ANDREAS KURTZ US 



to brave it out, and to reach his destination. 

 It was a rare act, for a boy so young to go 

 forth on foot, alone, from his home in the 

 Swabian highlands to the great city, in the 

 strange land. 



The factories and industries of Reutlingen 

 would have imparted to the youth ideas of 

 work, and when he came to Paris it was 

 amongst its manufacturing community that 

 he sought and obtained employment. 



Unhappily there is no record of his Paris 

 life; he passed within the gates of the city, a 

 foreigner, ignorant of the language; a child, 

 who had only received a simple, elementary 

 training in the school of his native town. In 

 Paris he toils and studies for twenty years, 

 and at the end of that period comes forth an 

 operative chemist, educated, cultured, en- 

 thusiastic. The situation he obtained was in 

 some chemical works, it has been rumoured 

 that his employer was Payen himself, and we 

 have reason to believe that this rumour is 

 correct, and that he was with Payen ex- 

 clusively. If such were the case it would 

 account for the opportunities that must have 

 been afforded to him. The variety of subjects 

 in which he wrought, also make it probable 

 that he was connected with some master of 



