N,ii.1
Tires and Mansfield Tires Beli Tire
and Rubber Co. EOS North nelyidero
Street. 10 North Nineteenth Street.
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MAXWELL, NEW
OAKLAND SEDAN.

Runs and looks like new: new
oversize cord tires. Price only
ssso. Terms is desired. Call Mr..
Abbey, Randolph bl36.
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sTUDEBAKER ROADSTER, new top:
good looking and in excellent running
order Recently overhaulcd. Cheap TO
l62-J
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UNUSUAL MILEAGE.


UNUSUAL MILEAGE.
The following cars
have been left with us
to be sold for their
owners, who are desir-
Gus of purchasing new
Hupmobiles-you get a
double guarantee.
FORD SEDAN Observation-Disclosures
HUFF 5-PASS. Sass
RCICk SIN ..s $500
ECPP ROADSTER 1865
OVERLAND 4. almost new 1895
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AuToMoBILE SPRINGS made and mn,
on sam" day order IL brought in
smith Moore Vehicle Co.. 3.3 North