The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-12
Mr.. CARNEGIE home AGAIN.
SOUND As 4 PISTON ron. M SAYS
nut NE IOOkS OLDER.
Deplores SOft.tOal smoke IIcre-Praiscs
Roosevelt and knoN and Regrets the
Loss Of Reed Advises Youths Ia Keep
Your Eyes on Young Nanderbilt"-Wii
Give His Mansion To Ills Little Daughter

Give His Mansion TO Ills Little Daughter
Andrew Carnegie, with Mrs.. Carnegie and
their daughter Margaret. arrived yesterday
on the Oceanic after fix months stay
abroad. They drove from the pier To Mr.
Carnegie's Manhattan Skibo. the new palace
surrounded by it's gardens and arbors at
Fifth avenue and Nineteen street.
Mr.. Carnegie admitted yesterday that
this fine mansion is To be his Christmas
gift TO his daughter Margaret |, was his
desire that she should be the first person to
enter the house after the builders had got
through. That programme was carried
out yesterday
The little girl skipped ahead of the rest
ofthe family after they had left the carriage.
and when within the great bronze doors
turned and welcomed her father and mother
10 the new home with hug and a ks. for
each One Of her first trips will be TO The
Bronx to see the shaggy lion that III" gave
10 the New YORK biological Park and which
arrived several weeks ago.
Mr.. Carnegie seemed delighted to get
home. He declared that he was thoroughly
well in spite of his recent illness. He was
accompanied on the voyage by DR.. Joseph
Carmony, an English physician.
pier. however, were not 30 sure that he was
as well a. when they saw him last. To
them he seemed TO have aged and to need
a longer rest than he could get in week
of rough voyaging. In walking from the
gangplank TO his carriage the veteran IRON
master leaned on the arm of Mrs Carnegie
But nobody had any doubt about his
cheerfuncss or his pleasure in getting
back to New York. He gave the news
paper men ten minutes talk or more and
would have prolonged the interview IL
Mrs. Carnegie and the doctor had not in
sisted on his starting for home.
OF course the first question was as to
Mr.. Carnegie's health.
why" he said with laugh. -I'm as
fit a. brand new piston rod and az solid
as a rock. The doctors In London told
me that l ought to postpone my trip home
on account Of my illness--my recent i'll
ness l mean--but / knew better. knew
that a sea voyage would do me more good
than anything else; and IL has | am as
happy and as healthy az a lark. and the sea
has made me But was pretty sick"
The illness which Mr.. Carnegie referred
to, and which has been told about in the
newspapers, was caused by something he
ate al CaIN, Switzerland
After declaring bill Of perfect health
for himself, Mr.. Carnegie changed the
subject and began 10 ask quest ions The
first one was How is the coal supply?"
When told that there was a shortage he
said:
i am very sorry for that I am also
awfully sorry 10 Sac that bituninous
coal is being extensively used in New York.
There Is no city In the world as clean as
New York, Paris II not. nett her is Vienna,
nor any Of the foreign cities. l am very
proud OF New York. The press ought to
support vigorous measures to preserve
the purity of the Empire City-please make
that atmospheric purity; there is no ques-
ton about her moral purity.
Il shall always champion the cause Of
pure air, and especially pure air in New
York, my home. IL has always been so
and am anxious TO keep il so. There |
ought to b., legislation to prevent the Use |
Of soft coal, and the old law should he en- |
forced as soon az practicable. | do not |
mean Immediately, because if We cannot get
the miners TO work We must endure the
evil
Il lived in Pit,sburg twenty wears. and
want to say know what a curse soft coal
il. In London there are stringent anti
smoke laws, but | lay there two weeks
and never once saw the sun"
Mr.. Carnegie said the only cloud to mar
the pleasure of his homecoming was the
news of ex-Speaker Reeds death
Il cannot tell you," he said, "how badly
] felt when we learned aboard the ship
that poor Tom Reed was dead. knew him
n great many wear. and loved and admiral
The man"
Then Mr. Carnegie wanted 10 know how
Corn.liIs yanderhiit wns getting ,In,o, In
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