The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1904, Page 17

— ) Pagesl7t02_4l i SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1904. BADEN POWELL he British Genera (aptain Joh‘n' smith and Like His Ancestor IS HERO OF MAFEKING A CLEVER SCULPTOR MAKES A BUST OF THE COLONIZER OF VIRGINIA Has Sister, Who Keeps Bees in Her Bedroom and Sells Honey, the Best in London, to the Smart Set. John yarn LONDON, Oect adventure quite better subst Eng- to-day than ving in when he set o Vi The General the doughty cap . whose suc- cessf fense of ing John Bull — ed th rew dignity other “B. P."” ays refers to nately by his in- of tonishing sort - JOIN oo Never Sleeps.” The general does slum- er occasionally, but it is a good many rs since he has allowed himself nore than five hours’ rest out of the wenty-four and the early hours of the perhaps on account of the lack of com- petition, Miss Baden-Powell's bees have from the first produced a lot more of this delectable substance than in- sects belonging to friends of hers who S Direc Descended From ASSAILS THE YANKEE YOUNGSTER English Journalist Longs to Spank American Child. Calls Him «“Chartered Libertine” LONDON, Oect. 29.—In this savage fashion a London weekly paper devoted to the feminine social elect assails the American child: “Not without reason, it is to be feared, complaints have been made in various hotels, both in the United Kingdom and on the Continent, of the American child. who pervades spoiled little American be regarded as a ‘chartered libertine’?" E # Just how the hotel proprietors are to be taught the ‘‘severe lesson” is not clear. Presumably under penalty of boycotting them unless they adopt as a rule of their establishment “No Ameri- can children allowed.” As American families are notoriously their best pa- - — SMITH 3 the British army, and has figured in es many edventures and halrbreadth escapes &s did even his great-great- great-great-grandfather, Captain John ©mith. Besides his fame as a soldler he is an excellent draughtsman, paints well, is noted as & hunter of big game, plays a variety of musical instruments, writes and has renown as an amateur actor. Furthermore he has no mean ekill as a sculptor, o when he dis- covered not long ago that no bust ex- isted of his famous ancestor “B.-P."” resclved to make one. 2 A DIFFICULT TASK. The task of making a bust of Cap- tain John Smith was & difficult one in many ways, & fact that probably made it additionsily attractive to Baden- Powell. To begin with, as the general remarked when discussing the subject, there was the question of expression. “you see, he was a soldier, a sallor end an administrator,” seid “B--P.” “and it's rather hard to give hints pf those three different callings in one face.” But the chief difficulty was the fact that there are so few authentic port- raits of Captain Smith. Some were in the possession of Baden-Powell's fam- 1!y, but better ones, the general learned, were owned by Americans, and after correspondence he succeeded In bor- rowing some of these and getting a d deal of valuable data besides. So, with nothing but these various prints and certain sclentific and math- ematical calculations of his own, Gen- eral Baden-Powell commenced a work hich professional sculptors who have seen it declare to be good. ‘B.-P.” is descended from Captain Smith on his mother’s side. She was a “Smythe,” and her father, Admiral Smythe, came down in a direct line from the doughty colonizer whose life Pocahontas was reputed to have saved. The making of this bust of Captain Smith is the most ambitious thing in the sculpturing line that “B. P.” ever has undertaken. He models rapidly, as he does everything else, and the Smith bust, detailed as it is, has taken him only a little more than a month to make. Incidentally, every bit of work that “B. P.” has expended upon it has been done between the hours of 4 and 7 o'clock in the morning. . THE EARLY BIRD. In South Africa the natives nick- named Baden-Powell “The Wolf That > t1ss BApEN- FOWEL L. AND CIyE BEES SME T siEss BEDROCNT TEEPS morning is his favorite time for any special task, like this bust that he has on hand. It is doubtful if there is a more in- teresting house in London than that of the Baden-Powells at 32 Princess Gate, Hyde Park—only a stone’s throw from the two mansions that J. Pler- pont Morgan recently made into one to house his art treasures—or a more interesting family than that of which the hero of Mafeking is a member. “B.