New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-01
Personal NOTES.


Mr. Rudyard KipIing" says the Cane Tom.
correspondent of The London Chronicle 60
happily installed in his lovely D,+cb
house. Groot Schuur. 1t is a spotless white
cottage with small. cloistered court or atriun,
within. open to the solid blue sky. The view from
Blaauwberg barrier. with the white sands az
Muizenberg to the right and the circle of Table
Bay to the left. could scarcely be surpassed and
behind and almost imminent over the house rises
the shapeess mass of the Devils Peak The onII-
fragments of Kiplings great poem The Islanders
which had yet reached us were the phrases fan
nelled fools and muddied OATS but from this we
had managed to gather the general import OF the
verses; I found Mr. kiplng when called on him
the other day greatly interested in the question OF
military training. rifle ranges. etc. He had
Kept copy OF ms poem anQ fould renf f only
that he was very much in earnest upon the sub
he had established in nottingham and was yerg
proud Of its success. Mr. kipng.s poem has been
Mother Country
DIR. Edward Everett Hale Of Boston. who will
celebrate his eightieth birthday April s. per-
sists in refusing to be called a clergyman He
wishes to be designated only Christian min
ister."
I'VE have learned from His ExceTency the Min
lister of Foreign Affairs" says The japan Weekly
Advertiser" that the dispatch sent by him. as
president of the Harvard Club. inviting President
Eliot to visit Japan as the guest Of the club has
been acknowledges by the IaJteri VINO ersauy
regrets his inability to accept the invitation
London will be the principal guest at a dinner
party to be given in the Reform Club by Joseph
Walton, NJ. p, Wednesday, March IL
The Shah of Persia has many hobbies, among
these being the collection of cats Of all countries
He has perhaps. the most magnificent assortment
in the world, and when he travels the cats always
accOmDany him. They have special attendants,
who are paid large salaries for looking after them
The Rev. DR.. Joseph d. Newlin. rector Of the
Episcopal Church of the Incarnation. Philadel-
phia for forty-two years, has resigned on account
OF advanced age
Exeter, " H. Feb. 2S,-Edward Tuck, OF Paris.
who has announced that he Will build and rain
tain the free American Hospital in Paris, Is one
OF the wealthiest Americans in the French capital
He is a silent partner In the American banking
firm of Munroe & Co.
Mr.. Tuck was born in Exeter, but has lived IN
Paris for twenty-five years. He was formerly a
member of the banking house Of FOOte 4 French.
in Boston. Then he went New-YO Tk. where ne
became connected with Munroe & Co
Mr.. Tuck has given ILLEGALLY 70 the Exeter Cot
tage Hospital and other institutions OF his native
town, and to Hampton Academy. where his mother
went to school Within two years ne has given 10
Dartmouth College, trustee OF his father estate
500 90 found the Tuck school or Government
Amos Tuck. IA Their OF Edward Tuck, was a proni-
nent lawyer in Exeter, Congressman SIX years,
and later becoming interested in raircadlns, was
a promoter of the St Louis and san Francisco
road and in the Manhattan Beach Railroad