Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-26

terview. land If you make the cranes go. I
| shall be much pleased"
A month later the chemist again obtained
| audience with Mr.. Carnegie.
They are all working" he said
| Ioday the man is living in Germany
| where he is running a vineyard He bought
| II with part of the quarter of a million dol.
iars-the cost of the cranes-that Mr. Car.
negie allotted him of the stock of the Car.
negie Steel Company
His Two Hobbies,
rev people know that Mr. Carnegie rides
with much enthusiasm two other hohbies
besides that of donating libraries These
are coaching trips and music
Mr. Carnegie is surprised that the former
OF these two hobbies has so few deyotees
why should men Of means he argues
M.esue WIN porters over luggage and SUBJ
mt 10 railway time and risks so long as it
IS possible to travel in the open air dodge
the ioW-hanging boughs of trees and re-
member only that time is made for slaves
w men ne Is met with the rejoinder that
All men are not so fortunate as to own a
coach, his reply is One can readily be
rented" Nv
indeed. the first coaching trip that Mr..
"a u i'l MADE was with rented vehicle
ana horses 1t was taken through the coun
y OF Kent. England. Mr. Carnegie was en-
chdnted with the broad fine roads tha
qudiht INNS, and what he termed the har-
irony OF TINS mode of travel He determined
70 purchase a coach. and since then he has
taken his pleasure trips in no other Wv
MI carnegie has been twice on h $ coach
through the picturesque county of Devon
sure 81 Almost every year that he is abroad
ne invites a party to travel with him on
ms coaching trips. Usually these parties
are made up of six or eight persons
ne cost or getting about in this way
ne mas inquired out, is no greater than that
OF the usual tirst-class travelling For each
person 1t averages about $40 a ,iay
Music of the highly classical order ia
likewise IL Keen passion with Mr. Carneeis
ne hafdly ever goes to grand opera but he
is almost uRfailingly to he seen in his box
AT the concerts of the Boston SYMPHONY
society in New York city and those of the
Philharmonic Society. He listens with rant
attention to the most difficult passages
which he afterward applauds or treats with
silent diSapproyaI
He has in his New York home a fine NIL
Sic room. which holds the largest organ that
can be used In "A private house He also
mas there an instrument that is PLAYED by
pulling out stops and by an electrical at
tachment and which is designed to give tho
music of a full orchestra. Its mechanical
working is simple. and Mr.. Carnege
amuses himself by the hour playing the
themes and compos tons of his favorite
composers. This instrument was built ex-
pressly for him at a cost of $1,000
Small in Stature Only.
1t is peculiar fact that the four men
VINO have taken the leading part In the
latter day development of the steel indus
try of America are small in stature They
are the giant dwarfs of steel Mr. Carne-
gle Is only few inches above five feet In
height Henry w. Phipps. his old partner,
Is not an inch taller and John Walker. the
other member of the trio who revolution
lied the manufacture of steel has perhaps
a little the better of both Carnegie and
Phipps- AS for Henry c. Frick his head
would just about reach to the shoulder of
a man of ordinary height
1T is said that day when these four
steel masters We're walking toget her on the
streets of PittSburg an irreverent bootblack
called out to his business rival farther
down the block, as the miilionaries passed:
Eth. Jimmy, git onto der runts!'