pple
with successfully. He seemed endowed with boundless energy, and his
interest in his work was unceasing."

Others who knew him well during this important period of his career
testify in the like manner.

"Diligent to the point of strenuousness," wrote one of them, "thinking
whilst others slept, reading while others played, through sheer toil and
ability he made for himself a position that few of his years attain";
and then the writer, whose ideal of life is character, notes approvingly
and justly that Andrews worked not as a hireling, but in the spirit of
an artist whose work must satisfy his own exacting conscience.

Those boundless energies soon were given wider scope. Early in 1907 the
_Adriatic_ was finished, and in March of that same year he was made a
Managing Director of the Firm, the Right Hon. A. M. Carlisle being at
this time Chairman of the Board. Everyone knows, or can judge for
himself, what were the duties of this new position--this additional
position, rather, for he still remained Chief of the Designing
department--and what, in such a huge and complicated concern as the
Island works, the duties involved. Briefly we may summarise them.

A knowledge of its fifty-three branches equal to that of any of the
fifty-three men in charge of them; the supervising these, combining and
managing them so that all might, smoothly and efficiently, work to the
one great end assigned, the keeping abreast with the latest devices in
labour-saving appliances, with the newest means of securing economical
fitness, with the most modern discoveries in electrical, mechanical and
marine engineering--in short, everything relative to the construction and
equipment of modern steamships; and in addition all the numerous and
delicate duties devolving upon him as Lord Pirrie's Assistant.
Furthermore, the many voyages of discovery, so to speak, which he made
as representative of the Firm, thereby, we are told by one with whom he
sailed often, "gaining a knowledge of sea life and the art of working a
ship unequalled in my experience by anyone not by profession a
seafarer"; and, lastly, his many inspections of, and elaborate reports
upon, ships and business works, together with his survey, at Lord
Pirrie's instance, of the Harbours of Ireland, Canada, Germany, and
elsewhere.

It seems a giant's task. Even to us poor humdrum mortals, toiling meanly
on office stools at our twopenny enterprises, it seems more than a
giant's task. Yet