New-York tribune., 1902-06-12
PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Senator John Kean, OF Sew-Jersey, has become
known 10 Washington restaurateurs as one who
likes good eating. a little while ago he sought
out popular resort noted for its cooking and
especially for the variety and excellence OF its
methods in serving UP oysters. To the waiter he
unburdened himself thus: I want you 20 tell the
chef to take a dozen oysters and put them on
napktn to dry Then tell him TO take some cream
and put it on to boil. When IL boiIs Ie- him drop
the oysters in the dish and let them stay there
until they curl up at the edges Then / want
the oysters taken out and served in a napkin
Now you tell the chef to do exactly as ! tod
waiter went pack &c the Speaking tube and called
up the chef "One stew was all that passed
down the pips.
E B Ivan Muller tells this story Of one of The
great figures Of the day in Lord Milner and
South Africa:
.sI have found the right man for South Africa"
said Mr.. Chamberlain 20 Lord Salisbury one day
early 1897.
so have II replied the Prime Minister
Mr Chamberlain. somewhat taken aoack Sald:
MY man is Sir Alfred Miner
$50 is mine answered Lord Salisbury.
Commenting upon Lord Miners conference with
Presiden. kruger at Bloemfontein, before the war'
J. a. Hohson SAYS:
Instead of bombarding the old man with d!s-
play of oticiaHsn, and seeking TO wrest from nm
admissions by dint of academic argument, Rhodes
would have said to his 4StaGhSs alta les og sv Az ySt ss
down by the fire lighting cigarettes while The OLD
talked talk over things for couple Of days.
get really to understand one another before enter
Sir A. Miners method was TO treat lirjger as
nineteenth century up-to-fate Eur2pesini al-
seventeenth century Puritan farmer. and a cor
ference upon these lines was foredoomad 10 tall
Professor Felix Adler. who has for years been
CONSPICUOUS figure in New-york, and whose work
in the interest Of good tenement houses and other
reform measures is widely known, vas consratu-
lated by many admirers when II became Known
this week that he had been appointed 10 pToIes-
sorshp in Columbia University His connectoh
with the Society for Ethical Culture vas the
result of the frst lecture delivered in this city
When ne went to Europe as young man TO 5tHGy
at n German university. his father was the ra00i
of the Temple Emanuel. and it was well unGeI-
stood that the son would be called 10 succeed MS
father when had finished his studies aoroao'
When the Young man returned the trustees OF the
congregation invited him 70 deliver lecture rom
the pulpit which his father then occupied ana nc
accepted the invitation. The attendance was laIse'
and the impression created by young Adier wa
good: but it remarked after The close or me
service that the lecture was M 5iSe 6 [ne ocIr II
E5thsr N tL.tI 80 t ,IIaj ,,JCc n noi1tire TO Toun5
DR. Adler's lack OF faith and his uuftness Ior tEs
Sympathy with him. and these gathered about hinji
resigned their membership IN the tempe. - -
founded the society Of which he has oeen tA7
leader ever since
reader of The Tribune for more than fifty years
and in all that time he has rarely missed an issue
of the Daily The Tribune" said the Senator
the other dav to Il representative OF the paper IN
washiugtoa was the first newspaper to which
subscribed My father who lived in Cuba, y u
was an old line Democrat and free trader The
New-York Evening Post then. as now, was a nee
trade organ. and was the only paper my fatheF
read Naturally I followed the economic doc-
trines of this paper very closely because II was
the only newspaper OF any importance had ever
saan until ore day at a neighbors house got
hold copy OF The Tribune was SO atfTacfSr f5
protection that [ asked my tatner 10 supscfl1s -
that paPsr too SO IN our ne i1liS 1iFSe 10 DO ths how
ever because ne too much set IN MS rIee II5G7
views. But was dsteFmneS 1 10 IsShdr ryS ~ cut
seven cords OF wood. and with the money tnus
to proteetfon and have been readins The Tribune
almost daily ever since.
Lord Pauncefore's death has brought into pronni-
nanca Mr. Arthur Stuart Raikes. the first secretary
of the British Ambassador. now charge ,ss aDai.s
al interim, and representative of the nation WIN
which tha United States has more important reis-
t,orS than with any other government M
Ralke= who has been less than year N NaS'
fncton is bout forty years old, and has oeeh S1'
snicuous as the taIest man in the dploniati
corps. as we'll as one of the most popular soei4ly
He is the ffth son of Henry Raikes. esq "
TIv-,negrin Flintshire Wales and is an N ~
Of Trinity College. Cambridge. He entereu eo
diplomatic service attache at Athens III - -
was promoted to third secretary at Corps,srv Copsl at
Buenos Ayres IN 1885 where ne was for %ee3 70
charge d'affares. He went 10 Berlin ,tion IA t at
Rome in 1892 and became secretary OF i9SS'--.s5aI
Bic Tanero in 1895 He received the Jubilee nSos
in 1897 transferred Brussels as rs con-
faircs in 1Sse and acted secretary OF -, nro-
ference on African liquor traffic re He-shsnston WI
NOTED TO be secretary or embassy a.