MR CARNEGIE'S "CHIRPINESS."
Mr Stead has a paper in the "Young Man" on Mr Carnegie, whom he describes ue "one of the pleasantest, jdlliest, and mast good-natured of mortals' , : —"He is in his sixty-sixth year, and lie ie as keen us if he were a lad of seventeen in all simple, healthy, and natural amusemente. Hβ lias kept hie youth extraordinarily ■well; there is a robust boyiahnese about him which is very remarkable for a pereon of h,is years. The possession of tb* enormous fortune, -which he accumulated in the course of a lifetime at the rate of about a million a year, does not weigh him down in tho least. 'Uueaey lies the head that wears a crown' does not apply to this uncrowned moderning of the modern world. He is as chirpy as a cock-sparrow, and seems to feel the weight of his responsibilities no more than if he were a bird." "That," adds Mr Stead, "is the man as I know him. There may be, probably there is, another side, but I have sever come across it.".
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11508, 14 February 1903, Page 7
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180MR CARNEGIE'S "CHIRPINESS." Press, Volume LX, Issue 11508, 14 February 1903, Page 7
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