Show THEIR METHODS OF RECREA TION Manner in Which the World’s Great Workers Relieve the Strain of Their Lives by Play HEAR much of the work done by typically Amerisuccessful little and cans about their play It has been said many times that AmeriThat cans do not know how to play dependB on Just what you mean by vnusement recreation sport or whatever you call It Some men do not know how to use any attractive form of amusement in such a way as to keep thefr vitality at its best They go to pieces and the hole they leave is promptly filled But most of our really great Americans have some ways of enjoying themselves that are every bit as characteristic as their ways of working writes E S Merrlam in the Chicago Tribune Moreover most of their favorite recreations are followed as strenuously as their work Perhaps that is a In virtue Perhaps it is a failing either event it is a fact and facts about the men who are doing the conspicuous work of this present day are worth knowing Andrew Carnegie with all his Scotch shrewdness has a deal of Scotch sentiment also packed away somewhere in his frame One outlet for it has been giving to other people the books his own poverty stricken boyhood was hungry for Another outlet is giving himself a chance to play golf the Scottish game of which the lad of 50 years ago could hardly dream on three dollars a week He has built himself a $30000 lodge of his own at the St Andrews golf links because as he explained he never could get a chance at the fireplace in the WE strenuous ohn D Roekiftlltn Moil of Hit Jpendt Tim Grover Cleveland in his time probahas been more roundly abused than almost any other American citizen for following his natural bent in tbe matter of recreation During his two terms in the White House there were no terms too strong for his critics to use with reference to his custom of spending vacations with a fishing rod or a gun in his hands He calmly let the critics have their in say like the philosophic the old story who was asked why he let his shrewish little wife beat him ‘‘Oh well” the husband is said to have explained ‘‘it amuses her and it he took doesn’t hurt me!” Indeed calm pleasure in agreeing to a certain extent with the critics The charge that he was ‘‘willing to associate w'itb any loafer who was the owner of a dog and a gun" he genially declared "too nearly true to be denied" but that was only his way of proving the critics all wrong His loafing had system and purpose in it as the fish in Buzzard's bay and the ducks at South island learned to their bly excellent table and a billiard room has been reckoned one of the main essentials of the country home he is The ex building over in Connecticut pert playing for which he is famous does not come all by Itself like his in lmltable flashes of wit It is the result of an immense amount of practice He puts in hours of time and miles of travel around the fascinating green level of his favorite table Cornelius Vanderbilt is prouder of being rear commodore of the New York Yacht club than of any other in his long list of business and social He has a positive passion for honors the water as if the spirit of his seafaring ancestor the first Cornelius of a hundred years ago still were living in his own distinctly modern person While he owns various racing boats he actually lives for several months every year on his steam yacht North Star and entertains his friends there as he might on his country estate Some years he makes long cruises the North Star is good for any ocean Sohietlmes he sticks dloser voyage to the vicinity of New York and mere ly ruts out thirty or forty miles to spend the night at anchor oft some Long Island village Philosophers may decide at their leisure whether these typical Americans are great because they know how to “play while they play" or whether they take their recreation strenuously just because they are great cost Cleveland with Rod and Gun Few sportsmen in the whole country could boast such a record as he has made over and over again As to the "loafers” ‘ whose companionship gave our greatest delight they were fellow guests at the hospitable bungalow of his old friend Gen Alexander at South island down on When Gen the South Carolina coast Alexander got Grover Cleveland Admiral "Bob” Evans Commodore Benedict and Rear Admiral Lamberton all together these fine giants of executive ability were boys again in the utter on lit general clubhouse and his guests find no reason to sigh for the larger crowd Carnegie and His Golfing Friends President Pritchett of Carnegie institute and Horace White the great authority on finance and banking are two of his golfing friends who are often seen on the links Each man of the trio plays a good game but it is the veteran ironmaster who goes into vim it with the greatest Rainy weather rather delights than discourages him — the harder the conditions the more fun getting the better of them In winter he plays on the snow using red balls He takes a hazard with precisely the same foresight that he would give to an move in steel and he makes a drive with precisely that grim determination which sent his personal income from $120 per week to considerably more than $120 per minute do he gets out of a spin over the Jerof sey roads Just the refreshment mind and body that he needs in order to add a few more to the 800 or 900 important patents already recorded to America’s credit under his own name Newlands Playe with Grandchildren Senator Newlands of Nevada whose executive genius for construction has shown itself strong enough to balance destructive forces of earthquake and fire in San Francisco has still another kind of hobby in the way of recreation He "farms It" at a fine old country seat just outside of Washington raises horses trains his dogs and best of all plays in the Jolllest fashion with a brood of charming grandchildren To any one who ever had the privilege of surprising him in the utter abandon of a game of romps with those little folks it is a revelation of the secret of youth He does not merely look on and beam benignly while the youngsters frolic — he goes into the frolic himself in a way which is not always good for his clothes but is most excellent for his digestion and his Judgment J Pierpont Morgan rests from the terrific strain of huge undertakings in finance by studying art and collecting paintings sculptures rare textiles gems wmod carvings master pieces of craftsmanship in metal work of various kinds Of course he secures expert Judgment to help him In making decisive selections but he has per- uoif Link conventions freedom from official Naval officers of all men on earth (or water) are the greatest sticklers for formality but out there in the Carolina salt marshes Admiral Evans with hip boots and an old cap can drink champagne with relish from an