Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-01
PREFER TO BE LONELY.
Some Noted Men of the Eay Who Hate
the SIGHT of Strangers.

OF all the famous people with an
undying hatred of being looked at or
having strangers round them Rudyard
Kipling is one of the chief He takes
extraordinary pains TO avoid the usual
consequences of fame-so much so
that he has recently given W the
house he had lived in so long and was
so attached to and fed frorI the face
of man. He settled years ago in Sc
cluded house in the little village Of
rockingham, near Brighton, hoping
to escape the world at large. But
he was soon found and bssieged by
admirers.
Finally char-a-banc 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 exactly opposite to the tastes and
wishes of the famous author that ne
recently stole away inland-much as
he loves the sea-to spot among
the Sussex hills near Burwash, Tar
from any road or railway station
where he bought fine old farmstead
buried in the depths of the country
Every year he goes to South Africa LOT
a spell and avoids society as mucn as
POSSIBLE. He has the name 1or Delns
rude and curt. which belief arises
solely from his horror of being pes
tered.
Another strong objector to fame and
inspection and fuss of any kind is
Marconi. the electrical genius OF the
day. His pet method is to take re-
mote 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 col
league. He is so followed ups
pecially when in America-that ne
sometimes finds the papers publish ms
intentions of going away to some re-
treat for a day or two, upon which he
quietly goes in a practically opposite
direction. and baffied reporters have
even declared that he drops hlnts Oh
his intention of going to a certain
place and then quietly chuckles to HIM
self and goes elsewhere, leaving the
pursuers lamenting.
The greatest lover of solitude IN
Britain. however, is Lord Salisbury,
who inherits the peculiarly IN addl-
ton to acquiring it. When he was not
forced to be in the center OF the wheels
even then he was far lonlier than
most politicians-during his premier
ship. he used to steal away in a little
a fourwheeled cab
to Kings Cross and bury himself in
the recesses of Hatfield as long as pos
sibIe. The place itself is sternly Sc
Guided. and even when political gar
den parties had to be given there the
ex-premier often contrived to escape |
and get away by himself His father |
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 |
bricked up or covered in, and |
no one but members of the hous 3hold |
staff was allowed inside the gates.
Lord Salisbury gets a carriage re-
served for him when travelling by rail
on any arranged journey, and when
travelling a short distance in public |
carriage busies himself in a book and
is often not noticed at all by the other
travellers.
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 cottages built for him in the Ad-
and other semi-wild dis
tricts. seeking always to keep away
from the world at large His chief
exercise is digging. at which he never
misses at least one hours work day,
and he goes into large cities as little
as possible.
Having a good many enemies-on
paper at least-he has often been
warned against danger of isolating
himself. for it is said he gets-or used
to get-an average of two letters
week whose writers threatened to
shoot him. To these and the warnings
he pays not the slightest attention,
but if he finds himself worried by GU
rious people in one spot simply moves