The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17


where DIR. White was stopping. ad-
Joined my office in Trafalgar Square.
Mr.. Choate had Just returned from
Skibo and reported the Laird in fine
form. King Edward had been stay
ing in the neighborhood and arrange
ments had been made for him to call.
He had done SO. and Mr.. Carnegie had
shown him over the castle. On the
way upstairs they were met by the
houseieeper, who would fain have
slipped by unnoticed. She reckoned
without his Majesty's an1iable host,
however, for her employer, heading
her of, formally presented her to the
King. who took the incident in good
, part. His Majesty seems drawn
toward men OF great wealth." Mr..
Choate remarked.
Mr.. Carnegie once showed me some
verses by that cratic California bard.
Joaquin Miller, in which he himself
"a. c. was extravagantly eulogized
at the expense OF the crowned heads of
Europe. He had shown the manu-
script to King Edward, he told me,
and had called his special attention TO
the lines referring disparagingly to
that sovereign's sacred person and to
his anointed nephew, the Kaiser. A
believer in the divine right of kings
might have expected such an act of
temerity to be punished by a thunder
bolt: but Jove did not see fit to inter-
vene.
Many years ago the wife OF the late
John Observation-Disclosures to France in
the days of Napoleon III.-asked me to
share her box at the Madison Square
Theatre, one evening, the other guests
being Mr.. Carnegie. the late Duke OF
Sutherland and tho Mrs. Blair who
was his travelling companion at the
time and became his wife when he was
free to marry again. During the per-
Torrance Mr.. Carnegie plucked my
sleeve and whispered, 1.-THE newspaper
boys would make much of this-the
author of Triumphant Democracy
hobnobbing with a Tory duke!" AT
supper, at Delmonico's later in the
evening. Mrs. Blair addressed Mr.. Car
negie and referred to him, only as the
Earl of Pittsburg."
Energetic and Fearless.
Save for the holders of exalted pub
lie office, Mr.. Carnegie was one of the
!
ing world. Obviously no one could build
up the colossal fortune he amassed-
even with the assistance of a protec-
tive tariff-and achieve so conspicu-
Gus a position in the new world and
the old, unless lowered with . vast
store OF physical and mental and spir.
itual energy. No wonder that this
should be accompanied by a consider.
able store OF self-assertiveness. II
would have been very remarkable Il
he had lacked this attribute. Mr.
: Rockefeller, for instance, must have nC
small share OF 1t, and doubtless showed
it TO the full in building up his grea'
business, though to the man in the
street he appears to-day as q rather
shy, smooth-spealdng old gentleman
disposed TO be very deprecatory of the
attention lavlshed upon him by press
and public. Mr.. Carnegie. on tn,
other hand, made no concealment O
his cocksure mental attitude. and wa
, in the habit of laying down the law
whether in public or private. He wa!
) full OF bounce-or, in still more mod
, ern slang, pep: and he stood in awe
, | OF nothing on earth, or in the sea, o.
. in the illimitable interstollar spaces.
I mentioned once to business asso
, ciate of his that heard he had beer
. deferred from building a week enc
cottage near tho st. Andrews gol
| links, In the outskirts of New York
: from apprehension that he might b.
; kidnapped some fine night. Don't yol
/, believe it." ne exclaimed. "AIr Carne
gle doesn't know what fear means"
: His Consciousness. as I have hear
the quality called when applied 4
others, was amusingly shown at al
, afternoon reception where a girl 81
! her teens was presented mot stimuli
9 taneously) to him and his former chic