MR CARNEGIE AS AN OUTDOOR MAN.

North Otago Times, 26 January 1906, Page 1

MR CARNEGIE AS AN OUTDOOR MAN.

Mr W. T, Stead contributes to "C, B. Fry's Magazine a sketch of Andrew Carnegie -as an outdoor man. His health is attributed to the fact that he has always spent a considerable portion of each day in the operair. From his boyhood upwards lie has never taken kindly to the confinement of the office, the mill, or the facto; y. When lie was a weaver's bairn in Duriifertn--1 line Town, as new, when he is Laird of Skibo, he is most at his esse under the broad canopy of heaven, from twelve to fifteen he was in the bobbin factory; then he took to the open-air life of a telegraph boy; next he became clerk and and operator on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr Stead says: "His duties caused him to be out and about a good deal, and he spent his Sundays in summer in wandering with, his companion; through the woods, It was on one of these Sunday afternoon strolls through the woods that the young Carnegie showed, his boy companions the first cheque he ever received as interest on capital, He cried, 'Eureka!' for before that none of them had received anything but wages from toil, 'How money could make money—how without any attention from me this mysterious golden visitor should come-led to much speculation. Iliad never received anything before for nothing as it were," To a thorough-going Socialist that scene in the Pennsylvania forest makes a latter-day up todate companion picture to the "Temptation in Eden.'" Of his latter life Mr Stead says: "Mr Carnegie has been all round the world 'seeing things.' He has been in India, in Egypt, and knows more about the British Empire than most cf the men who are governing it. He has driven, or been driven, in a four-in-hand from Land's End, to Johno' Groats, and lias probably seen more of Britain and the Britons than any of our Home Secretaries."

Travel l>y land and sea that brings him easily and rapidly to the centre of human interest is set down as the chief outdoor amusement of Mr Carnegie. Mr Car: egie is said frankly to pieter his estate a Skibo to the Celestial City; "He revels in the glimpses of moor and sky and the blue firth. He loves his trees and his gardens, It is not exactly the delight of the poet in the beauty of nature, who in ecstacy declares, 'My Father made ihem all.' Mr Carnegie feels that, no doubt, but it is a comfort to him' to reflect that, if God made them, Andy Carnegie helped to mind them," He never smokes. |No one lut ajduke or a king is allowed to smoke in Skibo Castle. He neither plays cricket nor football; he does not hunt. He provides grouse-shooting only for his guests, He drives, he walks, he golfs, he fishes, Such are his outdoor amusements. , Sbibo is a great openair toy, with which he is never tired oi playing."