The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-21
ANDREW CARNEGIE AT sKIBo.
How the Millionaire Plays the Laird fir
 His Highland Castle.

a bv the warmth with which he recip- l rocates it. I was walking one Sunday
 afternoon in a party that included baronet, an ex-cabinet minister and the i head of a great university. A crofter's son took of his hat to Mir Carnegie. The laird at once left his company,
 went over to the youth, chatted genial Nv with him for nearly five minutes, and when he reioined us gave us the whole history of the boys family and launched into an ardent eulogy of his talent for wood-earving. It is not only
 because MT. Carnegie has enormously improved his estate and all who live on
 1t by employing them in drainage workss, fencing, building roads and se on. that the people love him; 1t is that they feel him one of themselves, per lfectIy accessible and genuinely inter- ested in all their doings. He has the happy knack, wherever he goes, of att l tracting by the power of sympathy, heartily given out and heartily return-
 ed. He is. interested in others because
 he is interested in himself and takes a
 quietly complacent satisfaction in all 1 he does or says. MT. Carnegie has
 found the world Q thoroughly agreeable
 place and does not conceal his approval
 of it. He is pleased with himself, his friends and above all with Skibo; and
 his pleasure is totally free from vanity.
 have have known him to stand for
 half an hour pointing out to guests the ] Improvements he has already made in the estate and those he intends making,
 and tracing on the gravel his plan for forming a loch here and building dam there to perfect the fishing Fishing and golf are the hobbies of his life. He I has his own golf course laid out on the Skibo estate, and within the last few years has built Wto elaborate salmon and trount hatcheries. Billiards he plays. but only occasionally. Cards I l have never seen him touch, though
 believe whist may be included among his pastimes. He never shoots, but
 those of his guests who do are welcome to an admirable grouse moor and some lfrst1class deer stalking. MT. Carnegie
 keeps a private yacht, anchored almost at the foot of the castle, and from time to time takes a cruise on the firth, but I in the Cowes and L.archmont sense he | WOUQ td1lh tlo q y
 toring he hates, and his Is probably the l only great house in the United King dom where no motor car is to be found. n the other hand, he keeps about 20 of the finest horses ever set eyes on, land a bewilding variety of carriages.
 But nothing will drag him from his al- Ilegiance to fishing and golf. Of his links I cannot speak from personal ex- ! perience, but the rivers and lochs that he either owns or rents furnish un- Iequaled sport.
 Skibo castle stands on Dornoch firth in Sutherlandshire, away. up in the ex- treme north of Scotland. The climate for some inexplicable reason is that ot a nortehrn Riviera, mild and bracing.
 The best of Highland scenery and there is none better-iles all round. The Ineighborhood is rich in history. and TO- Imanoce. Ten miles away stood Mac lbetl1's castle, with the woods of Dun- shane close by. From the terrace of Skibo one looks over a magnificent panorama of firth and blue hills and rocky streams and woodland, so wide and various that each moment fresh I beauties reveal themselves. If own led this place." said to MT. Carnegie
 one morning, just before he sailed for
 America. T should be. sorry to ex-
 change it for New York "Ah!" said l the laird with wistful tenderness, T Lust count the days till get back again The estate itself includes three or four villages and know not lhow many thousands of acres-some- where I should hazard between 40 and 60. The grounds imrnediately around l the castle are well laid out and boast some fine cedars and hollies and re- markedly good kitchen garden, but, on ] the whole, they will scarcely compare I with those of many an English estate.
 The castle, though, would hold it's own l with any modern residence. Most of lit is now and built to Mir. Carnegie's . orders, but parts of the old mansion < still remain the tower, for instance, from which floats a novel kind of flag or, rather, two flags in one-the Union l Jack on one side and the stars and stripes on the other Inside. while l there are naturally few of the curios
 and relics and famous pictures is in ad-
 mirable taste and the best of its kind, j and an atmosphere of restfulness and I homeyness' infects one the moment the I threshold is crossed. MT. Carnegie I keeps up the old Scotch customs and l has added to them one or two of his own. Every morning at 8 o'clock
 piper marches round the castle and in
 the evening plays through the dinner
 hour. His reveille lasts till 20 minutes
 past 8. Punctually at that moment he re-enters the castle; punctually at that
 moment the organists sits down to the
 organ in the hall; and guests who have
 risen to the wild skirIing of the pipes I descend to breakfast with t he saluta- l ton of the organin their ears. Break 4 fast at Skibo is meal that vigorously
 eiforces the equality of the sexes. No
 body is allowed to wait on anybody
 else; each forages for himself or herself ]. alone. If it is Sunday there is usual- l ly a post prandial stroll through the I grounds under Mrs. Carnegies guid- I ance, to inspect the model dairy, the poultry farm, the stables and the trees
 along Ambassadors Walk" each one of
 which has been planted by a duly ac- l credited ambassador. Then choice l between drive to church and doing as l one pleases at Skibo-Mr. Carnegie T