MAX BAUM (bah-oom), Charles's first partner, the son of a German factory-owner in Lodz who will not use steam, only hand looms, and is slowly getting ruined. Max works hard and much, sleeps heavily, and drinks a great deal of beer.

PRESIDENT HERMAN BUCHOLC (boo-hoIts), a manufacturer of genius, and owner of the factory where Charles works; a hard man, who grinds his workmen and tyrannizes cruelly over everybody; old and very ill, which makes his temper worse.

MÖLLER senior, a German, who, starting work in Lodz as a simple weaver, by din't of industry, thrift, and shrewdness, has now got millions, a great factory, and a palace he has built, but does not live in; can scarcely read or write, and, though kindly, is coarse.

MADA, Müller's only daughter, a naive, though practical, German girl, deeply, though timidly, in love with Charles Boroviecki.

MME. EMMA LIKIERT (Likk-yert), formerly the mistress of Charles Boroviecki, who has broken with her.