Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-30
AND KIPLING TALKED


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lsaaeese piot'osltis'n " oih AeWspapel
terv1eW OUT OF that ever gave himself
shave" observed one OF the Chicago cor
respondents who used 10 he = hotel re-
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nl0l uoneo hipilns ne" s,ory ABOUT tne
Roman occupation or ancient Britain
Having been q newspaper mar, himself
ana a prettv shrevd ana hu.t,ins one nj
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~ . 49," ~" i'Ao1o ans MOI.
VINO tsiAs LOT ptsoication Is 20 loosen up
with remarks that can't be made to look
right In print, and, moreover, Kipling al
wars was a man OF the most persastsnt and
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~ saio Of MN
.aAe even no"aoeys No oiten lets an en-
tire week slip without saying moro than
ten words, even In the bosom of his own
family. II is,.t .ulttpe.. however hn,
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eio neeoIAi nooo % man VINO mas very
fine appraisal OF the value. and then. again.
the futiiity. OF words.
when Kipffnx rfirxt carna 70 this conn
trv-h.cr a. 1eon ! ,h,r,.T,.
g. r a
lNeo d San fIancfsco- His tame was
just then becoming big thing through
out the English speaking world
.well. when he rot or tba staamer Of
San Francisco the new.naners triad .heir
best In cet in+arv,aws out - htn, Tha
crack men of the San Franr,sco sfa fYs were
sent to his hotaI. and sr,rne 81 the cleverest
newspaper men. in America we're workfnr
In San Francisco at that ti,na Narv the
word could anv If thew gef ont NJ Kinlinr
however He Tanned than ali
st was the same .wherevar K,n,;nr wont
out west He worried HE r-av- cost hy
allow stages. tati,,r an niaca. Nia Saa,tis
Tacoma lbs Angsle. NO ct,ca Nv eli ~ the
coast country and the cities Of the Rocky.
mountain region and everywhere he was
heset nv infaryjauar, rvhc ra,,ar rot %
much o. a live ~ 49,, n,,t - hir, -
90 U,ben the ysr'shnt .nr,,evh.t
groucbv vo,,ne r.; rIisry,.n ~ ,ettar. M
about Jne 70 bit S,bicaro tba hote, ra-
norter. ont there wara .lavinS for him
az tha sa UdI ea rna. were iashs io NM
"Ent yrhen RinI,ns, 20. ohaa c,h,c,no ard
mt nm OF the nfd Iotsi picheUam On the
iaEa front tha tot, Iooxaa hod 49,, the
haei,ning Wa.tIaLS nssa4ha- Ns,ws was
the first man .nushaT I'm acainst yKin,ina s.
Ne haiongaS "a !. .eo,ss,s ss1s.,1 -, - .1.,,ee
of tho hotel ra,,ortars "a 4 A. o,,o,.o tIa, 3
n wae arurad tbat Il onyi6dy co,,I5 hr.oL
throuob KinJing.r ar,or Ws.aIeta o,~hf
tn he able 70 sosit snr ha had ntsrysev,a as
moet ~ the barsest nooTIa ~, 90 rth mi
KinIng simniv t,rned his hocL mon Uaats
lalta When thst hustter Ia cirIad him Harry
ZONES Of the Tribune ,exts went nm against
the Kinling mo and s,a roo wa. reatad
70 an immadiata siabt ne tbs ynnns VT
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s.1,han Iohn I-ana ond Carra,,,,s c.ran.r
NJ tha ESyenine POST hoth scjanttfic .na1
gers OF interviews out Of ali but homeless
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mo dow IsmantahIv Iobn McHneb Of
the Trihnna next Went IN against the ice-
hara Ga o.,.ht swnh .ois ttst ne NC.
out Of view for several days Pat RYAN
of the Inter- Ocean ACKNOWLEDGEMENT irish
man who had nasssd the Greater r5frt of
his life in Great britain was the naxt to
essa " tha iob 81 pumninr .Kiplinr and Kim
ling didn't even take the trouble to raise
lobby of the Richelieu. Aruett of the City
Press Association wen. out on the firing
line then. and when he came back he pre-
tended to be combing tcfcles out of his mus
tache.
sa.This left only Charlie Dillingham; of the
old Herald. and now a well-known iheat-
rfcaI manager. and myself vet to take a
crack at the hardest lob that ever drifted
the way of the Chicago hotel reporters
since hotel Interviewing was invented. Dill
linuham wss a diffident sort of a chan
about going up against the hard ones, and
| wasn't any too willing to stand for a
turning down myself.
$50 all of the Chicago papers afternoon
and morning came out with the bare an
nouncement that Kipline had arrived In
town and was registered at the Richelieu
His personal appearance and mannerisms
were described but In each story 1t was
set forth that the writing man had firmly
and even rudeIy declined to be interviewed
and some of the fellows who'd been
turned down by him handed Kipling q; few
rather sharp wallops. in which they more
than limited that he was suffering from
eIephantiasis Of the top-piece, OF. more
plainly. the big head. oil b
ION the day after KfpIine's arrival nj the
RtcheJieu Dillingham; and + dropnine into
that hote, Together along toward II O'clock
In the fnrenoon saw KtnInr sitting In a
hig leather chair alone In front Of the
wSda window over,ooxinr Michfran avenue
ana the winding lake Michiran He was
swishinp a hi NJ q cane and seemed to he
, a.nianty wranned i'm In his thourhts Nil
Iingham tinnad me the wink and we went
nver and al Down In hir leather chairs
49,. - +h.t of KtnI,ng
"Ne;tbsr D,i,1nghem nor T eyan @, much
q. 1coksd In Kinl;ng,. djraction ws,badn't
vet TACKLED him, II sbould he remeynhered
end be ~ course bad no notion that NE
,,sr -, ne W. man In sittins down
a,on ostde MIN Di,,,npham had acted On nnra
hnncS He had NO notion thai thera u,a
1oina 70 he a Imclrv breat hut he voc Vii
IN. 70 tsEa chance and sae wbat was
- - hanr.-, ~
We badnt haan soated c,osa r. K,n,;ns
,or thraA Mimi 90 hssora +bsra NO. biars
- hrass dnnn tha straat anS +han I'D
~ t s.,ne,ns .ior1 Wic,taa, a'1ar,,a CT enI
49,, hy . No h,,neh ~ No tionoi cs,.r ~
80 = os Danoration dav - .ha,
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