- P.’s” collection of trophies, which the dwelling contains, alone would make it unique among London residences, but it also shelters many of the works of Baden-Powell’s brother, who is a paint- er of distinction, the belongings of his mother, who is an amateur astronomer, and those of his sister, who keeps bees theré on quite an extensive and alto- gether novel scale. Bees always have interested Miss Baden-Powell and it was when, about fifteen years . o, Sir Benjamin Brodie offered a swarm of them to her, that she determined to try to keep them at the family’'s London house. Having their hives In the drawing-room wasan afterthought—worthy of a Baden-Pow- ell. It must not be supposed, Lowever, that the bees were loose in the draw- ing-room. The past tense is used in this connection because, at Princess Gate, Miss Baden-Powell has these queer rets of hers in her own apart- ment. They ' occupled the drawing- room of the family’s other house. The wall of this house was pierced by a hollow metal.tube, which connected the hives with the outside world and through this the insects passed out in quest of honey and in again with their loads. They got, and still get, live in the country. KNOWS HABITS.OF HER BEES. Last year the Baden-Powell bees gar- nered more than sixty pounds of honey, which was used either in the house- hold or given to friends. And so close a study has Miss Baden-Powell made of her bees and the kinds of flowers they affect, that as each bee returns she can tell whether it has been to Hyde Park, the Green Park, or across the river to Battersea Park, in quest of supplies No less striking than the Baden-Pow- ell apiary, however, is the aviary. For, if beehives in a bedrobm make an un- common sight, so does a tree with live birds on it in a hallway. Onme of the first things that strike the eye on en- tering the home of General Baden- Pogvell is a small potted fir tree, about the branches of which hop seven or eight canary birds. They are absolute- ly free, and fly about the hall at will, sticking to the tree for the most part, however. “B.-P.'s” bedroom, in which the bust of Captain Smith-still stands on its tri-' pod, proved, as might have been ex- pected, to be an-apartment of Spartan plainness. A portrait of the soldier’s mother stood on his dresser, while on the walls were several old prints illus- trating the sport of “pig-sticking,” of which Baden-Powell is especlally fond, and about which he has written a book; but there were no other decorations. “B.-P.’s” interest in his great ances- tor is shown by the presence on his walls of a splendid steel engraving of Captain John Smith and also a picture of Pocahontas. On the table, too, among other historical works, is Cap- tain Smith’s autoblography. On the fiy leaf is written the owner’s auto “R. S. 8. Baden-Powell,” and this q tation, “When God has harder than usual to do he tells 2 Englishman to ot B have to be taught a severe lesson. The English and [- EF & DAUEN-POWELL, FANOUS S00UT - GENERAL - POPULAR BRITISH SOLDIER HERO AND HIS SISTER. | —_-s the entire establishment, bores the vis- itors, interrupts conversation at table d'hote, orders the waiters about and generally conducts itself in such a fash- fon as to fill every Englishman and Englishwoman with an'intense longing to take it out and give it a good, sound, nursery spanking. It is perfectly mon- strous that these ill-behaved, unchild- like children should be allowed ‘to ren- der the visits of other: people in hotels intolerable, and if hotel proprietors n - they will have not the sense to make rules for- themselves about chi trons this would hardly pay. Mean- while it is interesting to note, despite the assarance that the English child is never. suffered to become a ‘“nuisance to'gr'ovyn-upa." so strongly do British ‘“grown-ups” object to his presence un- der the same roof that a predigious an- ‘nual wail goes up in the papers about the increasing difficulty experienced by parents with children obtaining suitable accommodations, both'in London and at ‘popular summer Tesorts. If the Ameri- can boy is so thoroughly spoiled, it is certainly surprising that, according to ‘English testimony, he develops into the best and most indulgent husband in the world. And the popularity of the BRITISH CURIO DEALERS OUTWIT MEN OF WEALTH Keep Pierpont Morgan and Lord Iveagh Busy Bidding. LONDON, Oct. 20.—English curio dealers have discovered a clever method of enhancing their profits by stimulat- ing competition Between Lord Iveagh. the wealthy Dublin brewer, and J. Pierpont Morgan. Both are notorious- ly good judges and great buyers of such articles, and the dealers usually obtain a higher price from them than from any of their otier customers. It is a common trick in the trade to vlay one man against the other when any rare or interesting specimen in an- tique. furniture or old tapestry is on the market. The dealers will, in a con- fidential way, offer the article to Mr. Morgan, assuring him that there is very little doubt Lord Iveagh would snap it up immediately it was submit- ted to him. At the same time a com- munication identical in tone is sent to Lord Iveagh advising him to secure the rare specimen before it is offered to Mr. Morgan. Patriotic considera- tions, they state, always prompt the dealers when offering articles to Lord Iveagfi'. while Mr. Morgan is assured that his generous patronage of their establishment cannot really be forgot- & ten when a good article is going cheap. There is no doubt about it the meth- od has suceeeded in causing the mil- lonaires to compete keenly with each other when a really genulne article is to be secured. One day the two men happened to be in a well known curio dealer’s place in Bond street at the same hour. They were not