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Show CUT FIGURE IN ROMANIA Employees of Standard Wear Silk Hats and "Spike-Tail" Coats. . HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Nov. 29. Al Johnson and William Rhodes, the two Hartford City oil men who accompanied accom-panied a party of twenty Indiana drillers drill-ers and tool dressers to Roumania to work for the Standard Oil company, write that the men are living in rtyle. It 19 stipulated by the Standard company, com-pany, they say, that the workmen wear ppike-tailed coats and silk hats'when r.ot working. They write back that their Indiana friends would not know them on dress parade. There are two castes In that country, the rich and the poor, the swell dresser and the ragged man, and one mii belong be-long to one or the other. There Is no dividing line. The Standard is putting Its best foot forward in that country. It .cost it a large mm to get the concession to drill for oil and it pays the Hooslers princely salaries with which to make a ' flashy appearance. A part of the duty of the men is to convince the natives that they own the company. |