MR ANDREW CARNEGIE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12707, 9 March 1912, Page 4 (Supplement)

MR ANDREW CARNEGIE.

AMUSING PASSAGES WITH STEEL

TRUST COMMITTEE. HEW YORK, January 19. Mr Carnegie — "Merry Andrew" the newspapers , dub him — appeared to-day for the third; time to give his testimony before '.thej^tanley. Committee, which is investigating the operations of the' Steel Trust. : Qnoe more ; the members of. the committee and a< , fashionable audience were kept in a constant state of merriment by -the ; .quip3 and quirks of the Laird of . Skibo, who . refused to answer questions except in i his own way. i Throughout the, three: days Mr Carnegie ha» sat, alert and vivacious, parrying,- questions in a manner which more than, once has , caused . the questioners impatiently to exclaim: "Enough of this nonsense.". :?" Just wait a minute until . I ihav© finished my story," and one of M.j;< Carnegie's .favorite- means of evasion. Another was laok of memory. "Crafty as a crayfish" was the description given by one observer' of the iron-master. "You must not ask me questions beginning with- 'if/ " ■ Mr Carnegie more than oneo instructed the chairman, "because you know if the dog had- stopped it , would not .have caught the rabbit." Only ■ onoe- did ,th© millionaire show any embarrassment. That was after he had assured. the Committee that the. Sherman Law; was not. legal, because the Supreme Court/ had vnot" passed on it. "Do you pay-any attention to. the Ten^Commandments : retorted the chairman. "Becausej as far:as I know, they have never been passed on by the Supreme Court." Mr,< Carnegie looked thoughtful, while the audienca tittered , ; ; ; •, ■> *■■