old tomato can and sigh no sighs for any banquet hall Thomas A Edison the man whose creative brain has practically made modern civilization leap a century or two ahead is not one of those who enHis joy active physical exertion strolls about his beautiful estate in New Jersey are leisurely affairs When asked about his favorite amusement he confesses it to be "monkeying in the laboratory” and the only game he cares for is the mild device for domestic entertainment known as parchesl But he Is an automobillst and without losing his head over the sport as so many men of small caliber seem to sonally grown into an art critic of no small ability and they say he takes quite as keen pride in his own underand standing of artistic principles methods as in the bare fact of possessing a museum worthy the respectful admiration of Queen Alexandra and the dowager empress of Russia Wall Street Magnates Play Cards Now and then men are found whose recreations run along in lines curiously parallel with their serious work This is especially true of some large operators in Wall street whose leisure is largely spent over card games where the shrewdest foresight or the biggest powers of bluff or both can be exercised John W Gates who made his immense fortune mainly by big deals In iron steel and railways not only is devoted to games of chance including roulette but has a veritable pas sion for betting on all conceivable and some inconceivable situations He plays the races and enjoys it whatever the result to his pocket Out for a stroll he will bet on anything he sees — perhaps on the number of minutes that will elapse before the sun goes down an X that it will be out of sight within 14 minutes One day on a steamer’s deck during a southern cruise' Gates and a crony of his spent an hour and what many a New York factory operative would consider a fortune betting how many flying fish would be seen In the next school that appeared Mark Twain a Biliiard Expert The most widely known American author our old friend Mark Twain finds particularly keen delight in billHis New York home has an iards Harold McCormick Tennis Champion of Harold F McCormick John D Rockefeller and one of the officials of the International Harvester Company is an enthusiastic tennis Years ago he and his brother player Stanley entered the western tournament and won the doubles championHe played a ship without trouble strong steady game and his drives had more speed in them than had been seen on a western court until the McCormick brawn swung the racket He played not only a fast game but what is known in the tennis world as a "heady” game Mr McCormick placed the ball with remarkable accuracy and managed to hit the side lines whenever he needed to capture a point When the McCormick brothers entered the tournament everybody was amused but when they easily took the championship mug into camp the old tennis cracks awoke to a realization that the McCormicks had made as careful a study of the game as they since have made of the harvester business Arthur Meeker enjoys life most when he is in his model dairy out in Lake Forest Running the dairy is play and work at the same time for It is his hobby and he Mr Meeker likes nothing better than looking after his cows Frank O Lowden’s farm at Oregon is his playground and he says he has more fun playing the role of stock breeder than his business associates can possibly find on the golf links The Forgans go in for golf but John J Mitchell and William J Chalmers like yachting on Lake Geneva better than any other sport MOW i WAITS III VAIN FOR SUITOR t LIVES IN STATE OF SIEGE WHI £ SUING MAN WHO WON HER HEART EIGHT YEARS AGO- -r ' t WOOED BUT WOULD NOT WED In Turn She Is Being Sued by Her Family for Rocky Acres Left Father — Still Loves by Faithless Man Own Montville Conn — Alone in the bungalow on her six acres of cedar grove hillside Myra Church Costello the most beautiful brunette in the Valley of the Thames awaits the outcome of her suit for a paltry $5000 recompense for a broken heart and eight years of waiting for him who woed and won but would not wed She is also defending herself against her own mother and four sisters who live in the big family homestead at the foot of the hill and who would break her father’s will by which she inherited her stony pasture land For 20 years she was the belle of the valley and no dance or husking between Norwich and New London was a real success in the eyes of the men unless she was there She won a husband when she was 22 She became a widow at 23 and again the young men of the valley Bought her But now at 38 but still beautiful she’s a recluse reading ber Bible by night and gazing down the valley through her spyglass by day because Samuel Darrow to whom she plighted her troth eight years ago wpuld not let her name the day Darrow is a railroad agent at New London He is six feet two inches tall looks like a Gibson picture come to life and is an heir to much real estate Just why such a handsome man should Jilt such an attractive woman after Jealously guarding her from all other aspirants all these years is the problem that every village store parliament and every sewing society in the valley is trying to solve It is a romance merely to call on' Mrs Costello even if you are not engaged to her or being sued by her She Keeps Vigil with a Spyglass side the Drawbridge Be- She is in a state of siege in her little castle on the hill because she Is being sued as well as suing Of all the folks Jb Montville and the near-bvillage her own folks alone are giving com fort to the handsome enemy in New London The family trouble antedates the lover’s abandonment Joseph Church father of Myra who was of a long line of prosperous farmers found his home unhappy four years ago sc he built himself a shack on the other side of his pond and there lived the life of a hermit on his own farm and within sight and sound of his family That little pond was as wide as the Atlantic and Pacific combined for the farmer ‘and his women folk But last fall the old man was not seen on his side of the pond for several days The women were indifferent-all but Myra She went around to the shack and found father stricken with paralysis She forgot the family row and stayed to care for him till he died last December He gave her the land in his will The sisters want to take it away from her That is why it is romantic to visit the widow A brook divides her domain from her mother's and there is a drawbridge over the brook Everyone who comes is scrutinized by the wpman on the hill before she comes down to drop the bridge and bid him welcome She uses the same old spyglass through which she used to watch for tha coming of Samuel Darrow Mrs Costello was hospitable the other day when a reporter called and led him up the hill to her tiny castle hr |