aware of each other’s identity, although the rep- utation of the one as a*judge of bric-a- brac was well known to the other. Mr. Morgan left without making a pur- chase, and when he had gone the dealer handed down several articles to Lord Iveagh for inspection, informing him at the same time that they had been seen by Mr. Morgan, “the gentleman who has just gone out.” Lord Iveagh eyed the dealer keenly and remarked that if they had been worth purchas- ing at the price asked Mr. Morgan would not have left them behind. Lord Iveagh would not m-~s an offer and left the shop, too. An hour afterward Mr. Morgan re- turned and was told that Lord Iveagh had made an offer and was coming again that evening. Mr. Morgan had the articles packed immediately, paid his check and departed. YERKES PREFERS LONDON TO CHICAGO FOR BUSINESS Street Railway King Says Bribery and Corruption Are Not Neeessities in British Capital. LONDON, Oct. 29.—Charles T.Yerkes, the erstwhile Chicago street railway ,magnate, who has undertaken to solve London’s traffic problems, so far as British officialdom and old fogyism will let him, is:among the first to lease one of the dainty suites attached to the enlarged Savoy Hotel. Thus he obtains what London has not before afforded him—the seclusion of a self- contained flat with a private office attached and all the luxuries of a first- class hotel at his command. Hereto- fore he has lived at various hotels, but has found none of them satisfactory. Mr. Yerkes says that he prefers en- gaging in the rapld transit business In London to the conduct of similar en- terprises in America. And he frankly states that the reason for his preference is that he does not find it necessary here to maintain an expensive lobby staff and incidentally sully his con- science by wholesale bribery and cor- ruption. Also it enables him to figure on his profits with greater certainty and assurance. And he hasn't to do so much sitting up nights to devise ways and means of getting ahead of his rivals. What bothers him most, he says, is the stupidity and slowness of British legislators who cannot be brought to conceive how much the city would profit by giving him a free hand, despite the shining object lesson in the superiority of American methods af- forded by the “tupenny tube.” He has a pious partner in Mr. Perks, M. P, a leading light of the Methodist chureh, who has solved tl. problem of making lots of money and at the same time reading his “title clear to mansions in the skies.” But the latter is a ques- tion that does not seem to trouble Mr. Yerkes miuch as yet. ——— Must Have a Million to Join. PARIS, Oct. 29.—La Presse gives de- tails of a school of physical develop- ment for the intellectual young misses of the Quartier St. Bartholomew. To belong to this class one must be more than 4 and less than 40 years old, must wear a bathing suit and a skull cap, as and none is received unless she is a mil- lionairess in her own right or the ummutuw — MAKING IRELAND POPULAR AS A TOURIST RESORT Mrs. Adair Entertains Many Distin- guished Travelers at Glenveigh Cas- tle—Latest Guest a Princess. LONDON, Oct. 29.—Mrs. Adair has been entertaining at Glenveigh Castle, her place In Ireland, one of the most interesting personalities that has visit- ed England for many years. She is the chieftainess of the great Maori tribes who was deputed to present the compliments of her people to the Prince and Princess of Wales when they visited New Zealand a year or two ago. The Princess Alfrini, as the Maori lady is known in her own country, is married to an Irishman named Donnelly, who emigrated to New Zealand many years ago, but she has a very high opinion ef her own importance and considers that she confers an honor on Mrs. Adair by becoming her guest during the Irish season. It is now freely admitted that the American soclety women, with Mrs. Adalr as their leader, are doing much to popularize Ireland as a tourist re- sort. This season Lady Barrymore, Lady Donoughmore and the Duchess of Manchester have been entertaining a considerable number of wealthy American people at their respective places in Ireland. Poverty-stricken Done(:l‘ has benefited most in conse- quence of the activities of Mrs. Adair and ‘her friends. Boating, fishing, shooting and hunting have been fol- lewed with increased interest, and the locality will be the richer by some thousands of dollars. Lady Barry- more’s party are doing Killarney, and the river Blackwater is close to her residence In County Cork and supplies excellent fishing for her and her friends. ———— Sun Spots Lower Temperature. PARIS, Oct. 20.—M. Nordmann, the astronomer attached to the Nice Obe servatory, has come to the conclusion that, centrary to the received opinion, the spots on the sun are neither an in- dication ner a cause of extreme heat. On the contrary, he says the effect of the spots is to lower the temperature, and this is proved by the fact that & spot emits only & little more than half the heat given out by the adjacent pho- tosphere. Therefore, he argues, the greater the number of spots in the sun the greater their cooling influence.