The age-herald., 1898-02-20
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 You might not suspect it from his re- cent achievements, but Carter H. Harrison, the reigning mayor of Chicago, whose mo- tions of personal liberty, practically wrought out, have made Chicago the shame of America as municipality, is a lover of books and owns a library of be- tween 5000 and 4000 volumes, of which many are German and many are French
 From this you might guess that he is something of a linguist, and the guess would be correct. He is also an amateur chemist a successful fisherman, a notable hunter and an enthusiastic wheelman. In fact, to use the language of one of his friends, he has ''as many fads as a semn- ary girl.''
 In figure and face he is comedy. He is of middle size standing 5 feet 81a inches in his shoes and balancing penny-in-the- machines at 165 pounds. His features are regular, his complexion is free from blem- ishes, his eyes are clear and he slaves clean with the exception of mustache, which he trains in romantic curves. He parts his hair in the middle and trains it also to look sweet. He is 3S years old.
 Friends Among the Great
 He never attended plain American pQDnC SCHOOL when a DOy ne dnu lne other Harrison children were taken by their mother to Germany, where Carter and his brother entered the Heidelberg gymnasium. For some reason the boys did not fancy Heidelberg over much, and after ten months stay there the family mi grated, travelling for a summer through Southern France, the Tyrol and Switzer- land, after which the boys entered the gymnasium at Altenburg.
 While there he was a school fellow of a number of juvenile royalties, and other youngsters of notable lineage and between him and the young Prince of Saxony a genuine close friendship sprang up. Later. as son of the mayor, while the worlds fair was on, he made the acquaintance Of many other of the worlds great folk, among them the Duke of Veragua, the Marquis of Barboles, Eulalia, the Spanish Infanta, and Porfirio Diaz, the president of Mexico. It is not claimed, however, that he imbibed the notions on which the pres- ent administration of Chicago Is based from any of these famous personages.
 Law, Real Estate, Journalism
 After finishing at Altenburg he prepared for college in a Chicago Jesuit school, after which he went through Yale and later studied law and was admitted. His prac- tive never amounted to much, however, and when his father was made worlds flair mayor young Carter H. took over the fa- ther's real estate business, and, with his brother, William Preston Harrison, carried it on till the old man bought the Chicago Times.
 Their conduct of the paper was terror to many in Chicago. It had a circulation of perhaps 10000 when they took 1t, but they supported the Pullman strike, cut the price to a. cent and raised the sales to 800O0 a day. They thought they had a cinch on Chicago journalism then, but they must have been wrong, for they were afterward glad enough to sell out, and the paper is now merged with the Chicago Herald un- der the title of the Chicago Times-Her- ald.
 When they began with the Times young Carter took the chair of managing editor and his brother was made business mana ger. After a week two-perhaps a month-each was dissatisfied with his job, and they changed places. Perhaps the resulting. eccentrcities of management both upstairs and downstairs had some- thing to do with their ultimate abandon ment of the publishing business.
 Monkeying With Explosives
 Carter H. Harrison's chemical invcsti- gations were mostly conducted when he was q boy. His den used to be in the cupola of the family residence, and he took great delight in monkeying with explosives and compounds of fearful smell
 Once a friend of the family. who was passing the house, was mortified by the sound of mufTled detonaton, the crash of glass and the spllntering of wood. Glanc- ing upward, he saw that the cupola was badly wrecked, while volumes of black smoke wero pouring from. the paneless sashes. At the same time the vilest odor imaginable saluted his nose. and In a mo- ment young Harrison. smudged in the face