Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-14
DEATH OF DEAN HOLE
Church Leader Who Is At
fectionately Remembered.
ADMIRED IN AMERICA
DESCRIPTION OF HIS QUIET LIFE
AT ROCHESTER.
Londoners Pleased Over Promises Of
Electric Trains-British Mu-
scum Improvements.
IN AMERICA
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.


ately regarded, and L believe he was highly
some time ago. The secret of the deans
popularity and great influence is variously
accounted for, but probably its true cause
Is to be found in the fact that to rigid
consciousness and strictly Christian ex-
ample he added robust common sense and
rich humor, which seemed to come natural
ly from one of his manly aspect and court
ly bearing. He has sometimes been spoken
of as the modern representative of Sydney
Smith, and 1 remember once hearing Of
Dean Hole quoting with approval Charles
Kingsley's description of the witty canon
of st. Paul's, the love and admiration
which Sydney Smith won from every one,
rich or poor, with whom he came In con-
tact, seems to me to have arisen from the
one fact that, without perhaps having any
such conscious intention, he treated rich
and poor, his own servants and the noble
men his guests, alike and alike cautiously
considerably. cheerfully, .atfeetionately. SO
leaving a blessing and reaping blessing
wheresoever he went"
No better description could be given of
Dean Hole himself. During the last decade
he has lived chiefly in his home at
Rochester, and no more delightful expert
ence could be magfned than walk round
the deanery gardens with him as a guide.
In Rochester he gloried for several reasons.
One OF them was on account of its asso-
ClauOnS with DICKENS. Inc DrSt set OF
Dickens he ever possessed was bought by
denying himself the delights of the tuck
shop for he saved up the money when
schoolboy at Newark. The deans auto
graph book contains letters from all the
celebrities of the last half-century. Charles
Dickens is represented by a letter in which
he says, Il remember with pleasure the
pathetic voice l heard by Leech's grave.
Lord Tennyson addressed him as the Rose
King" and of course there are letters from
his intimate friends Shirley Brooks, Mark
Lemon and John Leech.
In what may be termed his professional
relationships the late Dean Hole was per-
haps a little less favored than In his many
secular interests. for he was in pretty
constant state of warfare with his party.
An old-fashlOned high churchman, ne con-
ceived a growing dislike of modern ritual
ism, which he was .latterly accustomed to
trounce with good old tory ferocity. and
his successive designations from and re-
turns to the English Church Union en-
lvened the crisis of the last thirty years
of Anglicanism. His appointment to the
deanery of Rochester, on social and po-
iitical grounds, was much criticised at the
time as he had reputation for rituallsm,
but his fitness for the position soon became
apparent. He made good dean, and de-
voted the proceeds of his last American
lecturing tour to the restoration or the
cathedral.
Hole as Preacher.
AS a preacher Dean Hole made a great
humor, for he had a great sense of rever-
ence The wit OF his platform oratory here
gave place to a penchant for quoting
poetry, which he could do with great ef-
feet He was always a great draw as
preacher and was one of the few who could
be relied on to fill and make himself heard
in the nave as well as the space under the
dome of ST. Pauls. A notable link with the
past Dean Hole could recall Mr.. Gladstone
l., .t- of M
tuency, over seventy years ago, and re-
viewed for the press the same politician
early and tory work on church and state,
which lives in the memory of today by rea-
son of Macaulays famous essay with lts
opening epigram.
The death of the dean will leave an i'm
portant bit of patronage work for Mr. Bal
four. To be dean of Rochester Is to have
an annual income of G1,0OO a year-not at
all an uncomfortable sum. Rochestsls how
ever, has by no means the best paid dean:
Thus the deans of ST. Pauls, Exeter and
Lincoln have each $4,000. The dean OF
Christ Church, who IS law unto himself,
or by himself, has &2,SO0 and the collegiate
deans of Westminster and Windsor have
each g. COO These are all IA the southern
province. The best paid dean in the church
is the province of York The very reVer-
end gentleman of Durham has E3,coo
placed against his name in the ofnclal publ
cations. Durham does things in style, and
gives It's canons G1,oo0 a year, or as much
as the province of Canterbury gives to It's
deans OF chichester, winchester, Baln anu
Wells, Gloucester, Hereford and Lttchfield.
English and. French Cordially.
One indication of the reality of the
tente cordiale between France and England
is the number of French visitors whom
one meets in London this holiday season.
Every summer, Of course one expects to
find foreigners enjoying British hospital
fly, though in this case the imports
hon not
receive nearly so many foreign travellers
as she sends out British tourists to the
continent. But this year the number is
abnormal, and the increase is to be found
among her nearest-and pleasantest -
neighbors. Apart from the duly organized
formal groups who have been crossing the
channel to and fro, there are troops of
family parties and individual excurslonists
who have come over on their own account
to see what London is like. For the most
II is satisfactory to know they well
pleased with their trip. 1t is interesting to
note the difference of national character In
dicated in the ways and observations of
these tourists. and those who like to study
national characteristics may take the 6p-
portunity of doing
London has not the mathematical and
numerical regularity of New York and
Paris In what concerns the shape, the
numbering and the naming OF its streets.
We can as we gaze on London's bewilderng
idiosyncrasy in this matter murmur, and
with truth in the style of Topsy. "Spects
they grow d."
The London county council. however,
does not theorize on these lines and find
ing London as II is, seeks to show US the
better way In this pursuit II sometimes
meets with popular disapproval, and 1t
has just struck the bedrock of popular
prejudice. 1t has laid impious hands upon
the names of the thoroughfare which runs
from Camberwell Green to New Cross Gate.
proposing to eliminate two-Church street
and High street-and have only one longer
Peckham road, and one longer Queens road.
High street and Church street have risen
IN their majesty and petitoned by the
thousand that the old names be retained
The Underground Railway.
Londoners had the first evidence today
of the progress being made in the electri-
fcation of the underground railway. They
had perhaps been somewhat skeptical of
the promises that the electric trains would
be running by the end of the year. as
signs of activity along the line have been
few and unobtrusive But today the proofs
that some mysterious change was taking
place in the underground were clear and
unmistakaole. 1t was not that the line
was less suffocating than II usually is in
hot weather, nor that the trains were moro
clean comfortable. 1t was merely that