New-York tribune., 1901-11-24
PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Jora AibemarIe.s presence In this city 10
recall the fact that 1t was one OF his ancestors the
third earl who captured Havana in 1852. and one OF
that peers grandsons still survives In the person
Of old Admiral Sir Henry Keppe who. hale and
hearty at the age of ninetythree, has just LEFT
England alone and unattended on little trip 10
Borneo While all the Keppes now living enjoy IN
a very marked degree the favor of the reignng
house the fourth earl an object OF particular
aversion TO the late Queen Victors' VINO on i Ies
his prerogative of Master OF the Horse,of riding IN
agl Was the only member Of the British House OF
Lords who possessed the dignity of cheftainship
IN a North American Indian tribe. under the name
OF white Caribou" given to him for his remarka-
ble heetness OF foot
Andrew Carnegie's office of lord rector OF
St Andrews University carries with II no emolu-
ments and does not involve any remuneration of
that American citizenship which he first acquired
! through his fathers naturalization. and subse-
quently confirmed through his own acquisition OF
as lord rector he presides over the Senate and gov
erning body of the university and IS essentially the
representative OF the students. since they alone
elect him trennay the professors ;os % ana osner
m NIB T9na G1 the rule the eecon is carried out
on political party lines and bitterly contested But
entire body OF students uniting to pay tribute to
the muniieence oI t te cotch seats Of lesrnng
A rev musical lion will soon be unleashed upon
this country. when Jan Kubelik. the young Bo-
heman violinst. is heard for the first tins in
Carnegie Hall. Only twenty years old, he has
already attained to such substantial popularity
that he refuses any single engagement for less
than $500 and 1t is said that the tour which he
is about to start-he will sail for New-York on
November Twill net him 100000
By all accounts he deserves at least portion OF
his phenomenal success. Born in a little village
near Prague. he had for father humble peasant.
who was also a fddler-just ordinary village
fiddler, who used to play at rustic feasts. This
father taught his boy to play; but the pupil soon
outstripped his master. The parent that the
fates had sent him genius To provide fitting
e ga to h e
Seveik. the famous trainer of geniuses for his
Starved himself But he was not destined to see see
the fruits of his unselhshness he died just before
the boy he had scraped and shaved for was able to
command the attention of the world. kubek's
eG and his far beyond that Of mos
A. the parties Ieat he attends he
lowed to carry his violin he has his own accom-
ing, unsophistocated person, and has not yet been
spd be ey hs ne IS s
When Ii Hung Chang was In New-York in 1895
he much impressed by the spendors OF the
Waldorf. in which he and his suite had rooms One
day he for the manager of the hotel and asked
him, with the engaging directness which charac-
sT.d ns amt w he COST e m his
When he had satisfied his curiosity In regard to
Mr.. Boldt Il want you to come back with me to
Ghna ,ogd nd bgd me m shrSes just b this d
celency wish to have such a hotel as this?" so
said Ii Hung Chang.
OF wiry build nervous activity, clean features
and intellectual face. Edward NJ. Shepard contrast
ed strikngly with the men who surrounded him
the recent campaign. Oddly enough, a long service
in Tammany Hall and elevation to the post of dis
trict leader seems to bring with 1t a fat jowl ro-
tund figure and phlegmatic countenance. When
Mr. Shepard walked into his headquarters in the
Hoffman House any afternoon in the course the
campaign he always found from to twenty dis
trict leaders there. Usually Richard Croker
alert characteristics, Mr.: Shepard almost uncon-
sciously reminded of animal tanner In the
cage with the animals. The big solid looking i'm
passive faced Tammany leaders watched him heav-
ily and had little to say. while Mr. Shepard ap-
peared to have his eye everything once. All
the animals seemed be watching the trainer and
the trainer, in turn, did not allow any animal to
get out of the range of his eye