Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-08-08 | Page 4 | Germans to Tour the United States

GERMANS TO TOUR THE UNITED STATES New York, August 8. Twelve son. of German captains of Industry, stu- ' dents from the Cologne university of commerce, now In New York City, began be-gan today a tour of study of American I Industries and commercial organization. organiza-tion. Tholr program for today besan with tho stock exchange and coded with visits to tho offices of the large Insurance companies. They will go to Philadelphia tomorrow to-morrow and later will visit the census cen-sus bureau at Washington, the Pitts-birg Pitts-birg steel mills, the new town of Gary and the Chicago stockyards. 1 They will take In Milwaukee, Seattle, Seat-tle, Duluth, San Francisco and Santa Barbara before returning to New York. "It is the German notion." says the director of studies, "that sons of captains cap-tains of Industry should be especially trained to carry on the great business bullj up by their father or grandfath- . rr. Because a man is his fathers son is not in itself to be conclusive evidence evi-dence that he can successfully conduct con-duct the business without special training." Another party of visitors just arrived ar-rived In Now York includes fifteen young men In white uniforms and white caps with broad bands of gold lace, who are destined to become officers of-ficers in tho Belgian merchant marine. They are going to San FranclscD to practice navigation on tho four-masted Belgian barkentlne. L'Avonlr, now I loading barley in the Golden Gate for j the United Kingdom.