Views, News and Interviews - Tesla's Response to Fame

Mr. Nikola Tesla is generally regarded as an unusually modest man, and one who doesn't go in for ostentatious display. This was exemplified at the time the New York World printed an interview with him, written by Arthur Brisbane and accompanied by that truly marvelous picture of Tesla, showing him standing erect with lightning flashes glancing out from every portion of his body. Mr. Tesla had gone to a well-known health resort for a brief vacation a few days prior to the publication of the interview. He had been at the hotel just long enough to make a few acquaintances, and to become pretty well known himself. On the Sunday that the interview was published, the papers containing it reached the hotel at 10 o'clock. Mr. Tesla, in walking about the hotel lobby, observed many people who glanced at a paper in their hands, then looked up at him with an expression of awe, and finally put their heads together and discussed something in whispers. He finally discovered the cause to be that wonderful picture. At 11 o'clock Sunday morning Mr. Tesla was on the first train bound for New York.