The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-11

they do not doubt. since he is interest
ed in public affairs. and has always
taken an active part in politics.
1t is far more likely that he would
like 10 run for Governor of Ohio next
fall than for President a year later.
though whether this ambition is prob
able of fulflment is still a question.
There has been much talk that Sena-
tor Hanna would like the colonel to
run for Mayor of Cleveland. since his
candidacy for that Office. it is believed.
would unite the party there and make
il impregnable in the state for 1904
Col. Herrick is pretty big man IN
Cleveland, and, in fact, throughout
the whole state. He is a native Of
small Ohio town, and went TO the city
at Cuyahoga's mouth some twenty
odd years ago. He began as a law
yer. won an important case against
heavy odds and presently was leader
of the bar despite his comparative
youth. In the regular course OF
events he soon became connected with
one of the biggest banking nstitu-
tons there. and now is its president,
besides being associated with numer-
Gus public and private enterprises
Personally, the colonel seems to be
about midway between forty and fifty.
His manner Is hearty. but without the
bluffness that sometimes accompanies
lack of culture: his handshake is firm
and strong, his voice is deep and agree
able and he looks straight into youE
eye when talking with you.
+. ]. Oucky) Baldwin, famous as
a racing man and for his financial ups
and downs. who is said to be suffer-
ing from cancer. used to be about as
wen known here as in his San Fran
cisco home, though of late years he has
not visited the metropolis often.
A curious trait for which Mr. Bald
win used to be we'll known among the
newspaper men is his fear of begging
letters. once he gave his consent TO
be interviewed by a well-known jour-
nalist, only on condition that the re-
sulting article should include a para
graph stating that 1t was quite use
less for anyone to send a begging let
ter to him. He has just seen a para
graph in the papers setting forth that
another public man who had been in
terviewed had been flooded with mis-
sives of that sort from all parts of the
world, there being literally bushels of
them.
Another trait for which he used to
be well known was his fondness for
poker. This is not peculiar to him
among the prominent men of the land
but it was emphasized in his case by
his willingness to have the world know
all about it. In one of the advertise
ments of big hotel that he owned in
his palmy days there was a picture of
party of men playing poker in one
of the rooms and Baldwin himself was
prominent in the party. He used to
like to have it understood, however
that he played a 50-cent ante princi-
pally.
Mrs. Katherine Tingley-better
known to her intimates before she
adopted theosophy as "Kitty"-dwelt
in New York for a number of years,
though she is a native of Newbury-
port, Mass.
Naturally her acquaintance here
have read with much interest the dis
patches about her progress as 1.-The
Purple Mother of Point Loma," near
Los Angeles, Cal, where she is at the
head of the Theosophical School of
Mysteries, and where she has sued a
local newspaper for libel because IL
printed articles which led to the tenn
porary turning back of children from
Cuba who were sent here to become
inmates of her institution.
Mrs. Tingley began to be prominent
among the so-called mysticists of the
theosophical cult" in New York in
1896, when the announcement was made
that the spiritual attributes of both
Madame Blavatsky. the founder of the
osophy, and of w. Q. Judge, her Amer
lean successor. had made themselves
manifest in the person of Mrs. Ting
ley. This was preceded by a perform
ance that had scandalized the Inner
circles" being nothing less than the
solemnizing of a wedding ceremony in
this city by what was declared to be
real mahatma yelled, who turned out
later to be nobody else than Mrs. Ting
ley.
There were predictions a-plenty
then, that she would be deposed from
her nominal headship of the theo-
sophical society OF America, since
even Blavatsky never claimed to be
a mahatma, only a second-class adept
but nothing came of it and Mrs. Ting
ley Immediately undertook an eight
months circumnavigation of the
globe in the interests of the society
On her return she somehow got
enough money together to found the
Point Iona school, and since then
this town has seen very little of her.
The news often sent here by tele-
graph that the spirit of the late w. Q.
Judge now inhabits her pet dog is a
bit of a puzzler to those who remem-
Der distinctly the very positive an
nouncement six years ago that the
Judges spirit had become identified
with the personality of Mrs. Tingley
herself.
Despite the fact that an umbrella
belonging to Mr.. F. Hopkinson Smith,
novelist, elocutionist, lecturer. water