Evening star., 1925-05-20

In the passing of Niscount Miner,
Sir Rider Haggard and Gen. Nelson
A. Miles. John Hays Hammond of
Washington lost three friends of long
standing The walls of Hammond's
study on kalorama road bear portraits
which Milner, Haggard and Miles dedl-
Gated to him in memory of fond as
sociations. Hammond was sent to
South Africa by Cecil Rhodes as
consulting engineer about the time
the Dutch and the British few at each
others throats in the Boer War. AS
an American, he enjoyed the conf
dence of both sides. Miner told Ham
mond, after the celebrated Bloemfon-
tein conference between the British
high commissioner and Kruger, that
instead of finding the old President of
the Transvaal Republic the crafty,
cunning statesman he was reputed to
be, Miner discovered that Dom Paul
was "a blubbering humbug."
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Once when crossing the West in a
special car in the service of the Gug-
genheim copper interests, Hammond
invited Rider Haggard. then on Wis
it to the United States, to travel with
him. Haggard remarked one day,
while the party was in the Sierra Ne
vadas, that he'd never seen an Amerl-
can hobo. Harris Hammond, the min
ing engineers son, said that speci-
men of the real thing had been riding
on the brakebeam ever since the train
left Reno. At the next stop 1t was de-
cided to bring in Mr.. Dusty Roads for
exhibition to the British novelist. Hot
and rime-bespattered, the hobo was
produced. Hammond invited him to
a wash-up and food, and later to a
talk He turned out to be an admirer
of all of Rider Haggard's books and
discussed them with him, to the novel
lists astonishment, with gusto. Ham
mond got the hobo a job in the Utah
copper mines, where he promptly and
permanently made good.
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Gen. Miles told Hammond, soon after
the Boer War broke out and while the
British, under Butler, were being de-
feated in battle after battle, that the
Beers would never be suppressed IN
I'll the British adopted the tactics lie
United States Army used against the
Indians For Hammond's benefit, Miles
drew up a plan of operations based on
the fighting methods our generals and
soldiers utilized on the Western plains.
AS subsequent events in South Africa
proved 1t was almost the Identical
Lord Kitchener in bringing the Beers
to book two years later.
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One of Henry Cabot Lodges most
cherished works of art-a bronze ele-
phant affixed to base of lignum
vitae--has just come into the posses
! sion of Robert NJ. Washburn, a Cool
| idge biographer now writing in Wash
ington. Washburn was toastmaster at
| dinner given to Lodge by the Roose-
velt Club of Boston in November, 1920.
A gold plate, attached to the base on
which the g. o. L. emblem is mount
ed, attests that it was presented to
''The Senior Senator from Massachu-
setts-A Great Defender of the Faith
| A day or two ago Senator Lodge s
daughter. Mrs. Clarence G. Williams,
presented the elephant to Washburn,
with a message that the family felt he
should be the heir of a treasure which
the late Senator priced as highly as
anything in his possession.
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| Kentucky will be the next State to
be invaded by Vice President Dawes
In the course of his crusade for re-
form Of the Senate rules. He has ar.