The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-09-04
50MAN PAINTS
LORD KITCHENER
IN new COLORS
||Q1d Friend Of Hero Of Khartoum
Depicts His Littie-Known
Human Side
HAS Al GENEROUS HEART
AND IS ABSOLUTELY JUST

Little Acts Of Graciousness
Throw Pleasing Sidelight on
q Big Man ~.rs,
NEW YORK. Sept. 4.--Mrs. J. s.
Nrskins. widow of q former captain
& of the Tenth Royal Hussars, who was
Y Or time attached to the star Of
Lard Kitchener. now English war
oocrstary, has given out an interview
- which she discusses the chief OF
k(he nnglish war department at short
+ range. -. -
Long before MRS Erskine met the
oEmy o01cer who eventually became
~ husband she knew Kitchensr--at
that time attached TO the engineering
EsoQrps-and has continued the &C
;0uaintance since. At the first meet
8 NJ sho was y iaSs. OF four In short
& nhirtn and blouse. Today she 10 In
: - noighborhoOd Of 40 and Is resid-
y 1ng temporarily In New York.
You have seen great deal print
4 "a showing the austere side Of this
treat mans character, but very little
\ relating to the human side. and the
4 &uman side "a very strongly develop-
I'd IN Lord Kitchener" she said.
ahen. you have seen him 4descraneo
q = woman hater, but he In tar from
< {hae although he has never married.
4 He holds that an army officer can
boGt serve his country by remaining
6Ingle; that his chief duty y to bis
II was ct the engineering depot at
4 Woolwich with my parents when !
\ 0rst saw the then engineer, Kitchener.
( 1lo was most shy and diffldent but
M WASN'T, An truth. was just the op-
+ bQoits, and probably that Ia the
6ason We became fast friends. Even
< &oW I can remember how he started
'1hon I asked him to please fasten
~ garter. He did 1t, but he blushed.
tn long after that when he was call
20 % Egypt he gave me doll. and !
|oosured II many years"
Nh. Erskine told how, when she
100 eight or nine Kitchener returned
ID Leave and renewed the. acQuaint-
<nco. telling her all about the Son.
~ ana teaching her French. Next
no she saw him she had reached
- mature age OF 10 and was In
ovo with Capt. Erskine, OF his stan.
Wa then that she learned Of his
H1ecti0n to the marriage Of army
1cors. He was Sirdar OF the Anglo
yptian army then. and England
~ Beginning 70 take some notice
Z 49, q 4F n
Rsbuks FOR tsis government h
when my husbands leave Of alb
noo expired went to Algiers to be
~ him." said Mrs. Erskfne, and
S6ro rot = better idea OF Kitchener
The Held. remember one Incl
1T distinctly. The Sirdar wanted
osrtain modern make Of gun, and 90
Hoc16ed In requisition sent to the
D1y saying the government would
IA different make. Immediately
6 returned the order across which
y Had written. You may keep your
ns: can throw stones at the
IN mYself.. II II needless TO say
received the weapons he desired.
N was during this campaign that
rs recommended for d. 8. o. (dis-
nEulahsr service order) o. Roman
nfho1ic bishop named Robert
rln6le and was approached by Z
o1nber OF his stan. who remarked
hardly thought this would be
pu1nr An England unless . Church
meland divine was also named.
rooommsnd man for distin.
rlnhed service the general quickly
cpllod. HIS religion has nothing to
- with the matter. Personally, II
ooont concern me what the people
< home have to say
Wkon Kitchener was going home
IS conuuering the Soudan I me,
~ lgnxoeilles. He was wearing {
norI6 Sdit and o derby hat ant
mU0h lees conspicuous than the
Xxi a. his stan. And this II
y a. the fACt that he was about
W Uxode Lord Kitchener OF Khar
I remember distinctly one
y ~ oa1d 70 me. Il was this: I.
Always hoped my little girl
~ not marry . eo161or. 'Whyf
NJ koG Becauee, he replied, war
Dong drawn out torture for . Sol
< - wife. Do you .ypalixg you'll
~ q play second nddls to your
1bandr Yes, answered, I know
~ but after al ne loves me best
- enuuGA. ,nald Kitchener, he
D>4s you. bat IN event OF war he'll
~ 70 leave you. War IL his pro
ION md he'll have TO follow e.
Kitchener was determined In
M he was equally determined In
o1De One thing ne had set his
1o(Ft upon was an English college
~ Qkhartoum He was always rails
~ money for 1t and remember az
III he had been made lord he
r1IoA $1,000 pounds by his determin.
"a. Thee was to be q banquet In
~ city. ~ we term the center Of
16on. and the promoters wanted
III % chief drawing card. 'Pli b
&6p n you'll subscribe 10000
o@hds for the college he said. The
mittee finally offered l0,00l
(nds. Now Il will cost you $500,
nds, said his lordship--and hi
the entire. amount.
HIs eetImate Of Fame.
later on Lord Kitchener. my hus
a and myself attended an afraiI
&ho generals honor. II was, hello
no Corn exchange at a small
nty seat near London and we had
,IGcon to cuiogies OF his lordshir
b very small, pompous master oil
Bonles. On the way home we
% IN Ice cream cart on which
Monographs Of Queen Victoria