The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-20
JOURNAL COURIER JULY %
PREFER TO BE LONELY.
SOME NOTED MEN OF THE
 DAY
Who Are Said to Hate Even the Sight
 ofstrnngers.

Of all the famous people with an un-
 dying hatred of being looked at or hav- ing strangers round them Rudyard
 Kipling is one of the chief. He takes l extraordinary pains to avoid the usual consequences of fame-so much so that | he has recently given up the house he 1 had lived in so long and was so at-@ taehed to and fled from the face of man. He settled years ago in a secluded house in the little village of Rotting- dean, near the. Brighton, hoping to es- cape the world at large. But he was soon found and besieged by admirers. Finally char-a-bane owners took to | running special Kipling excursions from Brighton, bringing wagonloads of people to see the house and plot to get | a. view of it's owner. This was so ex- actly opposite to the tastes and wishes of the famous author that he recently saole away inland--much as he loves l the sea-to a spot among the Sussex l hills near Burwash, far from any road or railway station, where he bought a fine old farmstead buried in the depths of the country. Every year he goes to South Africa for a spell and avoids so-
 ciety as much as possible. He has the name for being rude and curt, which be- 1 lief arises solely from his horror of be- 1 ing pestered. Another strong objector to fame and | inspection and fuss of any kind is Mar
 conf, the electrical genius of the day.
 His pet method is to take remote country cottage for a holiday or for
 study and hide himself completely, so that no interviewer or photographer
 can rout him out and torture him. If
 one abode becomes known he shifts to another and does nearly all his work either alone or with single colleague. He is So followed up especially when in America-that he sometimes finds
 the papers publish his intentions of go- ing away to some retreat for a day or
 two. upon which he quietly goes ill a practically opposite direction, and bal fled reporters have even ceciared that
 he drops hints of his intentions of going l to a certain .plact and then quietly
 chuckles to himself and goes elsewhere, leaving the pursuers lamenting.
 The greatest lover of solitude in Bri- tain, however, is Lord Salisbury, who inherits the peculiarity. in addition to acquiring it. When he was not forced
 to be in the center of the wheels--even then he was far lonelier than most pol liticians--during his premiership, he used to steal away in little brougham -often a four-wheeled cab-to Kings Cross and bury himself in the recesses of Hatfield as long as possible. The place itself is sternly secluded, and even when political garden parties had | to be given there the ex-premier often contrived to escape and get away by
 himself. His fathetr was an even stronger lover of solitude and had all the windows and outlets by which it was possible to see any part of the house from outside the grounds bricked up or covered in, and no one but mem bers of the household staff was allowed | inside the gates,
 1 Lord Salisbury gets a carriage re- served for him when travelling by rail on any arranged journey, and when l travelling short distance in a public carriage busies himself in a book and is
 often not noticed at all by the other 1 travellers. @
 l But of all famous people who detest
 being surrounded is Rockefeller, the oil
 king, and the richest man in the world.
 He passes from one house to another
 often seeking solitude in the little cot I tage built for him in the Adirondacks and other semi-wild districts, seeking
 always to keep away from the world at large. His chief exercise is digging, at l which he never misses at least one
 hours work day, and he goes into large cities as little as possible.
 Having good many enemies-on pa
 per at least--he has often been warned
 against the danger of isolating himself | for it is said he gets--or used to get an average of two letters a week whose l writers threatened to shoot him, To these and the warnings he pays not the slightest attention, but if he finds him. self worried by curious people in one spot simply moves to another.An-