Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1914 — FRICK’S FRENCH CHEF TO WAR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRICK’S FRENCH CHEF TO WAR

Millionaire’s Noted Cook Causes Dismay By Going Home to Fight for Country. Boston. —Inspired by patriotism of so an order that he willing gave up his highly paid position, the famous" French chef employed by Henry Clay Frick at his North Shore summer home resigned his place and announced his intention of returning to France to fight. The consternation in the Frick family at this unexpected move, however, was duplicated in several other homes, where nearly all the men servants have either gone or have announced their intention of leaving.

' The Frick chef is the highest salaried servant of the lot, receiving a salary that is said to rival that of some bank presidents and many business men who are considered in’ comfortable circumstances. Many of those, however, who are going back to Europe are well paid, and in addition live in quarters that will make life in the army seem especially miserable. The fashionable residents of the North shore are in a quandary as to what to do without their servants. The maids are left, but in few instances do these know how to cook, and more than one society woman, it is rumored, is making experimental trips into the kitchen. The French predominate among the North shore servants, but some are German and a few Italian and English. The war has been responsible for no little wrangling among them.

Henry C. Frick.