The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-30
From the New York Herald.


 N NDREw CARNEGIE is wakened \P0 every morning by music. Just as
 ' the clock strikes eight each day the first notes of Lead, Kindly Light, U or "Silent Night" his two favorites, roll ont of the pipes of an immense organ in his home in Fifth avenue, rousing the steel king for the day, and starting the machinery of the household to work.
 Whether Mir Carnegie wakens when the first bars are played, or whether he IS gradually reused from slumber depends he says, on how tired he is. At any rate he believes in being brought back to con- seiousness by the music of some hymn he loves. SO that his first thoughts will be restful. soothing and give him inspiration for the day. Frequently he will lie quietly in bed the entire hour while the musician plays sacred music, Wagner operas and Scotch ballads. or, if he feels particular ly energetic, after enjoying the music for a few moments he has bath and eaes down to breakfast before the hour of music is over
 When living in his castle at Skibo, Scot land. he is awakened fifteen minutes earlier each day by music, but not by the organ, for three musicians with bagpipes stand under his window and sklrl bal lads that he likes to hear. At o'clock they depart with native air, which the organist takes up and works into the hymns of which Mir Carnegie is so pas sonately fond.
 This daily musicale is, of course, for the special benefit of MT. Carnegie but when abroad every Sunday afternoon his family and servants are all called into the music room and for an hour the organist plays hymns. which the maids and men sing, if they care to. While in the city these concerts are omitted, for the master of the house goes to church, where he hears music he craves, and the servants have the same privilege.
 The instrument in his Fifth avenue house Is played by Walter c. Gale, organ ist of the Broadway Tabernacle, Broad way and Flfty-sixth street, every morn ing. Sunday included and for the last four years he has wakened MT. Carnegie daily by playing hymns. He rolls out his favorites until word is sent him that sleep is over. and then breaks into a stately old march, a Chopin sonata, the ''Even- ing Star, from "Tannhauser' or even a dltty for which MT. Carnegie has ex- pressed a liking. If selection does not fit in with the great mans mood. he sometimes sends down a request for a certain style of composition. and with It, as a keynote, MT. Gale knows what is desired for the rest of the hour
 As a surprise for Christmas and token of his respect for the man, MT. Gale and the Tabernacle choir went to MT. Car negie's home last Sunday afternoon and sang for two hours. To make the surprise complete Mrs Carnegie was taken into the plans and got the choir, thirty In all. into the dining room and they began to sing Silent Night before the master of the household knew of their presence
 Resting quietly in an arm chalr' he sat LID quickly, every nerve full of en- ergv. as the first bar of the hymn he loves fioated through the big rooms. As If petrified he waited until he could place the direction from which the singing came and then softly. with bowed head he made his way to the dining room and waited in corner until they had finished. They sang ten hymns and Christ mas "a rrre to his delight and when they