Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-18 | Page 8 | Hohenzollern Saws Thousandth Tree

HOHENZOLLERN SAWS THOUSANDTH TREE AMEROXHEX, Holland. Saturday, March lr (By the Associated Pre3. , Former Emperor William today completed complet-ed sawing into In-.s his thousandth, tree since he to.ik refuge at Count von Ben-tine Ben-tine ks castie here last fall. From the . thousandth tree a few loers were con-vtM-ted into souvenirs of the achievement and ni; rked in red ink with the inscrip-t inscrip-t ion. "V-2." Tlu-e were presented to members of the iientinek family and to thi-se who have assisted the ex -emperor in his work during the last tin weeks. As ho was completing- his task a young : countess took a snapshot of Herr Ilohen-! Ilohen-! zollern and his assistants, Dr. Foerster and Captain von Iseinann, together with the young gardener who adjusts the logs ; on the bench for the ex-ruler to saw ; them. The picture included the former i empress, who was reading1 a newspaper 1 near by. Expert sawyers of the neighborhood compute the value of the wages Herr Hohenzollern would have earned if he had been paid the trade union rate at about 530 for the whole period, or an average of 50 cents per working day, which usually consists of three hours. j