New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-27
lighted the heart OF one of the convalescent pa

lighted the heart or one Of the convaIescent pa
tents
After the relief he returned to Cape Colony and
i"'er revisited London. While there last year
purchased for about 100000 the Dalham Han
estate. near Newmarket with a residence built In
Ilo4 by Bishop Ely and 2 40 acres Of fine shooting
Inc DaIham estate had been for TWO centuries in
me possession of the Ahisck family. and the
residence OF Sir Robert Afiock.
Mr.. Rhodes had a fine home in Cape Colony az
Hondehoscb near Cape Town. He was never mar.
NED and has been credited with being woman
Halter.
METHODS OF RECREATION.
or his own recreauons Mr. Rhodes once wrote:
Kept the drag at oxford; rides daily for two
hours at 6 m; reads chiefly the classics. OF
which he has a fine collection with a separate
library Of typewriter TRANSACTIONS executed spe-
clally for him; Froude and Carlyle he admires uni
versally; favorite reading biography and history:
knows GibbOn almost by heart; favOrite work OF
fiction, Vanity Fair which he admres more than
any single work in literature; collects old furniture
china and CuriOs generally, with preference for
anything Dutch; has Sir Joshua Reynolds; fond
Of nearly all old fashions fond OF old things, par
ucularly Of old oak chests, goes in greatly for
gardening especially culture; good pyramid
player; fair shot; has a menagerie Table
Mountain: visits his lions there every day when he
can; his zebras ostriches and bucks Of all kinds
not Gagged but run wild in huge inclosed tracts Of
the mountainside"
a cable dispatch said Of Mr.. Rhodes on the occa-
sion Of his visit 70 London in 1899:
Great Britain shake TO its foundations
whenever Cecil Rhodes steps foot on the island
He IS the biggest man in the kingdom to-day.
Peers, Cabinet ministers. promoters with Mum
chauSen schemes. duChesSeS craving FOR tips on
'kattirs' South African securitieS), workmen who
cherish dreams OF emigration and bishops SOhctouS
for African souls haunt his hotel and beg for even
the briefest interviews. though he had already
realized his aspiration. The popular mind credits
him with being the pOtentate of the African Con-
tlnent An inCOnsderate newspaper has described
how Mr.. Rhodes his meals to the aCCOmpan-
OF business. dismissed a couple OF mliOuares
while ne cracked an egg. Soll mines over MS pttA-
steak and ate oatmeal while organizing COM
! pauy two. II was therefore suggested that the
breakfast hour the SUreSt time to him, and
the result is that while h. breakfasts his score
tares repcl the invasion Of mObs of tmportunate
spectators
RhOdeS's scheme for government guarantees OF
the Cape TO Cairo railroad and telegraph. Mr.
Rhodes afterward conferred with Joseph Chamber
lain the Secretary Of State for the Colonies. and
Sir Michael HiCks-Bea the Chancellor of the
EXCheQuer. Mr. Rhodes says fl0.o0ofn0 will cover
the entire OF the work and there is little doubt
that he will carry his point with the government
fore the projectors IN the matter there will
be a formalty in the shape Of parliamentary bill,
hUt the ImpeTiaSts may be backed TO drive over
the so-Caled Little EnElanders' who prepar-
ing opposition to the scheme declaring that the
Rh0desian empire IS making FOR gigantic aascO,
him OF a hole by throwing good money after
bad into a railroad through a wilderness. They
also find coincidence fl Mr.. Rhodess Homecoming
and the revival ot newspaper OutbuTsis against the
oppression Of British subjects in the Ira-svoal by
the Beers"