Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1913 — WEALTHY MAN’S SON LABORS [ARTICLE]

WEALTHY MAN’S SON LABORS

Takes Place in Factory at Bottom of Ladder to Learn the Business. New York.—*Augustus Cordier, Jr., twenty-three-year-old son of the late Augustus Cordier, who was president of the Lalance & Crosjean Agate Ware factory in Wood Hayen, L. 1., and was a son-in-law of Florian Grosjean, who founded the company, is a workman in the factory. When the youth’s father died he left his extensive interests to his widow, who is worth several millions. Each morning he arises early and goes to work in the factory to learn the business, with an idea of some day succeeding his father in its management He is studying the work of every department and dons overalls and works as hard as any of the other employes.