The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-19
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OF all the famous people with an undying
hatred OF being looked AT or having strang-
ers around 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 up the
house he had lived in so long and was at
tached to and fled from the face of man.
He settled years ago in a secluded house
In the little village OF Nottingham near
the Brighton. hoping to escape the world at
large; But he was soon found and besieged
by admirers.
Finally char-a-b anc owners took to run
ming special Kipling excursions from
Brighton, bringing wagonloads Of people to
see the house and plot to get view of it's
owner. This was so exactly opposite to
the tastes and wishes Of the famous author
that he recently stole away inland-much
as he loves the sea-to a spot among the
Sussex hills near Burwash, far from a road
old farmstead buried in the depths of the
| country. Every year he goes to South At
RIGA for spell and avoids society as much
as possible. He has the name for being rude
and curt, which belief arises solely from
his horror of being pestered.
Another strong objector to fame and in
the electrical genius of the day. His pet
method is to take a remote country cottage
| for holiday or for study and hide himself
| completely, so that no interviewer or pho
| tographer 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 a single colleague. He
| is so followed up"-especially when IN
America-that he sometimes finds the pa
| pers publish his intentions of going away
| to some retreat for day or two, upon
which he quietly goes IN
even declared that he drops hints of his in
tentions OF going to a certain place and then
quietly chuckles to himself and goes else
where, leaving the pursuers lamenting.
The greatest lover of solitude in Britain,
however, is Lord Salisbury, who inherits
the popularity. 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 polticians-during his premier
ship he used to steal away In little
Kings Cross and bury himself in the re-
| cesses 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 es-
cape and get away by himself. His father
was an even stronger lover of solitude, and
had all the windows and outlets by which
from outside the grounds bricked up or COW
cred in. and no one but members Of the
household staff was allowed inside the gates.
| for him when travelling by rail on any ar
ranged journey, and when travelling a short
| distance in public carnage busies himself
| in 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 flcnest man IN the WOIiu ne passes
from one house to another, often seeking SOL
| itude in the little cottages built for him in
the Adirondacks 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 little possible.
Having a good many enemies-on paper,
at least-he has often been warned against
the danger OF isolating himself. for 1t is said
he gets-or used TO get-an average of two
letters week whose writer's threatened TO
shoot him. To these and the warnings he
pays not the slightest attention. but If he
finds himself worried by curious people in
ona spot sirnrly moves IN another