Sir William Arrol, who has been denouncing the "gross waste of money" spent by spectators at football matcheshe estimates it as £10,000 every Saturday afternoon during the winter season one of the most remarkable of the self-made and self-taught men who hail from North of the Tweed. Sir William started life in a cotton mill when he was 11 years old, but the work did not suit him at all. " I wanted an easier life," he said later, " and so I went to work for a blacksmith in Paisley." And there the clang of the anvil and the sight of the sparks inspired him with that love of engineering which was destined to make him become the world's greatest bridge-builder.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14145, 21 August 1909, Page 5 (Supplement)
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120Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14145, 21 August 1909, Page 5 (Supplement)
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