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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 43, 22 October 1903, Page 6

The cable news received recently relative to the benefactions of Mr. Charles Schwab, the ex-president of the United States Steel Association, gives point to the following personal paragraph which appeared in a recent issue of an Americqn Catholic paper : Mr. Schwab never had about him, even in his most puissant days, any of tiie arbitrary and domineering manner, or even the brusquerie, generally associated with kings of commerce. He is atrable, sympathetic, and gentle, and has always been thoroughly democratic in his relations with his workpeople. About the time of his 40th birthday he was introduced by Sir Ihomas Lipton to King Edward at Marlborough House, with whom he had an audience lasting half an hour. As a boy he was the chief joker of Ins village school. One day iiis master, a great geologist, got each boy to bring a specimen of uncommon stone to class, promising to describe them severally. Taking the samples from the table one by one, the pedagogue said—' This is a piece of feldspar from the cross-roads. This is a piece of marl from the meadow. This is a piece of argillaceous sandstone from the quarry. And this '—he paused, and glared at the unexpected contribution of a common or garden half-briek — ' and this is a piece of outrageous impertinence from Charles Schwab.'

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